Jesse Watters made a sexist comment about Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, prompting pushback from two female co-hosts on Fox News.
The “Five” panel was discussing the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Monday was the third anniversary of the Kabul airport suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members.
Harris has described herself as being the last person in the room before Biden made the decision to proceed with the plans for the withdrawal, which began during Donald Trump’s administration. Trump, Watters and other conservatives have highlighted Harris’ claim to attack her.
“What is her foreign policy?” Watters asked. “This is where the president has his most impact. You have a lot of room to maneuver there as commander in chief.”
“We don’t know who she is. We don’t know what she believes. She’s gonna get paralyzed in the Situation Room while the generals have their way with her,” he added.
“Jesse Watters,” co-host Dana Perino interrupted.
“Whoa, Jesse, I don’t like that,” added Jeanine Pirro, as several panelists chuckled. “Take it back.”
Watters insisted he meant it “figuratively.”
“Have their way with her, control her! Not in a sexual way,” he said.
Reached for comment on the inappropriate attack on Harris, a Fox News spokesperson pointed to that follow-up comment.
Watters has a history of making sexist, misogynistic or otherwise offensive remarks and passing them off as jokes.
Commenters on social media were disgusted by his Harris comment.
“This is just straight-up misogyny. There’s no basis for these attacks other than she’s a woman & thus not cut out for this,” one critic wrote.
“Your ‘rape joke’ about Kamala Harris was absolutely intentional and sexual in nature. And you are truly one of the most vile and disgusting people on television. Any other network would fire you for this shit,” said another.
Kerstin Emhoff, the ex-wife of second gentleman Doug Emhoff, chimed in on social media to defend Harris.
She shared another clip from the show in which Watters joked that his mom, a liberal, would probably call his “joke about Kamala Harris being manhandled by generals in the Situation Room” disgusting.
“There are many things to worry about, but Kamala being manhandled in the situation room is not one of them,” Emhoff wrote.
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