Ambushing Fox's Ambusher, Part Two
Yesterday, we decided to pay another visit to Jesse Watters, the Fox News ambush artist we've been trying to talk to for a couple weeks now, and who still refuses to answer our questions. The nerve! Watters, you will recall, is the producer Bill O'Reilly dispatches to stalk his unsuspecting enemies and jump out at them with a microphone and camera while they are trying to enjoy their lives and calls it journalism. He followed ThinkProgress' Amanda Terkel for two hours while she was on her way to a weekend getaway in Virginia, and tailed the Washington Post's Bill Arkin for 90 minutes across state lines. He jumped the New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg outside his Manhattan apartment before the guy had even had his morning coffee. O'Reilly justifies this stalking by claiming that his targets refuse to answer questions on his show, but neither Hertzberg nor Terkel had even been invited—they had no idea O'Reilly or Watters had questions for them before he shoved a camera in their faces. For his part, Watters has refused to talk to both the New York Times and Gawker about his tactics. We found that odd given the circumstances, so we decided to do a little ambushing ourselves. Since our last visit, Jesse has moved up in the world—about five days after we spent the morning waiting (in vain) for him to come out of his Manhasset apartment last month, he and his wife closed on a $545,000 home on a cute little cul-de-sac in Huntington, NY. With a little work, we tracked down the new address and spent an eventful Thursday hanging out in the new 'hood. We met some of your neighbors, Jesse—they are lovely people (we mean that in earnest), and we don't blame them in the least for calling the cops on us because they were creeped out by two blogger-looking dudes hanging out on their street all day. Did any of your targets' neighbors ever call the cops on you when you stalked and ambushed them, Jesse? The officer who questioned us while we were parked outside your house was very friendly and didn't try to run us off, and we're curious about your experience. We should compare notes! Especially because the other cop that detained us yesterday pointed his gun at us. Did that ever happen to you? Don't worry—in the end it all worked out. He was a big fan of your work, and he found it pretty funny that we were trying to ambush you. He wished us luck. If you just return our calls, Jesse, your new neighbors might not resent you for dragging riff-raff like us into your new suburban idyll, and local law enforcement might be able to spend their time doing other things than dealing with bloggers who just want to talk to you. You know how to reach us. We'll see you soon, one way or the other. I know you must be having a pretty good chuckle, Jesse, at what amateurs we are at this, especially compared to you. But we work hard, and we don't give up. And we're learning. So it won't be long. Or maybe these furtive attempts are just a Columbo act designed to... MORE >>
Dick Parsons Secret Love Child!
Richard 'Dick' Parsons is fallible, after all! The (married) former Time Warner boss and most popular black man in corporate America after Vernon Jordan has a (formerly) secret love child, with a much younger model: Parsons' lovemistress is MacDella Cooper (pictured), a model who also runs a charitable foundation dedicated to helping the poor children of Liberia. Cooper is 32; Parson is 61. He's been married for 30 years, and he has three kids with his wife. Cooper gave birth last August, according to a source, who said Parsons will support the child and has set up a trust fund for her education. Neither Cooper nor Parsons would comment to George Rush, who broke the story. But this will obviously take a bit of sheen off of Parsons' relatively spotless reputation for probity. (Or make every other major CEO identify with him more, who knows?). Parsons' name was kicked around after Obama's election as a possible member of the "celebrity cabinet." Parsons said he wasn't interested at the time. Maybe he didn't want to go through the background checks? [NYDN. Pics: NYDN, Flickr, Macdellacooper.org] MORE >>
Jon Stewart to Larry King: 'You're a Degenerate!'
Larry King was the guest on the Daily Show last night promoting his book, My Remarkable Journey. The entire segment consisted mainly of King and Jon Stewart jostling back and forth over whether or not King is truly a degenerate or not. It was great. Stewart's "degenerate" argument was derived mainly from a chapter in the book where King details some of the seedier aspects of his life back in the late 60's and early 70s. In short, he was a gambling addict, a lover of the ponies, and he wasn't afraid to rip off a few people here and there to feed his addiction. Thus, Stewart's degenerate label. King did get a nice shot in as well though, making note of Stewart's short stature while on the subject of horse racing and saying, "You could be a jockey." Zing! And did YOU know that Larry King was in the White House with Bill Clinton the night Vince Foster killed himself in there?! We didn't! The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Larry King thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor MORE >>
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