Fox News star Jesse Watters recounted to viewers that he’d been attacked by a dog owned by a Democrat while hiking over the Thanksgiving break.
Unsympathetic viewers panned the segment and complained Watters was whining.
Watters’ Monday show’s opening segment was devoted to his Thanksgiving. He talked football, cigars, board games, hiking — where he was bitten twice by a strangers dog, who he suspected of being a Democrat. And viewers expressed displeasure through texts.
“We’re on a tight part of the trail and I notice the dog’s all wet, and she’s like, ‘Oh, this my dog, you know, kind of wet, he just swam in the pond,’ and I’m thinking, this is kind of crazy. You’re letting your dog swim in a pond, 37 degrees in a nature preserve? That’s my first clue. Second clue, woman’s kind of struggling to hold the dog on the leash,” Watters said about the incident.
“The dog comes by, and I’m trying to back up, just give her a little room — dog bites me. Twice. Nips my groin and takes a chunk out of my hand,” he complained.
“See it? Zoom in on that. Zoom in. And I never like to show pain, I never say ouch,” he said, before joking, “I mean, thank God she bit me. She didn’t bite someone litigious like Judge Jeanine. She would have been tied up in court for a year.”
“I could tell she was a Democrat because when I pulled into the preserve in my car, there was Subaru Outback. Dead giveaway. Plus, she didn’t recognize me,” he said. “So, that was my Thanksgiving. How was yours?”
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Ouch! Jesse Watters tells viewers a Democrat’s dog BIT him in his groin and hand while he was out hiking over Thanksgiving:
“I could tell she was a Dem because when I pulled into the nature preserve there was a Subaru outback – a dead giveaway – plus she didn’t recognize me.” pic.twitter.com/lgANGmdRz9
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During his “Text Jesse” segment, viewers panned the show for focusing too much in the first segment on personal gripes.
“You complained about Thanksgiving for 20 minutes, then said Romo talked too much?” one viewer texted.
“I don’t think I was complaining,” Watters responded. “I think I was making observations.”
“Brutal. I’d rather hear about Biden’s Thanksgiving,” another viewer texted.
“Is the dog ok?” a third asked.
“You want some cheese with that whine?” a viewer, who said they were Tom from Northern California, asked.
“Hey Tom, be a man and put the name of your town. Northern California?” Watters shot back. “What, are you afraid I’m gonna come find you?”
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