Fox News Names Jesse Watters Permanent Host of 7 P.M. Primetime Slot

Townhall.com ^ | January 10, 2022 | Landon Mion

[USS Alaska]

The same talents of the late Great One, Rush Limbaugh.

Not even close, in talents or convictions.

Jesse is OK, he's funny and he has a sense of 'reading the room', but Rush did it for thirty plus years, and saved AM radio.

Same talent, meh.

[libstripper]

Looks to be that Jessee has a package of talents that could be as attractive as Rush’s were. Remember, Jessee’s still young and has a lot of growing yet to do.

[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

[Inspectorette]

I’m in Oregon, and I get Laura Ingraham at 7:00 p.m.

[Vaduz]

Wonder if she’s getting bumped to a new time slot?.

[Inspectorette]

Looks like they’re making a number of changes. Just saw that Judge Jeanine will be a permanent member of “The Five”, and not having her weekly Saturday show. So the 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. Eastern Saturday slots are now open. It’ll be interesting to see who gets those slots. Hannity has been touting Joe Concha, who is excellent, don’t know if he can carry a regular weekly one-hour show.