Watters' upbringing verged on crunchy, with mandatory summer stints in outdoor-leadership programs, he writes in his memoir. He describes his political"awakening," while at Trinity, rather literally: Waking up from a nap, Watters found the TV tuned to C-Span and something suddenly clicked.
"My dad could handle it, but it gave my mom road rage," Watters writes in his memoir."She swerved into oncoming traffic once during a monologue about welfare reform. Limbaugh literally drives liberals crazy." by"The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, who used the invitation to lambast the show for fueling partisan rancor and"hurting America." of another show, this time on MSNBC, for low ratings, and an appearance on"Dancing With the Stars," Carlson arrived at Fox News in 2009. For the next eight years, he gradually built a name for himself at the network, until 2017, when O'Reilly's dismissal gave him the chance to take the prime-time throne.
"I don't think he really understands how to use that type of influence in the way that O'Reilly and Tucker did," Lawrence said."He's just some guy who's been groomed to be a cable-news host, he has no expertise on anything. He just says the right words."Back in 2002, Watters spent his first days at Fox in a dungeon-like basement room labeling cassette tapes of news segments for $12 an hour, with no benefits, he writes in his memoir.
"The best way to handle me is to go totally mute," Watters writes in his memoir."Don't give me anything to work with. What you say can be used against you in the court of public opinion." Watters stood out as a favorite among the other junior staff and was the only one who consistently made it on camera, Muto recalled. While most of the staff wore jeans and T-shirts, Watters nearly always showed up to work in a suit, and often earlier than anyone else.
"I remember watching in astonishment," Wemple said."That was all a precursor to what Fox News has become day in and day out now."