Fox News Vigorously Defends Jesse Watters After Fauci Calls for His Firing: 'Kill Shot' Remark Taken

[demmiblue]

Fox News is standing firmly behind Jesse Watters, after Dr. Anthony Fauci called for his firing on Tuesday morning.

In a statement, the network defended the co-host of The Five — arguing that the remarks Watters made at the Turning Point USA summit this past weekend regarding Fauci were wholly misinterpreted.

“Now you’re going for the kill shot. The kill shot with an ambush is deadly because he doesn’t see it coming,” Watters said. He then proposed a talking point and added, “Boom, he is dead! He is dead!”

Fox News said it reviewed the complete remarks and called it “more than clear” that Watters was speaking metaphorically when he used the words “kill shot,” and did not actually encourage violence against the infectious disease expert.

“Based on watching the full clip and reading the entire transcript, it’s more than clear that Jesse Watters was using a metaphor for asking hard-hitting questions to Dr. Fauci about gain-of-function research and his words have been twisted completely out of context,” Fox News said, in its statement.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/fox-news-vigorously-defends-jesse-watters-after-fauci-calls-for-his-firing-kill-shot-remark-taken-completely-out-of-context/

[Casady1]

1. Fox news would defend Hitler n/t

[nuxvomica]

2. Metaphors mean nothing to people who think Jesus road a dinosaur

At least Fauci's response has raised visibility so it might get through to some of the metaphor-challenged that Watter's violent rhetoric was just rhetoric, the kind that marshmallow's use when they want to sound like a tough guy. But we all know that Watter's intent was to get people riled up and he knows Fauci and his family have been receiving death threats anyway, and should something happen, he can quickly go "to the text" and claim "metaphor".

[Walleye]

4. 👆

[Walleye]

3. And all his listeners are so capable of distinguishing metaphor from reality?

Do you think these gun humpers heard the whole context. They hear kill shot. He knows that when he says it. This is crap, fire the asshole, prosecute him for threatening a public official

[EarlG]

5. It was a metaphor

It was also intentionally designed to repeatedly place the words “kill shot” and “ambush” into people’s minds when thinking about Dr. Fauci.

Watters is a communications professional. If you watch his performance on that stage he has the air of a preacher or a motivational speaker about him. He knows exactly what he’s doing when he deliberately uses that language, chooses those words, and repeats and reinforces them on stage.

Fox News knows too, and it looks like they’re going along with it. Yeah yeah, it’s a metaphor, and if someone ambushes Dr. Fauci with a kill shot, they had nothing to do with it.

[Liberal In Texas]

6. Yeah sure. And O'Reilly and his "Tiller the Baby Killer" was also just a metaphor.

And we know how that turned out.

In case you don't:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/bill-oreillys-dangerous-war-against-dr-tiller-107722/

[raccoon]

7. What a big fat lie. Nt

[Solomon]

8. "twisted out of context"?! That certainly didn't take much twisting. Not at all.

[SharonClark]

9. Liar liar pants on fire.

Can you imagine the outrage if someone on CNN or MSNBC had said something half that bad about trump? It would be like the War on Christmas/Christians on steroids.

[Hokie]

10. I can think of a few folks at Fox News who deserve to receive kill shots*

*Metaphorically speaking

[BlueBlud]

11. WAY too much invested in pretty boy to dump. But, Im sure they told him to tone it down.

They are gonna need pretty boy if Gutfeld blows up.