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Fox News’s Jesse Watters Infiltrates GE Shareholders Meeting To Complain Of Press Bias

It’s no secret that Fox News host Bill O’Reilly can’t stand MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. In fact, when a caller into his radio show had the gall to mention Olbermann’s name on air in March 2006, O’Reilly threatened to turn his personal information over to “Fox security.”

Yesterday, O’Reilly took his rivalry a step further. He sent his top henchman, producer Jesse Watters, to infiltrate the GE shareholders meeting and press executives on why MSNBC has a “leftward political slant”:

But one of those questions came from Jesse Watters [sic], a producer on “The O’Reilly Factor” whose criticisms were cut short when his microphone was cut off, according to several attendees. Watters apparently did not publicly identify himself as a Fox employee. [...]

GE pointed out that Watters had Fox News cameras waiting outside the Orlando meeting.

Attendees who spoke to THR said shareholders asked about 10 politically charged questions concerning MSNBC as well as one about CNBC. [...]

When he got the floor, Watters focused his question about MSNBC on Olbermann’s interview of actress Janeane Garofalo, who likened conservatives to racists and spoke of “the limbic brain inside a right-winger.”

“He (Watters) was complaining that Olbermann didn’t bother to challenge her,” another GE shareholder said.

Watters is reportedly a GE shareholder. Naturally, the Drudge Report is now blowing up this story with the headline, “GE shareholders outraged over MSNBC bias; Microphone cut off…”

Yesterday was not the first time that O’Reilly’s henchmen have confronted NBC/GE executives. In 2007, O’Reilly sent his producers to ambush Immelt while he was having dinner, pushing and shoving their way past restaurant staff in order to harass him. Of course, when outlets such as ThinkProgress and the New York Times have contacted Watters for comment on his ambush tactics, he has refused to respond.

No doubt that O’Reilly will use this incident to fuel his conspiracy theories against the left-wing “smear pipeline,” which supposedly includes GE, NBC News, Osama bin Laden, John Podesta, President Obama, and insects.

Update On his Twitter feed, Watters writes: "I guess everyone knows why I haven't said anything recently. Florida was nice. ;) http://bit.ly/GhME0 Hopefully soon on Foxnews.com"


98 Responses to “Fox News’s Jesse Watters Infiltrates GE Shareholders Meeting To Complain Of Press Bias”

  1. mk3872 says:

    LOL! So O’reilly’s ratings superiority to MSNBC is so great that he feels the need send hit man Waters to the GE shareholder meeting?? ROFL!

    All we ever hear from O’Reilly is how TP, MSNBC, etc. is no challenge to him. Yet he is sooooo sensitive that he has to attack you all with his henchmen.

    How can Watters look himself in the mirror every day being such an O’Reilly stooge?


  2. christopher wiwi says:

    Everything about Fox News news reeks of cowardice,lies and deceit.No wonder Murdoch is losing his ass financially, keep up the good work FAUX News.


  3. ralph the wonder locust says:

    Wait a sec — I thought that wingnuts defended Faux’s bias by crowing about their ratings?

    If MSNBC’s ratings have improved as they’ve given Olbermann more leeway and brought rachel Maddow aboard, isn’t that simply the network responding to the marketplace?

    Isn’t that the “capitalism” that the wingnuts defend so vigorously?

    I’m so confused.


  4. katydid says:

    … on why MSNBC has a “leftward political slant” …

    my gawd… the frighties are really in a bizarro world…

    it’s all projection all the time…

    that last rove whine about “a banana republic” was fascinatin’!


  5. Keith H. says:

    fox has really gone to sh|t . . bummer. :)


  6. larkohio says:

    Waters must be very ambitious and aggressive to carry water for Billo like he does. I do not admire him.


  7. rightwing-leftwing says:

    Faux Noise can get away with this crap because they know that Liberals don’t carry GUNS. What a bunch of school-yard punks.


  8. paleolib says:

    Doesn’t Fox Comedy’s shrill invective about GE’s liberal media bent throwing the election to Obama constitute an admission that NBC is substantially more influential than Rupert’s clown show?

