There are pics of the jerk at the link, but also one large one of Roger AILES with face made up like "Divine." Click at your own risk.
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(Incidentally, that's Fox News' Roger Ailes pictured, because we couldn't find a picture of Briganti.)
http://gawker.com/5225016/ambushing-bill-oreillys-ambusherAmbushing Bill O'Reilly's Ambusher
By John Cook
.... Watters, as you may have read, likes to sneak up on people without warning and ask them questions so that O'Reilly can air video of his enemies looking aggrieved and flustered. He's done it to the New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg, the Washington Post's William Arkin, Think Progress' Amanda Terkel, and others. ... ....
More recently, Watters attended a GE shareholders' conference under the pretense that he owned shares of the company. During a question-and-answer session, he asked GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt about MSNBC's political leanings, and accused the network of airing hateful speech. He failed to announce himself as a Fox News employee and secretly recorded the exchange so that O'Reilly could broadcast it as evidence of a shareholders' "uprising" against Immelt.
In a recent New York Times story, Fox attempted justify it's tactics by saying that it invited the targets to appear on O'Reilly's program, and that they had declined. Since O'Reilly's desire was to force them to defend their ideas to him, the only other option was to seek them out, without warning, at their homes or public places. As Watters put it in a billoreilly.com blog post quoted by the Times: "If they don't come to us, we'll go to them." This is, at least in the case of Terkel and Hertzberg, a lie: Neither of them received an invitation to go on the program before Watters showed up with his camera. ....
If we find him, we'll post the video as soon as we can. If we don't, we'll keep trying, and for that we'll need your help. What do you know about Jesse Watters? Did you go to college with him? Do you ride the train with him? Do you work at the Starbucks where he buys his coffee? Let us know. ... ....
If you see him, snap a camera phone picture and send it to us. Or better yet, ask him why he stalks and ambushes people that his boss disagrees with, and tell us what he says. Two years ago, during an on-air celebration of Watters' ambushes, O'Reilly had this to say about his young charge: "Jesse Watters, everybody. He's becoming a big star all over the world."
Let's make that happen.
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