Fox News mascot Bill O’Reilly sent O’Reilly Factor reporter Jesse Watters to Cornell University for an investigation of the ivy league’s alleged “liberal bias” as reported in the Cornell Sun. According to the newspaper, out of the $600,000 in political donations from Cornell University faculty, 96 percent of donations were for Democratic candidates. Of the 323 donors, only 15 donated money to “conservative” politicians. Watters asked professors and students if there was a liberal agenda was being pushed and things got ugly—Watters ended up creepily hitting on a student, among other foul things—before being asked to leave by the university.
Watters, for his Watters' World segment, asked one student about the “vibe” on campus, to which the student responded, "A very diverse campus – a bunch of different people from a bunch of different backgrounds.” Ready to snap back, Watters said "It's not that diverse, because according to this report, 96 percent of the donations from faculty here went to Democrats.” Much to Watters' chagrin the student said, “What’s wrong with that?”
Watters witch hunt continued when he tested students to see if they had been brainwashed by the aforementioned “liberals.” He horribly asked students about the “illegal alien invasion” when talking about immigration (Newsflash: no person is “illegal.”), terrorism, Hillary Clinton, and asked ridiculous questions like if professors passed around “doobies” in class, as liberal hippies are wont to do.
The segment thankfully came to an end when Deputy director of media relations Melissa Osgood asked Watters to stop interviewing students and to leave. When Watters tried to ask Osgood if Cornell had a problem with Fox News she said, “absolutely not.”
Cornell’s Vice President of University Relations Joel Malina later released a statement about the incident: "Fox News has been on our campus many times, but they have typically contacted us in advance and worked with us to set up interviews with students. This time, there was no advance notice. The vast majority of our media interactions on campus, including faculty and student interviews, are done in compliance with our policy and with full cooperation between our Media Relations Office and the news organization. This was one of the rare cases where the media refused to cooperate, and we accordingly implemented our policy."
[via Syracuse]
