Fox's Jesse Watters flattens 'clown' Dr. Anthony Fauci after Fauci called for his firing over 'more than clear' metaphor: Report



Fox News host Jesse Watters apparently refuses to back down after Dr. Anthony Fauci called for the network to fire him over what he insisted were dangerous, inflammatory remarks about approaching the good doctor about gain-of-function research and COVID-19 origins.

What's a brief history here?

Watters on Monday made a speech at a Turning Point USA conference in which he said that Americans should have no reservations about approaching Fauci in public and filming the interaction while pelting him with hard-hitting questions.

He said, “The kill shot, with an ambush — deadly, 'cause he doesn’t see it coming. This is when you say, ‘Dr. Fauci, you funded risky research at a sloppy Chinese lab, the same lab that sprung this pandemic on the world. You know why people don’t trust you, don’t you?’ Boom, he is dead! He is dead! He’s done!”

“You do that — 30 seconds, it’s all you need. Now you get that footage to us, you get it to Fox ... imagine Tucker Carlson teases that,” Watters added.

In response to the remarks, a furious Fauci said that Fox should immediately terminate Watters from the network.

"The guy should be fired on the spot!" he told CNN's John Berman.

What's happening now?

Watters blasted Fauci on Tuesday, Newsweek reports, saying that he and outgoing National Institutes of Health President Francis Collins are "clowns" for their botched response to the coronavirus pandemic as well as "funding dangerous experiments" and gain-of-function research.

Watters added that he believes blue cities and states will try to shut down schools in response to the Omicron spike.

“To top it all off, [Vice President] Kamala Harris just admitted to the L.A. Times the administration didn’t see any of this coming. Gee, you mean Biden’s scientific brain trust and Fauci and Collins couldn’t foresee any of this? Why am I not surprised?"

He added, "After all, these are the same clowns who thought funding dangerous experiments on that coronavirus ... at the Wuhan lab was a grand idea."

Anything else?

Fox News on Tuesday said that they are standing behind Watters — and made no mention of any disciplinary action, let alone termination.

In a statement sent to Blaze Media, a spokesperson for the network said, "Based on watching the full clip and reading the entire transcript, it’s more than clear that Jesse Watters was using a metaphor for asking hard-hitting questions to Dr. Fauci about gain-of-function research and his words have been twisted completely out of context."

AOC melts down over coronavirus relief package stalemate, blames Republicans — so Ted Cruz schools her



Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday virally complained that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other Republicans were preventing further coronavirus relief stimulus packages from passing.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), however, refused to sit back and watch Ocasio-Cortez spread what he apparently considered to be misinformation and quickly corrected her assertions.

What are the details?

As highlighted by the Daily Wire, Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to vent her frustrations on how COVID-19 has been impacting Americans, and blamed Republicans for a coronavirus aid package stalemate after Congress left D.C. for a weeklong Thanksgiving recess without having a deal in place.

"People across the country are going hungry, COVID is set to explode, and Mitch McConnell dismissed the Senate last week," she tweeted. "I don't know how these people can sleep at night. I really don't."

People across the country are going hungry, COVID is set to explode, and Mitch McConnell dismissed the Senate last… https://t.co/02eP79thj6
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)1606162661.0

Cruz quickly slapped back and pointed out that Republicans put forth a $500 billion relief bill that Democrats previously blocked.

"Why is your party filibustering $500 billion in COVID relief?" he wrote in response to her complaints. "And Joe Biden is cheering them on. Thinking that blocking relief somehow helps Dems win Georgia."

Why is your party filibustering $500 billion in COVID relief?And Joe Biden is cheering them on. Thinking that blo… https://t.co/J4Hi23nBrp
— Ted Cruz (@Ted Cruz)1606168953.0

The New York lawmaker fired back, "The House doesn't have filibusters, @tedcruz. We also passed several COVID relief packages to the Senate that not only include >$500 billion, but also prioritize helping real people as opposed to Wall St bailouts the GOP tries to pass off as 'relief.' Nice try though."

She continued, "I hope someone else runs Cruz's Twitter account because it'd be pretty embarrassing if a US Senator didn't know this. Almost as embarrassing as when Sen. @JohnCornyn didn't appear to know that Puerto Ricans don't get to vote in the Presidential."

I hope someone else runs Cruz’s Twitter account because it’d be pretty embarrassing if a US Senator didn’t know thi… https://t.co/WI0XUjBpoI
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)1606172901.0

Cruz responded to Ocasio-Cortez, insisting that it seems apparent she doesn't realize that there are Democrats in the Senate.

".@AOC seems not to know there are Democrats in the Senate," he wrote. "Or that Joe Biden (also a Dem) is publicly calling on Senate Dems to continue filibustering COVID relief because he thinks it will help them win Georgia."

.@AOC seems not to know there are Democrats in the Senate. Or that Joe Biden (also a Dem) is publicly calling on… https://t.co/nezpSThOSu
— Ted Cruz (@Ted Cruz)1606194213.0

According to Fox News, Senate Democrats have filibustered a vote on more than one occasion — and as recently as October — regarding a scaled-back GOP proposal.

"The bill, less than a third of the size of the $2.2 trillion figured back by Democratic leaders, included boosted federal unemployment benefits, another round of funding for the Paycheck Protection Program, a key small business rescue program, money for schools, and liability protections for businesses," Fox News' Megan Henney reported.