Fox Host Jesse Watters Embarrasses Himself Trying To Defend Florida

Fox News host Jesse Watters did his best to try to explain why Florida's new teaching standards for the teaching of slavery in American history are a good thing. But while he was attempting to explain that the legislation doesn't say what critics claim it says, he accidentally admitted that it says EXACTLY that. In the span of just four sentences, Watters confirmed everything that critics are saying is true, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Jesse Waters has only had his primetime show that replaced Tucker Carlson's primetime show for a few weeks now. And already, Jesse Waters is making sure that everybody understands that he is in fact, the dumbest person in primetime on Fox News. Unfortunately, he's not dumb enough yet for me to say he's the dumbest person on Fox News, but he's definitely the dumbest person in prime time because at the end of last week, Jesse Waters went out there and addressed all the hoop law about Florida's new educational standards that says teachers in Florida now legally have to tell their students that slaves learned a lot of useful skills while being owned by other human beings in American history. Like, yeah, it was torture. There was plenty of assault and abuse, and yes, they were stolen from their homelands sold and treated as property, but they learned some really super cool things while they were doing this.

So, you know, gets it all evens out. It's what you legally have to teach now in the state of Florida. So Jesse Waters goes out there Friday evening and he says, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, folks, people are saying that the law says this, but it doesn't say that. Instead, the law says exactly what the critics are saying. It says, now here is a clip. This is Jesse Water speaking, four sentences where he starts off saying one thing and in the last sentence actually confirms that he was lying in the first sentence. Take a look. No

One is arguing slaves benefited from slavery. No one is saying that it's not true. They're teaching how black people develop skills during slavery. In some instances that could be applied for their own personal benefit.

He, he totally contradicted himself in the span of four sentences. Folks, like, no, nobody's saying it benefited them. And then his last sentence is literally, uh, you know, in some instances that could be applied for their own personal benefit. Nobody's saying it benefited them except for the times when it benefited them, right? That's literally what this man is saying. I don't understand how you can get any dumber than that. I don't understand how this man can have an audience that didn't immediately watch that clip and say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What the frick dude you just said. Nobody says it benefits them, and then three sentences later you say it did benefit them. So you're admitting that everything that the critics are saying about this ridiculous backwards Florida law, you're admitting everything is true. Everything the critics are saying is true. And by the way, yes, this is a disgusting law.

It it, it is. I I, I mean, look, my, my wife teaches middle school, and this law is specifically directed at middle school teachers who have to talk about these things. Like, I don't know how she's going to do it. She's, she said she's not, you know, we'll, we'll see what happens. I, I would love, by the way, to be able to be the one to challenge that in court. So, you know, personally, we'll see, but as a state part of the United States, this is absolutely, and quite literally whitewashing American history because it goes a little further than that too.