Wow. Bill O’Reilly‘s appearance on “The View” this morning was one for the ages. The Fox News host got into a heated exchange with a few of the ladies, over the lower Manhattan mosque project, leading Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg to storm off the set.

Early in the segment, O’Reilly said to Behar: “Hold it. Hold it. Listen to me because you’ll learn something.” A couple minutes later, after the exchange got really heated, Behar stood up and said. “This is BS, Bill. I Don’t want to sit here.” She and Goldberg walked off.

Barbara Walters then chided her co-hosts saying sternly to the audience: “I want to say something. You have just seen what should not happen. We should be able to have discussions without washing our hands and screaming and walking offstage. I love my colleagues. It should not  have happened.”

Walters then laid in to O’Reilly, saying he was being demeaning and demanded he apologize. See what happens after the jump…

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Fired, maybe rehired, Deptartment of Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod continues to make the rounds, showing up this morning on “The View.”

HLN/”The View”‘s Joy Behar thinks Andrew Breitbart owes her an apology. “I have heard not one word from him,” said Behar. Elisabeth Hasselbeck thinks so too: “Obviously there should be some face-to-face apology to you.” Sherrod: “I think he should.”

Meanwhile, guest co-host Ali Wentworth (aka Mrs. George Stephanopoulos) thinks Sherrod should go straight to the top.

Wentworth: Can I give you some advice? When you meet with Obama next week at the White House, ask for the position of Agriculture Secretary. I think you’d be great at it.

Behar chimed in, “That’s how George Stephanopoulos got the job on “GMA.”

ABC News journalist and “The View” co-host Barbara Walters will make an appearance on the daytime talk show July 12, ABC says. It will be her first appearance on the program since undergoing surgery to have a heart valve replaced in early May.

The surgery was successful, and Walters has been out and about, but until now, viewers of the daytime talker have only heard updates from the other women on the program, as well as an occasional phone call from Walters.

However, viewers will have to wait a little longer before Walters is back on set with Joy Behar, Sherri Shephard, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Whoopi Goldberg. For her July 12 appearance, Walters will only be appearing live via Skype.

Update: Walters will also be returning to her weekly radio show “Here’s Barbara” on Sirius-XM July 12.

Fox News Channel’s late night show “Red Eye” has a cult following among many insomniacs. Part of that obsession is no doubt due to the program’s “ombudsman” Andy Levy.

Human Events‘ Lisa De Pasquale subjects Levy to her “De Pasquale’s Dozen” line of questioning.

The questions are mostly fun, asking Levy what is on his summer reading list and what non-news websites he visits (the man loves MTA.info). But Levy also has a few words about another cable news personality:

4. Comedians like Joy Behar, Aisha Tyler and Whoopi Goldberg have criticized people like Ann Coulter for putting jokes into their speeches and writing. It’s ok for comedians to dabble in politics, but not the other way around. What role do you think humor has in politics?

LEVY: I think humor plays a huge role in politics-how could it not, with Joe Biden being Vice President? And I’m fine with that. (What I’m not fine with is you referring to Joy Behar as a comedian. It’s my understanding that comedians are supposed to be funny.)

Levy also discusses his tragic case of “arenaphobia” in the full interview.

(h/t Johnny $)

“The View” co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Barabara Walters celebrate Behar’s new HLN show at the Plaza Hotel last night.

The famed Oak Room at New York’s Plaza Hotel was the setting for a party last night to celebrate the launch of HLN’s “The Joy Behar Show“, premiering Tuesday at 9pmET. The party, thrown by Behar’s “The View” co-host Barbara Walters, was packed with boldface names from news and entertainment and from all the networks.

In introducing Behar, Walters joked about her new show, “We originally thought it was going to go to Starr Jones. Then we were sure it was going to be Rosie [O'Donnell]. But finally, finally it is Joy.”

Behar thanked Walters and her “new boss” at HLN, CNN Worldwide EVP, Ken Jautz. “He found me. I was a poor little girl on a network show, trying to get a word in edgewise.”

Behar tells us she is a little nervous, but more excited about the new show. Her first guest, was Johnny Carson‘s last guest: Bette Midler.

