Jesse Watters Injects Misogyny Into Debate Analysis -- Because Of Course He Does
Fox News host thrusts sex and gender norms into discussion of JD Vance
Jesse Watters apparently can’t help himself when it comes to eruptions of misogyny on the air.
The Fox News host who got himself in hot water this summer when he said that generals in the White House Situation Room would “have their way with” Kamala Harris if she were to be elected president, is at it again.
This time, his misogynistic remarks came as he was praising Republican Sen JD Vance’s performance during Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate.
A reliable right-wing ideologue and propagandanist, Watters predictably was declaring that Donald Trump’s running mate had bested Democrat Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick, Minnesota Gov Tim Walz.
He particularly made a point that Vance had come off as more civil and polished, after weeks of comments surfacing in which the junior senator from Ohio trashed women without children and lied about Haitian migrants in Springfield Ohio.
“We were told that this guy was a sketch ball. And then many Americans, especially women, saw J.D. Vance last night and they thought, ‘This seems like the kind of guy you can bring home to your parents,’” Watters said on-camera Wednesday. “He is smooth, he is polished, he is reasonable, he is civil, he is smart, he is humble. Everything that they said about him was completely the opposite. So, he had a great night.”
Watters could have made a cogent case for Vance’s success — as other commentators have done likewise on other cable networks and elsewhere — without alluding to the senator as a potentially good romantic partner.
Watters could even have made a case that more women would find Vance more palatable politically, without implying that women look at men — any man — predominantly or exclusively through a romantic-attraction lens.
But, of course, that would have meant looking at women as actual thinking, rational human beings.
Which seems beyond what Jesse Watters can muster.
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