In a cringeworthy moment, Fox News host Jesse Watters mixed up journalists Gayle King and Robin Roberts Wednesday while trying to backhandedly compliment King for “totally redeeming herself” after her interview with Jussie Smollett (which was actually conducted by Roberts).
“That was not Gayle King. Robin Roberts did the Smollett interview,” fellow host Dana Perino quickly interjected.
“I knew that!” Watters cried as the table laughed, apologizing soon after.
Watters mixes up black journalists while trying to deliver a backhanded compliment pic.twitter.com/zPjCo72axV
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) March 7, 2019
True to the Fox way, the sole Black male journalist leaps in to change the subject away from Watters’ confusion between the two black female journalists.
Watters’ smirky ignorance is Fox’s pathetic stab at “hip.”
“You did?” co-host Dana Perino asked. “Then why do you always say ‘They all look alike to me?’”
Isn’t this an oxymoron?
When is any moment with Jesse Watters not cringeworthy?
Is not Jesse Watters the very corporeal iteration of cringeworthiness?
Yours is the perfect description of that malign dolt.