The View has remained a show where people from opposing sides can engage in heated debate
about today's issues since its premiere in 1997.
But, in that time, not all on-camera conversations have been so friendly sometimes the show's
hosts just flat-out lose it when discussing society's hot topics.
Rosie Perez vs. Raven-Symoné
Apparently, Raven Symoné never got the memo that comparing a black woman to a primate
is never not racist.
While discussing Univision host Rodner Figueroa, who was fired after comparing Michelle Obama
to a cast member from Planet of the Apes, host Rosie Perez said:
“There is a secret in the Latin community [...] That they are very racist."
Symoné took that as her cue to defend the remarks, arguing that Figueroa wasn’t being
racist and noting the former Univision host said he had voted for Obama.
This immediately set Perez off.
“Oh, please!
That’s like saying ‘I’m not a racist but I have black friends!’
I’m sorry, that is racist!”
Despite Michelle Collins’ attempts to validate Symoné’s opinion, Perez was having none
of it.
“I am the Latin person at this table and I would like to tell you that it was racist.
Period.”
Rosie O'Donnell’s final straw
Few TV fights are as infamous as Rosie O'Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck's 2007 screaming
match about the Iraq War that ultimately led to O'Donnell's exit from the show.
The battle commenced when O'Donnell slammed Hasselbeck for calling Iraq “[America’s]
enemy” when the country itself had never attacked American troops, but it wasn’t
long before things completely went off the rails.
“This is why I like watching Dancing With The Stars.
This is exactly why.”
The political argument took an uncomfortably personal turn when O’Donnell took the opportunity
to confront Hasselbeck, a noted Republican, about how conservative news outlets consistently
painted her as an aggressor and Hasselbeck as a victim.
“Here’s how it gets spun in the media: Rosie, big, fat, lesbian, loud Rosie attacks
innocent, pure, Christian Elisabeth.”
The back and forth got so intense that producers famously split the screen and both Joy Behar
and Sherri Shepherd pretended to walk off set just to break the tension.
"Come on, that's it."
Kelly Osbourne’s toilet talk
Despite their shared disdain for Donald Trump, a misguided attempt at a joke pitted Kelly
Osbourne and Rosie Perez against each other during a 2015 episode.
The argument erupted during a discussion about Trump's comments regarding Mexican immigrants
when Osbourne asked a rather cringeworthy question.
“If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet,
Donald Trump?”
Perhaps Osbourne was referring to the dozens of low-wage foreign workers Trump reportedly
hired at Mar-a-Lago, but her delivery was less than eloquent.
Perez, who is Latina herself, was quick to speak up, telling Osbourne,
“Latinos are not the only people doing that.”
Osbourne quickly backpedaled on her statement, later apologizing for what she called a “poor
choice of words.”
“C’mon, Not I would never mean it like that.”
Bye-bye, Bill
Years before Bill O'Reilly was a disgraced Fox News host, he was a regular Fox News host
who proudly touted his controversial views about Muslims on The View during a 2010 appearance,
sparking a heated verbal brawl.
O'Reilly was discussing a Muslim community center that was supposed to be erected two
blocks from ground zero in Manhattan, which he claimed 70 percent of Americans were against.
This prompted Joy Behar to ask for some receipts.
“Where is that poll?
Where is that poll?
I want to see that poll.”
“You wanna bet?
I’ll show you that poll in a minute.”
O’Reilly never did provide the poll.
Instead, he made a claim so obnoxiously offensive that both Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked
off set.
“Muslims killed us on 9/11!”
“Oh my GOD.”
Years later, Bill O'Reilly vowed to never appear on The View again, but we're guessing
he just wasn't actually invited.
Ganging up on Donald Trump
Reality TV star and future President of the United States, Donald Trump, made a 2011 appearance
on The View to explain why he thought President Barack Obama was hiding his birth certificate
but not before taking a moment to brag on himself.
“Let me just tell you this, I was a really good student at the best school.
I’m like a smart guy, okay?”
Trump then continued by making the outrageous claim that Obama was lying about his childhood
in Hawaii, suggesting he never even lived there at all.
“If you go back to my first grade, my Kindergarten, people remember me.
Nobody from those early years remembers …”
“That’s not true - there are pictures of him.”
The ladies of The View immediately started yelling over Trump, and even Barbara Walters
was shouting in the end.
Nevertheless, Trump wouldn’t back down from his conspiracy theory, which Goldberg called
racist.
“I’m sorry, that’s BS.”
Ann Coulter, the comedian
Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from screaming at Ann Coulter on daytime television.
Nobody knows that better than Whoopi Goldberg, who was sent into a full-on giggle fit during
a 2017 episode when conservative pundit Coulter tried to convince her that Donald Trump was
not a liar.
“He doesn’t lie.
He’s a BS-er, he’s an exaggerator …”
“What do you think BS is, baby?”
Coulter then launched into a detailed explanation of the difference between a lie and "BS,"
and Joy Behar tried to press her further.
By this point, Goldberg had dissolved into a puddle of laughter.
“It is funny.
It really is.”
Jeanine Pirro gets the boot
If you ever want to get yourself booted from a daytime talk show, take a page from Judge
Jeanine Pirro’s book.
During a 2018 appearance to promote her book Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against
the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, Pirro accused Whoopi Goldberg of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
In a surprise to no one, this did not sit well with Goldberg.
“Listen, I don’t have Trump Derangement, let me tell you what I have.”
“I’m tired of people starting a conversation with ‘Mexicans are liars and rapists.’”
Pirro continued to state her case until Goldberg finally broke down, ending the segment with
with a fiery rant.
“You know what’s horrible?
When the President of the United States whips up people to beat the hell out of people.
Say goodbye!
Bye!
I’m done!”