Top 20 Most Confrontational News Moments Ever

These confrontational moments ended up making the news themselves. For this list, we’ll be looking at the angriest and most controversial moments to happen on news programs across the globe. Our countdown of the most confrontational news moments ever includes Piers Morgan vs Alex Beresford, Jon Stewart vs Tucker Carlson, Weijia Jiang vs Donald Trump, Cara Delevingne vs Good Day Sacramento, and more! Have you ever been on the news? Let us know below!
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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your videos guys😊😊😊😊😊

[@raymondmaciel4047]

Can you The Top 10 Ash and Serena moments from Pokémon, or a Top 10 Soos moments from Gravity Falls

[@jhaarbur]

Yes I have. I almost died in a playground accident in first grade, but was saved by two peers and the gym teacher.

[@jeremywilliams5141]

Props to the weatherman for chewing out those "Bachelorette" viewers. He was simply doing his job and trying to keep people safe. Safety is priority over a stupid reality show.

[@giancarlofelicianocastaned9316]

Preach

[@user-ln4zr4pz4f]

Darwin.

[@MasterOfViewership]

Yeah, I would rather hear about a dangerous storm than a stupid fake show. I remember when there was a Tornado Warning (due to slight rotation, there was no funnel) and that interrupted WWE SMACKDOWN back in 2016, and I cared more about the storm than wrestling at the moment

[@KingOfGaymes]

Bachelorette viewers aren’t too bright it seems

[@jam5533]

Rightfully, since that was an EF4 tornado heading towards the Dayton metro area that night.

[@EdWedgie]

The fact CNN even named a segment “crossfire” during the middle of the war in Iraq is insane. 2005 vibes 😂

[@LittleMissCooper]

I live in Dayton, Ohio and Jamie Simpson is a local hero. He probably saved a lot of lives that night. Those tornadoes were horrible and there's still areas damaged from them four years later.

[@Eleanorscatmom]

I'm glad he received the respect he deserves from that. I used to have friends in Dayton. Hope things are going better there. Sending love from a neighbor ( I'm currently in central PA so I'm pretty close by

[@bernardomello842]

You know society is in an irreversible downward spiral when people care more about The Bachelorette than staying alive.

[@Lazalit]

I saw the Russel Brand interview and he DOMINATED the whole room like he was the king of that place. Not yelling or even insulting. He corrected the hostess everytime he had the chance politly.

[@andyroid5028]

*_Russell is awesome. There are a LOT of butt-hurt folks that hate him now (you know, because he has exposed the a-holes they still bizarrely worship - Fauci, Biden, etc. - as the evil SOBs they truly are)._*

[@ElizabethT45]

I watched "The Messiah Complex" and it's well thought out and researched, his points are valid and comprehensive, and when he brings it all together at the end, it's genuinely thought-provoking. It's clear that none of the interviewers had time to watch it nor understood it, but humiliating him about his accent instead of asking interview questions was awful.

[@sadie9728]

People love to write him off but Brand is incredibly intelligent and articulate and would destroy almost anyone in a debate.

[@Lazalit]

@@sadie9728Yes, I bet he get that all the time. Debating with people who are this mind-awake is really an enriched experience.

[@noth1ng5id]

That was crazy, what kind of interviewer are you if you're defeated by an accent. Bullshit

[@BrandonHardaker]

Much respect for the news anchor who rebutted the fat shamers! She is a gorgeous woman.

[@101LakesNetwork]

An anonymous email! What a narcissist.

[@tristenmoore1275]

I'll totally agree to that. No matter how she looked on the outside or inside, Jennifer Livingston is a beautiful woman with a strong voice.

[@edwardx4979]

It's funny that people would rather die watching The Bachelorette than knowing about the path of a dangerous storm...

[@AkSamurai69]

Good. Let em

[@nes_osterone6217]

Natural selection

[@Haters_Gunna_Hate]

Those Bachelorette fans complaining about the tornado should have just done us all a favor and let the damn thing take them on a flight.

