‘You Need To Get It Together’: Dana Perino Implores Jesse Watters To Stop Dishing About Fox News on Live TV

Fox News’s Jesse Watters drew rebukes from his co-hosts on Wednesday’s edition of The Five, where he offered an impassioned defense of a Democratic candidate that involved claims about his employer.

The hosts discussed former Rep. Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Alaska, who is within striking distance of Sen. Dan Sullivan. Last week, several former staffers accused Peltola of being hostile toward staff and others who had run afoul of her. One text message shown to The New York Times shows that Peltola referred to an Alaskan businessman as a “r*tard.” The former staffers also said Peltola used the word “fa**ot” on multiple occasions, a charge Peltola denies.

“There’s a difference, obviously, between having thick skin and giving someone a free pass,” Emily Compagno said. “Yes, snowflake culture is a real risk and raising kids or that whole generation, if they’re soft and thin-skinned and dependent, then they will become soft, thin-skinned, dependent adults. But the other thing is, it’s 2026 and culturally and legally, employees can expect professionalism. And expecting professionalism is not fragility.”

Watters took issue with Compagno’s analysis and offered a fiery response in which he invoked his time as a producer on The O’Reilly Factor early in his Fox News career. His take elicited startled responses from Compagno and co-host Dana Perino:

WATTERS: Emily, you’ve gone soft. You’ve heard those words said at Fox. You’ve heard these words before. We’re gonna be all soft. “Oh my God!” Who cares? It actually makes people like her more. This is from the world’s most dangerous catch, Alaska. People use salty language there–

UNIDENTIFIED CO-HOST: Deadliest Catch.

WATTERS: Deadliest Catch! Even better. Who cares what she says? It’s what she does. People are sleeping with interns. They’re insider trading. They’re taking bribes and not even showing up to work. And people are upset that she said a bad word? It’s a bad word! You think Bill O’Reilly tucked me in at night and sang me a lullaby? Goodness gracious! Ari Emanuel, high performer, he throws stuff at staff. You know what this staff says? “Thank you, Ari. Next time, hit me in the face.” This is what is done in an intense environment. You go work on a Wall Street trading desk. Go work at the Pentagon. People say stuff! And it’s disloyal to drop a dime on your boss when the Senate power is hanging in the balance.

This could cost her the seat, and then what happens next? The Democrats aren’t there to block a Supreme Court justice, and it’s like three beta males and some soft snowflake girl who went to college and studied women’s studies and African studies? That’s what the problem is, and that’s why Democrats are where they are. Because they’re afraid of getting yelled at. Getting yelled at makes you a man. And if you’re not yelled at, you’re not doing anything.

COMPAGNO: I would like HR to know that he was kidding.

WATTERS: I’m not kidding!

PERINO: You need to get it together.

WATTERS: I’m not kidding!

PERINO: You need to get it together.

WATTERS: Yeah, they should get it together.

Watch above via Fox News.

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