    On a related note, wonder if “News” Corp’s health plan will cover the plastic surgery after someone finally gets sick of pretty boy Jesse and rearranges his face to look like Bill-O.


  9. Bullsmith says:

    Fox charges rival network with bias! Nope, no irony here.


  10. fire _ant_chavis says:

    O’SillyHo the media whore is at it again. This reeks of their desperation! What Watters is doing is not journalism it’s something tasteless like the show “Cheaters” or “Jerry Springer.” What I like is how much the “left-wing smear pipeline” is getting under O’SillyHo’s skin. I can’t wait to watch Olbermann chew O’SillyHo up and spit him out! Way to go all my fellow insects!


  11. P for Progress says:

    This is a case of the Left being bullies and now are upset someone is punching them back. Go O’Reilly!


  12. P for Progress says:

    This is a case of the Left being bullies and now are upset someone is punching them back. Go O’Reilly!


  13. P for Progress says:

    Why are Progressives complaining about this? Why don’t you like to be confronted?


  14. dbadass says:


  15. Zooey says:

    The Bildo Crew once again prove themselves to be cowards.


  16. P for Progress says:

    Ralph,
    I’m not Terajan. You think he is every poster here! Ha ha ha ha! Look at my name isn’t it famaliar?


  17. P for Progress says:

    The only cowards are you progressives that can’t take it. Your smear machine is good at attacking but can’t take a punch.


  18. fire _ant_chavis says:

    P for Progress Says:

    Complaining? Your boy O’Sillyho looks pretty desperate. You’re the only one complaining and your boy O’SillyHo is doing all of the bullying and ambushing. Get your facts straight and quit whining like a little bytche!


  19. raynman says:

    I wonder if Watters is still refusing to be interviewed by anyone other that O’Reilly?

    You know, tho… if you need to lie to get answers… maybe you’re asking the wrong question?


  20. livelongandprosper says:

    Why don’t you like to be confronted?

    Ask Jesse Watters, he refuses to be interviewed.


  21. Zooey says:

    Hi, Mr Pee.

    Have you gotten that philosophy degree yet?


  22. Bobby McGee says:

    I say we should have O’Reilly arrested! He is disturbing this nation’s path to Progress!


  23. ralph the wonder locust says:

    Say, “P is for Progress”, can you explain the conundrum that faux News apologists display on TP all the time? The one I mentioned above?

    That is this: right-wingers frequently defend Faux News against charges of bias by citing ratings numbers. (I have yet to get a good explanation for the meaning of this tactic, but that’s a different subject.)

    Supposedly, the willingness of Faux executives to serve up the piping hot red-wing red meat is justified by its ability to attract viewers, correct?

    So, given that the ratings for Olbermann’s show have grown as he’s gotten more vocal, and Rachel Maddow has improved the ratings over a year ago for her time slot, shouldn’t a free market fundamentalist applaud any move by a network that increases its performance?


  24. dbadass says:

    Who punches machines? I suppose those same dipshits that punched lockers in high school…


  25. NOLIESPLEASE says:

    Please oh pretty please…anyone who is confronted by Jesse, please do one thing if your a male….pull out your di** while looking him in the eyes and PISS ON HIS LEG AS HE IS ASKING YOU THE QEUSTIONS.

    I WILL PAY FOR THAT FOOTAGE…PLEASE OH PLEASE DO IT….JUST DO IT.

    PISS ON JESSE BOUNTY OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. REWARD STARTING AT $1000.00


  26. ralph the wonder locust says:

    P for Progress Says:
    Ralph,
    I’m not Terajan. You think he is every poster here! Ha ha ha ha! Look at my name isn’t it famaliar?

    Can I help it if all you low-functioning trolls sound the same and spell at the same level?


  27. Purple State says:

    P, can you really say that progressives are the only people out there that don’t like confrontation? Tell me, in all sincerity, what you might do if a reporter comes up to you at an inappropriate time, shoves a microphone in your face, and demands answers. This is a situation that would make both progressives and conservatives seek shelter.

