A verbal brawl erupted on Monday’s The View. After liberal co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar defended Barack Obama’s bland statement on Fidel Castro's death, token conservative Jedediah Bila slammed it as “nauseating.” Goldberg even hinted that the United States in 2016 could go the way of Cuba in limited freedom of the press.

Recounting her visit to the Communist country, Behar praised, “I went to Cuba last April, and it's interesting. I mean, they have 100 percent literacy rate there, so everybody gets a free education. Everybody has top of the line medical care, so everyone's healthy.”

Bila condemned Obama’s statement, in which the President hailed Castro’s “enormous impact” on Cuba. She rebutted:

JEDEDIAH BILA: I'm nauseated. You're talking about a mass murderer. You're talking about a guy who imprisoned people, who put gay people in jail.... When I see "countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individuals' lives," yeah, by killing them.

The conversation also included the View women slamming Donald Trump’s reaction to the dictator’s death. Whoopi Goldberg then worried that loss of freedom may become a problem in America. She compared:

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I will say to people 60 years of dictatorship, no freedom of the press, no freedom of people, no freedom of speech. Keep an eye on that because that's what America will look like if we lose the ability to have these conversations.

Goldberg then quoted a statement by former View host/creator Barbara Walters. It read: "I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was a charming, fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews fiery debates. During our times together he made clear to me he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy. I told him that we were most profoundly disagreeing on was the meaning of freedom.”

Of course, back in 2002, Walters completely swallowed Cuban propaganda: “For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.”

In 2014, she said of the dictator who killed 7,000 to 10,000 people: “Maybe the most charismatic person I have met."

A partial transcript is below:

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