CNN/Business has a report on an interview that current Fox News host Jesse Watters gave at the Big “I” Legislative Conference of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, where he’s reported to have made some grotesque remarks about Vice President Kamala Harris, thereby angering some of the participants. The organization disavowed the remarks and sidelined the interviewer, who happened to be their retiring President.
Or did Watters say something else?
When asked for comment on Wednesday, a Fox News spokesperson told me that Watters had “no recollection” of the events.
“In fact, the unscripted Q&A he participated in was well received with executives thanking him profusely afterward, enthusiastically taking photos, and presenting him with an award,” the network spokesperson said. “He was told it was one of the best talks they’ve ever held and never received feedback from the organization or his speaking agent after the event.”
Double-plus unbad?
Could this be the Fox News moral landscape?
Yeah, that’s how it reads. Caught with deliberate crude remarks on their employee’s lips, go with “profuse thanks,” instead. It sounds like something out of the pages of the Soviet Union’s PRAVDA, and, for those who wonder what that means, it wasn’t a compliment. PRAVDA had a reputation for being the most untrustworthy of sources, an instrument of the Soviet government.
Of course, I wasn’t at the conference. Maybe this is a hit job on Watters. But the reaction and language of Fox News speaks to coverup, not correction. We’ll probably not hear of this incident again, but the Fox News reaction, given the recent devastation of the Dominion Voting Systems suit, is most instructive.
