Weekly Standard writer calls Fox News’s Watters a ‘disgusting creep’ over Ivanka remark

John Podhoretz isn’t buying a Fox News host’s explanation for a controversial remark he made on air about Ivanka Trump.

Podhoretz, a contributing editor and movie reviewer for the conservative Weekly Standard, blasted Fox’s Jesse Watters on Twitter, calling him a “disgusting creep” for saying on the network that he “really liked” the way Trump, the president’s daughter and adviser, was speaking into a hand-held microphone.

“Congratulations, Jesse Watters, you’re a disgusting pig as well as being a racist moron,” Podhoretz said on Twitter.

Watters later clarified his remark on Twitter, saying he didn’t mean for it to be taken sexually.

{mosads}”On air I was referring to Ivanka’s voice and how it resonates like a smooth jazz radio DJ. This was in no way a joke about anything else,” said Watters.

But Podhoretz wasn’t buying it. He retweeted Watters’s clarification, adding, “You are so full of shit it’s coming out your ears, you disgusting creep.”

You are so full of shit it’s coming out your ears, you disgusting creep. https://t.co/1cnrfc8rDC

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) April 26, 2017

“Jesse Waters complains the Left doesn’t respect Ivanka Trump and then in front of 2.5 million people intimates Ivanka was blowing her mike,” he continued. “Jesse Watters is everything I loathe about everything.”

Watters has made headlines with his on-air antics before. In October, Watters apologized for a segment for then-host Bill O’Reilly’s show that involved man-on-the-street interviews in Chinatown, which some viewers found offensive.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to Podhoretz’s title.