    Avoiding confrontation is not a characteristic divided by party lines or political belief. It is a characteristic of the man or woman themselves. There are liberal heroes and cowards, and there are conservative heroes and cowards.

    Don’t tell us that confrontation is something that only progressives run from.


  28. lvdragonlady says:

    Is it me or is O’reilly losing it?


  29. Zooey says:

    lvdragonlady Says:

    Is it me or is O’reilly losing it?
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:53 am

    You seem okay, dragonlady. I think O’Reilly’s the one losing it. ;)


  30. Bobby McGee says:

    Progressives should be prepared to stand up for their beliefs. If they attack people expect consequences. This isn’t about ratings, this is about catching people with big mouths and seeing if they can back their stuff up.


  31. Zooey says:

    Mr Pee’s got two tabs running this morning. What a wimp! A truly dedicated troll would have 5 or 6 tabs going.


  32. wags says:

    Progressives should be prepared to stand up for their beliefs. If they attack people expect consequences. This isn’t about ratings, this is about catching people with big mouths and seeing if they can back their stuff up.

    Who, precisely, are progressives attacking via ambush journalism?

    Hmm?


  33. dbadass says:

    this is about catching people with big mouths and seeing if they can back their stuff up.
    —-
    Well I guess that leaves RealityCheck out…Anti-American yeah right…


  34. Bobby McGee says:

    Progressives have the best propaganda machine r seen in American politics. I laugh 1 journalist bothers you.


  35. misscoleopteramolly says:

    P for Progress Says
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:47 am

    The only cowards are you progressives that can’t take it. Your smear machine is good at attacking but can’t take a punch.
    ____________________________________________________________

    There were no punches here. Watters attended a GE shareholder meeting as a Fox News plant. His mic was cut off because it was obvious he was a plant and his sole purpose was to disrupt. It wasn’t that he landed any punches, it was that such tactics are tiresome and time-wasting.

    Kind of like the reason we flag trolls around here.

    BTW — are you suggesting that if a MSNBC producer who happened to be a News Corp shareholder attended one of their shareholder meetings, and spent his time attacking the political bias of Fox News, that he’d be welcomed with open arms? I think not. He would have his mic cut off, and that would only be the beginning.


  36. InOnTheFly says:

    It absolutely amazes me how those people who this chickenshit chooses to ambush are able to restrain themselves during these gross violations of personal space! If I were not so old and feeble, I’d invite these sick puppies O’Really and cutie pie Watters into one of those public cage fights, winner take all — and I WOULD NOT be concerned of the outcome. No hiding behind Ruppert’s skirt there BillO!!


  37. wags says:

    Progressives have the best propaganda machine r seen in American politics. I laugh 1 journalist bothers you.

    I laugh because this weasel has fooled you into thinking he’s actually a journalist.


  38. dbadass says:

    What is with all this talk of machines?Bobby McGee coul-d you please share with me the supporting evidences of your thesis statement?
    thanks


  39. misscoleopteramolly says:

    NOLIESPLEASE Says
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:51 am

    Please oh pretty please…anyone who is confronted by Jesse, please do one thing if your a male….pull out your di** while looking him in the eyes and PISS ON HIS LEG AS HE IS ASKING YOU THE QEUSTIONS.
    _____________________________________________________________

    Um…as a woman, I’d have a hard time doing that. I’m sure this option wasn’t available to Amanda for the same reason (of course, she’s probably classy enough that she didn’t even think of it).


  40. ralph the wonder locust says:

    Bobby McGee Says:
    Progressives have the best propaganda machine r seen in American politics.

    Have you any evidence to support this? Or is your simple assertion of “fact” enough for you?

    I laugh 1 journalist bothers you.

    Journalist? I don’t see a journalist in this story.

    And why should we not be bothered by a dishonest tabloid producer pretending to be an attack journalist?

    How many should we tolerate before becoming “bothered”?


  41. Varanus komodoensis says:

    “Ambush and Torture” the new Conservative slogan.

    Olbermann and Janeane didn’t specifically call anyone out O’Reilly is hog wash, man? Keith you have a great show, I watch you every night.

    O’Reilly is going to ambush the wrong person one day?


