The View Reacts To Bill O'Reilly's Controversial Comments

The ladies of The View chatted live this morning about Bill O'Reilly's controversial appearance last Thursday, which caused outraged co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg to walk off the set.

Barbara Walters said, "We must be able to have conversations without fury, without rage, without screaming, without obscenities, without walking off. 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."

However, Goldberg said that she found O'Reilly both "condescending" and "disrespectful," and added, "What Bill O'Reilly did not come onto our stage with was respect. 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."

Behar defended her actions and said, "On this show we always speak about standing up to bigotry, so I stood up."