Fox News star Jesse Watters disclosed that he was bitten by a dog owned by a Democrat during a Thanksgiving break hike.
Watters made the revelation on the Monday night episode of his eponymous “Primetime” show on the network.
The host said that he was ten minutes in to a walk at a nature preserve, where he “never” sees anybody “ever,” when he was approached by a woman on the trail with her large dog.
He noted that she “nervously” greeted him, in an effort to “test” who the man approaching her in the woods was, but said that he should have been the one who was “apprehensive,” due to the size of the dog and her difficulty keeping the animal leashed.
Ouch! Jesse Watters tells viewers a Democrat’s dog BIT him in his groin and hand while he was out hiking over Thanksgiving:
“I could tell she was a Dem because when I pulled into the nature preserve there was a Subaru outback – a dead giveaway – plus she didn’t recognize me.” pic.twitter.com/lgANGmdRz9
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“We’re on a tight part of the trail and I notice the dog’s all wet, and she’s like, ‘Oh, this my dog, you know, [he’s] kind of wet, he just swam in the pond,’ and I’m thinking, this is kind of crazy,” Watters began.
“You’re letting your dog swim in a pond, [when it’s] 37 degrees in a nature preserve?” he added. “That’s my first clue.”
He said that the “second clue” to how badly the encounter was going to turn out, was when he noticed that the woman was “kind of struggling to hold the dog on the leash.”
Watters said that as she walked by with the dog, he tried to back up to “give her a little room,” but his efforts were futile.
That’s when the animal turned vicious and bit him twice, the first time the dog nipped at his groin, then more painfully took a “chunk” out of his hand.
He encouraged the “Primetime” camera operator to zoom in on his hand, which was slightly scarred, but still intact.
The woman asked him if he was okay, and Watters replied that he guessed he was okay, as he was not bleeding, but complained that he “looked like an idiot.”
“I ask her, ‘are you okay.’ That’s how well mannered I am. Seriously, my mother has raised me so well, I’m worried how she’s feeling,” he continued, noting that “it could be traumatic when your dog bites a stranger.”
“I mean, thank God she bit me. She didn’t bite someone litigious like Judge Jeanine [Pirro]. She would have been tied up in court for a year,” he quipped.
Watters was clearly unimpressed by the woman’s explanation that the dog attacked him because the animal becomes excitable around other humans.
“Really, lady,” he quipped. “It punctured the skin.”
The Fox News host said that the wound “might not look bad,” but he’s a fast healer.
Despite his wife’s insistence that he see a doctor, and his producer urging him to get a rabies shot, he just washed it off with soap.
Watters decided that the dog owner was obviously a Democrat, because there was a Subaru Outback in the parking lot when he pulled into the nature preserve, which was a “dead giveaway” for her political affiliation.
He said that there was one other clear indicator that the woman was definitely a liberal. “She didn’t recognize me,” he concluded.
Michelle Wolf, the guest host of “The Daily Show,” torched Watters for telling the tale in painstaking detail.
“Every once in a while, I’ll check in with Fox News, just to see which race/pronoun/M&M I should be scared of now,” Wolf snarked.
“All he was doing was meandering through the world’s most boring Thanksgiving. And, like, not for a little bit of time. He talked about it for, like, half his show.”
Wolf was shocked that Watters, who she dubbed “Roofie Magazine’s Man of the Year,” spent such a significant amount of time on his holiday attack, rather than reporting on actual news.
“Why is he still going? Like, does the bus explode if he ends the story?” She joked.
“The top prime-time news show on the top cable news network in America—over 16 minutes in—and we got to ‘wet dog.’”
Though eventually, she admitted to being fine with Watters’ decision to share a personal story.
“This was 16 minutes that I wasn’t hearing about January 6th being a field trip, so, you know what Fox News? Keep it up, little buddy.” Wolf concluded.