  42. livelongandprosper says:

    #
    Bobby McGee Says:

    Progressives have the best propaganda machine r seen in American politics. I laugh 1 journalist bothers you.

    This isn’t twitter, you can use full sentences and spellings.


  43. Purple State says:

    Bobby McGee Says:

    Progressives have the best propaganda machine r seen in American politics. I laugh 1 journalist bothers you.

    Bobby, this isn’t about one journalist. This is about a tactic employed by FNC journalists. Plural. Don’t think that Mr. Watters is rebelling against the FNC system by going out to interview people through ambushes. This is a tactic employed by Griff Jenkins, both of which have been authorized by Bill O’Reilly.

    This is not a protest against one journalist. This is all about strategies.

    And I’d disagree with you totally. I think Fox has the better propaganda machine, hands down, in terms of rarely straying from GOP and conservative talking points.


  44. ralph the wonder locust says:

    Did Mr. Pee vanish? I was hoping to get him to answer my question about free market fundamentalism operating in cable news.

    I wouldn’t mind if he used another one of his sockpuppets to answer.

    As long as it wasn’t made from the sock that he used to “shake the devil off” last night. That would just be gross.


  45. sscncturn64 says:

    Noliesplease 26,
    I think it would be sweet to see Watters try to ambush Ms. Terkel again and see her kick him in his balls.


  46. ralph the wonder locust says:

    livelongandprosper Says:

    Bobby McGee Says:

    Progressives have the best propaganda machine r seen in American politics. I laugh 1 journalist bothers you.

    This isn’t twitter, you can use full sentences and spellings.

    That’s a little like telling a kid using a tricycle that it’s okay to ride on two wheels.


  47. Bobby McGee says:

    dbadass,
    Center for American Progress is funded by George Soros and other sources. Soros also funds Move. Org, Media matters and other outlets. Emails are exchanged among Progressive journalists to keep with the same stories. GE has recieved monet from The Government and their CEO is an advisor to Obama. They own MSNBC which repeats the smae stories.
    I admire the Progressive Machine. I wish my side had it.


  48. Perry logan says:

    I hear that Fox ratings are dropping and their stock is plummeting.


  49. Bobby McGee says:

    Perry logan,
    Fox’s rating have been up since Obama took office.


  50. Bobby McGee says:

    ralph the wonder locust,
    I’ll write however I feel like it. OK 2 Bad!


  51. wags says:

    Center for American Progress is funded by George Soros and other sources. Soros also funds Move. Org, Media matters and other outlets. Emails are exchanged among Progressive journalists to keep with the same stories. GE has recieved monet from The Government and their CEO is an advisor to Obama. They own MSNBC which repeats the smae stories.

    And you can support all this with facts and sources, yes?


  52. dbadass says:

    Bobby McGee
    How does this info support the presmise of the “best” and what do you mean by “propaganda”?


  53. Bobby McGee says:

    wags,
    Who is funding CAP? Email them and find out.


  54. wags says:

    Who is funding CAP? Email them and find out.

    Since you’re so well informed, why don’t you enlighten us?


  55. joe cantwell says:

    ***

    interesting how his upper

    lip travels two inches downward

    from his nose. a family trait?

    ;<)


  56. ElBruce says:

    I would think that if someone was a shareholder for the General Electric corporation, and had enough shares to warrant being at the meeting in the current economic climate, anybody hijacking such a meeting to take time out for something as silly as the O’Reilly v. Olbermann feud would have me pretty mad. There are a lot of retirement accounts and life savings on the line there. They’ve got some extremely important business to discuss. I’m sure a lot of the shareholders were concerned about their investments and wanted to get as much information from the executives as they can.

    Why does FOX hate capitalism?

    Watters should “confront” Olbermann in a more appropriate venue, like in church or when he’s on the can.


  57. joe cantwell says:

    Bobby McGee Says:
    ralph the wonder locust,
    I’ll write however I feel like it. OK 2 Bad!

    ***

    oh no you won’t!

    :)


  58. ralph the wonder locust says:

    Bobby McGee Says:
    ralph the wonder locust,
    I’ll write however I feel like it. OK 2 Bad!

