Fox News host Jesse Watters, who is apparently an authority of what it means to be a manly man, gave jazz hands to make a point about how "real men" should or shouldn't wave.
The target of his ridicule was Tim Walz, the enthusiastic Democratic Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate who often greets the public by raising both hands in the air to wave.
But in Watters' world, that's overdoing it—effeminate, even.
On Wednesday's broadcast of The Five, the conservative Fox host claimed:
"Men don’t wave simultaneously with both hands.”
“We wave with one hand, not both hands at the same time."
The show's co-host Greg Gutfeld went one further and said, smugly:
“Men don’t wave at all, Jesse.”
To which Watters declared:
"We salute."
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Honestly, are we surprised?
Watters also mocked Walz by referring to him as "Tampon Tim," a moniker Republicans used after the Minnesota governor signed a 2023 education law that included a mandate allowing public schools to provide free menstrual products to students from 4th through 12th grades.
The hashtag #TamponTim began circulating on the internet the day after Walz was officially named former Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris' VP pick in the 2024 election.
Watters laid out more rules of manhood, warning his fellow hosts that men should be "just funny" and "not that serious."
He continued:
“You don’t eat soup in public. You don’t cross your legs, and you don’t drink from a straw."
"And one of the reasons you don’t drink from a straw is because the way your lips purse. It is very effeminate."
"And [Walz’s] excuse was, ‘I was drinking a milkshake.’ Again, you shouldn’t be drinking a milkshake. Milkshakes are for kids.”
The internet wondered if Watters was okay.
Watters' masculinity rules came after Walz responded to Fox News criticizing him for drinking milkshakes using a straw.
He tweeted:
"There’s nothing weird about Jesse Waters secretly enjoying a bowl of soup alone in the dark."
Earlier this week on Gavin Newsom's podcast, Walz talked about Fox News' apparent misogyny and obsession with Walz's masculinity while he was on the 2024 campaign trail with Harris.
"We buy their frame on these issues of sexuality, you know, but their whole thing was is that they spent all their time, these guys on Fox News, [saying] that 'Walz is gay, he's not masculine, you know, he doesn't coach football the way he should," said Walz.
He continued:
"There's misogyny in here that's happening."
"Not that I spend much time thinking about this, and it just baffled me how much time they spent trying to attack me, that I wasn't, like, masculine enough in their vision."
The former high school football coach added:
"I saw Fox News did, like, a couple days because I used a straw, and I'm, like, 'Hell, man, what am I—how else do you drink a milkshake?' type of thing."
"But they focused on it obsessively, which I think again is their obsession, their weirdness."
Real men using both hands to wave may be "effeminate" by Watters' standards of masculinity, but this isn't?
Just sayin'.
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