{"id":87419,"date":"2019-04-22T15:49:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T22:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87419"},"modified":"2019-04-22T15:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T22:49:30","slug":"foxs-jesse-watters-says-dems-are-pandering-to-muslims-by-using-easter-worshippers-its-a-made-up-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/22\/foxs-jesse-watters-says-dems-are-pandering-to-muslims-by-using-easter-worshippers-its-a-made-up-phrase\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox\u2019s Jesse Watters Says Dems Are \u2018Pandering to Muslims\u2019 by Using \u2018Easter Worshippers\u2019: \u2018It\u2019s a Made-Up Phrase\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span class=\"o-dateline__author\"><span class=\"o-dateline__author-prefix\">By\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"Posts by Aidan McLaughlin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/author\/aidan-mclaughlin\/\">Aidan McLaughlin Courtesy Mediaite<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Fox News host\u00a0<strong>Jesse Watters<\/strong>\u00a0went off on those referring to victims of the Sri Lanka bombings as Easter worshippers,\u201d accusing them of making up a term in order to pander to Muslims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democrats, including former President&nbsp;<strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Hillary Clinton<\/strong>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/opinion\/conservatives-attack-hillary-and-obama-for-calling-easter-worshippers-easter-worshippers\/\">faced a backlash from conservatives<\/a>&nbsp;for using the term Easter worshippers\u201d in their initial responses to the attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look at some of the leading Democrats, how they characterized it,\u201d Watters said on&nbsp;<em>The Five<\/em>&nbsp;Monday. They didn\u2019t use \u2018Christians.\u2019 They didn\u2019t say \u2018a lot of churches.\u2019 They actually said \u2018Easter worshipers were under attack.\u2019 You don\u2019t call Muslims \u2018Ramadan worshipers.\u2019 You don\u2019t call Jews \u2018Passover worshipers.\u2019 It\u2019s a made-up phrase.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watters continued: Why did they make up phrases like this? This is one of the reasons why people don\u2019t trust liberals because they are not in touch with reality. They do this because they are pandering to Muslims. Because a lot of liberals feel they are so upset with how other people think about them and if they are thought up to be insensitive, that drives them crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that Easter is an exclusively Christian holiday, so it\u2019s unclear why using the term Easter worshippers\u201d does much to obscure the faith of the victims. What\u2019s more, the phrase is not made up \u2013 the same formulation has been used on the air at\u2026 Fox News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Aidan McLaughlin Courtesy Mediaite Fox News host\u00a0Jesse Watters\u00a0went off on those referring to victims of the Sri Lanka bombings as Easter worshippers,\u201d accusing them of making up a term in order to pander to Muslims. Democrats, including former President&nbsp;Barack Obama&nbsp;and&nbsp;Hillary Clinton,&nbsp;faced a backlash from conservatives&nbsp;for using the term Easter worshippers\u201d in their initial responses to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}