After releasing a "humorous" look at Asian Americans that was nothing but a long list of every possible racist stereotype he could wedge in there, Bill O'Reilly ambush "journalist" Jesse Watters took to Twitter to say well golly, all them jokes were just in good fun.
As a political humorist, the Chinatown segment was intended to be a light piece, as all Watters World segments are.
My man-on-the-street interviews are meant to be taken as tongue-in-cheek and I regret if anyone found offense.
As is per usual for Fox News, it's unclear whether Watters understands what any of those words mean. Being a "political humorist" has never meant being free to wallow in racist tropes; the phrase you are looking for is "racist." Faux-interviewing a person who does not speak English and then mocking them when they cannot answer is not "tongue-in-cheek", it is simply being a frat-boy asshole.
And I'm sorry if you were offended is the very definition of that newish of political portmanteaus, the topology. It's a polite-sounding but direct way to say I do not regret doing the transparently nasty thing, but I'm very sorry you want to keep talking about it.
In the meantime, lawmakers and media figures continue to blast the segment as being racist even above Fox News' usual attempts, and media watchers are taking the opportunity to point out that racism and sexism has been a staple of past Watters segments as well.
What will come of this? Probably nothing, because Fox News stokes racism as a daily talking point. The danger posed by minorities, whether because they are presumed criminals or presumed terrorists or coming for your jobs or not speaking English around you and therefore probably talking about you behind your back and damn it don't you wish there was a law saying they couldn't do that, and so forth, is a staple of the network. As we're seeing now, that's a feature that's going to outlast Roger Ailes.