Apr 19, 2017
Amid a sexual harassment scandal, 21st Century Fox has announced it's parting ways with the host of cable-news behemoth The O'Reilly Factor. Tucker Carlson will take O'Reilly's old time slot.
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Amid a sexual harassment scandal, 21st Century Fox has announced it's parting ways with the host of cable-news behemoth The O'Reilly Factor. Tucker Carlson will take O'Reilly's old time slot.
RIP The O'Reilly Factor, 1996-2017
Watters’ World: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Edition: Fox News’s Jesse Watters asks musicians at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony why they think so many pop stars are liberal and country music stars conservative.
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Jesse Watters: It seems like country music’s a lot more conservative but a lot of the pop rock is more liberal. Do you understand why that is? St. Vincent: Well I think it’s about the military-industrial complex. […] I want the best for humankind. That’s where I stand. JW: So do I. I’m a big pro humankind person. […] Are you a big O'Reilly Factor fan? SV: I’ve never seen his show. JW: Shocking. SV: This is gonna be a disaster, isn’t it? JW: Not for you.
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My kink: when you're watching Jon on Fox News and can hear people off camera laughing at what he says when he's destroying Bill O'Reilly
Madeline Peltz at MMFA:
Fox News has settled on Jesse Watters as the permanent host of its 7 p.m. hour, a year after The Story with Martha MacCallum was moved to an earlier time and replaced by a rotating series of hosts. Watters has a long history at the network. Starting out as a production assistant and then quickly making his on-screen debut as a correspondent on The O’Reilly Factor, Watters has repeatedly been at the center of controversy, taking heat for his frat boy brand of racism, extreme insensitivity, and sexist on-air gaffes.
In the pandemic era, Watters’ commentary on COVID-19 has been filled with dangerous lies. Recently, he fantasized about “ambush[ing]” Dr. Anthony Fauci with a gotcha question while speaking to an audience of young right-wing activists at a Turning Point USA event. He told them “all you need” is “30 seconds” of a viral video to “go in for the kill shot” to embarrass the public health official. Watters’ remarks came hours after a member of that same audience asked far-right media personality and Trump affiliate Sebastian Gorka when it would be time to overthrow the government.
As a co-host of the 5 p.m. show The Five, Watters attacked “this generation” for taking COVID-19 precautions seriously, claimed Biden is letting in “COVID caravans,” compared vaccine and testing requirements to the forced sterilization of disabled women, called for the southern border to be closed as a means to mitigate the delta variant, promoted the use of bogus COVID-19 cure hydroxychloroquine, said teachers “have to act scared” during a pandemic because “that’s how they get paid,” and declared that Democrats want a “permanent pandemic.”
Jesse Watters, one of the many rotating hosts under the Fox News Primetime banner, will take over the 7PM ET/6PM CT slot on a permanent basis under the name Jesse Watters Primetime, beginning January 24th. His Saturday night Watters' World show will end, and he will continue his co-hosting duties on The Five.