The hosts of “The View” pushed back on actor Billy Bob Thornton’s argument that celebrities should keep quiet about politics.  They were reacting to comments Thornton made on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast last week, where the “Landman” star paraphrased comedian Ricky Gervais and said celebrities should, “Get your little award and f*** off.” “I don’t know anything about politics. I have no idea,” Thornton added. “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.” Thornton also said trusting celebrities is a mistake. “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.” On Monday’s episode of “The View,” co-host Joy Behar was furious with this concept, saying, “Imagine bragging about how uninformed you are.”  Behar went on to praise celebrities like Bruce Springsteen and Robert De Niro, among the most radical leftist stars around, for always getting political.  Co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in, saying, “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.” Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin offered a different perspective, saying, “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.” “That is a celebrity using his voice, saying what he believes, it can’t just be when they agree with your position,” Griffin added. “He can say it and I can criticize it, that’s called free speech,” Behar shot back. 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.” The panel continued to argue over whether celebs should voice political opinions, or whether, as Thornton suggested, their influence is often misplaced.