Fox News shitbag Jesse Watters went to last month's successfully crowdfunded Coney Island Mermaid Parade for a segment on The O'Reilly Factor that aired last night. It was really great, a true testament to the 30-year-old celebration's campy spirit of exuberant acceptance.

Hurricane Sandy put the Coney Island Mermaid Parade in grave danger. Would you like to help save the boobies tradition? Here is your chance.

O, Coney Island Mermaid Parade! You are a motley procession of tacky body paint and beautifully protruding guts and cheese-puddle fries and broken bath toys (and boobies). You are the only summer Saturday afternoon when it's even remotely tolerable to be stabbed with elbows and suffocated among a burnt-skin throng of ogling strangers, because you are so weird and wild and loud and ridiculous (and there are boobies). You have created so many memories for New Yorkers and tourists and children (and boobies). And now, you are in danger of cancelling your festivities (and your boobies).

[Participants in the 2010 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island yesterday. Each year, people dress up in crazy costumes and march as an homage to the old Coney Island Mardi Gras.] (Pic via Getty)