In October 2016, Jesse was criticized for a segment of Watters’ World that he filmed in New York City’s Chinatown. He said in a message on Twitter: ”My man-on-the-street interviews are meant to be taken as tongue-in-cheek and I regret if anyone found offense.” He became the host of a weekly Watters’ World show in January 2017. 526.7k Followers, 600 Following, 377 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Jesse Watters (@jessewatters).
On Saturday's Fox News' Watters World, host Jesse Watters promoted the Trump-loving conspiracy group known as QAnon after Twitter banned 7,000 of their conspiracy laden off-the-wall accounts.
Watters' segment feeds the lie and faux conspiracy that conservatives are being censored by social media companies.
QAnon is so dangerous that in 2019, the FBI deemed them a terrorist group focused around the violence that can come out of their fringe right-wing extremist beliefs.
But since these very dangerous extremists support Donald Trump, Fox News hosts like Watters can't help but promote and elevate them to a prominent position within the Republican party.
While talking to Eric Trump and discussing Twitter banning these despicable people, Watters went there.
'I guess this conspiracy deal on the internet, Twitter just basically cracked down,' he said. 'Do you think this is an attempt to kind of interfere in an election because you know, Q can do some crazy stuff with the pizza stuff and the Wayfair stuff but they also uncovered a lot of great stuff when it comes to Epstein and the deep state.”
Yeah because the stuff in Q's case is murder, and shootings, and violent threats. All are acceptable if you support Trump.
Q uncovered nothing. Reporters for several news organizations uncovered the Epstein story and exposed him for the child molester he was. The 'deep state' is a construct which has no meaning beyond their crazed imaginations and fever dreams.
'“I never saw Q as dangerous as Antifa, but Antifa gets to run wild on the internet, what do you think is going on there?” he wondered.
Eric Trump, the idiot son, equated the violent and conspiratorial actions perpetrated by QAnon members with Congressional actions taken by Represenatives Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and Eric Swalwell.
As the Daily Beast explains:
Jesse Watters is promoting violence every time he mentions QAnon, but he can't help himself because he's apparently incapable of understanding the danger and deep harm these people are doing to the country.
Karoli Kuns contributed to this article
Donna Brazile, guest co-hosting on The Five, fired back at Jesse Watters for his long, disjointed rant about the injustice of Twitter actively flagging two of Trump’s tweets for false claims, viciously mocking Watters’ “whining” and saying “Jesus Christ, Jesse, I wish I could send you some tissues.”
The former DNC chairwoman unleashed a fiery rebuttal aimed not only at Watters but the rest of The Five panel over Trump’s lies about mail-in and absentee voting as well as his ugly conspiracy theory posts about MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.
As the panel brought up Twitter’s unprecedented move on Tuesday to flag two of Trump’s tweets for false claims about California mail-in ballots, Watters ripped into the decision.
“What about pencil-neck?” Watters complained, lapsing into Fox News-speak about House Intelligence Chair Rep. Adam Schiff. “He’s been lying about closure for three years. I would put a fact-check behind any of those tweets. I know why they chose this. It is the only way they are going to beat Trump, ballot harvesting.”
Watters’ ominous use of the term “ballot harvesting” belies the the infinitesimal low rate of mail voting fraud, which one study found occurred at a rate of one per 15 million eligible voters. Five states currently vote entirely by mail, and 30 more offer no-excuse absentee voting by mail. Whats’ more, a recent Reuters poll found that more than seven in 10 Americans — including 79% of Democrats and 65% of Republicans — want the option for voting by mail in November amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
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“It’s not even a fact-check,” Watters claimed, before suggesting Twitter was part of vast left-wing plot to hurt Trump’s reelection chances. “It is spin. I have sheets of paper here of reports that I found on Twitter that say that there’s a lot of abuse with mail ballots. It’s from the New York Times, AP, CBS. These aren’t fact-checkers. It’s like the Democrat State of the Union rebuttal and they don’t understand how weak it makes the left look. Because Biden can’t take them out. The media can’t take them out. Now they are asking Big Tech for help? You guys can’t do this on your own? Why can’t Biden retweet Trump and say this or that? That’s his job. Then you find out that the guy in charge of enforcing the rules on Twitter is some left-wing hack that called the Trump folks Nazis. The whole thing is so cooked up. It’s almost helping the president because it makes him, again, look like he’s not everybody against him. Twitter, the FBI, the mainstream media. He’s going to shove it right back in their face in November.”
Co-host Katie Pavlich then threw to Brazile for comment and she let loose on Watters.
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“I’m so sick and tired of hearing all the whining, all the whining, all this whining,” Brazile said, mocking Watters. “Jesus Christ, Jesse, I wish I could send you some tissues but I’d have to be six feet from you and therefore I’d have to throw it at you.”
“I’m not whining!” Watters quickly insisted, before deploying the I’m-rubber-you’re-glue argument. “You’re the one who’s whining! You guys are the ones that complain to the refs….”
The segment then descended into several seconds of barely intelligible arguing as Watters continued to try to interrupt and talk over Brazile during her time — and she refused to yield.
“You’re talking over me because you’re talking nonsense,” Brazile shot back, finally quieting down her co-host. “These conspiracy theories. The information, the president’s tweets should have been deleted. I would have deleted the president’s tweets. You know why? It’s a bald-faced lie. It’s Republicans who use absentee ballots to get out their vote. That’s traditionally been the way that Republicans have always motivated their voters: ‘Go ahead and vote early.'”
“I think the social media platform company should regulate themselves and they should make sure that these conspiracy theories, the one the president put out about Joe Scarborough, it should be deleted,” Brazile added. “The lies need to stop. There is no First Amendment right to lie. Period.”
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Co-hosts Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld did not try to defend Trump’s ugly conspiracy theory attacks on Scarborough, but did break in to note that it is not illegal to lie. Brazile then made the point that just because something is not against the law does not mean it is an affirmatively-protected constitutional right.
“There’s no First Amendment right to lie. There is no First Amendment right to lie,” she repeated. “You just go ahead and lie, but if they want to delete or put a fact-check on…” but before she could finish she was swallowed up in more interruptions.
“If you couldn’t lie, you’d have no politics!” then snarked Gutfeld, as the segment wrapped up.
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