Jesse Watters should have criminal charges filed against him....

[turbinetree]

‘The guy should be fired on the spot’: Dr. Fauci fires back at assassination threat from Fox News host

BY Bob Brigham
Published December 21, 2021

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America's top infectious disease expert on Tuesday said that Fox News should have already fired host Jesse Watters for shocking comments

CNN's John Berman interviewed Dr. Tony Fauci ahead of President Joe Biden's address to the nation on the Omicron variant.

"On the subject of divisiveness — and I'm not going to play it because, frankly, I think it's dangerous," Berman said. "But Jesse Watters, who is a Fox News entertainer, was giving a speech to a conservative group where he talked about you, suggesting to the crowd they ambush you with what he said was some kind of rhetorical 'kill shot.' That was his exact word."

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Dr. Fauci, you have the means to put this Jesse Waters in a lot of hot water and I honestly believe to put a stop to this, people like him will continue to do this, he is serious, and to put a stop to this is for you to file charges against this Watters character.....make him pay in attorney fees, court costs, serving papers ,and everything else that will cost him money....he and others need to be shown that this stuff will not be tolerated.....
He is advocating that someone kill you, that is against the law, that means he is a accomplice, he cannot go around and advocate that someone should kill another person....like you, that is malice with intent, or anyone in your family...he is advocating for your murder that is a crime......

[2naSalit]

4. +1

[Brainfodder]

5. Citizens arrest time for a whole lot feels past due?

Just happen to have a zip tie or 3 on them JUST IN CASE?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

13. Employed by government as director and long time of an official government agency?

He is a public official.

Just he don’t wear a hat like the Surgeon General.

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NIAID Director

[Brainfodder]

2. Love to see Fools News sued out of existence or aka. new ownership?

Fake freedom to spread lies needs reckoning?

At this point I'd love them run over with a steamroller level angry?

Assannity and Fucker Loonygrin need beat to death with baseball bats starting at the groin for their executions to be about square with the American people?

[lambchopp59]

35. Emphatically second, third and head exploding fourth that emotion

Albeit I hadn't time, opportunity nor (forgive this, circumstancial) interest in visiting with my alzheimer's-addled father in over a decade prior to reporting home (losing the best job gig I ever had to do this, BTW...) to legally force him into a nursing home to stop physically abusing my mom.
If that wasn't bad enough alone, turns out he'd gotten addicted to the hate-feed of Fox Fucking Noise. He was brainwashed to the point there was nothing left there but anger, hatred for everyone but his greatest-generation ilk, and spit nothing but Fox Noise talking points to his grave. He'd pulled a gun on his caregiver. (the final straw that brought the whole family to intervention after they couldn't keep home caregivers employed) (gee, I wonder why).
His hero at the time was that greasy fat fuck O'really, he threw absolute wild tantrums if anyone interrupted his praise of that hero even for important matters. All his children were the "takers" milking off what he had "maker'd". (oh the irony does not end there)
Wanna see Fool's Nwz brought down?
When there's class action lawsuits that I've been fishing for, I'll be one of the first to sign up.
I'm a pandemic health care worker to boot. Fucker LoonyCheshireCatDumbfoundedFaceSpoiledDipshitGrinningAllTheWayToTheBank needs to be personally named as a mass murderer.

[Shellback Squid]

3. this clown needs to lose his job

[spanone]

6. Isn't incitement to murder a crime?

[Slammer]

18. Why, yes

Yes, yes it is.

And when it happens publicly, you aren't supposed to have to wait for the target to complain before the authorities do something about it.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. How has that azz not been arrested yet?!

[greenjar_01]

8. Fauci really gives us a picture into a previous America

We've lost it, perhaps utterly.

[George II]

10. He threatened an employee of the Federal Government. The FBI should be knocking at his door.

[johnthewoodworker]

11. There ain't no Fox Nazi ever suffering from there criminality.

[Midnight Writer]

12. Jesse Waters should be ambushed by people everywhere he goes. He'll never see the kill shot coming.

I guess this is OK to publicly say these days.

[Moostache]

23. I agree....he should get EXACTLY what he was saying.

A world without Jesse Waters wasting oxygen would be an immediate improvement...but I really do hope that he receives that kill shot he preaches as soon as possible. Won't shed a single tear for him, ever.

[Jon King]

15. Sorry, the context of the comments were not criminal in any way.

No use looking for stuff that is not there, Repugs have done plenty of truly criminal things.

The comments were that people should go up to Fauci in public, film it while asking him why he funded Wuhan labs. Waters said that asking him that question on film would be a kill shot.

