Joy Behar nearly wrung Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s neck backstage at The View on Wednesday. Onsite spywitnesses say all Hell broke loose once the outspoken co-hostesses were face-to-face following their on-screen confrontation over that controversial pro-John McCain T-shirt Elisabeth rocked on Tuesday’s show.

Joy and Elisabeth found themselves embroiled in a heated shouting match that nearly turned violent, according to new whispers.

Snitching tattles tell the Defamer:

After “The View” went off the air today, Joy and Elisabeth WENT AT IT backstage!!!!!

Joy jumped in Elisabeth’s face about a comment she made about Joy not being able to plug her appearances because her act is “political in nature.” This was in response to the controversy about the McCain t-shirt Elisabeth wore on the air on Tuesday.

Joy SCREAMED in Elisabeth’s face, “If you do that again I will burn you down.” Elisabeth turned beet red and started to stammer out something. And then Joy yelled, “Shut the fuck up” and stormed off.

Nobody backstage came to console Elisabeth who was left standing there.