I think this is my favorite piece of video footage since Jon Stewart told off Tucker Carlson on Crossfire. Seriously, watch it again and again, it just gets better.
At the National Conference for Media Reform, Bill O’Reilly producer Porter Barry ambushes journalist Bill Moyers and asks him why he won’t appear on The O’Reilly Factor. Moyers, a class act to the last, makes Barry look like the small and petty man he is. But the joke is on Barry, because other journalists, including Uptake correspondent Noah Kunin, who got this raw footage, turned tables on ol’ Porter and gave him a little taste of the FOX News-style ambush journalism. I don’t think he liked it much.
By the way, Moyers gave an absolutely inspirational keynote address at NCMR2008. You can view it on YouTube.
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“i’m learning from the master..”
…nice
AWESOME!!!!!
What a hack that Porter Barry is.
I am anxiously awaiting the reemergence of a Journalist Class.
When oh when.
That was great! Moyers is such a class act even in the face of the FOX attack mode.
Then he offered Porter a job …. to funny.
Sweet!
God, that little punk looks like he just had the last few micrograms of testosterone drained from his little body!
Wonder if he’ll have a job Monday?
Awesome clip Nicole!
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant.
Wow, another pasty, doughy right wing toady. It’s a mystery!
fastfeat @ 7:
WooooHooooo!!!!
:)
I love seeing FauxNews get an ass kicking! It’s about time the tables were turned!
That guy from “The American News Project” (these guys?) and the camera person were great. Friggin heroes. That’s the best part.
Moyers’ was laying on his hands to cast out Barry’s demons.
oops, forgot the link
These guys?
http://newsproject.org/
That was a truly awesome video, I find it so entertaining when people point out the inconsistencies with Fox News. I also never realized Rupert Murdoch had said that the Iraq war would allow us $20 a barrel of oil, and I cannot wait until someone asks him for a response to that.
Alice Hussein Chomsky Nader @ 4:
Nobody wants to do journalism, it doesn’t pay well. All we get in main stream journalism nowadays are yokel yessah massah press reporters.
Moyer’s = integrity personified. Fox, Billo, Porter, etc., etc……….lower than whale shit.
Time to take out the trash.
SSSSSSWWWWWWEEEEEETTTTTTT!!!! THAT MADE MY DAY!!!
you gotta watch the youtube link, thats were its really at…
exactly what this country needs to do at this time in our history.
Call out the repube’s for their lies, hipocrisy and tricks.
say it often and say it loud.
BE-A-UTIFUL! O’Reilly would be an idiot to edit and show this own his broadcast…so I’ll be expecting to see it on the Wednesday edition…
Crian Padayachee @ 16:
Murdoch’s BW style brownshirts would taser or worse anybody who asked him anything annoying.
I enjoyed that. I feel so dirty.
a very nice way to wake up– now to make the coffee–
when deceit meets the truth, deceit turns and runs. Moyers and truth stood strong and took the high ground, and that oreilly lapdog looked like a fool.
I wonder how he is going to sleep tonite. A few toss and turns wondering about his life choices and where he went down the road to get him where he is now, and where he didn’t make a certain choice which might have led him to a life of integrity and happiness.
after watching it one more time, is it wrong to say..Damn that was a bitch slap if ever their was one.
Porter Barry could not answer the question of whether he is a journalist because he would not admit that he is simply a hack, a go-fer, for a former tabloid “journalist” like O’Reilly. The last thing that people like Barry and O’Reilly wish to do is to engage in any kind of introspection as to whether they lead a moral and just life. Like Paul Newman’s character, Eddie Felson, said to George C. Scott’s character Bert, in The Hustler, people like Porter Barry, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hanity, Roger Ailes, Rush Limbaugh, et al, do not feel anything because they are empty inside. They will say anything, prostitute themselves, seek the lowest common denominator, in order to attract those coveted ratings. Ethics and morality are an abstract concept to these self-righteous hypocrites, similar in a sense to how many Americans ignore the suffering and misery that the U.S. military has inflicted upon the Iraqi and Afghani people. Out of sight, out of mind.
