Bill O'Reilly and Cenk Uygur maybe have something in common.
Although I'm not sure cuz I haven't seen this video yet.
Now, something very frustrating happen,
something that a lot of us have dealt with.
Bill O'Reilly's flight was delayed and a lot of people are dealing with that right
now because of the fact that there are staffing shortages with various airlines.
Now, there is a difference between Cenk and Bill O'Reilly.
Cenk doesn't threaten violence against workers at airlines.
Whereas, according to reports, Bill O'Reilly did.
Let's watch the video.
I'm seeing this for the first time myself.
>> [INAUDIBLE] it's
Bill O'Reilly and Fox ride.
I want to see your manager.
>> [INAUDIBLE] >> You're gonna find out.
[INAUDIBLE]
Yeah.
[INAUDIBLE]
>> So as media reports, and they're accurate about this.
The specifics of the exchange between O'Reilly and
the JetBlue worker are difficult to make out in the video.
But the author and
former Fox news host can be heard saying that his flight is three hours late.
O'Reilly can also be heard demanding the employee find out what's going on.
So far, hasn't done anything wrong.
>> Yes, perfectly normal.
>> This is where things get bad.
The exchange escalates when the employee accuses O'Reilly of threatening violence,
something he immediately denies.
When O'Reilly is trying to look at the employee's name tag,
he can be heard saying quote, you're lucky, I don't put my fist through it.
>> Well, that seems like threatening.
>> Yeah, that's right, yeah, yeah.
Now after the employee says something inaudible, O'Reilly replied,
you effing scumbag, don't talk to me like that and then the worker repeats again.
You're threatening me with violence, man.
O'Reilly denies this and says, you're the one I dare you, I dare you.
Is that what you said to me?
O'Reilly then observes the man's name tag and
says he's going to lose his job before walking away.
>> Yeah, so look, airports are frustrating,
Anna's referencing a couple of things there.
One of my flights got canceled recently when I was in Miami.
Another time, I taped my frustration because,
it was actually also going to Miami.
And I knew that they had a plane because of
the way that things had gone down on that day.
And they had to decide where the plane was gonna go and they decided they were gonna
screw our flight over and they weren't being honest about it.
And so I got loud but I never threatened anyone, no way.
And I didn't threaten to get them fired.
That's like a big footing nonsense, right?
>> Yeah. >> I was just like, look,
I know you have the plane.
We're all sitting here,
it's 2:33 o'clock in the morning, and you gotta make up your mind.
Aare you gonna bring the plane out or are you not going to, right?
And so just let us know, etc.
And I know I was right cuz they brought the plane out and then to be vengeful,
they decided, okay, yes, but you're not going on, okay?
So they put everybody but me and
one other guy who was complaining on the plane and then they kicked us out.
Okay, but at least I got the other guys on the plane, so I feel good about it.
But so that's why in the beginning, if O'Reilly was just saying, hey,
what the hell we've been waiting three hours?
That's the most normal thing I've ever seen in an airport.
>> And to be fair, he needed to be somewhere.
He was in a rush, he had his vacation at Turks and Caicos waiting for
him and the plane was three hours late.
Look, I get the frustration.
We've all experienced it, either it's a delayed flight or
canceled flight and it's incredibly frustrating.
Because it's one of the only areas of this economy where the customer is
not ever right and you pay for something and there's no quality of service.
There's no guarantee that you'll actually end up on the flight because they
purposely overbook it.
It's just like there are all sorts of disasters
pertaining to the airline industry.
I don't want to minimize that.
At the same time though, it doesn't really make sense
to release all your frustration and anger on one employee.
Unless that employee is specifically doing or
saying something to you that makes the situation worse exacerbates the situation.
>> Yeah, no, no, it's not even about that.
No, it's so sure you could be human and
having a human reaction where you get frustrated.
But you should find the person who can make a difference,
figuring out how to influence them to make that difference.
And so that's what I figured out, I think fairly accurately,
although vituperatively in the time that I did it.
And so by the way, when I first did that video,
however many years ago, people loved it, right?
And no, no, no, and I swear to God,
the reaction at the time was overwhelmingly positive, right?
And people in the streets will be like, hey, atta boy, man.
>> Are you serious?
>> I swear to God, the only other time that I've had as good a reaction in
the streets immediately was when I stepped up to Alex jones at the RNC and
then people were like, yes, right?
So later, the right wing took that video, seven years later, I was like,
can you believe that Cenk is being mean to workers?
Okay, [LAUGH] and then they pretended to be outraged, okay?
So but in this case, when O'Reilly then says, I'm gonna punch you or put a-
>> You're lucky,
I'm not putting a fist through that.
>> Yeah, no, you can't say that, that's crazy, right?
>> Yeah, it is crazy.
>> And that will get you in trouble and it should.
>> Later, he told media that he didn't apologize, but he's like, yeah,
I probably should have handled it a little better, something along those lines.
>> [LAUGH] Hey, that's like as much of an admission as you'll ever get from
the right wing.
>> But he then went on to say, but the problem is real and
they're understaffed and they're not acknowledging that.
>> Well, that's true though, probably.
>> They are understaffed.
I don't know if it's true that they're not acknowledging that.
I think it's well known that there's like a worker shortage in various industries
mostly because these industries haven't been treating their workers all
that great.
So once a bunch of people get fired or laid off because of the pandemic,
they get to push and they start moving on to other things, you know what I'm saying?
>> And there's one other thing that's important which is the big footing
that I referred to earlier.
Back when I got into that kerfuffle at the airport,
the manager that I was talking to probably made more money than I did, right?
Bill O'Reilly is a multi multimillionaire, so
when he threatens to get that guy fired, that's not remotely cool.
>> Yeah, I agree. >> Right, don't do that.
>> By the way man, I looked into Turks and Caicos because I was curious like
it's been a while since I've been on a legit vacation.
So I was like, Turks and Caicos looks beautiful.
It is very pricey, Turks and Caicos is very pricey turns out and
I ain't going there not now.
[LAUGH] But anyway, so I could understand if you're missing out on
the precious hours that you've invested in for that vacation.