Barbara Walters came to the defense of Woody Allen on Monday's episode of "The View," causing an altercation with co-host, Sherri Shepherd.

The 84-year-old journalist had her own opinions about the Oscar-nominated director as a father stating, "I have rarely seen a father as sensitive, as loving and as caring as Woody is and Soon-Yi to these two girls (referring to the couple's daughters.) I don't know about Dylan. I can only tell you what I have seen now."

Allen is portrayed as far from "sensitive" and "caring" in adopted daughter Dylan Farrow's detailed open letter to The New York Times of the sexual abuse she went through as a 7-year-old child. Co-host Jenny McCarthy joined the heated argument by saying that Dylan has "nothing to gain by coming out and saying this" 21 years later, a fact that Walters seems to have overlooked.

Even after McCarthy's argument, Barbara goes on to say that Dylan is speaking up now because Allen is up for an Oscar, implying that a blow as intense as this to his personal life will interfere with the outcome of the awards.

When Sherri Shepherd jumps in and argues "We've heard so many cases of people going, 'He was the most wonderful person in the world. I would have never thought he would've..." Walters stops Shepherd mid-sentence and sternly states, "That's not what I'm saying."

Sherri continues with her point stating that "there are so many things that go on behind closed doors. We also know that he was with Soon-Yi when she was young." Shepherd's mention of the 78-year-old filmmaker's track record with younger women, Walters shuts her down and further defends Allen.

The discussion gets even more intense and heated when the two ladies argue over whether Woody Allen's relationship with his now wife (and stepdaughter), Soon-Yi, was mutual.

Barbara's defense has created twitter responses calling her "very irresponsible" as well as "ignorant" and "offensive." Sherri Shepherd's argument has been applauded via social media outlets with tweets saying that Shephard's "smack down was priceless and necessary."

The co-host of "The View" wasn't simply defending her close friend on the daytime show. She was supporting an accused sexual predator that would have been condemned if he hadn't been Woody Allen. To the public, Barbara's stance is as an act of denying a victim of sexual abuse.