<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The hosts of “The View” pushed back on actor Billy Bob Thornton’s argument that celebrities should keep quiet about politics. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They were reacting to comments Thornton made on the &#8220;Howie Mandel Does Stuff&#8221; podcast last week, where the “Landman” star paraphrased comedian Ricky Gervais and said celebrities should, &#8220;Get your little award and f*** off.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I don’t know anything about politics. I have no idea,&#8221; Thornton added. &#8220;And the stuff that I believe about it, I don’t want to force it down somebody else’s throat ’cause I’m not an expert on that.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thorn</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ton also said trusting celebrities is a mistake.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The fact that people put so much gravitas [into] this group of people that pretends things,” he added. “Just because you played a doctor doesn’t mean you are a doctor, just because you played a hero doesn’t make you a hero. And the people that listen to you, no matter how much we talk, they don’t know us. It’s such a small circle of people that know you, know you enough to trust you in your opinion.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Monday&#8217;s episode of “The View,” co-host Joy Behar was furious with this concept, saying, &#8220;Imagine bragging about how uninformed you are.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Behar went on to praise celebrities like Bruce Springsteen and Robert De Niro, among the most radical leftist stars around, for always getting political. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in, saying, &#8220;We are at a crisis point in this country. I think democracy is participatory. I think when you have a platform, that means you have an outsized voice and when you have a platform, I think that you have a responsibility to speak up about what’s going on in this country and my view silence is complicity. We need every single ally to speak out.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin offered a different perspective, saying, &#8220;A, Billy Bob Thornton is one of my favorite actors. I’m never going to say a bad word about him, starting with that. But B, a lot of this table criticized George Clooney when he wrote his Biden op-ed.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;That is a celebrity using his voice, saying what he believes, it can&#8217;t just be when they agree with your position,&#8221; Griffin added.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;He can say it and I can criticize it, that’s called free speech,&#8221; Behar shot back.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Griffin added that celebrities shouldn’t be “bullied” into speaking out, and that their participation by just posting on social media is more accurately described as “slacktivism.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The panel continued to argue over whether celebs should voice political opinions, or whether, as Thornton suggested, their influence is often misplaced.  </span></p>

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