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Watters V. Waters: O’Reilly Producer Comically Pesters Rep. Maxine Waters

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O’Reilly Factor producer Jesse Watters is more commonly found confronting random college students (and Rep. Ron Paul), but tonight, Bill O’Reilly let him free in the halls of Congress to inquire of Rep. Maxine Waters several items of note, namely why she wants the Tea Party to “go straight to Hell.

Watters followed the Democratic Congresswoman for some time, asking various questions about her comments on Fox News lying, whether “you’re afraid of me,” and, of course, the Tea Party comment. Through all of them, Rep. Waters maintained her silence. Rep. Waters also kept a perfectly hilarious uncomfortable smile through the entire ordeal as she walked down what appeared to be an endless hallway, finally reaching the safe haven of a Washington elevator.

Other victims of this segment include Bill Gates, who declined to do an interview, and Rep. Charlie Rangel– the only one in the segment to acknowledge Watters’ existence with a smile, and handshake, and a wish that Laura Ingraham has forgotten the time he called her “just a pretty girl” when she hosted The O’Reilly Factor.

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  • NDanielson

    Waters, like all liberals in congress are above everyone else, and answers to no one.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ericupperman Eric Upperman

    Jesse Watters level of confidence is horrifying! I have to admit, the guy is good at his job. 

  • Anonymous

    haha… maxine would call her pal Malik Zulu Shabaz and watters would be flash mobbed

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    This passes for news on Fox.

  • Anonymous

    So you think people in power shouldn’t be confronted?

  • expatpatriot

    Perhaps Watter’s mom should suggest her son get a job and stop hanging out in public hallways creeping people out?

  • Anonymous

    The crazy lady wouldn’t answer a single question!!

  • Ralph-NY

    The piece was in good fun and you could see by the smile on both Rangel and Waters face.

  • Glutton

    Yeah, but I don’t see the point of this piece.  It was more about showing Anchorman clips than actually conducting any sort of interview.  Not a big fan of Maxine Waters, but they could’ve done a better piece than that.  Otherwise, why even air something like that?  Seems like a complete waste of time.

  • Anonymous

    Kudos to Maxime Waters that she didn´t fall for the cheap provocation.  No need to answer to this guy. They had to spice the piece up with movie clips to deflect from the fact that there was nothing to report. Too funny.

  • Anonymous

    Can you possibly immagine Frances, or any mediaite staff, saying this about any republican/conservative?

    “Rep. Waters maintained her silence. Rep. Waters also kept a perfectly hilarious uncomfortable smile through the entire ordeal as she walked down what appeared to be an endless hallway, finally reaching the safe haven of a Washington elevator.”

    I cannot imagine Frannie or anyone on the straff here accepting a conservative not resonding to the media.  Imagine Palin doing this, Frances would be calling her ignorant for not responding, but for Maxine – a pass.

    Wow indeed.  More liberal bias.

  • ObamaSux

    Maxine the Welfare Queen doesn’t talk to white people.

  • Anonymous

    Why didn’t she take this wonderful opportunity to go off on ‘Whitey’ again?

  • SNAPTIE

    Just today Mad Maxie was listed as the Most Corrupt  politician. http://politisite.com/2011/09/20/maxine-waters-d-ca-crews-most-corrupt-members-of-congress/

  • Anonymous

    and no “proof” of anything she accused Fox of – another big surprise!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Of course, if any producer tried to do a surprise interview Bill O’ Reilly, Bill would go ape sh*t on the guy!!

    Maybe threaten to end his show if it were to happen again!!

  • caconservative

    She was being investigated, what happened?

  • Michelle

    Do you think it’s news she was found to be the most corrupt member of Congress?

  • Anonymous

    Maxine can go straight to Hell. She’ll fit right in.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    It makes me miss when they play movie trivia with Steve Douchie.

  • Anonymous

    Well, if she had said death panels, would that made you feel better?

  • Anonymous

    Irrelevant for this subject. Or did this guy ask her about corruption? If she´s corrupt she should be charged as anyone else who is corrupt. 

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Good Job Rep. Waters!!  

  • Anonymous

    For being a lying douche?   

  • Michelle

    Well that’s really all the libs ask of their leaders.

  • common sense

    If fascism ever becomes the norm in American society, this is what all TV will look like. 

  • common sense

    60 Minutes confronted “villains” of all stripes. Nothing ideological there. Billo only harrasses those who disagree with him or whose ideas run counter to Fox’s running narrative, i.e., Progressives.”

  • http://politisite.com Albert N. Milliron

    Thanks for the H/T I appreciate it 

  • Anonymous

    Jesse Watters journalist…..LOL Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha…………. ROTFLMAO ………… Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    ‘ Tastes Just Like Chicken ‘.

  • Jason

    You poor victims. I know it’s hard when someone forces you to explain your stupid hyperbole. Oh the horror!!!

  • Jason

    Since she represents what most of us would consider “hell on earth” it would seem she’s perfectly comfortable with the place.

  • Jason

    Good liberal, good. Now be sure to line up behind the rest of your lapdog liberal friends to get your “get out of white guilt jail free” card punched. 

  • Anonymous

    Yes.  Fascism is when private individuals ask people in power questions.  Good job.

  • Anonymous

    She refused to speak to Fox, I am pretty confident she could name a few lies off the top of her head.

  • Anonymous

    Clearly just a racist comment…

  • Glutton

    I think most people acknowledge that Jesse Watters is an ambush “journalist” and isn’t really worth responding to.  It’s probably the saddest “journalistic” job you could have to be Bill O’Reilly’s ambush puppet, but if it get him a job, who am I to judge?

  • Ex-Pat in London

    Actually, Darling that would be the GOP’s Mr. Walsh-y’know-the deadbeat Dad..

  • Anonymous

    Great job, Congresswoman!  Why doesn’t O’Reilly ambush Republicans?  Dick Cheney would be a start, since he refuses to come on your program?  Stalking is so pathetic.

  • Thomas G Williams

    Walsh–Price–King are prime for Bills form of harassment and it would serve the greater good.

    And as for Cheney?? PROTECTED and INSULATED from the ability of Bill to reach and touch/get him, unless he would like to test that 2nd most powerful thingy of his? Who knows maybe Bill could put in a word to raise a stink over the failure of the DOJ to prosecute the only living heart donor.

  • Anonymous

    Jesse sort of did act like a jerk, but he totally gets away with it by trying to badger an EVEN BIGGER jerk.

    Winning.

  • Guest

    Why does the public continue to vote for someone like Maxine Waters?  What is in it for them and what is in it for the liberal media to protect her at all costs?

  • Jayamerican1

    Simple..her constituents prefer to get stuff for free from the government rather than earn it on their own. She is willing to give our money away in handfuls to buy yhese votes…match made in heaven and a microcosim of progressive society.

  • L_Salazar

    Congresswoman Waters – voted one of the most Corrupt members of Congress.

    Congratulations Congresswoman, what an achievement!

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    One of these days I hope somebody will respond to a Jesse Water by saying they will answer his questions when Bill O’Reilly comes clean about what happened with Andrea Makris.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ASHKUEB7ZAMK365JBTKFJPDJI4 gsuvari

    Yes.  For once Bill-o didn’t call someone a Pinhead.  That was very nice of him.  I agree with you Tina_Tampon.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ASHKUEB7ZAMK365JBTKFJPDJI4 gsuvari

    Like-minded individuals.  I know, I know.  It’s hard to imagine that such people exist.  Interestingly enough, they all seem to troll this site exclusively.

  • TruDat

    Typical dull-witted liberal; make alot of accusations but can’t back up a single one.  Wasn’t Waters just determined to be the most corrupt member of Congress?

  • TruDat

    Poor baby.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ASHKUEB7ZAMK365JBTKFJPDJI4 gsuvari

    “Bill.  Bill.  Mr. O’Reilly.  Whatever happened with those women you were sexually harassing?  Did you settle out of court?  Bill.  Bill.  Why won’t you answer me?  Bill.  Bill.  Why won’t you answer me?”  I can just imagine Bill-o’s face turning every shade of red, then purple.  Delicious.

