Nov 17, 2023
Fox News Completely CRUMBLES As Bigoted Logic Implodes
Fox News host, Jesse Watters, and guest go off the deep end as their argument against inclusive versions of Christmas decor being sold by Target completely falls apart. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
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Brett, who is your garbage
person of the week?
>> Speaker 2: I had to cough.
It was disgusting.
I'm the garbage person.
>> [LAUGH]
>> It was so gross.
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I took the moment to just, [LAUGH]
>> Speaker 1: Are you gonna live?
Are you gonna survive this thing?
>> Speaker 2: We get to stretch out and
garbage people.
>> Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do.
You know what, just in case,
here's what I'm gonna do for you, Brett.
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>> Speaker 2: That's how I call.
>> Speaker 1: Hey, Brett,
who's your garbage person of the week?
>> Speaker 2: My garbage people
of the week is Fox News.
And Christmas comes earlier every year,
but
you know what comes
even earlier than that?
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War on Christmas season.
Because it's war on Christmas
season on Fox, led by Jesse Waters,
who basically just took the opportunity
to walk around Target and
find anything that could moderately offend
his delicate baby boy sensibilities.
Like a disabled black Santa.
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Take a look.
>> Speaker 3: We sent one of our
producers to Target and they found this,
gay nutcracker, complete with a rainbow
hat, a trans flag, full price, $12.
But right now, it's on sale for eight.
Target also sells Santa ornaments, but
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Target's Santa is in a wheelchair and
is black.
And it's a good thing our chimney is
wheelchair accessible, so Jesse Jr.
is gonna get all the gifts he wants.
>> Speaker 2: Imagine how miserable
a person you have to be to go send
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someone to Target shopping.
Not for Jansport backpacks,
Swiss gear backpacks, but for
things that might potentially offend
a sad, pathetic Fox News audience.
So he had that and then he brings
out none other than Riley Gaines
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who is done being threatened
by trans athletes and
now is joining this
ridiculous complain fest.
Take a look.
>> Speaker 4: It doesn't make sense.
You have to ask yourself,
why do they keep pushing this?
Who are they trying to appeal to?
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Because despite what the media portrays or
how politicians are voting,
this doesn't represent the overwhelming
majority of how this country,
really how the world feels on this issue.
I think majority of people, parents
especially, they can acknowledge that gay
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nutcracker and
black disabled Santa has gone way too far.
The pendulum has swung.
>> Speaker 2: First of all,
let's take a moment for how hilarious and
terrifying the idea of
a gay nutcracker is.
Basically, it's terrifying
because it cracks your nuts.
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You know what I mean?
And that's everyone with
nuts' biggest fear.
So I think it's funny to
just have any nutcracker.
It's the most horrifying
thing in its mouth.
But who does this appeal to?
Folks that would buy them.
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I would buy that cuz, A,
I think it's amazing.
I just think it's hilarious that someone
is trying to figure out how do we
manufacture that?
B, you're mad that the Santa Claus
is in a wheelchair.
The real Santa Claus is in
a sleigh behind reindeer.
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That is a ridiculous way to get around.
And he flies through the air,
so what are you?
You're suddenly the police
of ways Santa can travel?
My guy has a weird way of doing it.
It would be awesome if he had a spaceship.
Let's get on that.
But these folks, it's so sad cuz, no,
it's a complaint in search of a problem.
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It's like Googling things
that I would get mad at.
That's what they're doing instead
of just living their lives and
being like, that thing I saw made me mad.
John?
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, I have thoughts.
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Can you hear me?
Am I choppy?
I have a feeling that I'm
probably unacceptably choppy.
>> Speaker 2: You're choppy,
but I can hear you fine.
Your visuals are choppy.
>> Speaker 1: Okay, good,
that's good, forget the visuals.
So I'll just say, I understand that there
are definitely groups that they feel that
they go out of their way
to find ways to demonize.
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So they think there's a gay nutcracker or
whatever, they have to demonize it.
It's buffoonish,
it makes them look like clowns.
But I didn't realize,
I know that Jenny Waters displaces
unhoused people more than
anyone in the world hates.
There's weird that they have, but
what is their issue, disabled reputation?
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Just I understand the many
layers of hatred.
Does Jesse Water not have
his life in his family,
in his friend circle who
is disabled in some form?
Why would they feel that it is their
job to use their time in their fancy
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million dollar studio to demonize
the concept that there'd be literally
any form of representation of
anyone who not look a boat shoot.
I don't get it.
I don't get that as a way to live.
Look, he kind of has to do this sort of,
I guess, filling in now for Carlson.
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He's the new Carlson.
Carlson performed Lee peed his pants.
I'll say over sort of thing constantly,
but it's just embarrassing, and
we still do expect more.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah,
I can answer those questions.
Those are rhetorical questions.
But the actual answer is
the reason that people
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are selling the nutcracker like this
is cuz folks are gonna buy them.
People will buy them.
And the reason that Jesse Waters exists to
do this is that there's an audience for
people to get mad at that fact of life.
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There are people who get
actively mad that in Target,
a store that sells thousands of products.
They're upset that one of them is
a black Santa in a wheelchair.
That is an audience.
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That is their form of entertainment.
And they're like, listen, they get so
mad at the fact that there's a diverse,
the marvels community, and
they think that's pathetic.
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But what's really pathetic is how
much those folks complain about it.
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