[@Ummmmple]

I can't help but laugh although we all know no one actually wants that to happen....

[@matthewpaul6904]

Who else laughed when the narrator said after the shoe was thrown that the assailant "had another one"

[@Jamietheroadrunner]

Too bad he didn’t hit Bush. Maybe the shoe could have knocked some sense into him.

[@BobbySacamano]

Considering the narrator never said that, no, I did not laugh.

[@0baddawa0]

​@BobbySacamano you are correct- he actually said "armed with one more", which is close enough for the joke.

[@Luvmydeuce]

Can we all apreciate that the "mojo" part of the Watchmojo warermark perfectly lined up with Kim Jung Un's face at 17:57? Absolute perfection!!!

[@twist58]

Yup. By happenstance THAT is perfection. Took me a while to see that on the first go.

[@Bdub1112]

Brilliant 😂😂

[@jasonmcmurtry7812]

Cara Delevingne was great in that interview and trashed them with them completely clueless lol

[@xXCasta21Xx]

I like her too but your stupid she got owned in the interview and embarrassed hard.

[@bbsy1]

She was a lioness playing with her food. They should consider themselves lucky she wasn’t hungry and devoured them.

[@djzarrick]

@@bbsy1 She saved the devouring for Amber Heard later. 😋

[@landonmiles97]

Russel owned that. I love that interview.

[@A.G.P.115]

Ok

[@brianarbenz1329]

I've worked as a journalist. I got into it with a source twice. One was a city councilman who was furious because a story I wrote called a bypass a bypass. It was over the building of a new road that was a bypass. But that word made him go ballistic, because he thought it sounded like his city's downtown was being left behind. The other time was about a dozen years later when I interviewed a racist. He claimed black African nations had no written language until they were colonized by Europeans. When I pointed out that Ethiopia (when it was called Abyssinia) had the world's first written language, he shrieked, "Ethiopians aren't black!" I realized I had wasted fairness on an inherently unfair mind, and told him what I thought of him. I have no apologies; I'd do it again.

[@jay90garrett]

Man I wish yall would've put that Samuel L Jackson interview on here lol 😆 "We dont all look alike ya know" lol

[@RCEASTMIDLANDS]

I think you mean the interview with Lawrence Fishburn...

[@sadie9728]

George W. was a raging pile of shit but he dodged those shoes like a goddamn pro

[@tachipaws3769]

Man dodged military service, that wasn’t his first rodeo

[@669Malo]

"Most confrontational moments accros the globe" you said... 90% of it was from US...

[@A.G.P.115]

Yea, so...

[@hazydog5387]

"Shoe me once, shame on you. Show me twice, I'm keeping that shoe."

[@jefolson6989]

" give me liberty or give me shoes" I thought Missouri was the shoe me state?

[@wojtek1765]

Love these type of Videos, even though, I’ve seen the clips countless times like everyone else😂😂

[@eli3568]

Haha Bush dodging shoes never gets old

[@onlyme219]

I enjoyed that 👍

[@racingbecky4155]

Outsmarting Tucker Carlson is about as tough as winning a tip off against Gary Coleman when you are Shaquille O'Neil... LOL

[@peterc6156]

This is my favorite, most accurate post I've seen today!

[@meganpowell2041]

Jon Stewart is one hell of a human! ❤

[@mike91dsm]

Fun fact #10 Jessica Livingston is actually the sister of Ron Livingston the actor famous from the movie "Officespace"

[@nes_osterone6217]

Bush cat like reflexes still impresses me today 👞

[@Itsdylanschmidt]

Watching Cuomo talk to Giuliani, felt like I was watching a comedy skit on KZbin

[@wolvie667]

Guilliani dropped big time on my ladder of respect. Loved him as mayor of NY, but when he got involved with Trump his real character came out

[@regg217]

Just goes to show politicians are terrible people overall and it's putting the right team behind them that yield certain favorable results. Remove these people from their inner circle and the terrible person they are rings true. The inverse applies as well put the wring people around them and the person they truly are can't be masked. I.e. Trump.

