{"id":23539,"date":"2014-12-11T17:31:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T01:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=23539"},"modified":"2016-10-07T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T18:17:29","slug":"bill-oreilly-flunky-gets-booted-from-mayor-de-blasios-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=23539","title":{"rendered":"Bill O’Reilly Flunky Gets Booted From Mayor De Blasio’s Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

The media hoax that is Fox News continues to embarrass itself with pathetic stunts aimed at glorifying their egomaniacal propaganda peddlers while debasing the practice of journalism. The latest example of this adventure in tabloid trivialities occurred today during a press conference held by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.<\/p>\n

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In the middle of the event Jesse Watters pops up and pretends that he has an actual question to ask. For those who don’t know him, Watters is a producer on The O’Reilly Factor and a practitioner of ambush journalism. He is also the “brains”<\/em> behind the lie-riddled Fox Nation<\/a> website. After being recognized by de Blasio, Watters demonstrated why is regarded as such an imbecile as he turned the press conference into a bitchfest with his whining about de Blasio’s refusal to grant O’Reilly an interview. <\/p>\n

Watters:<\/strong> Mr. Mayor, Bill O\u2019Reilly has a question for you.
\nde Blasio:<\/strong> OK. Are you his emissary?
\nWatters:<\/strong> You don\u2019t know Watters\u2019 World?
\nde Blasio:<\/strong> Again please.
\nWatters:<\/strong> I\u2019m Watters, this is my world right here, OK?\u201d
\nde Blasio:<\/strong> OK. Continue.
\nWatters:<\/strong> We\u2019ve been trying to book you on the show for weeks, and your staff hasn\u2019t been very respectful towards us we\u2019re just trying to…
\nde Blasio:<\/strong> I\u2019m sure they\u2019re very respectful.
\nWatters:<\/strong> Actually not.
\nde Blasio:<\/strong> I\u2019m sure they are.
\nWatters:<\/strong> We\u2019re just trying to get to know you better, what\u2019s the problem?
\nde Blasio:<\/strong> I appreciate the invitation, and my staff will follow up with you.
\nWatters:<\/strong> But they haven\u2019t been following up, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m here.
\nde Blasio:<\/strong> I\u2019m glad you\u2019re here. Let\u2019s take some serious questions. Go ahead, Henry.
\nWatters:<\/strong> We\u2019re fascinated by this de Blasio mystique. Can you help us out mayor? […] You haven\u2019t responded.
\nde Blasio:<\/strong> Henry.
\nWatters:<\/strong> Will you do the show?
\nde Blasio:<\/strong> Henry. Just start talking Henry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shortly thereafter, Watters was escorted out of the press conference by security. And as it turns out, de Blasio’s office had previously responded to O’Reilly’s request with a rather gracious denial. His staff later tweeted evidence<\/a> of it. But that isn’t even what makes this so stupid. A press conference is not the place to badger a public official about appearing on a cable news program. It is exceedingly rude and unprofessional to take the time of a busy mayor, and all of the legitimate reporters, just to try and book a guest on a program hosted by an angry and adversarial loudmouth who the mayor has no interest in accommodating.<\/p>\n

But Watters isn’t concerned with professional behavior. He has never bothered to exhibit it in the past. His childish pranks have earned him the ridicule of his peers, and of Stephen Colbert who featured him in a hilarious segment<\/a> earlier this year. And for more documented examples of Watters’ sleazy escapades in pseudo-journalism…<\/p>\n

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