Behar’s soon to be HLN colleagues were all there: Nancy Grace, Jane Velez-Mitchell and A.J. Hammer. CNN anchors Larry King, Anderson Cooper, T.J. Holmes, and Ali Velshi. CNN correspondents Alina Cho, Jason Carroll, Suzanne Malveaux (up from D.C. for U.N. week), and Jeanne Moos.

From NBC Hoda Kotb and Dawn Fratangelo; soon to be Fox Business host John Stossel, Judge Jeanine Pirro, Joan Rivers the Rev. Al Sharpton, Vera Wang, Lorraine Bracco and Alan Alda.

Behar’s “The View” co-hosts Sherri Shepherd and Whoopi Goldberg were on hand. From CNN and CBS News Erica Hill, and her Saturday “Early Show” co-anchor Chris Wragge and his WCBS co-anchor, and former MSNBC anchor, Kristine Johnson

CNN executives Jim Walton, Ken Jautz, Susan Grant and Jon Klein.

We’d just arrived when guest Suze Orman began telling us her concern that there’s something fishy about losing her once-commanding lead our GMA co-anchor off. “It’s physically impossible to gain that much,” said Orman of the lead now held by Ashleigh Banfield.

• More pictures after the jump and Monday on TVNewser, an interview with Behar and Jautz…

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When will “60 Minutes” get another full-time female correspondent, Lesley Stahl?

“Good question,” says Stahl, who joined “60″ in 1991. “I have no idea. They [my bosses] know I think we should have more women. I think it would be wonderful. It would be great for the audience.”

Over 40 seasons, Stahl is only the third full-time woman correspondent to have broken into “60′s” boys club, along with Diane Sawyer and Meredith Vieira. At 67, she is the second-youngest member of the crew, behind Steve Kroft, 64.

With face time already at a premium, it may be a while before executive producer Jeff Fager adds a full-timer of either gender.

Still, Stahl says she frequently suggests names of “accomplished women,” not all of them correspondents. “This is kind of a running subject – who’s out there? It’s something that’s tossed around all the time.”

Stahl knows from tossing. Her demanding travel schedule limits her time for wowowow.com, the Web site she co-founded and co-owns.

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Sometimes when Fox News personalities, like Bill O’Reilly, make a stop at “The View,” there are heated discussions, but today’s appearance by Glenn Beck was in a different category.

Beck was immediately confronted by Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Walters about a story he told after the White House Correspondents Dinner on the radio about an Amtrak encounter with “The View” hosts. Beck admitted he “misspoke,” but Goldberg had another term: “You sat there and you were a lying sack of dog mess.”

“You don’t like me,” said Beck.

“No, I don’t like your views,” responded Goldberg. “I don’t know you, okay? I don’t like your views.”

The Amtrak story dominated the entire first segment, but Beck was brought back for another one. “We’re giving you another segment, because we’re too good,” said Joy Behar. “That’s our problem.”

Video to come…

> Update: Video after the jump (from Media Matters, h/t Politico)…

> Update at 11pmET: Beck was out sick from his FNC show, but he called in to respond.

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Fresh off their appearance on the Time 100 list, the co-hosts of “The View” will be guests each night on CNN’s Larry King Live this week.

Barbara Walters guests tomorrow. Occasional LKL fill-in Joy Behar is on Tuesday, Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Wednesday, Whoopi Goldberg Thursday and Sherri Shepherd Friday.

Yesterday we reported the “grumbling” over ABC News’ packed White House Correspondents Association Dinner guest list. We just received NBC and CBS’ list — they’re not too shabby either.

Some big names for NBC: Whoopi Goldberg (of ABC’s The View), Denis Leary (an F/X network star) and Warren Buffett.

Some big names for CBS: Colin Powell, D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty and country star Brad Paisley.

• WebNewser writes about the new Website, WHCInsider.com.

Click continued to see NBC and CBS’ full lists…

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> Rahm Emanuel joins Jim Lehrer on PBS The NewsHour for a live interview on Friday. According to the release, topics will include “the economy, the stimulus package and trouble with Cabinet appointments” (how about his old Clinton friends?).

> Whoopi Goldberg stops by “Hannity” tonight on FNC at 9pmET for the first of a two-part interview. Sean Hannity and “The View” host discuss President Barack Obama, race relations and more.

> MTV premieres “How’s Your News?” a comedy/news show presented by people with mental and physical disabilities, Sunday night at 10:30pmET. WebNewser has a clip of the show.