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Jesse Watters lightheartedly cited his parents not letting him play with G.I. Joe toys as the reason he became a conservative news personality in an segment on “toxic masculinity” that devolved into bashing Latin music artist Bad Bunny.
It all started when Watters mocked a recent “60 Minutes” interview with Dana White, UFC CEO and friend of President Donald Trump.
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“Americans like watching men be men, competitive, tough and violent, but ’60 Minutes’ thinks sometimes men are a little too masculine,” the news anchor said Monday on “Jesse Watters Prime Time.”
In the CBS clip, White said his organization is “unapologetically masculine,” and was then asked about “toxic masculinity.”
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After Watters brought up the clip, his guest, “Fox Across America” host Jimmy Failla, declared that “toxic masculinity” is a term “Democrats invented to sell us on the idea of supporting the type of guys they nominate.”
(The term toxic masculinity was actually coined by a men’s movement in the 1980s and ’90’s in reaction to second-wave feminism.)
He then accused Democrats of “going against the factory setting of pretty much every little boy out there who wanted to grow up and be the person who was able to step in.”
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That’s when Watters took a trip down memory lane.
“Jimmy, it backfires, because my liberal parents wouldn’t let me play with G.I. Joe, and you know what I did? I became a Fox host,” Watters said in a joking tone. “You can’t fight it.”
Watters shifted the conversation to popular Latin artist Bad Bunny, who announced this week he would be headlining next year’s Super Bowl halftime show. Failla noted the conservative backlash the announcement generated, then attacked the artist.
“Don’t be mad that we have a cross-dresser who doesn’t speak English doing the halftime show, because if Kamala won, he would have been a Cabinet member,” Failla said.
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Bad Bunny, who was born in Puerto Rico and is a U.S. citizen, does in fact speak English. He has done so in multiple interviews, as well as in Adam Sandler’s film “Happy Gilmore 2,” released this year.
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“And that’s my advice to my conservatives that are flipping out. It’s like, if we can get through a president who didn’t speak English for four years, we can get through a halftime show,” he continued.
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Failla argued that “the Super Bowl is a monument to America,” and the NFL took the sport and turned it into “the epicenter of pop culture for the year.”