O’Reilly Claims He Would Have Punched HuffPost’s Ryan Grim For Ambushing O’Reilly’s Ambush Reporter
Bill O’Reilly just can’t stand the fact that his ambush go-to guy, Jesse Watters, got a dose of his own medicine over the weekend when a Huffington Post reporter confronted Watters about his ambush of a HuffPo colleague. O'Reilly tried to play the big victim but his bullying brutishness came through.
For some backstory: In 2009 Amanda Terkel, then at Think Progress, noted the hypocrisy of O’Reilly’s appearance at a fundraiser for a foundation supporting rape victims when he had previously implied that a woman who had been raped and murdered had been partially at fault. Terkel’s post, by the way, was based on one by our own Priscilla. A few weeks later, Watters ambushed Terkel while she was on vacation, apparently having followed her for hours after staking out her home.