Opinion: Fox News host’s ‘kill shot’ comment about Dr. Fauci was not harmless – By John L. Jackson Jr., dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania / December 27, 2021
It is at the very least callous for Jesse Watters to deploy metaphors of death against the person leading the charge to help keep Americans alive during the pandemic.
We are all far too accustomed to the crude tone and tenor of public discourse. Many media experts will tell you that there is an emphasis on sound bites and clickbait — the more odd and ostentatious the better. That’s nothing new.
In that context, one may be almost tempted to dismiss Fox News host Jesse Watters and his comments offered up at the expense of Dr. Anthony Fauci as one of the latest examples of such crudeness in our culture war.
“Now you’re going for the kill shot. The kill shot with an ambush, deadly, because he doesn’t see it coming,” he told a crowd at a recent Turning Point USA conference.
“This is when you say: ‘Dr. Fauci, you funded risky research at a sloppy Chinese lab. The same lab that sprung this pandemic on the world. You know why people don’t trust you, don’t you?’ Boom, he is dead! He is dead! He’s done!”
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