Fight breaks out between Fox News and HuffPo reporters at Correspondents' Dinner After Party

[Siwsan]

A swanky Correspondents' Dinner after party turned violent in the early hours of Sunday morning after two reporters got into a fight.

Jesse Watters, a correspondent for the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, was in a scuffle with Huffington Post's Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim during the event hosted by MSNBC at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington D.C.

The spat started while DJ Biz Markie was entertaining the black tie crowd as they snacked on chili cheese fries, the Washington Post reported.

Dave Weigel, a national reporter for the Post, uploaded a picture of the pair getting into a tussle.
He said Grim took his phone out and started recording Watters, apparently giving the so-called 'ambush reporter' a taste of his own medicine.

Watters snatched the device from Grim and tried to steal it. Grim went to retrieve it, sparking a fight.
One witness said punches were thrown, according to the Post.

Republican National Committee chairman Sean Spicer and a number of bystanders reportedly broke up the brawl, telling the pair he was trying to keep the piece.

Grim later wrote on Twitter: 'Ambush guy snatched my phone, didn't like being filmed, he tried to keep it. That didn't happen.'

Watters hasn't commented on what happened.

A spokesperson for Fox News told Daily Mail Online Watters will be addressing the issue on Monday's O'Reilly factor.


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[pinboy3niner]

1. "at the U.S. Institute of Peace"

[Kip Humphrey]

4. beat me to it! ...You can't make this shit up!

[redwitch]

8. Gentlemen! You can't fight in here!

[itsrobert]

2. Keep what piece?

Or do I want to know?

[Siwsan]

6. Part of the fun of reading The Daily Mail is their absolutely inept proof-reading

It is absolutely pitiful, but then it also isn't stellar journalism. It's kind of like The National Enquirer - sometimes they stumble upon something interesting.

[BootinUp]

3. !

Grim later wrote on Twitter: 'Ambush guy snatched my phone, didn't like being filmed, he tried to keep it. That didn't happen.'

[malaise]

5. Keep the piece?? The piece of the phone?? ROFL

One witness said punches were thrown, according to the Post.

Republican National Committee chairman Sean Spicer and a number of bystanders reportedly broke up the brawl, telling the pair he was trying to keep the piece.

Peace Out!

[Siwsan]

7. Hey, it's The Daily Mail!!

They use spell check as their proof reader.

[malaise]

9. I need a piece of pie

Way too funny

[pinboy3niner]

10. What U.S. Americans need is whirled peas...and maps and such as

[malaise]

14. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

You're too good

[brettdale]

11. I wish

There was video footage. About time, that jerk got a taste of his own medicine.

You can tweet him about it at his twitter page.

@jessebwatters

[brettdale]

12. Can you imagine the spin they're going to do

On O'Lielly shows on monday

[brettdale]

13. Bump

Bump

[Initech]

15. Oh man, can I get some butter over here please?

[brettdale]

16. I would give anything

if Ryan Grim releases the video.

[brettdale]

17. If anyone thinks Jesse Watters is Harmless

read this report from 2009.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/03/23/36966/watters-ambush

[brettdale]

20. This is my whole point

The guy anit harmless, hes dangerous, and the fact that he thinks he
has ever right to harass people, makes him more dangerous.

[sharp_stick]

18. I would love the opportunity to

kick the shit out of Jesse Waters. He's a polyp on the colon of Humanity.

[brettdale]

19. video

Not from Ryan, but someone filming in the distance.

[tavernier]

21. I swear there's something in the water

in that town.

[Rex]

22. So one of Bilbo's goons started beef with a RWing online gossip rag bureau chief named Grim?

Was it Ben Grim? So who has rank in this ludicrous world of pretend journalism? Conservative Crank Correspondent or Hot Gossip Bureau Chief?

[brettdale]

23. Ryan Grim

He is left wing.

[brettdale]

24. bump

kick