Fox News host and Bill O’Reilly protégé Jesse Watters looked a lot like a chip off the old abusive block when he said that the bloodied man dragged off a United Airlines flight reminded him of “a protester being dragged out of a Trump rally.” Watters then added, “I miss those days in the campaign.”
Watters was the #OneLuckyGuy on Outnumbered today. The other four cohosts were sympathetic to the passenger and appalled at United’s behavior toward one of its own customers. But not Watters!
WATTERS: The guy looked like he was a protester being dragged out of a Trump rally. I miss those days in the campaign. And I’d like to drag out the screaming person because that was really annoying listening to that lady.
Cohost Harris Faulkner spoke up on behalf of the “annoying” lady Watters sneered should have suffered the same fate. “But she was defending him,” Faulkner objected. “She was saying, ‘Look at his bloody face.’”
“I know,” Watters replied. “And I feel bad for the guy. But listen, if they tell you to leave, just leave.”
Cohost Trish Regan asked, “Why should any customer be put in that position to begin with?”
“She would be in First Class," Watters said, referring to Regan. "She’d never be dragged out."
Watters has long worked on The O’Reilly Factor as an ambush producer who has seemed to take a certain delight in bullying, harassing and trying to demean his targets. He has been rewarded for that behavior with his own Fox show. He is now costar of The Spin Stops Here Tour with O’Reilly and regular guest Dennis Miller. It’s hard to believe Watters was not aware of and at least tacitly accepting of O’Reilly’s long history of abusive behavior.
In fact, Watters is probably right at home on The Factor.
See proof of that below, from the April 11, 2017 Outnumbered.
Seems that an airline’s right to deplane somebody at will is written in the fine print on the tickets, but no airline had reportedly ever thought of doing so by force. They usually get their way by offering cash and the offer of $400 plus accommodation (as per CNN reports) wasn’t enough to convince people anxious to get home to their families.
@Ben Newmark: so true, so true.
I wonder if it was the fact that the passenger was of Chinese descent that made Watters feel that way? It couldn’t have been the fact that he is a doctor — or that he is 69 years of age, could it?
Well, if a paying customer being forcibly dragged off of a plane makes Watters “nostalgic,” he must wistfully pine for the days when protestors were beaten, attacked with dogs and fire hoses, and eventually shot and killed . . .
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He’s always giggling with that moronic grin of his.
He reminds me of my stupid frat bros.
The video clips I’ve seen are pretty fuzzy but the passenger doesn’t seem to be lily white (far Eastern, perhaps) and he was casually dressed.
Any possibility that he was selected because of that? His turning out to be a reputable physician was bad luck for United. I’m increasingly inclined to appreciate smartphones as a way to “out” these events.
