Can’t say “The O’Reilly Factor” deviated from being ‘the no-spin zone’ on this one.
Producer Jesse Watters traveled to the University of Houston to investigate and give a pep talk to what ‘the Buzzfeed’ (as Bill O’Reilly calls it) named one of the ‘least sexy’ colleges in the country. The resulting awkward, four-minute segment was a clinic in public shaming, with Halloween costumes and a history lesson to boot.
“You need to be the Paul Revere of sexy,” Watters tells one student.
“Give me sexy or give me death,” she jokes back.
“That’s Patrick Henry.”
“Oh. Oops.”
A student dressed as a banana won the starring role in Watters’ bit, and one has to hand it to him for exercising restraint in the face of some uncomfortable questioning.
“Do you think you might be contributing to the problem?” Watters cracks to the costumed student.
“No.”
It gets more gauche from there later in the segment.
“Do you like guys or girls?” Watters plainly asks the student.
“I like girls.”
“Definitely?”
“I’m completely straight,” the student insists. “Yeah. Yeah. I like girls. Completely. Completely.”
Back in studio, O’Reilly imagines what he would’ve done were he the object of Watters’ inquiries.
“‘If I were the guy in the banana suit, I would’ve punched you, man,” the host says. “I really would’ve duked you out!”
Video below.
(h / t Mediaite)