    I think you have me confused with another poster.

    I actually defended your sloppy use of language, as unavoidable given your evident skill level.


  59. Purple State says:

    Bobby McGee Says:

    ralph the wonder locust,
    I’ll write however I feel like it. OK 2 Bad!

    And that’s the freedom that we have here. We write however we feel like writing. This goes for Fox. This goes for NBC. This goes for Red State. This goes for ThinkProgress.

    We will write however we feel like. No one needs a propaganda machine for that. I’d be writing how I think and what I think at some other website if I wasn’t writing here. And I feel that all of the bloggers here would do the same.


  60. tombaker says:

    wow – 11-year-old righty demagogues all over the place…

    …what happened?

    did a fundy school get shut down somewhere?


  61. livelongandprosper says:

    GE has recieved monet from The Government and their CEO is an advisor to Obama.

    I suppose having Conservative Think Tanks and Evangelical religious nutjobs have weekly meetings with Bush was not a problem for you.


  62. ralph the wonder locust says:

    Bobby, perhaps you would care to address my question directed earlier to Mr. Pee?

    Given that the perceived recent “leftward slant” of MSNBC is traceable to the higher visibility of Keith Olbermann and the addition of Rachel Maddow to the lineup, and both time slots have shown improved ratings over the past year, isn’t it simply a case of the network responding to the demands of the marketplace?


  63. ralph the wonder locust says:

    Is our new friend Bobby really trying to claim that GE is left-leaning corporation?

    I see we’re not meant to take him seriously. Not that there was much danger of that happening.


  64. dbadass says:

    I’d like to receive a Monet…


  65. ElBruce says:

    … I mean, let’s put it in perspective. GE is a large corporation involved in a lot of businesses. For one guy to monopolize the shareholder’s time complaining about one question in one interview on one show on one network controlled by one subsidiary would be like someone standing up to complain that they bought a defective light bulb.


  66. livelongandprosper says:

    Bobby McGee Says:

    ralph the wonder locust,
    I’ll write however I feel like it. OK 2 Bad!

    That was meant for me Bobby. You can write however you want, obviously. I see writing like that and I think that technology and education are failing. Then again, language evolves just like everything else, so yeah, 2 bad 4 me. (Did I get that right?)


  67. Mathazar says:

    So now Olielly has resorted to disrupting his rival’s shareholder meetings ?

    Is there any low this guy won’t stoop to ?

    I guess MSNBC can kiss goodbye to all those factor fans that watch countdown and Rachel.


  68. tombaker says:

    I’d think Waters could find better work as a David Schwimmer impersonator.

    Call your agent, Jesse – a world of adventure awaits!


  69. Bilbo Hussein Baggins says:

    Ok, perhaps Watters and/or O’Reilly can tell us what it is OK for Fox to have a right wing bias and it is not OK for MSNBC to have a left wing bias. A little hypocritical, don’t you think?


  70. Bilbo Hussein Baggins says:

    lvdragonlady Says:
    Is it me or is O’reilly losing it?

    Conservatives in general are losing it. It would be funny if it wasn’t so scary.


  71. Bilbo Hussein Baggins says:

    brothabill Says:
    For the record, I dont watch Fox news either so I dont know who this producer is. But if I were a GE shareholder, I’d ask whats the deal with the propaganda on MSNBC?

    And what “propaganda” would that be? I watch Countdown and Rachel Maddow most nights and I don’t see any propaganda. I see them reporting on the news of the day without lying and twisting people’s words to make it into something it isn’t.

    The propaganda is on Fixed News where they lie on a regular basis and take one sentence quotes out of something someone said to make it sound like something it isn’t.


  72. Bilbo Hussein Baggins says:

    Jim Wolf359 Says:
    If Watters doesn’t like what GE does, he can always divest himself of the shares of GE Stock that he owns. Nah…too easy. Besides, he’d lose his right to disrupt share holder meetings. I wonder how long he’s owned the stock anyway.

    You mean the one share of stock he purchased just so he could attend a shareholder’s meeting?


