{"id":1141907,"date":"2021-12-22T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141907"},"modified":"2021-12-22T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T17:04:46","slug":"bidens-surgeon-general-suggests-fox-news-should-fire-jesse-watters-or-endorse-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-surgeon-general-suggests-fox-news-should-fire-jesse-watters-or-endorse-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Surgeon General Suggests Fox News Should Fire Jesse Watters Or \u2018Endorse Violence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-surgeon-general-suggests-fox-news-should-fire-jesse-watters-or-endorse-violence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141907&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Biden\u2019s U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, has suggested that Fox News should fire host Jesse Watters or \u201cpassively endorse\u201d statements that \u201cendorse violence\u201d against Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration formally waded into the controversy between Watters and Fauci during Tuesday night\u2019s episode of MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe ReidOut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love talking with smart people, General Murthy, but I\u2019m now going to ask you about one of the dumbest people, sorry to say, in public life. His name is Jesse Watters,\u201d said Joy Reid, as Murthy laughed at her insult.<\/p>\n<p>She then read an extremely truncated version of Watters\u2019 remarks to young people at a Turning Point USA conference, where \u201cThe Five\u201d co-host used the terms \u201cambushes\u201d and \u201ckill shot\u201d in reference to interviewing dissembling politicians on video. Some media outlets sought to interpret his remarks as an incitement to violence against Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell Joy, I did hear about the comment,\u201d Murthy responded. \u201cFor anybody out there to use language that would encourage violence or speak to violence \u2013 not just against Dr. Fauci, but against anybody, especially somebody who is trying to do good for the country \u2013 that\u2019s reprehensible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll say this: If somebody like&nbsp;that worked in my office, in any&nbsp;organization that I ran, they&nbsp;certainly wouldn\u2019t be working there for much longer&nbsp;after a comment like that,\u201d he said. \u201cWe, all of us and the roles that we have in our life, we have choices to make about whether&nbsp;we support or passively endorse values and&nbsp;statements like that, that&nbsp;endorse violence. And this is a&nbsp;time where we have to take a&nbsp;stand against the kind of&nbsp;nonsense and disgusting rhetoric that I think have poisoned public debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe voices of disunity, voices that endorse violence, those are the voices that threaten to tear our country apart, that make it harder to get through a pandemic like this,\u201d said Murthy, adding that, during a global health pandemic, people should not be \u201ctrying to turn people against one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are a calming presence,\u201d Reid told Murthy at the end of the interview.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Surgeon_General?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Surgeon_General<\/a>: This is the time that we have to take a stand against the kind of\u2026 disgusting rhetoric that [has] poisoned public debate and turned people against each other when what we need is for people to come together in the face of this pandemic. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheReidOut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheReidOut<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/reiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#reiders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/522BMPfebi\">pic.twitter.com\/522BMPfebi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The ReidOut (@thereidout) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thereidout\/status\/1473451706205802497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Surgeon General became the second member of the Biden administration to suggest that Fox News should fire the \u201cWatters\u2019 World\u201d star, after Fauci himself. \u201cYou have some guy out there saying that people should be giving me a \u2018kill shot,\u2019 to \u2018ambush me.\u2019 I mean, what kind of craziness is there in society these days?\u201d Fauci asked.&nbsp;\u201cWhatever network he\u2019s on is not going to do anything,\u201d Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/should-be-fired-on-the-spot-fauci-wants-fox-news-jesse-watters-canned-for-conference-speech\">told<\/a> CNN\u2019s John Berman earlier on Tuesday. \u201cThe guy should be fired on the spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watters and Fox News have strongly rebuffed the notion that his remarks had anything to do with violence, noting they had been wrenched out of context to fit a narrative of victimization.&nbsp;Watters\u2019 speech explained to young people at Turning Point USA \u201chow you do these ambushes like [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectveritas.com\/\">Project Veritas<\/a> founder James] O\u2019Keefe.\u201d O\u2019Keefe, who has never been accused of committing homicide, records undercover videos of public figures and institutions that he believes mislead the American people. Watters called confronting someone with proof of his lie on camera as a \u201ckill shot.\u201d As Amanda Prestigiacomo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fox-news-issues-strong-response-after-fauci-calls-for-jesse-watters-to-be-fired\">reported<\/a> at The Daily Wire:<\/p>\n<p><em>Fox News on Tuesday said in a statement to The Daily Wire that \u201cit\u2019s more than clear\u201d that Watters was not being literal, and noted the controversy surrounding Fauci\u2019s apparent ties to gain-of-function research.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBased on watching the full clip and reading the entire transcript, it\u2019s 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,\u201d the statement read.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can see the full clip, in context, below:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We heard everyone is talking about Jesse Watters\u2019 speech at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AMFEST2021?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AMFEST2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the full clip of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseBWatters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JesseBWatters<\/a> calling for \u201crespectful\u201d and \u201clegal\u201d citizen journalism <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zAHu5hKdBU\">pic.twitter.com\/zAHu5hKdBU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPUSA\/status\/1473347739870121986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet Murthy maintained that Watters had endorsed violence, and Murthy endorsed Fauci as \u201ca public servant of high integrity who has sought to serve the United States of America for more than four decades. And he is somebody we should be thanking for the efforts he has made to keep us safe during COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murthy\u2019s assessment of Fauci closely mirrors that of Dr. Fauci himself. \u201cThe only thing that I have ever done throughout these two years is to encourage people to practice good public health practices: to get vaccinated, to be careful in public settings, to wear a mask,\u201d&nbsp;Fauci stated on CNN Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Dr. Fauci encouraged the American people <em>not<\/em> to wear masks during the initial outbreak of the COVID-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u2019s U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, has suggested that Fox News should fire host Jesse Watters or \u201cpassively endorse\u201d statements that \u201cendorse violence\u201d against Dr. Anthony Fauci. The Biden administration formally waded into the controversy between Watters and Fauci during Tuesday night\u2019s episode of MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe ReidOut.\u201d \u201cI love talking with smart people, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}