After Fox News reporter Jesse Watters aired an outrageously racist segment targeting Asian-Americans on The O’Reilly Factor, the backlash was swift and continues to grow. Protests immediately erupted outside Fox News headquarters and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio weighed in, saying “The vile, racist behavior of Fox’s Jesse Watters in Chinatown has no place in our city. @FoxNews – keep this guy off TV.”
But the hardest commentary on the blatant racism at Fox News came from The Daily Show correspondent Ronny Chieng, who dismantled the racist segment with surgical precision and then went back to Chinatown for a real discussion.
Watch the full segment below and believe me, you’ll want to watch it to the very end. A transcript of a portion Chieng’s profanity-laced monologue is below.
After a clip of Jesse Watters asking a man, “Is it the year of the dragon?” Ronny Chieng returns to say, “No, it’s the year of go fuck yourself!” And then he went on a gloriously epic profanity-laced tirade against Jesse Watters and the racist O’Reilly Factor segment:
How is that on the news? How is that even on TV? Where the fuck did this come from? I mean, everyone’s been wondering who would be the target of 2016’s worst racism and I didn’t even know Asians were in the running!
Oh and by the way, if you are gonna be racist, at least get your stereotypes right you ignorant sack of shit. Karate isn’t Chinese, it’s Japanese! And you’re doing it in a Tae Kwon Do studio which is Korean you fucking jack off! (Makes hand motions) Jack on! Jack off! Jack on! Jack off! Fuck this guy!
And seriously, Mr. Miyagi? Update your reference material! That’s like me making fun of Americans for Saturday Night Fever and Mr. T. Yeah, real topical stuff, buddy. If you want to come at Chinese people, make fun of China’s high pollution or the fact they censor most of the internet. Which in this case might actually good thing since no person in China will ever have to watch your garbage attempt at comedy!
[O’Reilly Factor clip plays showing Jesse Watters interviewing and obviously mocking people who don’t speak English]
Hey asshole, they don’t speak English. That’s why they’re silent. It’s easy to make fun of someone when they can’t respond. Here, I’ll show you. [Puts photo of Jesse Watters on the screen] Hey, douchebag, why do you look like a guy who would carry around a pack of roofies just in case? And why do you look like you have hookers on speed dial? Oh, and follow-up question—is it hard to fit Bill O’Reilly’s entire scrotum in your mouth?
Ronny Chieng then took his cameras back to Chinatown for a real conversation with residents and the segment got even more hilarious from there.