“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
By now you’re probably familiar with Bill O’Reilly’s attack-dog style of pseudo-journalism, whereby some no-name lackey (say, Jesse Watters or the balding Porter Berry) ambushes an unsuspecting civilian, gets right up in the person’s face, and asks the same question repeatedly. The O’Reilly Factor then edits the entire clip down, so only the parts that serve the show’s objectives make it onto the air. O’Reilly then portrays himself and his producers as “looking out for you”—even though they’ve compromised your ability to interpret what actually happened by cherry-picking which parts of the interaction they’ll allow you to see.
Pseudo-journalists like Porter Berry see themselves as attack dogs, and O’Reilly makes it a point to stroke their egos incessantly, and to brainwash them into believing what they’re doing is true journalism. But these shady pit bulls are really more like pomeranians. And it’s surprising to see how little they enjoy having their own goofball tactics turned against them.
Factor producer Porter Berry was called on this weekend in Minneapolis for a sting on Bill Moyers, at, of all places, the National Conference for Media Reform. Not only was Moyers ready for the attack—with sharp answers that won’t lend themselves easily to Sound Bite Journalism—but a slew of actual journalists stalked Porter Berry all the way out of the hotel.
Very small portions of this clip may be shown on the O’Reilly Factor on Monday, to misrepresent what was said. Here is the full, unedited footage of the exchange, which they’ve posted all over the Internet.
Hopefully, enough people will watch this video so that being a “Factor producer” will no longer be a desirable job. Already, Jesse Watters has nearly been arrested for trespassing in Tampa. Now Porter Berry has made a national ass of himself in this wacky and widely watched, botched political hit job. One can sense toward the end of his discussion with Moyers that Porter Berry appears to be rethinking his decisions; wondering how much longer he can respect himself. Face it Porter: you were set up. Bill O’Reilly sends you to lose the debates he knows he himself cannot win. If I were you, Porter, I’d take advantage of Moyers’ offer. Jump off the sinking the ship!
Porter Barry is a piece of shit. I would crush him like a tin can and then I’d do the same to Bill O’Reilly.
This little bag of shit should be dogged until he has a nervous break down, and then dogged some more.
Ultimately, Rupert Murdoch is the guy who needs to be ambushed by interrogators with cameras and kleig lights. Let the old evil shit-bag have a stroke or a heart attack from the stress.
Ragnar is so right. And Murdoch is not the only one. We need to have either MSM press [bwahahahahahaha - right, like there are still any journalist left in the MSM] or independent press/bloggers all over these corporate assholes at all times.
When they take a shit at the restaurant we should be there. When they stop at the lights, we should have a camera in their face asking questions. If they are the keynote speaker somewhere we should ambush their asses.
Let’s shine a light on these cockroaches.
It’s pretty fun to watch a novice get his ass handed back to him on a plate by a old master who has been there, done that. Porter was just trying a move long perfected by the paparazzi, and expected the same results, but Bill Moyer ain’t no starlet who runs away all confused… Bill Moyer has made a living for a long time by listening carefully, remembering what he’s said in the past, and by going straight to the heart of the matter.
What we saw was a cheap fast education on how the Masters play the game. If Porter isn’t a complete chump, he may call Bill- he sure has no future left with Oh-Really. I particularly enjoyed the way Moyers casually slapped O’Reilly around using
the same tactics O’R uses. And he didn’t even have to throw a tantrum. O’Reilly probably dug it, though- he’s been doing a lot of his picked-on masochistic thing lately.
yeah, quite the smackdown.
Moyers is MY HERO!
I liked more when he said it was unfair to him when Rupert Murdoch and Oh Really – use him a rug to wipe their shit stains !!!
Oh really the pugilist..