Fox News’ Jesse Watters didn’t let a little thing like sharing a show with an African American cohost stop him from letting his not-so-inner racist rip on the subject of immigration and Africans.
Media Matters caught the ever-smirky Watters lecturing cohost Juan Williams that Donald Trump’s immigration policy is just ducky because he wants to cut immigration by bringing in only “the best and the brightest.”
“Oh, please,” Williams said.
That’s when Watters let the racism rip. “Because we don't bring in some guy's uncle from Zimbabwe,” he sneered (and smirked).
Williams said sarcastically, ”Oh, Zimbabwe - thank you.”
“Or Thailand, Juan, take your pick,” Watters added condescendingly. Yeah, that really proves you’re not a bigot, Jesse.
“I get it, I want Norway,” Williams retorted. It was a reference, of course, to Trump’s bigoted comments in which he clearly stated a preference for immigrants from places like Norway over “shithole countries” in Africa.
But it’s not a big surprise that Jesse Watters would endorse and spew the same prejudice. He’s shown his bigoted colors for years.
The fact that Fox News has him hosting not one but two shows says as much about the network as Watters’ own racist record.
Watch it below, from the July 30, 2018 The Five, via Media Matters.
I’m sure a man like Watters drowning in his own ignorance picked Zimbawe out of his ass because it’s the first African nation the bigot could think of. However, the moron doesn’t realize – forgetting immigrants from that nation are overwhelmingly black – are the exact type of immigrants Trump says he wants. Zimbawe has tremendous economic problems as a result of their policies of confiscating the lands of white farmers which feeds a well educated population’s drive to emigrate overseas. Nearly 1 in 10 Zimbaweans have a college degree with over 1 in 5 studying overseas (10 times the African average).
Of course this whole Trump spew about “best and the brightest” is a case of be careful what you ask for deplorables. Because it’s the cry of wealthy business owners like him looking for cheap skilled labor – and there’s nobody cheaper than Trump. So instead of immigrants on the low skill end of the spectrum taking jobs Americans don’t want, Trump and Watters would flood America with skilled labor competing with our native population but willing to work for far less. Throwing Americans out of well paying jobs and driving down wages for us all.
