‘The View’s’ Rosie O’Donnell Calls Rick Scott an ‘Asshole’ For Refusing to Debate Charlie Crist

“He was being a baby,” the co-host says of the Florida governor, who inspired “Fangate”

ABC’s censors put their fingers to work on Thursday morning, bleeping “View” co-host Rosie O’Donnell as she called Republican Florida Governor Rick Scott, “an asshole.” During a debate on Wednesday night, Scott initially refused to face his opponent, Charlie Crist, onstage because Crist had a small fan under his podium.

“He should have just walked out,” O’Donnell said of Scott. “Why didn’t he walk out? He was being a baby. He looked like an asshole.”

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Nicolle Wallace, who spent most of her career before “The View” in politics, explained how Crist had written into his contract the right to have the fan during the debate.

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