Obviously he meant Fauci would not have an answer and they could air that on Fox News. It had nothing to do with asking people to shoot Fauci.

[tblue37]

16. He *knows* some of his fans will take it as a literal suggestion, not a metaphor.

This is stochastic terrorism.

[Slammer]

20. +1 n/t

[Moostache]

26. What is worse?

1) IGNORING the obvious dog whistles and threats?

2) PRETENDING that Waters really meant metaphorical innuendos to his mouth-breathing audience of reactionary brainwashed jackasses?

I find both approaches dangerously naïve. Here in East Kansas, a confrontation in a parking lot over inconvenience led to a murder that was swept aside as a nothing-can-be-done, 100% innocent "stand-your-ground" self-defense. The shooter walked, his victim died. Why do I bring that up? Because stand your ground IS the mentality of these right-wing freaks - the exact same freaks who tune in to Jesse Waters and look for dog whistles.

If they start threatening you and your family in the same way, will you still be so cavalier about the context and suggestions? I am guessing no, but maybe I am wrong?

[madville]

27. Yeah, doubtful many will actually watch the event video

Watching Watter’s remarks, they’re obviously not criminal, certainly in bad taste though.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Jesse Waters is a low life piece of pond scum

Link to tweet

[Stuart G]

19. Watters will be fired by Fox News, as soon as a boss decides to do so..

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Sometimes this takes some time. Watters will never get a job again for this speech.
That is my opinion, and I am sticking to it.

The words, "Kill Shot" have double meaning. Watters did not make a distinction about the definition.
...Something about photography...or something about shooting someone.

..........Not everyone knows about the..." photography angle"

..........Most people know about the "shooting someone angle"

Watters used the wrong language, and set himself up to be fired. Weather Fox News does that is
a totally different story.................Time will tell............After all, We are talking about Fox News..!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. Your tweet link gets the name wrong. Watters, not Waters. Tweet above it gets it right. . . . nt

[Poiuyt]

21. Can Fauci sue Watters over this comment?

[madville]

24. Not successfully

In the entire context, Watters said people should video themselves “ambushing” Dr. Fauci with questions about funding the Wuhan lab, and that question is a “kill shot” because he can’t answer it and he’s “dead” right there.

They’ll simply say it was rhetorical.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. People will say "not successfully" until a high profile person is charged and convicted.

Then there will be an effect that will reduce these vile incitements.

[Poiuyt]

36. Thank you

[SheltieLover]

22. Absofuckingloutely!

[UTUSN]

25. K&R. "Terroristic Threats". Sticking the word "rhetorically" in there would probably get him off.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. His advertisers should be boycotted & told so. He should be fired and charged, as you say. . . .nt

[maxsolomon]

32. I said this in the duplicate thread on this topic: IT WAS A METAPHOR.

Watters is incapable of creating a metaphor that doesn't involve Guns and homicidal violence. Like most Conservatives; see the Sarah Palin "target" mailer.

Watters was laying out the "zinger" question he's got lined up for Dr. Fauci, as if the dumb Wuhan Lab Covid Conspiracy theory is something he isn't prepared to discuss and will have to just admit it's true, because Watters is such a genius journalist, and not an interchangeable Propaganda Clown.

This misinterpretation makes DU look hysterical. Stop kneejerking and watch the clip.

[IronLionZion]

33. Rand Paul asked him about this in Senate hearings

with Fauci angrily telling him he doesn't know what he's talking about. It's not the brilliant gotcha that Jesse Waters thinks it is. But just red meat for the base.

[maxsolomon]

34. You'd hope Fauci knows what he's talking about now.

I do. It is a common RW CT that needs to be refuted and mocked. The RW Nut Job Coalition in Congress and the RW Media are pimping it daily.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

37. It was a disgusting metaphor, carefully chosen to allow semi-plausible deniability.

I suppose you think Palin's targets on Democratic candidates was just a metaphor too?

I don't think we need apologists shoring up these cretins' semi-plausible deniability.

[maxsolomon]

38. I do think they were a metaphor.

Since that's what they literally were. Palin was "targeting" Dems for defeat in an election in that flier. Watters was comparing his Wuhan Lab question to a "kill shot" and and "ambush".

Are they irresponsible metaphors that could inspire a RW Nut Job to an assassination? Doubtful, but not impossible.

I resent your accusation. I've been here 20 years and that's a 1st.

[Red Mountain]

40. Who will rid me of this troublesome

doctor?