Fox News’ Jesse Watters: His 9 Most Offensive Moments (Videos)

Jesse Watters will have a permanent seat on Fox News as a co-host of “The Five” when the show moves to primetime.

Watters’ recurring segment on “The O’Reilly Factor” involved sending the host out to various events and locations across the country for man-on-the-street style interviews that mock various cultural subgroups in their own communities. In a 2016 segment, Watters went after Italian Americans at the Feast of San Gennaro festival.

One of Watters’ most controversial segments came in the form of a 2016 venture into New York’s Chinatown. In the heavily criticized piece, Watters turned his signature schtick on Chinese Americans, resulting in a blatantly racist segment that played on Asian stereotypes and openly mocked its subjects.

Watters’ October 2016 venture to the Amish community in Pennsylvania basically boiled down one joke repeated over and over — the fact that the Amish don’t vote or pay much attention to presidential politics. “Lucky you,” he tells several people.

In 2007, O’Reilly sent Watters to ambush Bill Moyers in the street after the PBS host released a documentary criticizing the Bush administration for the Iraq War. O’Reilly would later go on to call that segment a contributing factor in Moyers’ decision to retire.

In 2015, Watters went to Penn Station to criticize the “rise of homelessness” in New York City, pointedly asking those sleeping at the station about their drug habits and what they did to make money on the streets.

On the anniversary of 9/11, Watters went to a convention for Muslim Americans to ask them about terrorism and Islamic radicals. When a woman criticized the media for linking terrorism to the Islamic religion, Watters and O’Reilly both balked at the suggestion that “Christian terrorism” could even possibly exist.

In 2009, Amanda Terkel, then the managing editor of Think Progress, wrote a column in which she said she was “followed, harassed, and ambushed” by Watters while on vacation after she ran a column criticizing O’Reilly for his comments toward rape survivors.

Watters was caught on video getting into a fight at the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner after party with The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim. It was later reported that Grim approached Watters with a camera asking him to apologize to Terkel for his behavior in 2009.

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