Fox News host Eric Bolling is sick of polls. Not only are they wrong, he said, but it’s the size of crowds at Donald Trump’s rallies that’s much more important.

“We have to stop with these polls, they’re insane,” Bolling declared on “The Five” on Wednesday (skip to 5:06 in the video above for this part). “You look at a Trump rally and there’s 12, 15,000, 10,000 people and then you look at Hillary Clinton and you have, I don’t know, 1,500, 2,000.”

None of his cohosts were buying it, though. Especially not Dana Perino.

“It’s a real disservice...,” Perino, the former White House press secretary to President George W. Bush, began.

“To whom?” Bolling interjected.

“His supporters,” she replied. “To lie to them that the polls don’t matter.”

“The one person sitting at home still cancels out somebody at a rally,” Greg Gutfeld said, but the point was lost on Bolling, who explained again how the “size of crowds is more indicative of following.”

Perino pointed out that the same thing happened in 2012, when Mitt Romney supporters were told by Fox News and others on the right that polls showing President Barack Obama leading were wrong.

“They were so mad and disappointed,” she said.

“Yeah, they stopped watching because they thought we lied to them,” Gutfeld recalled. “And we deserved it.”

But perhaps the best part of the segment was watching Bolling’s cohosts react to his increasingly bizarre explanations about why polls don’t matter.

Here’s Kimberly Guilfoyle:

Gutfeld:

And Perino, looking like she’s just about reached her limit:

Maybe she had, because hours later she fired off a series of tweets taking down Bolling and anyone else who believed all the polls were somehow wrong:

Getting a few things off of my chest cold: When it comes to political analysis, I make you a promise - I will never lie to you. — Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) August 18, 2016

Many of you write, wanting me to tell you GOOD things about the gop chances this year. I wish I could do that. But I WILL NOT LIE TO YOU. — Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) August 18, 2016

In 2012, I fell for "the polls are wrong" mantra. I felt sick election night, realizing I'd been suckered into a fall sense of complacency. — Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) August 18, 2016

Romney was not going to win in spite of the "rigged polls" - and I vowed that night that I would NEVER EVER fall for that again — Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) August 18, 2016

The Dems start with 242 electoral college votes to win. They need 270. Even I can do that math - it isn't hard. — Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) August 18, 2016

Sure there are 11 weeks to go and a lot could change. I expect the polls to tighten a lot after Labor Day. But you can't win a general... — Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) August 18, 2016

...Election with the current state of campaign. Think of how fast 11 weeks goes. Nov 8th will be here before you can buy any Xmas presents. — Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) August 18, 2016

Some of you call me Debbie Downer, Negative Nancy, or even Pollyanna. I've been called a Pragmatic Snob (is there such a thing?) — Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) August 18, 2016

But I will not lie to you about the state of this race. I won't do it. No amount of peer pressure digital or otherwise can move me. — Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) August 18, 2016

So I'm going to keep being a voice that says yes on the one hand but not the OTHER FREAKING HAND, the future of this party is at risk. — Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) August 18, 2016

Maybe you want the party to be at risk. maybe it SHOULD be at risk. But I won't be a party to delusion that crowds > established polls — Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) August 18, 2016