O’Reilly Producer Ambushes Snooki At Book Signing, Asks About “Obamacare”

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by Frances Martel | 9:32 pm, January 17th, 2011

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Jersey Shore superstar trainwreck Snooki has been touring the nation to promote her new novel, A Shore Thing, and has probably had to avoid some sketchy characters during her book signings, but none perhaps as perplexing as O’Reilly Factor producer Jesse Watters, who crashed a local signing to reinvite Snooki to the Factor, and demand an answer as to why she won’t go on the show.

Bill O’Reilly could not have appeared more pleased with Watters, who braves confronted Snooki’s PR team to ask the pint-sized pop culture icon why she refuses O’Reilly’s interview requests. According to O’Reilly, he simply “could not resist” stopping by and asking “We invited you on the show, but your people wouldn’t let you come on. What’s up with that?”

Snooki didn’t answer, although her publicist seemed enraged and kicked Watters out– but not before he could ask Snooki whether she watches the show (“not really,” she replied, a question mark trailing towards the end of her answer. By way of further invitation, he even gave her a preview of the interview questions: “O’Reilly wants to talk to you about Obamacare, Afghanistan, the Jersey Shore…”

The situation didn’t really end well for Watters, who neither managed to book Snooki nor kept his privilege of entering the bookstore, garnering a permanent ban. O’Reilly, meanwhile, seemed proud of his producer, and once again invited Snooki on the show personally. We can only hope that Snooki reconsiders; after all, what could happen on the Factor that would be more embarrassing than her misadventures on Jersey Shore?

The segment via Fox News below:

Bill O'Reilly, O'Reilly Factor, Snooki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 SuperChuñdy

If “Producer Jesse” ever ambushes you, just remember to say three words: Andrea Mackris, loofah, and falafel
w_t_f

talk about the bottom of the barrel. he must be hard up for guests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 SuperChuñdy

w_t_f said:
talk about the bottom of the barrel. he must be hard up for guests.

Well if you’re talking about Bill, it’s more like he has a “hard on” for a guest!
w_t_f

SuperChuñdy said:
Well if you’re talking about Bill, it’s more like he has a “hard on” for a guest!

ahhhhhh yes
Nacho

Way to go Bill…

What a fvcking joke.
hanniballa

Say what you want about O’Reilly, he does know how to inject some pointlessness into his show.
milynily

Why doesn’t Bill do his own friggin ambushes? Poor Jesse, he needs a raise.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Josh-Feldman/1158574704 Josh Feldman

Congratulations, Bill. You have succeeded in doing the unthinkable: making me feel sorry for Snooki.
Dem4Ever

w_t_f said:
talk about the bottom of the barrel. he must be hard up for guests.

You got that right. Bill is totaly hard-up to get any quality guests on his show and since Snooki turned him down he had to settle on interviewing Obama during the Super Bowl.
nice_thought

Hey O’reilly, maybe some things are better left anone?
Gasket

O’Reilly loves the womenz! My favorites are when he manufactures faux outrage about an “offensive” video that more often than not involves scantily clad women/girls or sexual in nature. Then…..guess what he does next? Plays the video during prime time! :). Did he ever get Lady Gaga on her show after TV-stalking her all last summer? Poor guy. The guy is a horndog.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

I guess since Sarah Palin wasn’t available to talk to Bill-O, then her reality TV compatriot Snooki, is the next best thing.

Still, it’s good to see that Snooki’s handlers take better care of her than Sarah Palin’s paid lackeys do.
skyfet

My God, these jokers are still doing this? its shame, a shame.
w_t_f

Dem4Ever said:
You got that right. Bill is totaly hard-up to get any quality guests on his show and since Snooki turned him down he had to settle on interviewing Obama during the Super Bowl.

I rest my case. I mean that’s what you rightees think. Obamas the bottom of the barrel. amiright?
Judge Mental

As I recall, another media person did something similar to Sarah Palin a few months ago — showed up to a book signing with a camera and tried to ask her questions — and got the same treatment. And who was ridiculed in the media for that? Oh, yeah, Palin. But there’s no double standard.
valkyrie101

Bill in longing to return to his Inside Edition days. What an absolute coup it would be to land such an important figure as snooki.
valkyrie101

Judge Mental said:
As I recall, another media person did something similar to Sarah Palin a few months ago — showed up to a book signing with a camera and tried to ask her questions — and got the same treatment. And who was ridiculed in the media for that? Oh, yeah, Palin. But there’s no double standard

The point is, Bill condemns “ambush journalism”, while also practicing it.
Dem4Ever

w_t_f said:
I rest my case. I mean that’s what you rightees think. Obamas the bottom of the barrel. amiright?

No, you think Obama is the bottom of the barrel. Don’t forget that it was you who wrote that Bill was hard up for good guests.
Some_Dude

That’s funny, a pretend journalist for a pretend news agency asks a vapid reality star about something seriously political. And Mediaite bothers to report on it.

I’m starting to get the same feeling browsing Mediaite that I did when I was like 6 years old and saw the Enquirer reporting on Batboy. Only The Enquirer was upfront about being disingenuous.