[@lotsayardsales]

Apparently liberal character assassination wasn't his style. Duhhhhhhhh

[@Ddken93]

You should read James Comey's autobiography. Giulliani had been like that since the 80s.

[@ec4221]

Trump and Giuliano 🐀🐁

[@midnitekreapa8372]

Gulliani dressed as a woman with his bff Trump. Look for a video clip on here. Very sus

[@dynagaming2693]

Jennifer Livingston is actually Ron Livingston's sister (the guy who played Peter on Office Space, also was in Band of Brothers among many other things).

[@tokiwartuthe]

I live in tupelo, ms where Matt was getting on John it was a treat to see live...i love those guys

[@creatureTHEcritter]

I was actually on my local news when I was in 5th grade. The damn cameraman filmed me walking down the girls toy section. Made it look like I was looking at damn barbie dolls lol. I was actually on my way to look at the tech decks everyone use to play with. Damn kids at school never let me live that down. Lol

[@PaiviProject]

Wow. I sure did enjoyed.

[@werdle92]

I remember the "first amendment and boobs" live on tv. It was the hardest i have ever cringed in my life. I almost imploded.

[@JackMustang]

That guy has a reason to interrupt the Bachelorette show when it comes to a severe thunderstorm bringing in a tornado. For the safety of our people.

[@shaneschluter9648]

Glad to see these news companies collapsing

[@AlaFrigginBama]

“On the morning of august 30th…” Uhm…hurricane Katrina made landfall on August the 29th, 2005. I remember that date extremely well, as my birthday is August 28th. I turned 21 that year and was a brand new RN working on the gulf coast. We were without power at the hospital I worked for except for emergency generators. There was no A/C and the temperature was in the 100’s. We couldn’t even crack windows as our hospital had them sealed shut due to patient safety concerns years prior. We took in mass casualties from New Orleans and the Mississippi gulf coast. I saw a lot of death and sadness and then at the end of an excruciating day I got to go home to no power or running water for nearly 5 weeks. It was one of the worst things I hope to ever experience in my life. I swear whoever does y’all’s research/scripting is bad! Edit: I don’t blame Chad Myers for snapping at Carol, though. I’d have done the same with her! She was hella disrespectful and giggling while people were down here dying. When she said she needed him to kinda dumb it down for her I’d have said “it’s a huge death machine, Carol!!! Does that sum it up enough for you or do I need to break out some crayons and draw you a picture?” 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

[@RetroRuss]

Bush dodged that shoe like Neo 😆

[@denniskirsch7354]

Nice to see Pittsburgh made the list twice. Oh, how I love my home of Western PA. 😂

[@mijajajaja]

I have a public facing job that requires me to do frequent news and radio interviews throughout the year, and because of that I consider myself a pretty confident speaker. BUT, there have been a few times where all of my expertise and PR "know-how" went out the window, _solely because the person interviewing me sucked (either at their job or just in general as a human being.)_ *So the level of candor, restraint, and professionalism celebrities and other well-known/famous people are constantly demonstrating is nothing short of amazing*

[@bbsy1]

That guy totally says that in front of his friends to sound cool, but why would he say that on tv, whether or not a woman is in front of him? She gave his ass an out and he wasn’t even smart enough to take it.

[@cowboyneverdycowboynevercr2027]

When the narrator is more interested in hearing his voice than allowing the conflicts show for themselves.

[@robinsmith5442]

I was on the news in Houston but it was when my son had a Bone Marrow Transplant about a year after David, the bubble boy, passed away.

[@jmathis2aug]

I hope your son is well…

[@robinsmith5442]

@@jmathis2aug He passed away in 2002. The transplant didn't engraft. We did get 18 years with him with IV gamma globulin routinely.

[@louiscyphre2267]

...And? That has nothing to do with the video unless you got into an argument with someone. Saying that makes no sense.

