Welp, apparently, Fox News has replaced Tucker Carlson with Tucker Carlson’s beta backup and fans of the white nationalist OnlyKlans network have a new white man to deliver them their daily dose of diluted hate speech from the pulpit of white grievances.

Meet Jesse Watters (because I assume you’re like me and had no idea who he was until now):

According to a Media Matters news release, Waters is “the new face of Fox News” and “a reflection of Fox’s dogged commitment to bigotry and deceit as well as an indication of their desperation to regain audience share.”

But, that’s likely just one editor’s opinion, right? Certainly, we can decide for ourselves based on the man’s own rhetoric whether he’s a reasonable conservative (some might call that an oxymoron—it’s me, I’m “some”) or a xenophobic blowhard with a passionate “America first” mentality and a tendency to say, “Americans” when he really just means “white people.”)

Watters: This is a guy whose father has roots in Africa. This is a guy who spent a lot of his childhood in southeast Asia. Spent a lot of time in Hawaii. Was that the last state to get a star on the flag? He’s never really looking at things from an American perspective. pic.twitter.com/OqjtVFQyaN

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 26, 2023

During Monday’s episode of Fox News’s The Five, Watters and the other four stooges of critical Caucasian commentary were discussing former President Barack Obama‘s remarks on the media coverage received by the submersible that imploded on its way to the Titanic wreck, and that of the migrant boat shipwreck in the Mediterranean, which received far less media attention despite the fact that it left hundreds of people missing.

This is a disparity that has also been discussed all over Black Twitter and by plenty of Black and/or left-leaning news sites. But, according to Watters, none of those people count because they’re simply not espousing an “American perspective.”

“When you are a citizen of the world, you always think about the world instead of the United States,” Watters said because only in the right-wing world of loud and white jingoism is “thinking about the world” a negative thing.

“Remember, this is a guy whose father has roots in Africa,” Carlson the D-movie sequel continued. “This is a guy who spent a lot of his childhood in Southeast Asia…and then spent a lot of time in Hawaii. Was that the last state to get a star on the flag? He’s never really looking at things from an American perspective.”

So, just to recap: Obama’s belief that the lives of hundreds of migrants should receive comparable news coverage to that of a handful of ultra-rich people represents an un-American perspective because his father (who did not raise him) is an African, he spent a lot of time outside of America, and then he spent a lot of time in a part of America that Watters, apparently, doesn’t think is American enough. (Maybe it’s because Hawaii was “the last state to get a star on the flag,” or maybe it’s because there are not enough white people there. I’ll let you decide.)

A quick and simple Google search would have informed Watters that Obama was addressing something that has been discussed for at least a week by Black Americans, people all over social media (many of whom are likely American), and various American news and blog sites.

Two tragic stories involving sea-craft in the news in June

On the 14th, a ship carrying ~750 migrants sank off the Greek coast. ~500 people remaining missing; 84 confirmed deaths

On the 18th, a submersible carrying 5 Brits went missing.

Here’s how the UK press covered both pic.twitter.com/xk3IqiwH9V

— Struwwelcurt (@CurtExplores) June 21, 2023

5 billionaires went missing at sea, and the whole world provided its finest navy gadgets to go look for them, meanwhile, the migrant ship sank in the Mediterranean Ocean but the media won’t even report it. Such an unfair world! #submarine #Submersible pic.twitter.com/3LZxO9JG3y

— R. Campbells (@campbells_r) June 27, 2023

The saga of a lost submersible grabbed moment-to-moment attention. But a far bigger disaster just days earlier – the wrecking of a migrant ship off Greece — did not. AP talked with experts about why our reactions to tragedy vary. https://t.co/jvSUlzlXyX

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 24, 2023

A tale of two disasters:

Many critics say they’re frustrated the sunken migrant ship has garnered far less attention and resources than the #Titanic submersible rescue efforts for 5 people. pic.twitter.com/uUJdP7KAOT

— Worldupdates ( Breaking ) (@itswpceo) June 22, 2023

While we await word on the fate of those 5 people who appear to be stranded in a submersible at the bottom of the sea, some are noticing that little attention has been paid to a migrant ship that sank off the coast of Greece, leaving at least 78 dead. pic.twitter.com/AzM00kI8Uj

— Deborah Roberts (@DebRobertsABC) June 22, 2023

Crazy how hyper-focused we all are on the submersible but not the ship that sank in the Greek waters while transporting 700 migrants.

This crazy world.

— Joy (FREE, OWN) (@Missenjil) June 23, 2023

So, basically, we have confirmed that Watters is Tucker Carlson’s Walmart variant and, when it comes to Fox News, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

By the way, Watters’ remarks got him dragged by people all over Twitter, many of whom were, again, likely American.

They don’t even try to hide the bigotry.

— David Dunn (@marine9678) June 26, 2023

Jesse Watters (Carlson’s replacement) had much to say about Obama’s leadership, but here’s the thing! Considering the statement below, how do you explain Trump’s lineage and his non-American wives? pic.twitter.com/HZ7EMbHJC3

— 𝑼𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒂𝒘! (@AriesaSandino) June 27, 2023

Jesse Watters gets irritated about being called out for his callous lack of concern for the hundreds of Greek migrants that capsized, so he goes on a bizarre rant to justify why he DGAF.

I’m always impressed by the way every mediocre white guy thinks he’s smarter than Obama. https://t.co/PD8gaU2Jdf

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) June 26, 2023

Jesse Watters Says Obama Too African To Understand Which Ocean Disasters Real Americans Care Abouthttps://t.co/rL1icRmVqe by @EvanHurst

— Wonkette (@Wonkette) June 27, 2023

This A$$ is an example of what is wrong with so many in this country…they have no idea there is more to the WORLD then just the U.S.

Cable NEWS used to cover WORLD NEWS!

Jesse Watters Throws Abhorrent Accusations at Obama Over Titanic Sub#ProudBlue https://t.co/4yq7Ity55s

— Ella Lee – 🪻 (@EllaLeeUK) June 27, 2023

OMG! The hate and racism is so deep

— janis fulks (@janisfulks) June 27, 2023

Read “Jesse Watters Says Obama Too African To Understand Which Ocean Disasters Real Americans Care About”

Another republican unresearched rant who needs a geography class giving his baseless point of view. This guy is going to cost fox another billion law suit. Ass hat

— SL Purvis (@Saintdog2035) June 27, 2023

It’s no surprise that Obama was possibly the first American Watters had heard discuss a thing that had been widely discussed by Americans prior. White conservatives (and their POC puppets) virtually always assume they’re on the side of popular opinion and that they are the only real Americans. It isn’t new, and it certainly isn’t news.

But then, neither is Fox “News.”

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