Yesterday, "The View" co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar stormed off stage in an heated exchange with Bill O'Reilly.
At first, Bill O'Reilly was speaking in a somewhat calm tone about why President Obama was not as popular as when he started.
O' Reilly attributed it to a $1 trillion dollar deficit that Americans needed to repay, but there was little to show for that expenditure.
However, it was when O' Reilly addressed the gulf between the President and the American public on a personal level that things heated up.
O' Reilly said the President was out of step with most of the American people on the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero.
There was banter about the Constitutionality of his view. ABC had to censor what appeared to be a comment from Goldberg "that's such bull****".
But when O' Reilly said that "Muslims killed us on 9/11", that was the straw the broke the camel's back. Goldberg and Behar stormed off stage.
Walters chided her co-hosts for leaving stage, but also conveyed to O'Reilly that his remarks made it sound like he was blaming all Muslims for the 9/11 attacks.
Fox Memphis said, "O'Reilly later apologized, saying that he should have said 'Muslim extremists' instead of just 'Muslims.' The apology brought back both Goldberg and Behar, although Behar did not sit back down next to O'Reilly and chose a different seat."
Proverbs 12:18 says "There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing."
Comments
Bill O'Reilly has proven on multiple occasions his extreme bigotry, intolerance and ignorance of Islam. When pushed into a corner, he exclaimed his true feelings, in which he blames "Muslims" for killing "us" on 9/11, thereby perpetuating this "us versus them" paradigm, which is dangerous. We are better than that as a society, and it saddens me that this voice of ignorance is given such a platform on which he can be heard.
Harris Zafar - National Muslim Examiner
This all could have been handled calmly and without the histrionics if the two divas had behaved rationally and stayed in their seats.
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