  73. Jim Wolf359 says:

    If Watters doesn’t like what GE does, he can always divest himself of the shares of GE Stock that he owns. Nah…too easy. Besides, he’d lose his right to disrupt share holder meetings. I wonder how long he’s owned the stock anyway.


  74. MrBrown says:

    “…whose criticisms were cut short when his microphone was cut off,…”

    Billo should proud. People are following his journalistic lead. That’s one of his classic tactics.


  75. Cal Malenky says:

    When is someone gonna go Kanye on his ass?


  76. wolfsinger says:

    Oh, Dear. P for Progress is in the room. We are all just amazed at the awesome logic that is P. Such fearatude. Why, I am so impressed that I am going to burn my ACLU card this very minute and run right out and join SarahPAC on my way the the John Birch Society meeting. You are awesome P. Truly.

    Uumm, P? Before I go, I just thought I’d mention first that O’Reilly’s median audience age is 67 give or take a point or two. Rush’s too.

    Just slightly higher than your IQ.


  77. joe cantwell says:

    Proud Says:
    Jesse is a stock holder asking a legitimate question and Immelt doesn’t have the guts to answer it. Listen to the audio, priceless.
    http://www.foxnews.com/ video/ index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=4538818&referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749

    April 23rd, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    ***

    jesse puts his money into ge.

    but he claims to oppose ge.

    conservatives are such dopes.

    :<)


  78. ralph the wonder locust says:

    Just curious, Prod… what legitimate question?

    Assuming for the sake of argument (and ONLY for the sake of argument) that MSNBC has adopted a leftward slant to its programming… given that the most left-leaning programs are getting increased ratings over a year ago, wouldn’t this simply be a reasonable response to the demands of the marketplace?

    After all, that’s basically the argument put forth by defenders of Faux News whenever they trot out ratings numbers, isn’t it? At least, I’m guessing that’s their argument, since I have yet to get a straight answer out of any of them on the question…


  79. ElBruce says:

    Bilbo Hussein Baggins Says:

    And what “propaganda” would that be?

    Reality has a known liberal bias. Therefore, if you aren’t slanting the news rightward, that counts as slanting it leftward. At least, as the wingnuts see it.

    .

    Proud Says:

    Jesse is a stock holder asking a legitimate question…

    What, he bought 1 share on e-Trade the day before? And it’s not a legitimate question. It’s just whining and grandstanding.

    ralph has it right. Or you could look at it this way: since FAUX News is doing so well in the ratings, then it doesn’t take a marketing genius to see that there’s definite market share to be had in having a blatantly left-leaning cable news channel, what with Obama being so popular and all. If you believe that MSNBC is horribly slanted, then they’re just following FAUX News’ business model with the other demographic. Which would be a very good thing for GE’s shareholders.


  80. Linus says:

    As I was reading posts from P for Progress, Bobby McGee,and the rest of the right-wing trolls, I just had to laugh because they prove Janeane Garofalo’s point (the one that had Watters’s shorts in a bunch): they’re the embodiment of “the limbic brain inside a right-winger,” on full display in the TP comments for the rest of us to marvel at, to shake our heads over, and chuckle.


  81. jeff2001 says:

    Kieth O is scared to debate anyone who disagree with him. All he does is talk about Bill O. Keith O is obsessed with Bill.


  82. ralph the wonder locust says:

    that’s a very convincing argument there, jeff.

    Of oucrse, one could just as easily, and with as much justification, say “”Bill O is scared to debate anyone who disagree with him. He refuses to talk about Keith O. and cuts off anyone’s mic who does. Bill O. is obsessed with Keith.”


  83. jeff2001 says:

    Keith goes on and on about Bill O every night. There is no way you can say he is not jealous of Bill O.


  84. ralph the wonder locust says:

    jeff2001 Says:
    Keith goes on and on about Bill O every night. There is no way you can say he is not jealous of Bill O.

    He is not jealous of Bill O.

    There. I found a way to say it.

    Jeff, if you’re gonna talk amongst grownups, you might want to step up your game a little. For instance, do you have a point?


