Jesse Dollemore challenges Watters's synagogue joke to Jessica Tarlov
His commentary links the exchange on The Five with Fox panelists' objections to Arabic phrases in Abdul El-Sayed's victory speech.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 928,421 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (70,864).
Jessica Tarlov STUNNED by Cohost's BIGOTED Joke
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- 0:56Watters answers Tarlov's church-attendance question with a remark about her synagogue attendance.
- 1:48Dollemore questions the joke's meaning and why Tarlov's religious practice becomes its subject.
- 3:13Fox panelists object to El-Sayed's Arabic phrases and his address to Muslim supporters.
- 8:18El-Sayed's victory speech supplies the context for his use of "Inshallah" and "Alhamdulillah."
- 9:17Dollemore invokes shared Abrahamic religious heritage and argues that the panel's criticism is in bad faith.
Jessica Tarlov asks Jesse Watters how often he attends church. His reply turns the question toward her synagogue attendance, followed by "Boom! Roasted." For Jesse Dollemore, that response is the starting point for a broader criticism of Fox News's election coverage.
The upload drew roughly 520,000 views in nine hours, already far beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for regular videos. But the exchange advertised in its title is only the first part of Dollemore's argument.
In the excerpt from The Five, Tarlov is criticizing Mike Rogers when Watters mocks Democrats attending church. Her question about his own attendance produces the synagogue remark. Dollemore then stops to question what the joke is supposed to mean and why her religious practice enters the discussion.
He connects that moment with a separate election-night panel discussing Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed. Joel Pollak objects to El-Sayed addressing Muslim supporters first, while Elizabeth Barcohana criticizes his use of Arabic rather than English.
Dollemore later plays El-Sayed's rally remarks, including his use of "Inshallah" and "Alhamdulillah," and points to the shared Abrahamic heritage of Islam, Judaism and Christianity. His argument is that the panel treats ordinary expressions of faith as grounds for suspicion. "All of this is in bad faith," he says, bringing the two Fox segments together as examples of rhetoric he considers bigoted.
An American Democratic political strategist and rotating co-host of Fox News’s The Five.
More on Wikipedia ›An American conservative commentator who co-hosts The Five and hosts Jesse Watters Primetime on Fox News.
More on Wikipedia ›A Republican who represented Michigan’s 8th congressional district from 2001 to 2015. He chaired the House Intelligence Committee from 2011 to 2015.
More on Wikipedia ›An American politician and epidemiologist who is Michigan’s U.S. senator-elect.
More on Wikipedia ›A South African-born American conservative commentator and opinion editor at the California Post. He previously spent almost 15 years as Breitbart News’s senior editor-at-large.
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- November 7, 2026
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- 928,421
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The video passed the channel's usual full-day views within its first nine hours. Comments had also already exceeded the usual first-day total several times over.
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Which Fox News program features the Tarlov-Watters exchange in Dollemore's video?
Dollemore opens his commentary with an excerpt from The Five featuring Tarlov and Watters.


