VILLAINS
Jesse Watters
This one is easy. Gawker punching bag and known coward Jesse Watters is Bill O’Reilly’s maleficent video henchman, slithering across the land ambushing the intelligent and the decent (like Hendrik Hertzberg!), harassing them with cameras and microphones. Though Watters claims his victims have been invited to outline their positions on the O’Reilly show itself, this is often not the case. The worst example of Watters scumbaggery was when he stalked and ambushed ThinkProgress‘ Amanda Terkel on her vacation. Despite tepid claims to the contrary, Watters is not interested in rational discourse, he’s interested in lowest-common-denominator gotcha TV moments. He is all that is wrong with the Republic.
they just lost their lease, and need to find another….preferably in the immediate neighborhood, for not much money…
Mayor Bloomberg is in the picture but there isn’t anything written about him, how come?
His editing staff is still next to impeccable. I think you meant savvy.
In terms of heroes and villains, you have both in what’s going on with the 1-2-3 Community Space. You’ve written about the heroes, but there is also a villain, or rather villains. You can read about them on a blog set up to chronicle the eviction of 1-2-3 by money-grubbing landlords (I know, that’s redundant).
I think Bloomberg is on the cover as he’s referred to in the Reverend Billy editorial.
Thanks GOD this jackass is being called out. I’m glad to see the villains behind the villains called out.
Graydon Carter is a villain because time and age has given him a different perspective in life? Prepare author, for you too will in time (and with age) join the ranks of ‘villains’ everywhere. Unless you’re just so closed minded as to never change.
Also, when does libertarianism == ‘giving up’. That’s just reductionism.
You list Bloomberg as a villain but his traffic doyenne, Sadik-Khan, is a hero. And Billy Talen, no matter how well intentioned, is a clown.
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