Jesse Watters' Outrage Over Term He Just Decried Backfires Spectacularly

Fox News anchor Jesse Watters was furious last month over James Comey posting '86 47' on social media, claiming the former FBI director 'obviously was trying to put out a hit' on President Donald Trump — but is now using the same term on his show.
The conservative 'Primetime' host wielded the term both Tuesday and Wednesday to celebrate former ABC News correspondent Terry Moran and Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg getting ousted and leaving their posts, respectively.
'ABC just 86'd Terry Moran for calling Stephen Miller a hateful bigot,' Watters said Tuesday about the former correspondent, who was let go after criticizing the White House deputy chief of staff on social media. 'This was probably the easiest thing ABC ever had to do.'
Watters used the same term for Hogg, who announced Wednesday on social media that he won't be running for reelection due to 'a crisis of competence and complacency' in the Democratic Party.
'So this guy got 86'd because he's white, he's a guy and allegedly he's straight,' Watters said Wednesday. 'I don't want to impose that on him. The Democrats say they learned a lesson last election, but you look at this and it doesn't look like they learned anything.'
The term is commonly known to refer to the removal of someone from an establishment, or for a restaurant menu item that's no longer available, but was interpreted by Trump and his loyalists last month as a death threat after Comey shared the numbers on social media.
'He obviously was trying to put a hit out on Trump, got caught, deleted it,' Watters said on 'The Five' at the time. 'And he's got a book out — oh, what a coincidence! Any cop, any prosecutor knows the code for homicide.'
The police code for murder varies from state to state, but no known law enforcement agency uses 86 for it. The most commonly known code for murder is California's 187, which was made famous by West Coast hip-hop and Los Angeles-set crime films.
Watters is no stranger to airing apparent hypocrisies, however: he initially hailed the so-called Department of Government Efficiency for gutting federal agencies, only to plead with the Trump administration to spare those dearest to him when the cuts came home to roost.
His double standard in using the term 86'd, meanwhile, is getting torched on social media.
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