[@nicktaylor2657]

Austin Powers: Really who throws a shoe?😊

[@twist58]

That British journalist Guru-Murthy who was interviewing Robert Downey Jr. That one was better (or worst) than the interview with Quentin Tarantino. The journalist had to pry on RDJ’s personal life when in actuality this was meant to be about his then-new movie Avengers: Age of Ultron. Rather than get angry or snap at him, RDJ just gets up from his chair and says “good bye” ending the conversation. I say that was a good call, that douche journalist had some nerve to ask him that. RDJ even said about that interview if it were Diane Sawyer, he wouldn’t mind speaking about it. To one up that incident, he posted a picture on social media of him posing with Sawyer.

[@Animeguy300]

These moments makes people thinking of "wtf are we watching"

[@yappaplay]

Finally a good television. 😂

[@knkillname]

“NeWs PrOgRAmS AcrOSs tHE gLoVe”

[@phantomrequim]

Bush has some good reflexes at least.

[@welcometothemovies9157]

Well if the guy didn't scream and pose with the show before throwing it. Remember when Conan tried to spoof this and got a shoe to the head

[@megansavage7152]

I Rack🤣🤣🤣

[@Ragtags]

"Crumb creep lush coward" haha wtf

[@gmaxion2001]

I was on the news decades ago when three refugees jumped off of a boat in the Mississippi River. One drowned and the other two made it to shore. They were to be deported but we had a march to see them stay. The march was in the news and I was in TV. I have an amniotic band around ine leg and they did a close-up of it. I was embarrassed as hell.

[@tina3270]

I do not know if I want to be on the news

[@dicksonfranssen]

I was once, for a bank robbery I DID NOT see. "Tell us what you saw" Nothing "And how did that make you feel?"

[@marystaggs9525]

I've been on the news three times. Once I was in Hollywood with my boyfriend and a news crew was asking people's opinions on celibacy and they used us; next two times were at a Christmas tree lot and we were interviewed two years in a row.

[@onyx3856]

I miss the way Trump says CHI-NA🤣

[@stevensuarez4843]

It's pronounced "Gi-na"😅.

[@tenofivelips]

I miss the way he traveled around the country holding rallies during a pandemic, killing his supporters.

[@pengwin_]

i dont

[@micahnewby7964]

11:31 I regret that I have but one pair of shoes to throw for my country

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your contenta 🎉🎉❤🎉❤❤❤

[@bernardomello842]

Nothing like an axe 🪓 to end an interview

[@katiekorell9776]

The guy at 16:30 is probably a great neighbor. When my parents died violently, my family was inundated with pushy media. The neighbors chased them away. The family was struggling and suffering. Their neighbors were our support system.

[@NeoGee]

They talked about Guru-Murthy's interview with Tarantino but not his one with Robert Down Jr.

[@0baddawa0]

They mentioned his RDJ interview in passing.

[@Kizshmit]

@17:55 The WatchMojo face aligns (almost) perfectly with picture of Kim Jong Un in the lower right hand corner. You're welcome, internet.

[@drewc771]

Gotta admit, GWB was pretty quick with that reaction to the shoe flying at him. No way Biden or Trump woulde avoided that one.

[@cesarvictorino4301]

Top 30 Forgotten Animated Tv Shows.

[@COMPFUNK2]

You _do_ know that WatchMojo doesn’t scour the comment section for ideas, don’t you? It would be a better bet to make a request on their website.

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

@@COMPFUNK2That said, my suggestion, after making an account so I can suggest a video topic, would be a ranking of all seven movements of British composer Gustav Holst’s astrology-inspired suite _The Planets._ See below for my ranking. #7. “Mercury: The Winged Messenger” #6. “Jupiter: The Bringer of Jollity” #5. “Venus: The Bringer of Peace” #4. “Saturn: The Bringer of Old Age” #3. “Uranus: The Magician” #2. “Neptune: The Mystic” #1. “Mars: The Bringer of War” And what recording of the suite but the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, is my favorite?

