The next day, the Drudge Report wrote it up as a "brawl." The Washington Post called it a "nerdy fight" and allowed Grim one last dig: "Ambush guy can't take getting ambushed."Īt Fox, there was less concern about the fight itself than the fact that Watters had attended an MSNBC party at all. After some bluster from both parties, things got physical. When Grim picked his phone up and trained it again on Watters, the smile was gone from Watters' face.
Still smiling but clearly getting fed up, Watters swatted the phone out of Grim's hand. The rest of the exchange is by now as infamous as it is embarrassing. "You went all the way out to, like, the middle of fucking nowhere," Grim shot back, leading Watters in Terkel's direction. "Bring her over, bring her over." (Terkel, it was clear, had no interest in Grim's shenanigans and had shrunk back into the crowd.) Grim turned on his phone camera and zeroed in on Watters.įor a few minutes, Watters played along. "So I wanted to give him a dose of his own medicine." "I thought he was an obnoxious frat boy who just went around bullying people," Grim would later explain to Insider. When someone mentioned Watters' presence at the party, Grim saw an opportunity to flip the script and get Watters to apologize to Terkel on camera. Grim thought the incident with Terkel crossed a line.
There, on camera, he'd accosted her with angry questions about "why I was causing 'pain and suffering' to rape victims and their families," Terkel would later recall. Watters had followed her from her home in Washington, DC, to a small beach town in Virginia where she was vacationing.
Standing nearby was Ryan Grim, then the DC bureau chief for Huffington Post, and Grim's friend and colleague, the liberal blogger Amanda Terkel.įive years earlier, Terkel had landed in O'Reilly's crosshairs after she criticized a victims'-rights organization for having O'Reilly speak at a fundraiser. It often indicates a user profile.Īt the time, Watters was best known for pulling off elaborately planned ambush interviews on "The O'Reilly Factor," then Fox News' top-rated show. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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