The O’Reilly Factor’s Jesse Watters aired an “investigation” into homeless people in New York City’s Penn Station. It was so biased and unprofessional that those high school students who tore up Watters’ report on Vermont would have had a field day eviscerating the journalistic “ethics” in this one.

You knew what kind of “investigation” was coming when, during O’Reilly’s introduction, a photo of de Blasio was displayed above the text, “HARMING NEW YORK?”

The pretext was New York City’s efforts to rein in some police abuses - and O'Reilly's blatant effort to suggest that's making law-abiding (white) citizens unsafe. “Recent study found that 85% of New York City police now fear being proactive on the job and that manifests itself in a variety of ways,” O’Reilly claimed.

“Enter the busiest train depot in the country, Penn Station. In the past year, it has really gone downhill,” O’Reilly continued.

There were no experts interviewed, no police officers, no city officials, no Penn Station managers. Watters didn’t even cite any statistics or studies. Instead, he relied on a series of selectively edited, “man on the street” type interviews.

For example, Watters asked a Caucasian woman, “Does it affect you psychologically when you see homeless people in and out of this area?”  An African American homeless person just happened to be in the background of the shot.

A Caucasian man told Watters, “I see the upswing. I see a lot more people basically living here. …In the stairwells, in the back areas.”

A young African American girl told Watters, “It’s kinda heartbreaking to see other people who don’t have houses. They don’t have money to buy food and it’s a possibility they could die from that.” Later, the same girl admitted the homeless scare her “because you never know what they could do.”

Watters told us that it’s forbidden in Penn Station to sleep on the floor or panhandle. But Watters couldn't be bothered to ask anyone in a position of authority why the rule seems to be disobeyed.

Instead, Watters asked a Hispanic man, “Technically, you are not allowed to loiter and panhandle. Are they enforcing that?”

The man responded, “I don’t think so. I really don’t see them moving them anywhere. You just saw a cop walk by and they didn’t talk to him. They don’t talk to any of those guys.”

And guess who just happened to be in the shot? A seemingly drunk African American man seen previously.

Now Watters actively demonized the homeless (African Americans) in Penn Station.

Watters asked one man what he was doing there. With slurred speech, the man said, “Nothing much, just picking up cans and bottles. …You make $20 a day.”  

Watters asked a homeless woman (You guessed it! She’s African American too!) if she had any health insurance. “Oh, sure,” she replied. “They give you that when they give you welfare.”

Yet another woman (yup, African American) said she wound up homeless because of crack use – and now supports herself via prostitution.

There were also several anecdotes of people being attacked and accosted by homeless people. One (Caucasian) bar owner said someone picked up a chair and wanted to hit him over the head with it.

Later, it was time to blame the (too black-friendly) Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“There’s more homeless now than ever. I don’t know, I think it’s the Mayors fault,” some Caucasian guy opined.

Another white man said he has seen more homeless people since de Blasio became mayor. “I do try to help them out but at the same time I don’t like when they affect our customers,” he said.

There was even time for a shout out to Rudy Giuliani. The bar owner told Watters, “I’d say when Giuliani was mayor, I saw more enforcement.”

Back in the studio, O’Reilly groused that “De Blasio does not want to enforce what they call, ‘quality of life’ crimes, which is what this is.”

O'Reilly closed this shameful and shameless segment by saying “Good report.”

Watch it below, from the June 29, The O’Reilly Factor.