[skeeter]

Good for him. Hope he knocks off his silly sign-off, though.

[Candor7]

Good to see. Watters , so far, has shown the right stuff.

He was a scion of Bill O'Reilly.

Mar a Largo is definitely a place he will be spending time.

[joe fonebone]

Got no time for this dude.
Judge Judy is on at 7

[devane617]

Should have gave him Hannity—Look at me—Hannity slot.

[Ninaq]

Gee, how could FOX do this? The audacity!
Tony said he should be FIRED!!

[rktman]

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[Hoosier-Daddy]

He’s earned it with political acumen and a great sense of humor. Smart move, Fox News.

[bigbob]

Jesse’s the best talent on FNC and well deserves this. He’s also pretty outspoken in his views.

[ridesthemiles]

There is NO SUCH THING as PERMANENT in the media OR elsewhere anymore.

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

Easy to watch; not full of himself, as a lot of talking heads are.

[Redleg Duke]

He has come a long ways from being Bill O’Reilly’s “gofer”!

Good for him! He has certainly earned the shot at the slot!

[setter]

He will do ok as long as he stays away from the hot female interns.

He has a track record with interns and a divorce to show for it.

[uptowngirl]

I don’t watch anything on FNC. But I wish him luck.

[Vaduz]

Good for him he earned it he’s good uses wit humor and facts and is a quick thinker with logic.

[Poser]

Jesse has a cutting wit but not the over the top sneer of Greg Gutfeld. He translates well to prime time TV. Greg is better suited to late night. They are both very smart. It remains to be seen if Jesse can carry five shows a week. I guess it depends upon the format of the show. I’m encouraged.

[Political Junkie Too]

My observation is that Watters has a good memory of things that liberals have done, and is good at weaving them succinctly into a short narrative to make a sharp point on whatever topic is being discussed. This is in direct contrast to Hannity, who gets triggered into rote recitals of the same tiresome phrases whenever a guest utters a certain keyword.

I've never seen his weekend show. Watters made an unusual confession during the year-end The Five "resolutions" show: he said he was told that he "was mean to Jessica Tarlov, and will strive to be nicer towards her."

Watters did have a tendency to disrupt the liberal guests during their speaking times, usually just uttering a contrary word to break up their thought, and then uttering another word, and then another, until the guest became annoyed and told him to stop -- resulting in them wasting their allotment of time.

I hope he backs off of this bully tactic -- he's smart enough with his own retorts that he doesn't need to resort to smarmy disruptions of his guests' speaking time.

The worst offender of this was Geraldo Rivera, who would often become so annoyed at what the others were saying that he'd interrupt each of them as if it were still his time to speak. I think he's been "coached" on that since then, and has become more respectful of the show's format.

I think Watters will do fine in his new show, because he has the talent to be concise but direct to the point of the topic. He can load a lot of facts into a comment, and then direct his guest to respond, pointing out where his guest strayed from the topic.

-PJ