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Fox’s Shepard Smith Goes Rogue
From the Fox News online show The Strategy Room… What media bias?
I don’t watch Fox News all that much (I tend to stick to CNN unless Rick Sanchez is on) but I used to tune in to Shepard Smith’s ‘Studio B’ from time to time. Mostly because he tends to screw up a lot and say things that will eventually end up on YouTube. But for the past six months or so, Shepard Smith has tried so hard to be viewed as the antithesis of Fox News that it has become unwatchable. We get it, you’re independent. You don’t tow the Fox News line… Good for you.
Shepard has already signed a big fat contract so he feels comfortable saying whatever he wants at this point. He makes $8 million a year to read a TelePrompter. I don’t blame him for taking the big payday (hell, I would have done the same thing) but I do blame him for being an idiot.
Things started to get weird when Smith felt the need to put ‘Joe the Plumber’ in the hot seat, confirming my belief that anyone who dares disagree with Barack Obama and the Democratic surge will be ridiculed and put aside. But it wasn’t just that, he went from the nice, generic anchorman to some smarmy hack who steps out of line just to get some attention. The pot was boiling then but the kettle didn’t whistle until I saw this clip. It was recorded during the Fox News Internet show ‘The Strategy Room’ and the guest, comedian Nick DiPaolo, claimed the mainstream media was ‘in the tank’ for Barack Obama. Shep fervently disagreed.
This is not some crazy assertion, that the media was biased towards Obama. The Washington Post even went to the extent of admitting it’s biased election coverage. And they weren’t alone. Are you going to tell me, Shepard, that MSNBC didn’t slant coverage in favor of Obama? Are you going to tell me that the network newscasts weren’t biased? Are you going to tell me that the fervent way in which the press eviscerated Sarah Palin was acceptable? You couldn’t possibly…
Allow me to let you folks in on a little secret, Shepard Smith wants a real anchor job. Though the anti-Couric static has settled a bit now, it will return soon enough. Smith signed a three year deal and he’s doing everything he can to get the attention of the head honchos over at the Big Three. He wants a bigger audience, more respect and adulation from his peers. Though I’m glad he has goals and dreams, I’d love it just as much as you if he’d stick to the facts or, in this case, reality.
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Shawn, you mean you never watch Hannity’s America? It’s the funniest hour of television on all week.
How could we forget Shep’s famous gaffe?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIOREqBcFuY
Yes, quite frankly, if you are the type of person who believed Obama meant the death of Israel, or rampant Socialism, or letting terrorists into DC, then you DO deserve to be mocked and ridiculed. You’ve had this country long enough, imposing your moral values on all those you don’t agree. And the best thing we can do now, now that REAL AMERICA is back, is not to strike back at you, but to ignore you.