'The View' Reacts To Bill O'Reilly: 'Condescending,' 'Disrespectful' (VIDEO)

The ladies of "The View" appeared live Monday for the first time since Bill O'Reilly's controversial appearance on the program that prompted Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg to walk off the set Thursday.

Barbara Walters, who Thursday said that the two co-hosts should not have walked off, continued her admonishment of their walk-off.

"We must be able to have conversations without fury, without rage, without screaming, without obscenities, without walking off," she said. "It's very dramatic, people love train-wrecks, people want us to do more of it because it's good for the ratings. You don't walk out of your own home. You can walk out of somebody else's home, you don't walk out of your own home. He was someone we invited. We are used to Bill O'Reilly. He loves this, he loves to pull your chain, he loves to get you angry. This is just what he wanted."

Behar defended her walk-off, saying, "On this show we always speak about standing up to bigotry, so I stood up."

Goldberg said that she found O'Reilly both "condescending" and "disrespectful," and said that O'Reilly "started with" her as soon as he came onto the set.

"I hit my saturation point," she said, "because what we didn't show was when Mr. O'Reilly came out, he started with me as soon as he sat down....And I'm not the greatest person in the world, I don't walk on water, but I had enough. And as soon as I said [bullshit] I knew to get up and leave because I knew what was coming next. I was going to cuss him out."

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Sherri Shepherd, for her part, said that during the commercial break O'Reilly boasted about what the appearance would do for the show's ratings.

"We've been doing fine without you trying to make our ratings," Shepherd quoted Walters as telling O'Reilly during the break.

"What Bill O'Reilly did not come onto our stage with was respect," Goldberg added. "He came on and he was condescending....I know that had I stayed there, it would've got, for me at least, it would've gotten worse. And the best thing I could've done, because he was so enraging and so disrespectful just to the five of us, I just thought, I'm done."

Comments

[Uppitypuppet]

08:11 PM on 10/27/2010

There was so much more to that walkout by Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg. Behar hates O'Reilly with a passion. He is always using clips of her on his show and slinging insults at her. So she was already bristling after he admonished her with his "listen and you'll learn" comment. I would imagine that both she and Goldberg hate the fact that O'Reilly appears regularly as a guest on The View. It looks pretty clear that Barbara Walters wants him guesting, and their walkout was probably as much a protest against that policy as it was O'Reillys comment about Muslims. But they scurried back out pretty quickly, because let's face it, Barbara is the boss. Do they really want to go the way of Rosie O'Donnell? Not likely.

[LORNADOONS]

04:05 PM on 10/20/2010

GROUND ZERO mosque?? ......where at ground zero??

[worldaflame]

01:04 PM on 10/20/2010

Do we really need to qualify every statement about the terrorist attack 10 years later? Really? Will we only feel better when the ground zero mosque is built, and there are daily, "Death to America" rallies there?

[ADVENTURE]

12:06 PM on 10/20/2010

An ultra conservative over the top CONSERVATIVE calls out Whoopi & Joy while skipping O'Reily's
conduct all together.......how rich!!

[robjh1]

11:49 AM on 10/20/2010

I agree with Barbara (believe it or not). Whoopi and Joy are over the top ultra liberals. Remember Whoopi is the person who said Polansky didn't rape a teenager years ago. What is the world coming to? Why did they invite O'Reilly on the show?

"and we are not saved..."

[LORNADOONS]

11:49 AM on 10/20/2010

If Walter's wants to book this blow hard thug onto the View then what does she expect!?.....
for everyone to sit silently by and allow / listen to the poison this idiot spreads????

Stand up to bigotry & hypocrisy for Gods sake!......Let him take his smear & fear road show elsewhere!

[PD Qweenie]

11:32 AM on 10/20/2010

Bill O'Reily, like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, are way too protected by the people who fill their pockets with cash.

[igcognito]

11:29 AM on 10/20/2010

Helloooo Barbara, the fact that he said it will be good for the rating is enough to black list him from the show. Btw, why is "Husslebeck" obsessed with Obama? Stay in your lane young lady, you are not his type. HA HA .

[PD Qweenie]

11:29 AM on 10/20/2010

Over all, I agreed with what Whoopie and Joy did, there's nothing 'enraged' about walking away.

[naijaman]

10:23 AM on 10/20/2010

I'm sorry...but why was Hasselbeck trying to turn this discussion into an attack on President Obama?

[rgood06]

10:25 AM on 10/20/2010

Because he's a horrible president, are you serious??

[naijaman]

11:17 AM on 10/20/2010

rgood06, you may feel President Obama is a horrible president, but how is that related to this topic?

[PD Qweenie]

11:28 AM on 10/20/2010

I'm sure you don't even know the definition of horrible xD ahahaha how dare you say that about President Obama? I mean, how dare you? Number one, that's your opinion -- which is wrong and I'M TELLING YOU, that you are wrong, okay? and that's my opinion of you ;)

Of course Elizabeth will turn it on President Obama, I mean, OF COURSE, look at her, do you expect anything else from her?

[rgood06]

10:06 AM on 10/20/2010

all of the left wing capitalism haters are all nothing but "Mind Numb Robots"

[rgood06]

09:53 AM on 10/20/2010

BIGOT?? all he did was state the truth which was that we were in fact, attacked by muslim terrorists. Were they muslim? Yes. How is that FACT misinterpreted?? Maybe left wingers, like yourselves need to learn how argue on fact and not use phrases such as: I think, or I feel. You consider yourselves as the party of tolerance, and for the people. ARE YOU SERIOUS!! you are the exact opposite because you cant take opposing views. You are all so full of yourselves and for no good reason!

[mancoff]

09:26 AM on 10/20/2010

Bill is not used to being challenged by intelligent independent woman who don't kiss his as- as the woman on Fox do. The woman were not in thier home, they were at work and they had the right to walk away from the bigot. They set standards for all woman, all people in this nation. To stay and be POLITE was the wrong thing to do and Bill counts on others to be afraid to speak out. He pushes his crap off on the people in this country in his studio under the protection of Fox news. It was time someone challenged him and instead of sparring with him and letting him pull their chains, they walked away and minimized him. That's at as it should be. As for elizibeth, she ignores everything the President does and says and then pretends that Obama has forbidden people to say terrorist, as if he made it law. since when does Elizebeth do or even listen to what Obama says...Barbara was right to say to Elizabeth, let's don't make this about Obama. Hey Liz, having a bad hair day, yeah, it's probably Obama's fault. Barbara, you may not walk out of your own house but surely you should have the courage to tell someone to stop using bad language, or the N word, or calling Muslim's in front of all your guests. Either allow the ladies to stand up for what's right or demand that your guest does.

[be informed]

10:30 AM on 10/20/2010

what?????????? Do you not understand that the people in the airplanes on 911 that flew into the twin towers were in fact Muslim? Do you not understand that when you state the truth - that in no way makes you a bigot, Do you not understand that Miss Joy makes fun of and makes derisive (that means bad, hateful, jeering or rude) remarks about people when she is on and off the air? Do you not understand that does make her a bigot. You and Miss Joy operated under a double standard. Open your eyes and ears to the world - see the truth. Muslims did fly the planes into the twin towers, the Pentegon and one plane flown by Muslims was flown into a field through HEROIC efforts by AMERICANS to protect. What is wrong with you - call them what they are & quit getting your panties in a wad. You are blind to what a bigot is - Look to Miss Joy and you will see a hypocritial bigot.

[mancoff]

12:35 PM on 10/20/2010

What, do you not see that many, many muslims working and visiting in the tower lost their lives on 9/11. Do you not understand that muslim policemen, muslim firemen and muslim rescue workers lost their lives on 9/11. Muslim radical terrrorists flew the planes on 9/11 and muslim citizens and muslim rescue people made heroic efforts on behalf of the America they loved on 9/11. (Timmothy McVeigh was an american radical terrorist, does that make all americans terrorists.) Learn to tell the whole truth instead of what is convenient to tell in order to protect your bigotry. Stop using your dumbed dumb down and duped, unfactual propoganda to protect your "love to hate" mentality and you will see that you along with Bill are the hypocritical bigot.

[ChaCubed]

09:04 AM on 10/20/2010

Quick Quiz:

Do you think Barbara Walters had Bill O'Reilly on the show to:
A) Provide a venue for him to spew his rhetoric.
B) Expose him for what he is.
C) Publicity and increased revenue for her show.

?

[mancoff]

09:44 AM on 10/20/2010

She had him on because he is a highly rated news personality and she has had him on often. Joy and Whoopi had the integrity and the guts to challenge him as no one dares to when he is in his own studio. Bravo, ladies

[rgood06]

09:58 AM on 10/20/2010

WOW yea...Joy and Whoopi did such a fantastic job "Challenging" Him that they walked off the set of their own show..."they were muslim terrorists" i want joy and whoopi to take their way out in left field mentalities to the middle east, state their opinions and then see how they are received..hahaha please please go and try that

[westreal]

08:29 AM on 10/20/2010

Who could sit there while Bill spewed h8te speech at a religion? And Barbara wasn't saying ANYTHING until Whoopi and Joy left. Barbara NEVER says anything when O'Reiily and Beck does this. And to me that makes her just as guilty to sit by and let that type of h8te be propagated on her show while trying to use the excuse of "they were invited" or "we know how they are". THAT is no excuse to allow them to do that. Joy and Whoopi got fed up and I say GOOD FOR THEM!