Fox News’ Jesse Watters Proves He Is Just A Racist A**Hat (VIDEO)

Fox News contributor Jesse Watters, is no stranger to controversy. His latest segment of “Watters’ World,” where he ventures into New York’s Chinatown to discuss the presidential election, may qualify as his most tone deaf yet.

Watters, known as an ambush reporter as well as an annoying “street segment” creator, does makes a point of asking questions about which candidate in the election the people of Chinatown prefer and the state of American-Chinese relations. However, he also introduces some seriously insensitive, if not downright racist, ideas throughout the five-minute segment. Among other things, Watters:

  • Asks the first person in the segment if he should bow when greeting her
  • Asks a watch vendor if his watches are stolen
  • Cuts to a clip of Japanese-American actor Pat Morita playing Japanese-American character Mr. Miyagi from the film The Karate Kid
  • Asks a man if he knows karate, a Japanese martial art
  • Wonders if Chinese food is just called “food” in China

He also routinely sticks the microphone in people’s faces and stares at them, dumbfounded, when they do not answer his questions. He and Bill O’Reilly yucked it up after the segment concluded, but at least there was a modicum of self-awareness. O’Reilly told Watters:

“That last guy hated you.”

To which a laughing Watters responded:

“He did. One of many.”

As of now, Fox News has no comment on the segment. The response to Watters on Twitter was swift and brutal. New York Times tech reporter Farhad Manjoo called it “blatantly racist”:

Some other reactions came from journalists and reporters:

O’Reilly and Watters joked about the segment afterwards, claiming it was “all in good fun.” Even then, however, O’Reilly had some odd statements to make, seeming to lump the entire population of Chinatown together into one stereotype:

And they’re patient. They’re patient. They want you to walk away because they don’t have anything else to do.”

At least O’Reilly had the sense to realize that the segment was offensive by the end:

“It’s gentle fun, so, I know we’re going to get letters. It’s inevitable.”

If you would like to watch a tone-deaf Fox News reporter bumble his way through offensive stereotypes, you can check out the full segment below.

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