Sean Hannity escalated his war of words with Jimmy Kimmel Thursday evening, tweeting a video from Kimmel’s tenure on “The Man Show” when the comedian asks various women to touch his crotch and calling the ABC host “Harvey Weinstein Jr.”
One of the women on tape, whose date was not immediately clear, said she was 18. Kimmel co-hosted the Comedy Central show from 1999 to 2003.
“This is ABC’s @jimmykimmel aka Harvey Weinstein Jr. Asking 18 year old girls to grab his crotch and “put their mouth on it”. Jimmy that’s you being a pervert a–hole. How would you feel if that was your daughter? I bet @Disney is so proud,” said Hannity. “So @jimmykimmel (aka Harvey Weinstein jr) I’ll have much more tomorrow…… @Disney Tick Tock.. Best Sean #pervertkimmel”
While “The Man Show” was always kind of cringe-worthy in hindsight, its segments are particularly at odds today amid the broader MeToo movement and with Kimmel’s new persona hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on ABC.
Hannity’s response came after Kimmel used his Thursday night show to lace into the Fox News host for calling him an “a–clown” earlier in the week.
“This is the guy who defended the multiply-alleged pedophile Roy Moore,” Kimmel said. “And I’m a despicable disgrace. I’m the a- clown. Here’s the thing. If I’m an a- clown, and I might very well be, you, Sean, are the whole a- circus. You’re the juggler, you’re the trapeze artist, you are the a- lion tamer and the a- human cannonball all jammed into one little car. You are the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey of A- Clownsmanship.”
The origin of the feud was a Kimmel segment joking about Melania Trump reading to children at the annual White House Easter Egg roll. In his monologue Monday — yes this goes back to Monday — Kimmel mocked the first lady’s accent.
“About dees and dat. Guillermo, you realize what this means?” Kimmel said to sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez. “You could be first lady of the United States.”
In addition to Hannity, the moment was offensive enough for Kimmel to receive a scolding on “Fox & Friends” this week as well.
Reps for Kimmel did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for additional comment.
Fox News' Jesse Watters: His 10 Most Offensive Moments (Videos)
Shortly after O'Reilly was ousted from Fox News, Watters took his own vacation from the network after coming under fire for making a comment about First Daughter Ivanka Trump, which some interpreted as inappropriate sexual innuendo.
Watters' recurring segment on "The O'Reilly Factor" involved sending the host out to various events and locations across the country for man-on-the-street style interviews that mock various cultural subgroups in their own communities. In a 2016 segment, Watters went after Italian Americans at the Feast of San Gennaro festival.
One of Watters' most controversial segments came in the form of a 2016 venture into New York's Chinatown. In the heavily criticized piece, Watters turned his signature schtick on Chinese Americans, resulting in a blatantly racist segment that played on Asian stereotypes and openly mocked its subjects.
Watters' October 2016 venture to the Amish community in Pennsylvania was turned into one recurring punchline -- over the fact that the Amish don't vote or pay much attention to presidential politics. "Lucky you," he tells several people.
In 2007, O'Reilly sent Watters to ambush Bill Moyers in the street after the PBS host released a documentary criticizing the Bush administration for the Iraq War. Bill O'Reilly would later go on to call that segment a contributing factor in Moyers' decision to retire.
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In 2015, Watters went to Penn Station to criticize the "rise of homelessness" in New York City, pointedly asking those sleeping at the station about their drug habits and what they did to make money on the streets.
On the anniversary of 9/11, Watters went to a convention for Muslim Americans to ask them about terrorism and Islamic radicals. When a woman criticized the media for linking terrorism to the Islamic religion, Watters and O'Reilly both balked at the suggestion that "Christian terrorism" could even exist.
In 2009, Amanda Terkel, then the managing editor of Think Progress, wrote a column in which she said she was "followed, harassed, and ambushed" by Watters while on vacation after she ran a column criticizing Bill O'Reilly for his comments toward rape survivors.
Watters was caught on video getting into a fight at the 2016 White House Correspondents' Dinner afterparty with The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim. It was later reported that Grim approached Watters with a camera asking him to apologize to Terkel for his behavior in 2009.
O'Reilly sent Watters to Philadelphia for a tone-deaf segment about racism in which he mocked the Black Lives Matter movement, criticized political correctness and generally failed to elevate the conversation surrounding race relations in America.
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Shortly after O'Reilly was ousted from Fox News, Watters took his own vacation from the network after coming under fire for making a comment about First Daughter Ivanka Trump, which some interpreted as inappropriate sexual innuendo.
