{"id":2414944,"date":"2026-05-13T13:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2414944"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:40:38","slug":"the-view-co-hosts-feud-after-billy-bob-thornton-criticizes-celebrity-political-lectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-view-co-hosts-feud-after-billy-bob-thornton-criticizes-celebrity-political-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The View\u2019 co-hosts feud after Billy Bob Thornton criticizes celebrity political lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>As hosts of \u201cThe View\u201d criticized actor Billy Bob Thornton for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/12\/celebrity-news\/billy-bob-thornton-says-celebrity-status-is-no-reason-to-push-pulical-beliefs-on-others\/\">criticizing politically outspoken celebrities<\/a>, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin reminded them of the time they told actor George Clooney to keep his mouth shut.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aupKrNsLDc4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cHowie Mandel Does Stuff\u201d podcast<\/a>, the \u201cLandman\u201d actor, 70, explained why he\u2019s never been one to use his Hollywood platform to force political or personal beliefs on others, paraphrasing a famous Ricky Gervais quote warning against political speeches during an award show, \u201cGet your little award and f\u2014 off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know anything about politics,\u201d Thornton said. \u201cI have no idea. And the stuff that I do believe, I don\u2019t want to force it down somebody else\u2019s throat because I\u2019m not an expert on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While co-host Whoopi Goldberg did not seem offended by the statement, co-host Joy Behar responded with contempt, saying, \u201cImagine bragging about how uninformed you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Sunny Hostin agreed, saying, \u201cWe are at a crisis point in this country. I think democracy is participatory.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Billy Bob Thornton told Howie Mandel that he avoids using his Hollywood platform to push political views. <span class=\"credit\">Howie Mandel Does Stuff \/ YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>When \u201cThe View\u201d hosts rebuked Thornton for his remarks, Alyssa Farah Griffin reminded them they criticized George Clooney for writing his Biden op-ed. <span class=\"credit\">The View \/ YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI think when you have a platform, that means I have an outsized voice and when you have a platform, I think that you have a responsibility to speak up about what\u2019s going on in this country and my view silence is complicity. We need every single ally to speak out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin responded by noting, \u201cA, Billy Bob Thornton is one of my favorite actors. I\u2019m never going to say a bad word about him, starting with that. But B, a lot of this table criticized George Clooney <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/03\/us-news\/defiant-george-clooney-has-no-regrets-on-damning-biden-op-ed-but-admits-kamalas-run-was-a-mistake\/\">when he\u00a0wrote his Biden op-ed<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is a celebrity using his voice, saying what he believes, it can\u2019t just be when they agree with your position,\u201d Griffin added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can say it and I can criticize it, that\u2019s called free speech,\u201d Behar retorted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Joy Behar said of Thornton, \u201cImagine bragging about how uninformed you are.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">The View \/ YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Griffin went on to criticize what she called \u201cslacktivism,\u201d where\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/26\/us-news\/dems-should-tell-celebrities-to-just-shut-the-f-k-up-bill-maher\/\">celebrities feel righteous\u00a0for sending out political statements<\/a> without getting meaningfully involved in the actual work of politics themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we should bully people,\u201d she added, \u201csaying, \u2018You have to speak out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-host Sara Haines agreed, arguing that\u00a0celebrities making bombastic political statements\u00a0are just preaching to the choir of people who already agree with them and are enraging those who disagree with them.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As hosts of \u201cThe View\u201d criticized actor Billy Bob Thornton for criticizing politically outspoken celebrities, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin reminded them of the time they told actor George Clooney to keep his mouth shut. During an appearance on the\u00a0\u201cHowie Mandel Does Stuff\u201d podcast, the \u201cLandman\u201d actor, 70, explained why he\u2019s never been one to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2414945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,115196,355818,23032,357931,34015,357928],"class_list":["post-2414944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-billy-bob-thornton","tag-joy-behar","tag-media","tag-sunny-hostin","tag-the-view","tag-whoopi-goldberg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/\u2018The-View-co-hosts-feud-after-Billy-Bob-Thornton-criticizes-celebrity.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414946,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414944\/revisions\/2414946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2414945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}