    Btw, do you think he’ll really quit his show when President Obama raises taxes?  Oh…happy day!

  • TruDat

    Why does she wear white women’s wigs?  Isn’t she proud of her ethnicity?

  • TruDat

    There was something to report, i.e., another lying left-wing moron.

  • TruDat

    but she’ll wear their hair.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ASHKUEB7ZAMK365JBTKFJPDJI4 gsuvari

    Guess you didn’t get the memo that no one’s using the word “Winning” any more.

  • Anonymous

    Remember when Gawker sat outside Watters house to ambush interview him and him and his wife didn’t leave for a week?

    Typical hypocrite pussy right winger….

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I hope so!!  =)

  • C’Mon Man

    Right.  A right wing website thinks she is the most corrupt politician.  Sure.  Why don’t you put up a link to Newsbusters or Redstate while you’re at it?  Your little link’s suggested reading list includes Beck, Breitbart and Coulter.  Yep.  That’s clearly an unbiased website that surely not pushing an agenda.
    Oh wait.  It’s a complete load of crap.  Factual information FAIL.

  • common sense

    This predator sent by O’Reilly is not a private citizen. Fascism is when someone makes a statement that is unfavorable to a select group, i.e., the government, Rupert Murdoch’s Brownshirts, and then is stalked and harrassed for it.

  • Anonymous

    So funny to see that petty racist Waters rendered speechless for the first time in her bigoted life.
     
    Hey Maxine, I think that was the 1st. time there was video of you with your fat mouth SHUT!

  • Anonymous

    Wrong child. Fascism advocates a single political ideology and Waters statement of “The TP can go straight to hell” sure reprents the Fascist mentality.
     
    BTW, the Fascists wore Blackshirts, you idiot!

  • Anonymous

    So scaring someone’s wife, who has never put herself out there, is okay? You petty little assholes are pathetic. The bitterness is really showing, dipshit, why don’t you go join up with the YTA or some weird shit like that? People will have a good reason when they beat the shit out of the leftist assholes when they start their bullshit next fall, why not join them, fool?

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Liberal crap.

    “TMP”

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Liberal crap.

    “TMP”

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    The Congress woman answers to the people. Maxine is all mouth when she’s standing in front of her racist base. When she’s asked to explain what she said she’s speechless. Typical leftist.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    As with Cynthia McKinney, she only gives lip service to her white constituents and teaches her black constituents how to mooch off the government. “Vote for me and I’ll give you more gummit cheese”.  Maxine Waters.

  • Anonymous

    Why would you show support such a corrupt person?

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Maxine Waters Under Investigation

    A senior member of the congressional committee handling the financial crisis
    is being investigated for steering federal bailout funds to a questionable bank
    because she and her board member husband had deep financial ties to it.
    Months after the media exposed the shady deal involving prominent California
    Democrat Maxine Waters, the House Ethics Committee is
    finally investigating the veteran lawmaker’s controversial
    intervention on behalf of her husband’s failing Massachusetts bank. As a result,
    the financial institution (OneUnited) received $12 million in federal bailout
    funds. 
    Waters pressured Treasury officials to bail out the minority-owned bank whose
    executives have donated heavily to her political campaigns. At the time she and
    her husband, Sidney Williams, held big financial stakes worth hundreds of
    thousands of dollars in OneUnited and her husband had just been the bank’s
    director and still served on its board.  
    The conflict was so blatant that even the scandal-plagued chairman of the
    House Financial Services Committee, her good buddy Barney Frank, urged Waters to
    “stay out of it,” assuring her that he would see to
    it that her precious bank got bailout money. Earlier this year Judicial Watch
    uncovered documents that Congress, especially Frank, for years ignored corruption at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac so
    it’s not surprising that he took no action when Waters ignored his suggestion.
     
