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Jesse Watters Now Says He Was Joking About Deflating Tires Of Woman He Wanted To Date

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on April 27, 2022 · Flag

Remember when Jesse Watters said he deflated the tires of a woman so he could give her a ride home and, presumably, hit on her – even though he was married at the time? On Monday, Watters claimed he had been joking and cohost Greg Gutfeld falsely claimed that had been edited out of the video that went viral. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t.

In case you missed it, here’s what Watters said on The Five, on April 11, 2022:

WATTERS: When I was trying to get Emma to date me, first thing I did – I let the air out of her tires. She couldn’t go anywhere. She needed a lift, I said, “Hey, you need a lift?” She hopped right into the car.

[…]

She doesn’t know this story. Now she does.

[…]

It has a happy ending.

As I noted in my post, Watters “forgot” to mention he was already married at the time.

But after what Watters called “Deflategate” went viral, he told The Five on April 25, 2022 that it was all just a joke.

WATTERS: [T]hat was a joke. … I never deflated anyone's tires.

GUTFELD: You even said it was a joke but they didn't clip -- they didn’t clip it, did they?

WATTERS: No.

GUTFELD: You did say it was a joke.

FACT CHECK: Watters never said it was a joke. Juliet Jeske, whose tweet of that clip, under the handle @DecodingFoxNews, went viral, shows in the video below that she did not edit anything out of the clip. I thought it was possible Watters clarified elsewhere in the show so I checked the full transcript – and he didn’t. If you don’t have direct access to the transcript, you can view it via your public library’s website if they subscribe to the Gale OneFile News database (once in that database, search for and select the “Newsstand” sub-database).

Assuming Watters is now telling the truth, hats off to reader Rw Fan who commented on my original post that the story was BS and would likely be walked back.

You can see that in the original April 11 discussion Watters never said he was joking, even after Gutfeld asked, “Did you really do that?” below. It’s included and right after the clip in which Watters now says he was joking, from the April 25, 2022 The Five, via DecodingFoxNews.

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Greg Gutfeld claimed I edited out the part where Jesse Watters said he was joking about deflating his then intern's tires. I included Greg's accusation as well as the full unedited clip with space before and after Watter's statement. He never said he was joking. pic.twitter.com/3CuZvCpdWp

— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) April 27, 2022

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David Bryant commented 2022-05-02 00:08:23 -0400 · Flag
I knew he was full of crap. He’s a troll.
David Bryant commented 2022-05-02 00:07:37 -0400 · Flag
I knew it was bs.
Ellen commented 2022-04-29 00:18:31 -0400 · Flag
Rw Fan, good points.
Rw Fan commented 2022-04-28 17:42:46 -0400 · Flag
LOL, of course they were going to slip this “joking” thing in there at some point. But even then, they lie about it. Really, all Watters had to do was say “I was clearly joking even though I didn’t say I was joking.” And yet they can’t even do that, so they tell their audience the media edited the clip. I’m guessing his wife or someone told him to walk it back because it’s obviously an awful look. One thing Trump has proven, bold-faced, caught-on-tape lying is nothing anymore.
Marge Arnold commented 2022-04-28 13:57:01 -0400 · Flag
Scooter – what’s really scary is that in the area of Florida I live in, many of those deranged Fox News viewers work for NASA and Space X. If smart people can get so brainwashed, no wonder the less educated succumbed.
scooter commented 2022-04-27 16:05:35 -0400 · Flag
Jesse (like FOX) is a pathological liar and a fraud. The problem is that his viewership won’t care about the truth, only what FOX says is the truth. And THAT is the FOX conundrum in a nutshell. The whole world knows FOX is a bunch of BS lies, except for the people who watch it daily. They’ve gone ‘round the bend, down the rabbit hole, and have been pooped out into their own bubble of ignorant bliss where the election was stolen, and Joe Biden is really in GITMO, and JFK Jr. is coming to save them all, or whatever the crazy fantasy of the moment is. It’s a truly sad state of affairs that so many Americans buy their spew and accept it verbatim.
John McKee commented 2022-04-27 16:01:16 -0400 · Flag
Small things, small minds.








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