Bill Moyers is a gem. Can we clone him one thousand times and start a new political party?
The Moyers Party.
ooh… a David Simon qoute… Yeeeeeeeee…
Note to Obama: Moyers to chair FCC?!?
SWEET!
Oh. Yeah.
That’s what I call pornography for the Soul.
A gentleman of the old school is never at a loss.
Bless you, Mister Moyers.
Crian Padayachee @ 16:
I wish someone would stick a camera in his face and ask him about it. Then immediately follow it up with a question about if he is even aware of what the current price of gas is. Murdoch likely hasn’t had to pump his own gas EVER. He is so far away from the day to day reality of average Americans.
I wonder if Oberman will show this on Countdown.
It’s about time!!! Faux is so blatantly obvious with their agenda it’s amazing and scary the amount of people that actually believe their crap.
Jiu-jitsu!!!!
Hey, Porter:
[muntz] Ha! Ha! [/muntz]
Yes, yes, yes, this is why we need the internet. To fight back against the neo-con media machine. When you confront these chickenhawks they fly the coop.
I’m kind of a mushy fellow. What I wouldn’t give to be able to handle myself the way Bill Moyers did.
The speech - the speech - it was amazing - if a little long for our American ability to focus.
Bill Moyers is right up there with Diane Rehm on NPR…simply the best.
I don’t even give Fox the time of day.
That was a beautiful thing!
I’m tellin’ y’all the first two videos are appetizers, the main coure is the keynote address youtube link!!!
The people who followed Porter didn’t do it Fox New style all the way, if they had, they would have followed him all the way out the door to the car he was in and would have kept asking him questions until he pulled away.
Mr. Porter: Maybe at one point you dreamed of becoming a reporter so you could serve and inform the public. Look what working for demagogue O’Reilly has done to you. It’s not too late to find a better purpose in life.
Thinker @ 41:
If you knew as much about the media and had fought as hard for a free and responsible press as Moyers has you would have put Porter in his place just as grandly as Bill did.
Wow. Barry walked right into a broadside with that one, didn’t he? “He’s not a journalist; he’s a pugilist!” lol.
Oh… Lest I forget… Thanks fore restoring some hope when I personally needed very badly, Nicolle… You are appreciated too..
MrSnoozer @ 40:
Sorry, that was meant for you.
If you knew as much about the media and had fought as hard for a free and responsible press as Moyers has you would have put Porter in his place just as grandly as Bill did.
MrSnoozer @ 40:
One thing you have to realize is Moyers is comforatable being on camera being asked questions and is used to giving speeches. If you are not comfortable being on camera, especially on a set, you are nervous and have some anxiety with all the lights, people and equipment and hubub. It’s one of the ways O’Reilly can screw anyone who comes on his show who isn’t a media person with experience being on shows being interviewed. Bill doesn’t so much interview as fight and attack as Moyers said in the video.
Moyers’ King Fu is much more powerful than Fox’s.
The New Project guys and gal were good to keep going with it… well played.
OH MAN HOMAY
bill moyers is so the man
I woulda gone all Tyson on Porter’s ass, and bitten off a hunk of his ear. I’ve always struggled with that “left wing=pansy” shit.
Sue @ 42:
Talk about faint praise…
When the conversations on her show meander toward uncomfortable territory she quickly interupts and changes the subject.
I liked the bit where the guy from American News Project said something like “I’m an objective journalist” and Porter said “No you’re not, you’re on the left”.
Says it all right there………
Being agnostic, after watching this I’m thinking, maybe there is a God.
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noun dated or humorous
a boxer, esp. a professional one.
Moyers re O’R. “He’s not a journalist, he’s a pugilist”.
hahahahahahahaha - that was awesome!!!!!!!! you are the man moyers!!!!!!!!!!!!
Moyers is a class act. O’Reilly and his go-fer trolls are gutter trash. This amazing vid proves the point beautifully. Kudos to American News Project, great job guys.
by the end of the keynote… tears…