[@nicktownsell6541]

We can't ask Jerry Springer anymore..RIP

[@00piper18000]

Jiang asking Trump why he said that to her is one of the craziest things I've seen. Jiang asked Trump a question, Trump then answered the question, Jiang then can't understand why he said that to her 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ that's how answers work, what was he meant to do? Answers her question to someone else?

[@ginjen3128]

😂 I thought the same thing! It was the answer to YOUR question!

[@dancewithoutme]

it wasn’t an answer though lol. And then he walks off like a coward. Good for Jiang.😊

[@RCEASTMIDLANDS]

Typical leftist media treatment of Trump - Trying to play the race card and get a headline from everything he says.

[@00piper18000]

@@dancewithoutme ok he responded to her

[@consoledollz1688]

Weijia is the SHIT lol

[@itslegion1324]

One would think that the ex Special Forces Operative would have more respect for the power of anonymity, people really are stupid lol.

[@ronburns6920]

16.48 give that man a beer

[@alextheobserver1573]

So I was on the news three different times. Each one was completely by accident.. the first was for what’s right with our schools when a new piece of technology emerged called the Braille light millennium. I was later asked to be interviewed again because I figured out that you could use this piece of assistive technology to browse the Internet and intern, it actually made things a lot easier for everyone because then that started the whole thing where Internet became more user-friendly. And also got freedom scientific shut down. Then the next time I was interviewed for a local broadcast called Roy’s folks. I didn’t go as well because my dad had forced me into rushing into the interview, and I had to smack him in the belly ones because he was being ridiculous. And then the final time last year I had a plane crash in my neighborhood. Thankfully no one was injured or killed but I actually witnessed it happening so I got interviewed. For anyone curious about the plane crash. This little fisher by plane had engine issues, but the pilot thought he could fly it anyway out of the airport and by the time it reached me it was sputtering and stuttering and then it sold out completely as it was going over my head, and it crashed right at the end of my street

[@Avistiff]

Some of the pauses and overall cadence makes this sound like it's an A.I.

[@Bonbonbon739]

There’s like 30 different watchmojo videos that are identical this one lol

[@manifestgtr]

Dude, see this is why I could NEVER be a high profile person. “Ok, we’ll let you take a nap and get a Red Bull”…at that point, my brain would’ve short-circuited and I would’ve said something so extreme, society would resurrect the witch burning laws and I’d be the first person in living memory to be executed for words.

[@Kyle-my5il]

“Ask China” was completely appropriate response to her question. The answer was always the same to whoever asked the question

[@barthslung]

I hate to say it, but that is like the 4th time I have sided with Trump. I believe he would have said that to anyone asking.

[@cooljoe500]

huh, didnt know around the globe only means english-speaking countries.

[@HolyCross9]

John Stewart should've told Tucker to shove it.

[@Lebowski604]

I was today years old when I found out Frank Rizzo is a real guy and not just a Jerky Boys character...

[@sibgaming6033]

Tucker Carlson did NOT get fired.

[@bernardomello842]

Is anyone still working (or watching) at CNN or Fox News?

[@A.G.P.115]

Yes, why do you ask?

[@bernardomello842]

@@A.G.P.115 🙄 who do you work for? Ted Turner or Rudolph Murdoch?

[@joeymartinez9854]

#2 inspired the snl skit herb welch

[@zachwalker522]

@16:34 he looks like he smells like stale Marlbro cigarettes and Budweiser.

[@zachwalker522]

And vultures don't drink blood

[@GranTyrant]

Jennifer Livingston was actually damn fine!

[@daddybee5821]

Pretty crazy how the Giuliani ish was bang on tho !!

[@coreyzek]

14:40 thought my messenger alert went off

[@dwoodzter]

Not at all surprised that Trump not only topped the list but made it on there multiple times.

[@acefrehley28]

Man, that reporter is totally Michael Scotto.....

[@tomcruz8615]

20:56 very tasteless reference considering the man has just passed away this year...

