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NEW YORK (AP) — Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the stage of “The View” Thursday during an argument with Bill O’Reilly over the proposed Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The women objected to the Fox News Channel host saying that “Muslims killed us on 9/11.” They returned after an O’Reilly apology.
The fireworks came amid a heated argument on the issue.
“Listen to me,” O’Reilly said, “because you’ll learn something.”
“Pinhead!” retorted Behar, who also hosts a prime-time show on HLN.
O’Reilly, who was on the popular daytime talk show to promote his book “Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama,” said locating the Islamic Center near ground zero is inappropriate “because Muslims killed us on 9/11.”
Goldberg responded with an expletive and Behar rose from her seat.
“I don’t want to sit here,” Behar said. “I don’t. I’m outraged by that statement.”
She walked off the set, followed by Goldberg.
The show’s creator, Barbara Walters, immediately said her colleagues were wrong to walk off.
“We should be able to have discussions without washing our hands and screaming and walking offstage,” she said. But she also scolded O’Reilly, saying that it was extremists who committed the terrorist act. “You cannot take a whole religion and demean them,” she said.
“I’m not demeaning anybody,” O’Reilly said.
“Yes,” Walters replied. “You are.”
After some more back-and-forth, O’Reilly said that “if anybody felt that I was demeaning all Muslims, I apologize.”
Behar and Goldberg returned, with Behar saying, “We’re back now because you apologized.”
The 16-story Islamic center and mosque is planned for lower Manhattan, two blocks north of where the World Trade Center once stood. Critics say the location denigrates the memory of those who died on Sept. 11, 2001. Proponents say planners have a constitutional right to build and see the project as a reflection of religious freedom and diversity.
I am not an O’Reilly fan but I do find it amusing that Joy and Woopi got up and left. They should have listened to his viewpoint even though he is a pinhead. Like it or not he has a viewpoint just like they do. They acted like children.
two bimbo’s……o’really should have walked off and took the tampoons w/ him!
O’Reilly was right on the mark, Behar and Whoopi Goldberg showed themselves as ruthless leftist ideologues.
They weren’t “back because [he] apologized,” they were back because someone (their director, probably) told that HEY, YOU THIN-SKINNED MORONS, IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE HOSTS OF A SHOW THAT COURTS CONTROVERSY, YOU CAN’T BE PUSS!3S AND RUN OFF WHEN SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING YOU THINK ISN’T NICE!
GROW UP, ladies. You’re PATHETIC!
I don’t understand why a man of Bill O’Reilly’s stature would even allow himself to be in their presence. They aren’t muslims but they are just as dangerous to our country…and they aren’t the brightest crayons in the box either.
Why would you walk off your show? You are giving all the power to the person who you are trying to punish.
In Italian there is a word for Joy DISGRACIAD she is a piece of s#it
These two ladies did the right thing. When you do not have the knowledge or ability to destroy someones fallacious arguments with logic, the best thing you can do is leave to avoid embarrassing yourself by making an equally fallacious argument that would have only escalated the situation. It would be nice if more American’s on both sides of the political fence followed the examples set by these two ladies.