{"id":1228,"date":"2009-03-23T16:43:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T23:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2009-03-28T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T18:23:10","slug":"bill-oreillys-attack-puppy-jesse-watters-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"Bill O’Reilly’s Attack Puppy Jesse Watters Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever Bill O’Reilly has some dirty work to do that doesn’t involve a loofah, he sends his trusty minion, Stuttering Jesse Watters. In the field, Watters pretends he is the progeny of Mike Wallace (whose real progeny, Chris, is also a Fox News toady). Watters plots elaborate ambush “interviews”<\/em> with people who wouldn’t otherwise get within spitting distance of him, or O’Reilly either for that matter.<\/p>\n

This past weekend, Amanda Terkel of ThinkProgress was literally stalked by Watters<\/a> while she was on vacation.<\/p>\n

Terkel:<\/strong> Watters and his camera man accosted me at approximately 3:45 p.m. on Saturday, March 21, in Winchester, VA, which is a two-hour drive from Washington, DC. My friend and I were in this small town for a short weekend vacation and had told no one about where we were going. I can only infer that the two men staked out my apartment and then followed me for two hours.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This harassment was orchestrated by O’Reilly as payback for Terkel’s reporting on O’Reilly’s appearance before the Alexa Foundation, a rape victims support group. It was a personal assault that had no news value, just the desire to harm someone he believed to be an enemy. The action taken against Terkel violated even O’Reilly’s criteria for ambushing:<\/p>\n

O’Reilly:<\/strong> [W]e do not go after people lightly. We always ask them on the program first, or to issue a clear statement explaining their actions.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, Terkel was never contacted for either a statement or an invitation to appear on the Factor. This is typical O’Reilly behavior. Remember, this is the same guy who pushed an Obama aide and threatened him not to “block the shot.”<\/em> He is a textbook bully, as well as a paranoid narcissist. Dispatching so-called “producers”<\/em> to harass people you don’t like is closer to organized crime than to journalism. Perhaps O’Reilly and Watters could be prosecuted under the RICO statutes.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> O’Reilly’s segment with the Watters ambush just aired and it was a stunning piece of sensationalistic, libelous, garbage. The encounter with Terkel, whom O’Reilly branded a villain, was edited so as to paint a thoroughly dishonest picture of her, while permitting Watters to spew a running commentary of vile character assassination. Then O’Reilly took a cognitive leap to turn his fire on Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC, without explaining what he had to do with any of this. Clearly, O’Reilly just wants to take every opportunity to bash NBC as a proxy for his nemesis, Keith Olbermann, who also had nothing to do with this.<\/p>\n

Also notable in the segment was O’Reilly’s description of the rape trial for the perpetrator of the crime committed against Alexa Branchini, for whom the Alexa Foundation was created. O’Reilly said that the defense put on a case intended to “prove the rape was consensual.”<\/em> That is, to say the least, a curious phrasing. He did not refer to whether the “sex”<\/em> was consensual. It appears that O’Reilly thinks that sometimes a rape victim may have consented to being raped, or was otherwise responsible. And that is precisely what Terkel noted in the article that started all of this – that O’Reilly was an inappropriate speaker to a rape victims organization because of his previous insensitivity for implying that some victims are responsible for bringing about their own assault. Somebody needs to tell O’Reilly that rape is NEVER consensual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever Bill O’Reilly has some dirty work to do that doesn’t involve a loofah, he sends his trusty minion, Stuttering Jesse Watters. In the field, Watters pretends he is the progeny of Mike Wallace (whose real progeny, Chris, is also a Fox News toady). 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