[@A.G.P.115]

So, he's dead, he clearly doesn't give a f**k. Just like you and me when we're dead.😅

[@jefftank3300]

#2 would have been beautiful if the lady jumped in with, "do I have to call your mommies"

[@alexanderputtock1805]

Wasn’t Frank Rizzo like heavily involved in the mafia? Gotta have some huge balls to confront that guy on the street like that

[@peterc6156]

That's not something I ever heard. Be careful to not equate being Italian with being in the mob. That's something I've dealt with my entire life as an Italian kid, with a well-to-do Italian father, in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He came from South Philly where a lot of folks were involved in the mob. However, like any ethnic population, they all knew each other. They weren't that far removed from the days they landed in the City.

[@alexanderputtock1805]

@@peterc6156 I remember a scene from The Irishman where Frank Rizzo was like giving an award to Frank Sheeran who was a mob hitman. I could be wrong but that’s just what I remember.

[@notorioustori]

Can Guru-Murthy and Piers Morgan just sit in a vacuum sealed room obnoxiously interviewing each other until all of their carbon dioxide replaces the oxygen?

[@dicksonfranssen]

a very small room, no cameras.

[@ervinghenderson4780]

Mike Tyson's interview in Toronto didn't make the list? Wow.

[@dicksonfranssen]

or Rob Ford getting plenty of p****y at home. I wonder if his wife was watching TV that day with the kids. Look, dad's on TV!

[@A.G.P.115]

You can do a whole new list with just Mike Tyson 😅

[@dicksonfranssen]

@@A.G.P.115 I'm old enough to remember his interview with Barbra Walter and Robin Givens, she was a gold digger. Maybe without her and Don King people would respect him more, he got a raw deal.

[@JakuraithePrimalWarrior]

How the hell do people still believe in Trump? That dude was in jail for heaven’s sake.

[@samuelgalea7679]

Honestly Cara was way too patient with those interviewers 🤷‍♂️

[@genkigirl4859]

Uh oh bits of an actual video snuck it’s way into the ads

[@w1ndgeneral226]

19:27 He never could handle any criticism.

[@A.G.P.115]

Indeed, if he can't order you around then he just walks away.😂

[@tina3270]

I have never been on the news

[@A.G.P.115]

So far, so good!

[@MasterOfViewership]

Piers Morgan always has to be right and have the last word.

[@iWillHumbleYou]

Piers Morgan would disagree, before promptly leaving the room 😅

[@sammccormick9109]

He was right about Markle though

[@garethc78]

Ironically it turned out he was on the money. I agreed from the start and thought they were classless grifters out for anything and everything they could get, my wife was more sympathetic and felt sorry for them …… initially. Now one whiney as fuck book and a bazillion TV spots, Netflix voice overs etc she sees it my way. Piers is an arrogant tool at times but he called it first on UK TV.

[@MasterOfViewership]

I will agree he was indeed correct about markle, but sometimes, people just need to accept that they're wrong. Even god apparently makes mistakes@@sammccormick9109

[@A.G.P.115]

​@@garethc78he was right that she didn't suffer mental health problems?

[@AnimalsCryToo]

❤❤❤

[@yarmuhammadswati3565]

❤❤❤❤

[@beccawiley6684]

Piers Morgan and Tucker Carlson are two of the most irritating people on earth

[@beccawiley6684]

Next to Trump, of course, for whom "irritating" isn't a strong enough word.

[@andyroid5028]

*_You forgot to mention 'Becca Wiley'._*

[@beccawiley6684]

@@andyroid5028 Thanks for the reminder!😆

[@shyamkrishnasancheti7898]

I'm not a Trump supporter but to the quest the answer from Trump was right... as the pandemic indeed began from their... she took it offensive because she was wanting for that and not focus on the fact that why he said that

[@micahnewby7964]

12:50 wait, was the word "community" censored?!

[@CCdion23]

“Why are you Gaiiiiiiiiyyyyy?”