Fox News host Jesse Watters should be fired for using violent language at a conservative conference to encourage attendees to ambush Dr. Anthony Fauci in hopes of creating a viral moment.
Watters made his remarks Monday at the right-wing Turning Points USA conference where he gave students a playbook on how to record a viral moment that Fox News would air and that other right wing outlets would amplify.
"Now you go in for the kill shot. The kill shot? With an ambush? Deadly. Because he doesn't see it coming," Watters said.
"The only thing that I have ever done throughout these two years is to encourage people to practice good public health practices: to get vaccinated, to be careful in public settings, to wear a mask," Fauci said on "New Day. And for that, you have some guy out there saying that people should be giving me a kill shot to ambush me? I mean, what kind of craziness is there in society these days?"
Watters also encouraged supporters to film their "ambush" of Fauci so they could become famous. "You do that—30 seconds, it's all you need. Now you get that footage to us, you get it to Fox… Imagine Tucker Carlson teases that…," he said.
A spokesperson for Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
His actions should lead to consequences no matter how famous he is.
