Joy Behar: 'Bill O'Reilly is an idiot'

Joy Behar has declared that she does not regret walking off The View during Bill O'Reilly's interview.

On yesterday's telecast, Behar and fellow host Whoopi Goldberg left the stage after O'Reilly claimed that Muslims were responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

"He's an idiot," she told Pop Eater. "I just couldn't sit there any longer and listen to him."

During her own CNN Headline News programme, Behar rebuffed the Fox News political commentator for having a "pinhead moment".

She further explained that the confrontation with O'Reilly had made her "really angry... I thought he was saying something that I construe as hate speech, frankly".

O'Reilly also responded to the incident on his Fox News series The O'Reilly Factor on Thursday night by saying that he enjoyed engaging in banter with the women of The View.

He said: "I am not in the business of sugar-coating harsh realities... I enjoy jousting with The View ladies because, with the exception of Elisabeth Hasselbeck, they don't see it my way. I loved that exposition today."