Jesse Watters lightheartedly cited his dad and mom not letting him play with G.I. Joe toys as the rationale he turned a conservative information character in an phase on “poisonous masculinity” that devolved into bashing Latin music artist Unhealthy Bunny.
It began when Watters mocked a recent “60 Minutes” interview with Dana White, UFC CEO and buddy of President Donald Trump.
“Individuals like watching males be males, aggressive, powerful and violent, however ’60 Minutes’ thinks generally males are a bit too masculine,” the information anchor mentioned Monday on “Jesse Watters Prime Time.”
Within the CBS clip, White mentioned his group is “unapologetically masculine,” and was then requested about “poisonous masculinity.”
After Watters introduced up the clip, his visitor, “Fox Throughout America” host Jimmy Failla, declared that “poisonous masculinity” is a time period “Democrats invented to promote us on the concept of supporting the kind of guys they nominate.”
(The time period toxic masculinity was truly coined by a males’s motion within the Nineteen Eighties and ’90’s in response to second-wave feminism.)
He then accused Democrats of “going in opposition to the manufacturing facility setting of just about each little boy on the market who wished to develop up and be the one that was in a position to step in.”
That’s when Watters took a visit down reminiscence lane.
“Jimmy, it backfires, as a result of my liberal dad and mom wouldn’t let me play with G.I. Joe, and you already know what I did? I turned a Fox host,” Watters mentioned in a joking tone. “You may’t combat it.”
Watters shifted the dialog to in style Latin artist Unhealthy Bunny, who introduced this week he could be headlining subsequent yr’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present. Failla famous the conservative backlash the announcement generated, then attacked the artist.
“Don’t be mad that we have now a cross-dresser who doesn’t converse English doing the halftime present, as a result of if Kamala received, he would have been a Cupboard member,” Failla mentioned.
Unhealthy Bunny, who was born in Puerto Rico and is a U.S. citizen, does actually converse English. He has carried out so in a number of interviews, in addition to in Adam Sandler’s movie “Completely happy Gilmore 2,” launched this yr.
“And that’s my recommendation to my conservatives which are flipping out. It’s like, if we are able to get by way of a president who didn’t converse English for 4 years, we are able to get by way of a halftime present,” he continued.
Failla argued that “the Tremendous Bowl is a monument to America,” and the NFL took the game and turned it into “the epicenter of popular culture for the yr.”
“So, sure, in a perfect world, the celebrities would converse English, OK? And that’s the place it’s an issue,” Failla mentioned. “The sport is in San Francisco. They need to have a San Francisco act.”
