Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly was on The View this morning, as he is from time-to-time to promote one of his new books, when the topic of the potential mosque being built at Ground Zero in New York City came up.
In the video above, you will see that Bill is asked about the mosque and goes into detail that nearly 70% of Americans don’t want the mosque built at Ground Zero because Muslims killed us on 9/11.
That statement set View co-host Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar off as they interrupted O’Reilly, got loud in his face, before storming off the stage.
Just as the women stormed off stage — a rattled Walters proclaimed, “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.”
Walters continued, “I love my colleagues, but that should not have happened.”
A TMZ poll on the ‘Old White Guy/Cat Fight’ found nearly 70% agreeing that Joy and Whoopi looked like idiots storming off stage.
The 70% of pollsters in the poll are right.
Sure, Muslims have the right to build at Ground Zero. We luckily live in a country where for the most part we still have most religious freedoms. However, it’s in bad taste and judgement to build a mosque so close to Ground Zero when all 19 involved in the terrorist acts, that brought down the Twin Towers, were avowed Muslims and claimed to do it through their faith and for Mohammad.
‘The Factor’ host Bill O’Reilly appeared on ‘The View’ on Wednesday to promote his new book, A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity. O’Reilly jokingly called Barack Obama a “communist” before recanting and saying he is actually a “socialist.”
He also poked fun at co-hosts Barbara Walters and Joy Behar for the way they treated John McCain when he appeared on the show several weeks ago. Joy was visibly upset that O’Reilly was even on the show.
Overall I thought it was an entertaining and showed Bill being light and having fun with everyone while flaunting his self-made ego.
O’Reilly just today inked on for four more years with Fox News at $10-$12 million per year.