Whoopi and Joy Throw Down, Storm Out on View Thanks to Bill O'Reilly

Behar and Goldberg walk off the set mid-interview after conversation with Fox News pundit turns heated

By Gina Serpe Oct 14, 2010 7:06 PMTags

Our only question: which is the patriot and which is the pinhead?

Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg both stormed off the set of The View this morning, when a chat with Bill O'Reilly did what chats with Bill O'Reilly tend to do.

Get very heated, very polarizing and very entertaining…in a TV trainwreck kind of way.

While he's no stranger to The View, Bill didn't exactly get off on the right foot this time around, pointing out immediately upon sitting down that Whoopi never looked happy to see him and clearly did not want him on the show.

Her response? She was just gassy.

The hot air seemed to be contagious, as the topic of conversation soon moved to the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, a discussion shouting match which led Fox News' biggest bloviator to declare:

"Muslims killed us on 9/11!"

"Oh my God!" Whoopi responded, above the disapproving (or maybe just shocked?) murmur of the audience. "That is such bullshit!"

"Excuse me, are you saying Muslims didn't kill us on 9/11," O'Reilly countered, addressing the audience as much as Whoopi, and ignoring Barbara Walters' hand-patting calls for civility.

"It doesn't matter what they are," Walters said. Though by then, all hell had really and truly broken loose.

After a few more moments of fever-pitch bickering, Behar was first to take a literal stand against the rhetoric.

"I don't want to sit here," she said, standing up. "I don't want to sit here. I don't. I'm outraged by this statement."

Whoopi showed her solidarity by joining Behar, and the duo walked off stage, leaving Walters to do her best to pull it all back together. Let's just say, the mother hen was not impressed.

"I want to say something to all of you. You have just seen what should not happen. We should be able to have discussions without washing our hands, and screaming, and walking off stage. I love my colleagues, but that should not have happened."

She then schooled O'Reilly, telling him he demeaned an entire religion and demanded—and received—an apology.

A few minutes later, Behar and Goldberg returned to the stage, crediting O'Reilly's mea culpa with their return. Unfortunately, the talking head had to stick around for a whole other segment with his new besties. The most comfortable seven minutes of television it wasn't.

But it sure was entertaining.