“Fox News is a scourge upon common sense, decency and our nation in general. For the most part, we’ve all grown accustomed to their fact twisting and general bullshittery, so you know it’s a special day when one must pause and say: Wow, that’s bad even for Fox.
As part of a segment where Bill O’Reilly makes shit up about New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio, Fox News sent a baby-faced reporter down to the bowels of Penn Station to mock homeless people and scare children. Seriously.
Jesse Watters—who looks like the result of a shameful one night stand between a Brooks Brothers suit and a copy of Atlas Shrugged—tried to make some vague connection between homelessness and Bill DeBlasio during what was frankly, one of the most unhinged things I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Read more here:
http://jezebel.com/bill-oreilly-mocks-homeless-black-people-in-worst-fox-n-1714965712
John Iadarola (Think Tank; http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola) & Ana Kasparian (The Point; http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) of The Young Turks break it down
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Penn Station isn’t even the responsibility of the New York City police department, the building is owned by Amtrak, and it is the jurisdiction of Amtrak police. The Long Island Railroad side of Penn Station is also patrolled by MTA cops.. To imply that this is somehow Bill de Blasio’s fault is really disingenuous. Maybe unlike Fox News, the cops have a teeny ounce of sympathy for the people because they have nowhere to go. Last winter was especially brutal. As a railroad employee who is there on a regular basis, I always feel bad for them. The way Jesse Waters presents this is despicable to me. At the end of the day, I have not seen a noticeable change in the number of homeless people that have been in Penn Station since de Blasio took office compared to when Bloomberg was still in office. There has always been homeless people in Penn Station, just as there are homeless people who walk around in Grand Central Terminal on the other side of town. I’m even pretty sure I’ve seen homeless people outside of the Fox News studio. I’d much rather see them inside than out on the street laying on the sidewalk with a blanket over their head in the freezing single digit temperatures back in February.