'She didn't earn this': Fox News host schooled after put-down attempt on Harris
A Fox News host's latest attempt to prop up "Fat Von Golfcart" appears to have been a swing and a miss.
Jesse Watters was roasted on social media Tuesday for his mis-aimed attack on former President Donald Trump's new presumed election opponent Vice President Kamala Harris.
"She didn’t earn this; she inherited it," Watters said. "And Americans aren’t hot on heirs. They like self-made men and women.”
Watters' name trended on X as viewers pointed out Trump received approximately $413 million from his father, the late real estate mogul Fred Trump, through a series of dubious tax dodges and sham corporations, as the New York Times first reported in 2018.
"Watters fails to mention that Fat--- von Golfcart inherited, then blew $400 million," replied X user JerseyJohn. "It doesn't get any more self-made than that."
NYU Institute for Public Knowledge associate director Michael Koncewicz noted that Watters himself comes from a long line of publishers with considerable sway in the professional field he adopted as his own.
"Watters is the son of child psychologist Anne Purvis, daughter of Morton Bailey, Jr., publisher of Better Homes and Gardens magazine," Koncewicz wrote. "His maternal great-grandfather was Morton Bailey, publisher of The Saturday Evening Post."
According to the Washington Post, Watters got his entry-level job at Fox News — after being fired for incompetence in three other jobs — when his mom called an ex-congressman who knew someone at the network.
The report also notes Watters earned a job on Bill O'Reilly's show by "lavishly praising the host’s new book in the job interview."
"Jesse Watters was Bill O'Reilly's sidekick," podcaster Bob Cesca wrote Tuesday, "and inherited O'Reilly's time slot after he was fired for being a sex abuser."
Watters' take on Harris is just one among many coming from a Republican Party struggling to pivot attacks from Biden to Harris.
It apparently did not go over well with viewers.
"I am really impressed that Fox had the courage to hire someone as stupid as Jesse Watters," wrote Sandy G Hickerson. "That shows real commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion."