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With the GOP staring down brutal midterm math, the network's host is getting cranky

Published October 25, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)

Fox News host Jesse Watters listens as Vice President JD Vance discusses his new book on “The Five” on June 16, 2026, in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

There’s this old joke about a guy’s first day in hell. He’s being given the orientation: Here’s where we keep the pitchforks. Here’s where we make the printers. Then the time comes to pick his eternal punishment. The first room is fire and brimstone, eternal agony. “That’s not for me,” the man says. The second is full of people being eaten by animals. “Pass,” he says. In the third room, he finds people sipping coffee while waist deep in excrement. “I think I can handle that,” he says. The door closes behind him as a demon yells, “Coffee break’s over! Back on your heads!”

I’m not naive enough to think that Jesse Walters came to Fox News during a proverbial break in their typical wallowing.…