Jesse Watters: Let’s Make People On Food Stamps Build The Border Wall

FNC's Jesse Watters and Kimberly Guilfoyle, quaking in their TV studio at the thought of Mexicans crossing the border 2,000 miles away, licked their elitist, New York chops at making poor people pay for a border wall.

The comments were part of a discussion about proud-bigot Rep. Steve King’s call to pay for the border wall with Planned Parenthood’s federal funds and with cuts to food stamps. Never mind that most Americans don’t want the wall and not a single member of Congress from a district along the border supports the wall. Cohosts Watters and Guilfoyle would rather take food and health care from the poor than see an unpopular Trump proposal fall by the wayside.

WATTERS: I don’t think the wall can afford to be chipped away at all. It can’t be slowed down, it can’t be defunded. If Donald Trump loses the wall or loses momentum on the wall, that really puts a huge chink in the armor of the base.

Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes and his approval ratings hover around 40%. That's further proof that guys like Watters care more about their politics than Americans’ sentiments or priorities. Or maybe that's just how afraid of far-off Mexicans Watter is.

Guilfoyle also did her part for the screw-America-for-Trump cause:

GUILFOYLE: Well, the money would be better spent securing the borders than ending and destroying the lives of thousands of innocent babies, wouldn’t it?

News flash: Americans are not in favor of defunding Planned Parenthood, either.

Before you shed a tear over Guilfoyle’s love for fetuses, just recall that her own beloved Roger Ailes once reportedly said she’d “get on her knees for anyone.”

Cohost Juan Williams, the lone liberal on the totally fair and balanced show, was outraged.

WILLIAMS: The idea that you would kick people off food stamps – and you just say, “Oh, it’s just those undeserving, degenerate people who’ve been taking advantage.” … The reality is that two-thirds of the people getting food stamps in our great country are either children, the elderly or disabled. Why would you go after this group? I don’t get it.

Williams also correctly noted that the states that would be hardest hit by King’s proposal are also states that Trump won. “I don’t think it’s respectful or loving for anybody to go after children, the disabled and the elderly,” he added.

But Watters smirked, “Maybe the able-bodied that are getting the food stamps could work for the food stamps by building the wall.”

Here’s another news flash: 55% of families receiving food stamps have working members whose wages are not sufficient to live on. Furthermore, able-bodied food stamp recipients are already required to work.

Does Watters not know or not care about the facts? Or both?

No wonder this show is losing to MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show.

See another reason why The Five deserves to lose to Maddow below, from the July 12, 2017 show, via Media Matters.

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commented 2017-07-14 15:01:06 -0400 · Flag

This kind of viciousness is to be expected from Watters, as is the ineffectual reaction from Juan Williams, who has sadly become the new Alan Colmes for the network. His presence on the Five has become almost unwatchable, because he’s shouted down at every turn, sneered at for nearly every statement he makes, and is treated like the idiot nephew everyone has to tolerate.

The actual idea that Watters and the Right are discussing is a serious threat – and they mean it. If the Right can maintain or increase their standings in both Houses next year, I guarantee something like this will be passed through for signature by the Pence White House. They’re not kidding. If they can both express this level of hatred for Mexico (and the Dems) and simultaneously attack everyone outside of their sandbox by taking away funding from Food Stamps, etc, that’s a big win for them. Keep in mind that this has nothing to do with women’s health or whether low-income people can afford to eat. These guys don’t care about that. This is about punching the Dems in the nose and having a good time while doing it. Future historians will view this period quite harshly (similar to how we can see the despicable nature of those who tried to maintain and defend slavery up to the Civil War), but people like Jesse Watters figure that they’ll have Fox News around at that time to try to cover it up.

commented 2017-07-14 00:25:17 -0400 · Flag

Build a wall around the Fox “News” sexual predators.

commented 2017-07-14 00:12:45 -0400 · Flag

How about Jesse helping with The Wall by being one of President Rump’s Solar Panels?

commented 2017-07-13 17:47:20 -0400 · Flag

The ship is sinking fast, and all the ass hole are really afraid because they know this is the end of the line, no one will hire these assw@#p.

commented 2017-07-13 17:04:25 -0400 · Flag

I still don’t know why Juan work there, I know sometimes he wants to say to them Shut the F up, Fking fkers

commented 2017-07-13 15:46:51 -0400 · Flag

Jesse is another in the long line of deplorables employed by FOX. What a disgusting creature.

commented 2017-07-13 15:01:33 -0400 · Flag

Oh, Lordy. Keep in mind that Watters is what the right considers to be comedy.

Speaking of The Five, on Tuesday night while I was at my gym, I saw that Kimberly Guilfoyle was wearing pants. I rarely watch it, but I don’t recall seeing that before. Roger Ailes must have been twirling in his grave.