[csusbpeace] Jesse Watters Dismisses Paul Pelosi Attack: People Get 'Hit With Hammers Every Day'
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Jesse Watters Dismisses Paul Pelosi Attack: People Get 'Hit With Hammers
Every Day'
Sat, October 29, 2022
Fox News’ Jesse Watters shrugged off the brutal attack on House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi’s husband during his Friday evening monologue by saying that getting
hit with a hammer was unremarkable.
“People are being hit with hammers every day. People are being pushed into
subways, slashed, shot in cold blood, but the media focuses on this one
single crime to pin it on Republicans?” he said on his show, “Jesse Watters
Primetime.”
In Watters’ mind, the attack was nothing special in the current landscape of
violent crime
<https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/myths-and-realities-understanding-recent-trends-violent-crime>,
a complicated issue Republicans have seized on in their midterm talking
points to paint Democrats as too soft.
Paul Pelosi, 82, was rushed to a hospital and underwent surgery to address a
skull fracture earlier on Friday after a man broke into the San Francisco
home he shares with his wife
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-pelosi-assaulted-home-nancy-pelosi_n_635bd0cfe4b04dfacf7f659d>,
who was in Washington, D.C., at the time.
The suspect, 42-year-old David DePape, had asked, “Where is Nancy? Where is
Nancy?”
An acquaintance told CNN
<https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/pelosi-attack-suspect-conspiracy-theories-invs/index.html>
that DePape was “out of touch with reality” and had been struggling with
homelessness and hard drugs. He posted conspiracy theories to his Facebook
page about the 2020 election and the 2021 Capitol attack. A blog authored by
“daviddepape” featured similar content, along with antisemitic sentiments and
opinions related to the QAnon conspiracy theory, CNN reported.
Many see the attack on Pelosi as a product of escalating political rhetoric.
Nancy Pelosi, in particular, has been vilified by the GOP for years
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-demonization-nancy-pelosi_n_635c954ce4b01c1b94e6700e>.
During Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, participants were filmed yelling
<https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/paul-pelosi-attack-nancy-pelosi-husband-january-6/671918/>,
“Where’s Nancy?” One fantasized about dragging her down
<https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-prosecutors-open-first-criminal-trial-against-alleged-capitol-rioter-2022-03-02/>
the Capitol steps, her “head hitting every fucking stair.”
Yet on Fox News, anchors rushed to portray it as an example of the randomness
of crime.
“This can happen anywhere,” host Bill Hemmer Friday morning. “Crime is
random, and that’s why it’s such a significant part of this election story.”
Host Laura Ingraham ran a chyron beneath a photograph of the Pelosis during
her show , “EVERYONE NEEDS TO CALM DOWN.”
Watters, considered by Fox to be part of its opinion side, echoed his
colleagues, telling his audience, “People in San Francisco are smashing
people in the head every day, and they get bailed out, and they don’t get hit
with attempted murder charges.”
He appeared to be referencing the progressive movement to end cash bail for
nonviolent offenders, declining to note that base the decision of pretrial
release on the offender’s risk to the community.
DePape was charged with several felonies on Friday, including attempted
murder, assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse.
Speaking Friday night, President Joe Biden condemned the attack and slammed
the tone that has come to saturate right-wing politics.
“There’s too much violence — political violence — too much hatred, too much
vitriol,” he said. “What makes us think that one party can talk about stolen
elections, COVID being a hoax, [that] it’s all a bunch of lies, and it does
not affect people who may not be so well-balanced?”
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