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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: corbe on April 27, 2017, 04:30:51 pm
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Another Fox News Host To “Vacation” After On-Air Comments About Ivanka Trump
Posted at 10:30 am on April 27, 2017 by Susan Wright
What were you thinking?
With so much upheaval over at Fox News, regarding the misogynistic attitudes of their male personalities – issues that have resulted in millions being paid out in lawsuits and the exit of longtime Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, and top-rated personality, Bill O’Reilly – you would think those left would want to keep their heads down and avoid even the appearance of impropriety.
Apparently, Jesse Watters either missed the memo, or he just wants to move on to life after Fox.
This week kicked off the new lineup over at Fox, with the adjustments made after O’Reilly’s departure.
Watters was just three days into his new primetime slot with “The Five,” when he completely stepped in it.
What he was thinking… who knows?
Watters is probably best known for his “Watters’ World” segments on the now-defunct “The O’Reilly Factor.”
He’s supposed to be the funny guy, but this wasn’t funny, as much as it was just dumb, on his part.
During a segment on Tuesday night, Watters remarked on the way that President Trump’s daughter held a microphone while she discussed women’s rights at a panel in Germany.
“It’s funny. The left says they really respect women and then when given an opportunity to respect a woman like that they boo and hiss … so I don’t really get what’s going on here, but I really liked how she was speaking into that microphone,” Watters said.
Watters gestured with his hand toward his mouth as he made the remark and then grinned at his co-hosts.
I’m groaning just reading it.
For those that aren’t getting it, the suggestion was some juvenile attempt to equate the mic with a phallic symbol. Just go from there.
Still, Watters insisted on Wednesday that people misunderstood his intent.
“During the break, we were commenting on Ivanka’s voice and how it was low and steady and resonates like a smooth jazz radio DJ,” he said. “This was in no way a joke about anything else.”
So, saying something along the lines of, “She’s got a smooth, jazz radio DJ thing going with her voice. I like it” was out of the question?
It’s possible that Watters is telling the truth and he simply chose the most questionable verbiage imaginable, given the very recent happenings with Fox News, but if he’s that devoid of caution and commonsense, he may need a bit of time away from the spotlight.
It seems like he knows it, too.
Thursday morning, Watters announced he’s going on “vacation.”
That’s right. “The Five” couldn’t get a full week of programming in without losing somebody.
Said Watters in a statement:
“I’m going to be taking a vacation with my family, so I’m not going to be here tomorrow,” Watters said during his show, according to reports. “I’ll be back on Monday, so don’t miss me too much.”
So for the remainder of the week, as well as the weekend program, he’ll be off the Fox grid.
I can’t help but recall that before the axe fell for Bill O’Reilly, he took a “vacation,” too.
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http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/04/27/another-fox-news-host-vacation-air-comments-ivanka-trump/ (http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/04/27/another-fox-news-host-vacation-air-comments-ivanka-trump/)
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Why should she be protected from this? Is she a minor? She's an adult with an office in the White House and staff and she is an advisor to the President.
She is not above ridicule or criticism any more than Michelle Obama is or was.
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We've come a long way from the days a DJ could get bounced for saying "Booger," like Johnny Fever.
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I once told a young 20 something girl, who always wore the tightest jeans I've ever seen, that she had a smoking hot body and that I wanted to rub oil all over every part of it.
Sure enough, she got 'offended' by my innocent, honest complement. I learned something that day, which I still abide by. If you're ever going to complement how smoking hot a woman is, don't do it while you have an erection. Words to live by man. Words to live by.
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I once told a young 20 something girl, who always wore the tightest jeans I've ever seen, that she had a smoking hot body and that I wanted to rub oil all over every part of it.
Sure enough, she got 'offended' by my innocent, honest complement. I learned something that day, which I still abide by. If you're ever going to complement how smoking hot a woman is, don't do it while you have an erection. Words to live by man. Words to live by.
So true. Also along those lines if you see a man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher’s knife and a hard-on, you got to figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross.
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A knife? I didn't have a knife. It may have seemed that way, it wasn't a knife.
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Unless or until I see the video, I'm not going to condemn Watters for something he may or may not have implied. Especially since the rabid left is in 24/7 destruct mode re: Fox and anyone working for Fox.
Good grief.... this walking on verbal PC eggshells is getting really tiresome. Of course, it's only being inflicted on one side. The left can (and does) get away with saying any damned thing they please .... any damned time they please.