    The OneUnited case was hardly the first time that Waters, California’s most
    influential black lawmaker, used her political clout to benefit her family
    financially. In 2004 Waters’ hometown newspaper reported that her relatives made
    more than $1 million by doing business with
    companies, candidates and causes that the well-connected and powerful
    congresswoman had helped. 
    Waters has also made international headlines for her frequent trips to
    communist Cuba to visit her convicted cop-assassin friend, Joanne Chesimard, who
    is also known by her Black Panther name of Assata Shakur. Chesimard was
    sentenced to life in prison after being convicted by a jury of the 1979 murder
    of a New Jersey State Trooper. With the help of fellow cult members, she escaped
    from jail and fled to Cuba. 
    Outraged U.S. lawmakers insisted she be extradited but Waters always stood by
    her side, likening the cop-assassin to civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
    In fact, she wrote Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro a letter to ensure that she was not part of the group
    of U.S. legislators who voted for a resolution to extradite the cop murderer.
    Waters told Castro that she opposed extradition because Chesimard was
    “politically persecuted” in the U.S. and simply seeking political asylum in
    Havana, where she still lives.http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/sep/maxine-waters-under-investigation

    “TMP”

  • TruDat

    Lies like that hair of hers?

  • Anonymous

    He asked 3 or 4 questions, then edited in some movie clips unrelated!!!??? Good at his job!

  • common sense

    I didn’t resort to name-calling and I’m not going to start now since I believe it’s sign of weakness to do so. I will say, however, that you’re nitpicking and avoiding the main point I was making.   

  • Politixisadisease

    Oreilly trying desperately to be colbert and stewart. It wont work cuz ur audience has no sense of humor , only rabid anger for those different than them. Ferrel should sue this parasite.

  • Politixisadisease

    Yaaaawwwnnn………

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Stay asleep.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    I Bet your Fat Mouth was shut when Maxine was SCREAMING out for the Civil Rights of African/Americans in the 60′s!

  • Anonymous

    RIGHT ON!  But, of course O’Reilly will never come clean . REMEMBER, he can do no wrong on FAUX News.

  • common sense

    “You poor victims. I know it’s hard when someone forces you to explain your stupid hyperbole. Oh the horror!!!”I’m not sure what you mean because I think you’ve misused the word “hyperbole.” Also, there was nothing alluded to with regard to “victimization.” I was merely responding to the poster who equivocated 60 Minutes to Bill O’Reilly, which of course is ridiculous.  

  • http://smallthoughtsfromasmallmind.wordpress.com/ Small Thoughts

    In addition to being the most corrupt member of congress, Waters is clearly in the running for the title of dumbest member of congress.

  • caconservative

    Really!

  • caconservative

    That smile was a smile of embarrassment when one knows they’ve been caught in a lie, or making obscene remarks that don’t apply!

  • caconservative

    She can’t talk to Whites, Whites don’t put up with people who don’t produce. We vote them out! 

  • caconservative

    I know, I know, those people who think the facts outweigh the Liberal trash, how dare they voice their opinions.

  • caconservative

    Maybe…….maybe not?

  • caconservative

    Why are you attacking Bill, when it was Mr.Waters asking the questions? Two completely different people, didn’t you notice?

  • caconservative

    Or, the vast Conservative American majority?

  • caconservative

    There was a point?

  • caconservative

    Maxine Waters…..a Representative…..haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • caconservative

    That has what to do with Maxine Waters mouthy rhetoric?

  • caconservative

    And the only time she has been coherent.

  • caconservative

    Wasn’t Jesse “shake-down” Jackson there too? Seems to be a pattern here.

  • Anonymous

    Are you daffy?  O’reilly sends Watters out to do the dirty work. When your Boss gives you a job to do….YOU DO IT!    If this involved a lawsuit, Watters would not be the defendant, BILL would.

  • Anonymous

    Maxine Waters is right up there in the highest Skankiness Ranks, along with Michelle Obama!

  • ByeByeObummer

    Typical Leftie Progressive.. when they get cornered they shrivel up and run away.

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