NY’s Fox5 Airs Live ‘Sh*theads’ During Awesome Interview With Anti-Occupy Protesters

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by Nando Di Fino | 10:39 am, November 17th, 2011

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Fox 5′s Antwan Lewis has had a fun week covering the Occupy Wall Street protests. On Tuesday, when Zuccotti Park was cleared out, Lewis’ live report was crashed by Joey Boots, a Howard Stern fan, yelling behind him and jumping into his shot. Thursday morning, Lewis, back on the scene for the OWS march to the New York Stock Exchange, put a microphone in the face of a protester confronting two anti-protesters, just as the man said “shitheads,” putting it on live TV.

These are just two reasons why Antwan Lewis is quickly becoming our favorite reporter.

In the sea of protesters this morning were two men in suits holding up bright green signs saying “Get A Job” and “Occupy A Desk.” They were, essentially, the anti-protest protest, and may have been antagonizing an already rowdy bunch. Lewis pulled them over and asked why they were there. “These people who have no jobs are in our way,” Derek Tabacco, a small business owner in the area, said. “We work on Wall Street, we cannot get to work — these people are in our way.” As the crowd started to heckle Tabacco and his brother, John, he screamed back at them, “Get outta here! Get outta here!” Eventually, a man in a hat squirreled his way in, and identified himself as a teacher. Lewis put the microphone in to get a closer listen, just as the teacher said that the brothers were, “shitheads.”

Fox 5 quickly cut back to the studio, where Greg Kelly suggested that maybe they should lay off the interviews, as the cameras could have been helping to intensify the situation.

Enjoy video of the exchange below, courtesy of Fox 5:

Antwan Lewis, Derek Tabacco, Occupy Wall Street

Anonymous

Protestors protesting the protestors…. More cops and media than actual protestors…. Who knew South Park could be so prophetic?! lol
http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

Wall Street jerks telling the jobless people who cannot find a job to “get a job”?

This is like me telling the low IQ Conservatives/Republicans/Tea Baggers to “grow a brain”.
Horses , not Zebras

Nando Di Fino said at 9:44 am :

Media Fail: Cable News Networks Ignoring Occupy Wall Street Protests

Nando Di Fino said at 10:39 am :

NY’s Fox5 Airs Live ‘Sh*theads’ During Awesome Interview With Anti-Occupy Protesters
http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

Lol!! Those two “sh*theads were really worried about getting to work, that they took the time to make signs and go complain that they were being blocked from getting to their job!! Lol!! They just wanted to get on television!!
Anonymous

In 2009, John Tabacco said on Fox Business’ Cavuto show that he sells stock anytime Obama talks: “We don’t care what he says or what the subject is as long as the market drops when he talks.” So he is willing to lower stock prices, costing lots of people money just to make some sad partisan point.

And there is the problem. Both sides have no concern for the effects of their partisan snipery. None. It is all about the pointless anger and entrenched blind ideology.
Anonymous

Occupy a desk? LOL…shithead!
Anonymous

Right. Fox 5 isn’t a cable news network, it’s a local broadcast network.

Furthermore, if you go and read the first story, it gets into detail about Fox5′s local coverage of the protests.
Horses, not Zebras

Misses point entirely .

Horses Nando , horses .

Enjoy your day . (¬_¬)
http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

I love it when some of these guys say “get a job”. That’s one of the problems: no jobs.
Kid Dynamite

Wow. What could be more exciting than a person saying “shitheads” on television?
Kahlid Shiek Yerbouti

The truth hurts, these guys are sh*theads!
Twwtjohns

What a surprise, they’re a couple of shills for the Faux Noise machine.
Anonymous

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Norbit

TODAY’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY!

Where’s the PRESIDENT?

Their new slogan should be:

Vote Democratic! - or we’ll come Occupy YOUR block!

Batten the hatches & bring up the ammo.
The Dems Are Coming!

…Would be a great GOP ad!
Pablo

I hear you can get a job occupying Wall Street. That must be what they’re doing.
Anonymous

These gentlemen embody the antipathy that OWS’ers feel toward Wall Street. They just don’t get it. ”Occupy a desk.” Were it that easy, everyone would be doing it. This is the standard conservative meme. They don’t “get” what OWS is all about (or don’t care…or both) so they label them all “dirty, smelly, lazy hippies” and call it a day. That might have worked the first week or two but now that the movement has spread nationwide it’s more difficult to ignore and malign. Hence Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber. If these guys were so worried about getting to work why’d they waste their time making these pathetic signs? Get to work already. You’re late!
Ralph

Call out the instigatorsBecause there’s something in the airWe’ve got to get together sooner or laterBecause the revolution’s here, and you know it’s right
Lock up the streets and housesBecause there’s something in the airWe’ve got to get together sooner or laterBecause the revolution’s here, and you know it’s rightHand out the arms and ammoWe’re going to blast our way through hereWe’ve got to get together sooner or laterBecause the revolution’s here, and you know it’s rightAnd you know that it’s right

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zmkzshUvE&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVGxdCwVVULXcQEZA_GRCDm2zAMrtM9Sdh
Anonymous

Wall Street jerks? These guys are small business owners – you know, the people who actually stimulate the economy. What are the OWS protesters trying to accomplish by blocking the street and not allowing people to get to work?
Anonymous

And by blocking the streets and causing destruction to local businesses, OWS protesters are causing more jobs / money to be lost.
Anonymous

Teacher my hind quarters. If he was a teacher, he’d be at school, teaching.
Angelo R. Mozilo

Did the protesters/vagrants secure any big ideological victories today? Or something, anything, please? I haven’t been so let down by the media since the collapse of Kim Kardashian’s recent 2nd marriage
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

Typical dumb liberal. Watch the video again so you’ll learn something. the guy at the end of the clip is a 99% person and cursing, admits hes a union employee…a teacher.
Anonymous

Fox and the rest of the conservatives have a solution to Occupy Wall Street: arm them. That’s what Sharron Angle and Sarah Palin think is the best way to change the govermnent, not camping.
http://brettcottrell.blogspot.com/2011/11/rights-solution-to-occupy-wall-street.html
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000487814511 Roy R Meadows

No need to grow one, just find yours in the garbage wash the drugs out of it and give it a 1st grade education and be a genius when compared to the shit heads in OWS.
Anonymous

It would be so easy to end these insane protests by a couple of well placed headshots. What is the loss of a couple of scumbags for the good of the country?
http://twitter.com/hanspij han spy

And fOX ? Who was the chanel that send out deadthreaths on tv? Is that alowed? Is that an good example for ”kids” Do you btw watch your own shows? Listen what crap is sayed by your reporters .You lie and tel dream stories without an eyeblink. We know who your boss is and what he stands for. We in europ are not stupid. Thats maybe why you dont have such chanel in europ. We wil never accept such thing. USA is in that way maybe indeed some more ,how shal i say it, just plain stupid?????