Remember Jesse Watters’ smear campaign against a 10-year-old rape victim who fled Ohio to get an abortion in Indiana?
Watters didn’t mention anyone at the supposed news network that employs him having done any investigation but that didn’t stop him from attacking other media for reporting on the girl’s rape, which he described as “another hoax.” C&L reported on Watters' vile misogyny last year, when the story broke:
"Are you telling me no one is trying to arrest the child rapist in Ohio?" Waters said. "Because I know Ohio. And they don't tolerate that there. So, where do we stand?"
"If this horrific story isn't accurate, and the abortion doctor and the Indianapolis Star are misleading us, and the mainstream media and the President of the United States seizing on another hoax -- this is absolutely shameful," he added. "And fits a pretty dangerous pattern of politically timed disinformation."
Project much, Jesse? Maybe the reason he didn’t do any investigating is that it would have ruined his smear campaign. On Wednesday, Watters was proven the disinforming hoaxer. The man who confessed to raping and impregnating the then-9-year-old was sentenced to life in prison.
The sad truth is, while Watters may briefly correct the record on the air, he will probably unrepentantly move on to another concocted smear. Media Matters notes that even after the rapist was arrested, Watters continued attacking the girl’s doctor, Caitlin Bernard, claiming she never reported the rape and that she “has a history of failing to report child abuse cases.” This claim was refuted by multiple local news sources the following day, Media Matters reported. Watters also attacked the media for not focusing on the rapist’s immigration status, as if that were the big takeaway from the case, and not the fact that a 10-year-old rape victim was almost forced to give birth under the repeal of Roe v. Wade.
Watters has been rewarded for this poison by getting promoted to Tucker Carlson's former time slot.
I hope Dr. Bernard sues Fox for defamation.
