S.E. Cupp works for CNN, the same channel that spends virtually every day complaining any push-back to the left's agenda is an "attack on democracy." Yet she had the audacity to claim that one Fox News host laughing at infighting between Democrats means the right “wants to see disarray in America” and “two Americas.”
The intense overreaction came from Cupp while she was on New Day, Tuesday. Co-host Brianna Keilar played one small excerpt of something FNC’s Jesse Watters said Monday on The Five.
Introducing the clip, she played Watters: “I work at Fox! I want to see disarray on the left. It's good for America. It's good for our ratings,” he touted as the Fox panel laughed.
Watters quip was only one small part of an entire segment showing progressive Democrat strategists and MSNBC analysts complaining that Joe Biden's poor polling would hurt them in the midterms and griping he was not doing enough for the far-left wing of the party. Here’s the rest of what Watters said [click "expand"]:
[I]f I was a member of the squad, I would want federalizing elections, socialized medicine, tax hikes, gun grabbing, the green new deal. Joe hasn't given me that because he has been blocked by the courts, the Constitution, and Joe Manchin. But he has met them halfway, he’s given them open borders and reckless spending. There are still not happy. They want 100% of their agenda. They want total control over your life. People in the audience have probably dated other people like that and we know how painful that can be. But do I feel sorry for Joe Biden? No. I work at Fox. I want to see disarray on the left. It's good for America. It's good for our ratings. I want to see this guy primaried by rich liberals, crazy liberals, so much so that they can hit the threshold to pop the debate so he has to argue with communists about whether they're going to fund solar paneled slavery reparations.
Cupp had a meltdown in response, claiming that the FNC host was really saying he wanted America in disarray and wanted two Americas, where "one is righteous" and "one needs to be sort of excised." Wait, isn't that what CNN wants? This is the same news organization who tries the ruin the lives of every day people whose politics they don't like, labels Republican voters white supremacists and domestic terrorists and obsesses over January 6 on the daily.
Regardless, the CNN commentator seemed to project CNN's hatred onto Fox:
Yeah, it's the quiet part. He said the quiet part. I never would have imagined calling Jesse Watters a scholar. However, I think what he just did is really articulate sort of the three pillars of the new American right. Um, the first is that there are two Americas, not one. He talks about, you know, wanting to see disarray on the left as if it is somehow also not wanting to see disarray in America. And not just in a political party, but wants real pain in the streets. That's because we are not the United States anymore on the right. There are two Americas. One is righteous. One needs to be sort of excised.
Number two is the cruelty is the point, right? They want to see the pain and the disarray. They want people like Joe Biden and AOC and Pelosi and liberals to suffer. They're not interested in changing hearts and minds with ideas. They want to see the pain because the cruelty is the point. And, thirdly, ratings above all else. That's true at Fox. Where certainly, ratings have seemed to trump public health and safety and also, like, facts, but it is also true of the attention economy that has really gripped the right, for people like Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert. Getting attention is the most important thing.
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Read the transcript below:
CNN New Day
1/4/2022
BRIANNA KEILAR: A Fox host saying this live on the air.
JESSE WATTERS: I work at Fox! [laughter] I want to see disarray on the left. It's good for America. It's good for our ratings.
KEILAR: Joining us now, CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp. I'm filing this under stuff we already knew, I guess?
S.E. CUPP: Yeah, it's the quiet part. He said the quiet part. I never would have imagined calling Jesse Watters a scholar. However, I think what he just did is really articulate sort of the three pillars of the new American right. Um, the first is that there are two Americas, not one. He talks about, you know, wanting to see disarray on the left as if it is somehow also not wanting to see disarray in America. And not just in a political party, but wants real pain in the streets. That's because we are not the United States anymore on the right. There are two Americas. One is righteous. One needs to be sort of excised.
Number two is the cruelty is the point, right? They want to see the pain and the disarray. They want people like Joe Biden and AOC and Pelosi and liberals to suffer. They're not interested in changing hearts and minds with ideas. They want to see the pain because the cruelty is the point. And, thirdly, ratings above all else. That's true at Fox. Where certainly, ratings have seemed to trump public health and safety and also, like, facts, but it is also true of the attention economy that has really gripped the right, for people like Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert. Getting attention is the most important thing.
