Rosie O'Donnell Defends Joy and Whoopi: Bill O'Reilly 'Incites Hatred'

By Rob Shuter Posted Oct 17th 2010 11:33AM

Just days after the now infamous battle on 'The View' between Bill O'Reilly and Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, ex-'View' co-host Rosie O'Donnell is speaking out.

On her Sirius satellite radio program, Rosie asked in a very matter-of-fact manner, "What does he do besides that? That's what Bill O'Reilly does. Why would you book him?"

O'Donnell, whose guest panel seemed more fired up about what happened than the host, also said that O'Reilly "incited hatred." And thinking back to her time on the 'The View' (2006-'07) she could only explain it was "such a strange atmosphere at that show, I don't think that it can be articulated."

Although Rosie may be censoring her remarks in public, behind the scenes, friends tell me she is angrier with Barbara Walters than Bill O'Reilly.

"Rosie thinks Babs should have stuck up for her girls," a friend of Rosie's tells me. "It doesn't matter who was right or wrong, Bill was a guest in her house and he was very rude and belittled her ladies. The same thing happened between Donald Trump and Rosie. Barbara scolding Joy and Whoopi in front of Bill was humiliating. After Bill's outrageous comments, Barbara should have chewed him out -- not try to remain neutral and calm. After all, isn't it called 'The View'? Where is Barbara's?"

Barbara Walters is set to address the situation Monday morning, live on 'The View.'

Tags: barbara walters, bill oreilly, joy behar, rosie odonnell, the view, whoopi goldberg

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Sunday 17 October

By montana

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I wish the Three of those so called " women" ( O'Donnell, Goldberg and Behar ) would all hold hands and jump off a high bridge. O'Reilly doesn't " incite" anything, the guy simply tells it like it is and they don't want to hear it.

By asia

Birds of a feather flock together and they're all nitwits!
They don't like hearing the truth!

By Renee Phillips

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Whose truth?

Hell Yeah Marksman 100% correct ! Those damn spades and they know what I am talking about

By Kathy

ok enough already Whoopie and Joy need to be FIRED for walking off wether you think Bill was right or wrong THOSE two big mouth know it alls9 or at least they think they do) walked off. Babs did the right thing by speaking up after they did. Babs is too liberal but given her age she is not gonna get inot a raging fight with these idiots. I am NO longer a fan of Whoopie since she has been on this show. THe views where Bills but he was saying Muslims killed the peopel on 9-11 and we all know he only meant THOSE Muslims on the planes he was not INCLUDING ALL MUSLIMS. If this show is to succeed theyu need to revamp the vamps and fire thos etoo and give shepard a warning as she is sooooooooooo racist. I quit watching thses cakling hens as they always talk over the guests and wach other. Don't you think it is strange how they only have one who disagrees with the other 4 wonder how it would be to have someone who does not worship OBAMA on as a regular co-host would be very interesting.

By b

Learn to spell/type/punctuate...ugh, terrible!!!

By critic#

They do need to even out the odds. But liberals are to cowardly, and don't have the brains to challenge an equal amount of conservatives. They hate bullying, except when they're the ones doing the bullying.

By kathy

Fire both of them for walking off the show, and then finally and once in for all take the View off of TV.

By lou

leave it to rosie, to put her 2,
cents in.
she has a nerve , she could'nt manage
to stay on the view, or run a magazine,
or a "marriage", but she can voice her opinion.
give me a break!!

By stampman24

None of these so called "ladies" have an ounce
of wisdom or knowledge in their skulls. I stopped
watching The View - (what a misnomer that show is)
when their big mouths kept butting into their
guest's trying to reply to the View person's question,
and as for The Faded Rosie....she has turned out to be
a Great Big Nothing, so I don't watch any of them on
anything when they appear....Good Riddance!!!!!!!

By SoTrue2710

Rosie needs to grow up already! She thinks Barbara should stick up for "her girls" whether they're right or wrong? Most people outgrow that kind of thinking before they enter junior high school! As for Bill O'Reilly, Whoopi and Joy: I'm not a Bill O'Reilly fan but he voiced the opinion of the majority of Americans. Whether it's PC is another story...but I, for one, will take honesty over being PC every time.

By Nanangele

This show is called the View. I didn't realize it meant just Whoopie' and Joy's view. It is supposed to be a discussion of different views. Wouldn't it be interesting if everyone who disagreed walked out of the room like children.

By Steve

Is that tub-o-lard still around ?

By RON

well whoopiedo.what a bunch of noones.Rossie lost her clout a long time ago.

By barb

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slash please slash your wrist and die.

By Sheryl

Rosie it 100% right! I hated that Barbara didn't stick up for Joy and Whoppi. Bill O'Reilly does incite hatred. That's about all he does. He's like an evil little troll. Barbara was wrong and she should apologize to the girls!!!

By john

your a evil little troll

By LOCO$$$

When god speaks, the devil runs. Don't take it out of context, if you even know what that means. The truth hurts, and those two cowards ran right off the stage. If you can't have a grown up discussion, and listen to other peoples VIEWS, then you should'nt work on a show called the VIEW!!!!! FREAKIN RETARDS!

Hey John....if you're going to try to insult someone at least say it properly it's......YOU'RE AN evil troll.....not.....your a evil troll. Aie Yie Yie! Either you are 12 or just horrible at English.

By cqdeed

Sorry marksman, I just have to say this...it's "allowed" not "aloud".

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