Democrat nominee Kamala Harris may not have unveiled many of her policies yet but her supporters are more than making up for it with manufactured outrage and it’s being directed at Fox News commentator Jesse Watters.
During Monday’s edition of “The Five,” Watters and his co-hosts were discussing the grim anniversary of the 2021 suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that claimed the lives of thirteen U.S. military members, a consequence of the disastrous Biden-Harris withdrawal from Afghanistan, when he remarked about her dismal foreign policy record.
“We don’t know who she is. We don’t know what she believes,” Watters remarked about Harris’ incompetence. “She’s going to get paralyzed in the Situation Room while the generals have their way with her.”
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It was construed to be that Watters had suggested that Harris would be gang-raped, sparking a social media swarming by leftists that wasn’t helped by his female colleagues on the show who also jumped to conclusions that his comment was sexual in nature.
Seeking to douse the faux outrage firestorm, Watters addressed the “controversy” on Tuesday’s edition of the popular Fox News show.
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“There’s been some attention to comments I made on the show yesterday about VP Harris. People are misconstruing my comments to mean something inappropriate,” Watters said, clarifying what he meant. “I wasn’t suggesting anything of a sexual nature. I was expressing my opinion that Vice President Harris’s current leadership style could be an issue if elected.”
The social media provocateurs were stirring the pot by distorting Watters’ remarks into something that would have been grossly inappropriate if that’s what he really meant.
WTF?!?! Jesse Watters just said that Kamala Harris is “going to get paralyzed in the situation room while the generals have their way with her.” What the hell? Turn off Fox News if you haven’t already. Total garbage. pic.twitter.com/CVsqfrmLXh
— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) August 26, 2024
Jesse Waters should be fired for this. Even the two women on this panel were appalled. What say you @FoxNews? pic.twitter.com/68zjgNf2gv
— Amy Siskind ️ (@Amy_Siskind) August 27, 2024
On Fox News, Jesse Watters says that Kamala Harris is going to get paralyzed in the White House Situation Room and that the generals are going to have their way with her.
The question is, would Watters use this sexualized language when describing a straight man?
He likely… pic.twitter.com/d1sB9l7uJV
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 26, 2024
1 in 5 women are victims of rape or attempted rape.
1 in 3 women who are raped are kids.
Jesse Watters jokes about sexual assault because Donald Trump jokes about sexual assault, and is a sexual predator.
Women are watching.
Women are voting. https://t.co/3seHePXqLC— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) August 27, 2024
“Simply put: Jesse is a provocateur who intentionally says offensive things to make others uncomfortable,” wrote former DNC boss Donna Brazile – who appeared on “The Five” during her time at Fox News. “There has been over 85 female generals in U.S. history with plenty of them still on duty. Perhaps Jesse can properly address them one day.”
“I’m sure my mother will probably go on MSNBC tonight and say, ‘My son, Jesse Watters, made a joke about Kamala Harris being manhandled by generals in the Situation Room. And he has desecrated the memory of our grandfather and it’s just disgusting,’” Watters quipped on Monday. “I can see my mom doing that.”
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