Fox News Stands by Jesse Watters

It appears that Fox News is not going to muddy the waters when it comes to Jesse Watters.

The guy that got his start at Fox News ambushing people as a minion working for Bill O’Reilly, told a conservative group that when it comes to Dr. Anthony Fauci, they should "ambush" him and "go in for the kill shot."

"I'm sick and tired of conservatives always playing defense, it's time for us to go on offense," Watters said "I'm going to deputize all you guys to be little James O'Keefes ... Let's just say Fauci comes to town ... You've got to ambush a guy like Fauci."

"This guy's scrambling at this point. You have the goods," Watters said. "Now you go in for the kill shot. The kill shot, with an ambush, deadly. Because he doesn't see it coming. This is when you say, 'Dr. Fauci, you funded risky research at a sloppy Chinese lab'... Boom, he is dead! He is dead! He's done!"

Just more hate from Fox News?

Apparently.

While you won’t think that a network would like the fact that one of their own is telling people “ambush” anyone, Fox doesn’t really seem to mind.

"Based on watching the full clip and reading the entire transcript, it's more than clear that Jesse Watters was using a metaphor for asking hard-hitting questions to Dr. Fauci about gain-of-function research and his words have been twisted completely out of context," Fox News said in a statement.

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