Fox host Jesse Watters has walked right into a shitstorm of his own creation with comments he made Tuesday evening on his show, suggesting that President Joe Biden had stolen the terms “Bidenomics” and “Dark Brandon” from others and was therefore guilty of plagiarism.
According to HuffPost, “The Fox News host made the assertion after running a clip of ‘The Last Politician’ author Franklin Foer saying that Biden didn’t like being perceived as stupid since a plagiarism scandal helped ruin his bid for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.”
“You don’t have to go back that far,” Watters said. “Biden plagiarized the term Bidenomics. Biden plagiarized his own nickname, Dark Brandon. Remember that was a chanting NASCAR crowd that coined Brandon.”
Biden stole those? No. He repurposed them and turned insults into humor, which is what many on the right cannot stand: Rather than cowering in response to conservative chattering, Biden has used it to his advantage, and that burns them up.
That isn’t plagiarism, as many on Twitter quickly told Watters.
