By Ted Johnson On Fox News Channel’s The Five on Monday, co-host Jesse Watters admitted he “didn’t take social distancing seriously” on Friday, Saturday and Sunday night, before waking up the next morning and realizing “that was not the right move.” “I am no longer going out to dinner.
I was trying to help my local restaurants,” he said. As President Donald Trump has retreated from downplaying the threat of the coronavirus to calling the situation “bad” and urging the public to take on a dramatic series of steps, so too have some of his biggest defenders on the news network.
The shift in tone has been apparent on shows like Hannity, in which host Sean Hannity said Monday that “now is not the time for Washington to play games.
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