  85. lisaqmoon says:

    Jesse Waters is a GE shareholder. As such, he had every right to be there, Fox News employee or not. Did any of the other shareholders have the burden of supplying the name of their employer before they had their turn at the mic? This was not an ambush by a Fox News employee.


  86. squidbilly says:

    Keith may be a left wing talking head, but Bill O is a deceitful lying chickenhawk right wing talking head moron.


  87. kasinca says:

    I find it interesting that a reichwingnut propaganda machine would stoop to accusing another network of political bias. To me it is clear that BillO and Watters are reichwingnut extremists of the caliber mentioned in the Homeland Security summary last week.


  88. ElBruce says:

    jeff2001 Says:

    Kieth O is scared to debate anyone who disagree with him.

    He regularly debates people on his show, without shouting at them or cutting off their mic.

    .

    jeff2001 Says:

    Keith goes on and on about Bill O every night. There is no way you can say he is not jealous of Bill O.

    Are you jealous of a train wreck that you drive slowly past?

    .

    lisaqmoon Says:

    Jesse Waters is a GE shareholder. As such, he had every right to be there, Fox News employee or not.

    Except the “questions” he was “asking” weren’t relevant to the share price or stability of GE. Your argument only holds up if this doesn’t get used on BillO’s show. The moment it does, it proves that his motivations can’t be actual concern as a shareholder, but rather setting up a stunt for his TV show.

    Your argument is like saying that somebody has the right to yell “fire” in a movie theater because they paid for their ticket.


  89. tanglewood says:

    One of these days, this idiot is going to come up against the wrong person and he will get knocked on his ass but good…..then he will run back and tell the coward he works for how badly he was treated.

    I am against violence but I would allow for someone to haul off and kick Jesse in the ass.


  90. joe cantwell says:

    American Patsy Says:
    He regularly debates people on his show,He regularly debates people on his show,

    Please, one video clip.

    ***

    here’s a clip of billy reading his porno.

    would you like to hear it?

    :)

    ;<)


  91. wiley says:

    I’ve chaired board meetings. There is usually an agenda that people are required to adhere to. It’s not a free-for-all in which being a member makes it o.k. to make a stormy relationship between non-members an issue.

    Duh.


  92. wiley says:

    Actually, there is always an agenda, in print, and made available in advance for the members to review beforehand.


  93. blclem says:

    After you call each other names and cuss at each other, it’s not going to change the fact that the media is extremely biased. People are tired of it and that is why you see all of this liberal newspapers filing for bancruptcy. It doesn’t take a genious to figure this out.

    Instead of calling everybody names, what are the liberals going to do about it? How are you going to get the American people to back up and listen to your ideas?

    Let’s hear some ideas istead of name calling.


  94. upright left says:

    misscoleopteramolly Says:
    ——————————————————————————–

    NOLIESPLEASE Says
    April 23rd, 2009 at 10:51 am

    Please oh pretty please…anyone who is confronted by Jesse, please do one thing if your a male….pull out your di** while looking him in the eyes and PISS ON HIS LEG AS HE IS ASKING YOU THE QEUSTIONS.
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    Um…as a woman, I’d have a hard time doing that. I’m sure this option wasn’t available to Amanda for the same reason (of course, she’s probably classy enough that she didn’t even think of it).

    April 23rd, 2009 at 11:05 am
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    It’s a shame that our society has reached a point where that is considered a compliment. ;)


  95. upright left says:

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    ralph the wonder locust Says:

    Of oucrse, one could just as easily, and with as much justification, say “”Bill O is scared to debate anyone who disagree with him. He refuses to talk about Keith O. and cuts off anyone’s mic who does. Bill O. is obsessed with Keith.”

    April 23rd, 2009 at 3:17 pm
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    It would be interesting to see a comparison of who actually has more guests who disagree with the host. O’Reilly would probably win that one. If he would stop talking over them, he could truthfully claim that his show is less biased than Olby. Olby, like Maddow, is a good source of the liberal point of view. He just needs to practice a little self restraint and to realize that he’s no Jon Stewart.


  96. bonsai pajamas says:

    Why is a big tough guy like Dildo Reilly afraid to go do his own ambushing?




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