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Because it was apparently a day ending in a Y, on Monday evening, Fox News host Jesse Watters made a remark during his panel show The Five that many people find to be offensive and condescending. As Watters and his fellow co-hosts Greg Gutfeld and Juan Williams argued over President Trump’s proposed border security and immigration plan, Williams made the point that Trump wants to put a leash on all immigration.
“I think his strategy is, I’m gonna go after immigrants,” Williams started, to which the former O’Reilly Factor lackey interrupted and attempted to clarify: “Illegal immigrants.”
“No no, he wants to cut legal immigration, don’t forget that,” Williams continued.
“He wants merit-based, smugly countered Watters. “That would cut legal immigration by bringing in the best and brightest. So we don’t bring in some guy’s uncle from Zimbabwe,” he continued, as Williams could barely contain his visible disgust.
If it were Watters’ intention to cause outrage, then mission accomplished because dozens took to Twitter to call him out for not-so-subtle racism. Even former talk show host Montel Williams had some words for Watters.
https://twitter.com/Montel_Williams/status/1024112559358656513
'Some Guy's Uncle from Zimbabwe' likely contributes more to America than Jesse Watters does. https://t.co/XvgrfCxIKx
— Harold Pollack (@haroldpollack) July 31, 2018
Ask him to point to Zimbabwe on a map https://t.co/PNfgW3h9nR
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) July 31, 2018
https://twitter.com/HashtagGriswold/status/1024110333085007877
Casual racism on Fox News https://t.co/OCVbZtGvKA
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 31, 2018
https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1024098290252566528
Say that again? The first time was to subtle. https://t.co/YjhOT3nxoE
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 31, 2018
Jesse Watters: Always the guy who traffics in what he thinks is humor but is obviously racism. https://t.co/jUhP9dJCOi
— Chris “Law Dork” Geidner (@chrisgeidner) July 31, 2018
Wow!!!!
These muthafuckas are hateful racist pieces of shit.
— the Old Man Ebro (@oldmanebro) July 31, 2018
https://twitter.com/DavidRutz/status/1024113430683418624
A class act, as always. Not that we should be even remotely surprised by the guy who once denied the existence of a Trump pee-pee tape by saying, “If someone pees in the bed, where are you gonna sleep?”
(Via Mediaite)