Politico
By Nick Gass
September 2, 2015
Bill
O'Reilly sparred with Jorge Ramos on Wednesday night over whether the
Univision newsman is a reporter, with the Fox News host repeatedly
calling his guest an "activist"
and suggesting that he should take up commentating and give up on the
notion of being a journalist.
Arguing
over the effectiveness of a border wall, the two also clashed over
O'Reilly's proposed "Kate's Law," which would bar convicted felons who
have been deported from
the United States from ever returning. The proposal came about
following the murder of San Francisco woman Kate Steinle earlier this
year at the hands of a repeat felon who was deported five separate
times.
Ramos
said that he was not defending the criminals but that it would not be a
good idea to punish those who return across the border. O'Reilly shot
back, calling him an
"enabler" of felons, suggesting that he is enabling people like
Steinle's alleged killer.
"You want to criminalize a whole community for a crime that only one person did," Ramos countered.
Ramos,
who made headlines last month with his confrontation of Republican
candidate Donald Trump over his deportation proposal, has repeatedly
defended his line of questioning
as legitimate.
"You're
an anchorman. How can you possibly cover illegal immigration fairly
when you are an activist — you're a proponent of allowing them amnesty?
How can you possibly
cover the story? You should excuse yourself from it or recuse yourself
from it. Or become like me, a commentator." O'Reilly suggested.
"I'm just a reporter," Ramos responded.
"You're not!" O'Reilly interjected. "You're an activist," the host said.
Ramos
continued to dispute O'Reilly's assertions, telling him that he did not
think the Fox News host is "the right person to lecture me on advocacy
and journalism."
"I'm a commentator. That's what I do," O'Reilly said.
The job of a journalist, he said, is to ask questions and to challenge those in power.
"Jorge, you're doing exactly what I'm doing, man. You just don't have the title," O'Reilly concluded.
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