Jesse Waters took violating the “no politics at the table” rule to a whole new level, turning a political argument he had with his New York Times-reading mother over Sunday dinner into the central to a “Jesse Watters Primetime” monologue.
“My mom came home on Sunday and we were talking about politics,” Watters said Monday night on his Fox News show. “I kept trying to explain to her that the Biden family was taking bribes from China, Ukraine. She said, ‘Where’s the proof, Jesse?’ Since when did she care about proof? She never asked for proof of Russian collusion! But I told her mom, Congress has the records, they held a press conference. She said son, I’ve never heard of that.”
It turns out that the anecdote was a vehicle for Watters to expand on how the media tip the scales not by “spinning” the news, but by emphasizing certain stories while refusing to report or follow up on them.
“I told her mom, all you do is read the New York Times,” Watters said. “Imagine reading the newspaper every day, not knowing what the news is. … I didn’t know Biden had documents scattered all over Chinatown, or in the garage with the Corvette with the door open. He never heard about the Chinese bribes, he never heard about the Ukrainian bribes. And there are millions and millions of people like my mother; all they hear is, “Trump is a scumbag and he’s going to jail.”
Watters was raised in Philadelphia, the son of Stephen Hapgood Watters, a teacher, and his mother, whose photos appeared on screen during the segment, Anne Purvis, a child psychologist. And she is certainly no stranger to the media or politics.
Purvis comes from a long line of old-school media figures and political operatives; his father was Morton Bailey, Jr., editor of “Better Homes and Gardens,” his grandfather Morton Bailey was editor of “The Saturday Evening Post.” Go back another generation and you’ll find Morton S. Bailey, United States Senator and Colorado Supreme Court Justice.
“We have a media that is intentionally not telling us the news,” Watters continued. “How can we have free and fair elections when half the country is ill-informed, not informed at all! The media used to spin stories, now they don’t even tell you the story. My mom says, “Well, why doesn’t the media report this stuff?” You won’t see it on TV, they won’t pursue it. Any story about Biden evaporates. Joe Biden is losing to Trump, so he’s being arrested! And the whole country has no idea what’s going on.”
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