Posted on 01/12/2018 3:15:27 AM PST by smileyface
"This is how the forgotten men and women of America talk at the bar" — @JesseBWatters on Trump's 's---hole' remark pic.twitter.com/pFwBHVIMY7 — TV News HQ (@TVNewsHQ) January 11, 2018
Fox News host Jesse Watters defended President Trump's reported remark calling Haiti and some African nations "shithole countries" Thursday, arguing that the "forgotten men and women" who make up the president's base would approve of the remark.
On Fox News's "The Five," Watters fought back against criticism from Democrats and some Republicans over Trump's remark, which some have deemed racist and offensive to immigrants from those nations.
"This is how the forgotten men and women of America talk at the bar," Watters told his co-hosts.
"If you're at a bar, and you're in Wisconsin, and you think they're bringing in a bunch of Haiti people, or El Salvadorians, or people from Niger, this is how some people talk," he said.
"Is it graceful? No," he added. "Is it polite or delicate? Absolutely not. Is it a little offensive? Of course it is. But you know what? This doesn't move the needle at all."
"This is who Trump is ... and if he offends some people, fine," Watters concluded.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The White House issued a statement in response to the story and did not deny Trump's use of the term."
Trump trolls the MSM again!
This separates our betters in the media and elected folks from the rest of us. All drama queens shocked at the honest Unnuanced language. Funny really.
Hussein called his American opposition teabaggers. Crooked called them irredeemable deplorable people. Direct insults at America people. The fake news media yawned or cheered, so watch us do the same about Trump saying privately what most Americans think privately or have said openly about the situation in many foreign countries.
Yep!
SQUIRREL!
What fools to oppose that statement
They have NO problems calling we Trump supporters every derogatory name in the book.
But they are quick to defend shithoke countries and the people who Game the system to come here
/Vibrio cholerae/ is the official bacillus of Haiti.
This is what the libs call America. At least that’s how they feel about America. But when DJT says it they get the vapours.
I figure the people leaving those places agree with DJT, else they’d stay there.
This great man has had so much of that stuff thrown at him for the past year, it’s a wonder that is ALL he is saying.
Pretending is what politicians do. He is not a politician, and that is part of his appeal.
Exactly. At their dinner parties and coffee klatches, they talk like, Dr Barbay in Back to School. Behind closed doors they say the same exact thing.
They’re all smiles when these “people from shithole countries” come to mow the lawn, clean the house, reshingle the roof or replace the sidewalk, but, those very same folks aren’t living anywhere near their, Liberal supporters and defenders.
And when the work is done, it’s time for them to leave and leave, quickly, they must. Can’t have those very same folks, dirty up the neighborhood and drive property values down.
“would approve of the remark”
Not would, do.
Outrage in the defense of political correctness is no virtue.
Profanity in the protection of national sovereignty is no vice.
Forgotten.
At least until APR 15.
we mustn’t offend the invaders from the shithole countries. Do you think any of there will feel so offended that they will pack up and go back to their shithole countries?
I knew this would trap the elites. Most the rest of the world is a $hithole and we know it. Glad to hear him say it.
We need to make up some “Welcome to s***hole” signs and put the on the highway into Chicago.
I’m not going to defend or condemn the President’s comments.
All I know is I did LOL when I first heard the quote!
I enjoyed the remark. I wasn’t offended.
I did cringe later thinking how the media would probably go nuts over it in phony outrage, and I was not disappointed there...
They are INVADING our country just BECAUSE THEIRS ARE CRAPHOLES!!
I usually say "Goat humping, Allah FUBAR screaming Sand Uyghur Shithole" or "Guacamolean Shithole" or "Gorillas in the Mist shithole" or "LibTaint Socialist Utopia shithole" to differentiate between geographically different shitholes.
Racists be racists.
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