The Biden administration is demanding Fox News apologize to “every single viewer” after popular host Jesse Watters said he had “had it” with Arab Americans.
During a heated monologue, Watters complained about the ongoing geopolitical tensions and sectarian violence in the Middle East. He excoriated those tearing down missing Israeli posters. Fliers have gone up in cities throughout the world, showing victims of the Oct. 7 attack who remain unaccounted for.
“I want to say something about Arab Americans and about the Muslim world,” Watters said on Wednesday's episode of “The Five,” adding:
We – and when I say we, I mean, the West and Western technology – have created the Middle East. We made them rich. We got that oil out of the ground. Our military protects all of these oil shipments flying around the world, making them rich. We fund their military. We respect their kings. We kill their terrorists, ok? But we've had it. We've had it with them.
Obama, Trump, now Biden, have tried to get the heck out of that stupid desert. Just as we're about to get out, because we have this great balance of power we're arranging, these crazy Muslim fanatics come in and massacre over a thousand of our allies and hold Jewish people hostage, hold Americans hostage. And so, if you are an Arab American in this country and you ripped down posters of Jewish hostages, American hostages, no! No, no, no. Someone is gonna get punched in the face. When you rip down posters of the hostages like that — this is — absolutely not.
The White House denounced Watters' comments as “hateful lies.”
In a statement emailed to Mediaite, White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates responded to Watters: “These hateful lies about ‘Arab Americans and…the Muslim world' highlight the urgency of President Biden's work to ensure hate has no safe harbor in America, and why he committed to the first national anti-Islamophobia strategy in our history.”
“These unacceptable remarks come just weeks after the heartbreaking killing of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American child, and during a spike in threats against Muslim and Arab Americans. Fox News owes an apology to every single viewer for this sickening attack on the rights and dignity of their fellow Americans. President Biden will always stand up against Islamophobia, antisemitism, and all forms of hate. Fox News should learn from his example,” Bates concluded.
The White House announced a new initiative to combat Islamophobia yesterday amidst the Israel-Hamas war.
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