If you had any reason to doubt that O'Reilly Factor's stalker producer Jesse Watters – editor of the go-to website for people longing for President Obama’s assassination, Fox Nation – is anything less than a malicious bully, then check out how he deliberately ambushed and harassed President Obama’s “illegal alien” uncle – all the while pretending to “just want to talk.”
Of course, the whole point of the exercise was to embarrass President Obama. Even though his uncle, Onyango Obama, the half-brother of the president’s father, whom he barely knew, is clearly not at all close to the First Family.
“He is perhaps the most famous illegal alien in the world,” O’Reilly said tonight, as a graphic on the screen read, “President Obama’s illegal immigrant uncle” next to Onyango Obama’s photo. Rather than go interview Onyango Obama himself, O’Reilly sent Watters to do his dirty work.
But first, Watters underscored the fact that President Obama has an “illegal” relative by asking a series of people on the street what should happen to the uncle. “Do you think he’s getting special treatment?” was one of the “questions” Watters asked.
Then it was on to the store where Onyango Obama works.
Mr. Obama obviously wanted nothing to do with Watters. “We don’t… No…” were his first words to Watters – who feigned obsequiousness at the same time that he was deliberately trying to humiliate Obama.
When Mr. Obama told him to leave, Watters said, “You don’t have to get angry with me. I just have a quick question for you.”
Obama walked away, saying, “No questions. Thank you.”
So Watters followed him, saying “I just have a quick question.”
Obama said he had called the cops and “I don’t want no questions.”
Watters disregarded that and, in a voice full of phony gentleness said, “That’s my only question, do you think you deserve citizenship? I’m not here to bust your chops.”
No, of course he wasn’t. He was there to bust President Obama’s chops. Embarrassing and intimidating Onyango was just collateral damage.
Back in the studio, Watters and O’Reilly gnashed their teeth – with ghoulish grins – over the “special treatment” they thought Obama’s uncle must have received if he has not yet been deported despite a DUI. “This is a joke!” O’Reilly exclaimed.
Well, he got that right, but not for the reasons he thought.
Although Onyango Obama has lived in this country mostly peacefully and without incident for 50 years (and he’s the president’s uncle), Watters sneered, “He’s a high priority deportation case and they’re lettin’ him stay.”
By the way, when the tables were turned and Gawker confronted Watters about his tactics, Watters refused to talk and drove off “like a coward.”
