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Over on Fox News, Jesse Waters
apparently just had a child.
And he's out on leave as a result
of that, which gives conservatives
an opportunity to do something.
Evolve in the very narrow,
specific circumstance where
something affects them.
So let's take a look at a video of
Jesse Waters talking about that,
and then we'll get into it.
>> My father said just today,
Jesse, you better get back on
the Five pretty soon, your
replacements have been really good.
>> [LAUGH] Thanks, Dad.
But now I'm pro-paternity.
I used to mock people for for
taking paternity.
I used to think it was a big ruse,
but now I wish I could take six
weeks.
But I don't know, apparently
I have people nipping at my heels,
so I gotta be back.
>> Look at him.
>> That entire segment is just
unbearable, by the way.
But they're a great group of
people, they seem really fun.
But anyway, Dan, now that
he has taken paternity leave,
he suddenly understands why someone
would want to do that.
And he apparently has
changed his position on that.
What do you think?
>> I mean, this is consistent
in American politics,
at least in my life's history,
as long as back when, in the mid
2000s, when being pro or against
same sex marriage was a major issue
in the country's politics.
It wasn't until certain Republicans
realized that they had relatives
who are coming out as gay,
or lesbian, or along the spectrum,
that they realized that, wow, these
are people that I care about and
I want them to just be happy.
So maybe I should support this
legislation that allows that to
occur, and allows equal treatment
within the laws of this country.
It's amazing, these little moments,
here and there,
happen when you watch Fox News kind
of in isolation.
And you can think, wow, are any of
these people actually real or
are they just kind of riffing,
punching a clock in 24/7?
I mean, the sad thing is,
they're saying this right now and
it means nothing.
It's going to be kind of throwaway
banter that like, yeah, us on
the left are going to do this.
But when the next time he's on and
he's talking about universal health
care or restricting healthcare
access for a bunch of people,
he is not going to fight.
But I think we should actually say
that, no Medicare for All.
We should definitely include paid
paternity care, paid maternity
leave or something like that.
He's not going to then pull into
his experience, and I doubt this.
He's not going to pull into the-
>> Totally.
>> Actually adapt that to political
beliefs, because that's a little
bit too much learning,
a little bit too much empathy than
the paycheck will allow.
>> I agree, this is terrible in
multiple levels.
So if he was being totally honest,
and he actually changed as a result
of this, this would be yet
another demonstration that there is
something fundamentally broken in
American conservatives and probably
conservatives internationally.
But I only know about the American
example, where they can't have any
empathy unless something happens to
them or someone very close to them,
which sucks.
And seems ironic when almost every
one of these people say that
they've been raised almost always
in conservative Christian churches
that teach empathy, and morality,
and all of these rules for
being good people.
And yet, they don't feel they have
a need to be good people until
something actually affects them.
That said,
that's sort of a myth anyway.
All of these things that supposedly
are core to conservative
Christianity might be,
theoretically, but nothing is more
core than learning hierarchy and
learning that there are circles of
who you should care about.
People who are like you in as many
ways as possible are the ones you
care about.
The farther you get away from that,
the less you actually have to care.
But as Dan said,
he's not going to learn.
He's not going to be suddenly
advocating for paternity leave, and
he's only going to support
Republican politicians,
none of whom actually support it.
So that's worthless.
He's probably lying anyway.
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