O’Reilly Stands By Jesse Watters After Chinatown Segment: This Isn’t a ‘Politically Correct’ Show

In an interview with The Bernie and Sid Show, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly confirmed he was standing by his frequent contributor Jesse Watters after a “Watters’ World” Chinatown segment that was widely criticized as racially insensitive.

“We ran a piece, more than five million people saw it on the day it ran. We had less than ten negative emails and no phone calls to FNC. None,” O’Reilly noted.

“All of sudden, thirty-six hours later, we get this barrage. And the wording was almost exactly the same from all these left-wing websites, almost exactly the same. So we know it was a coordinated attack,” he said.

O’Reilly said he would have edited it differently if it were him, but noted that Watters had done a similar segment a week earlier in Little Italy with no backlash. “These people, they live their life in a perpetual state of grievance…” he said. “He’s not getting fired. We are a program that is not politically correct.”

Listen above, via The Bernie and Sid Show.

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