Fox News' Shep Smith Blames Political Rhetoric For Threats Of Violence

[mcctatas]

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Every now and then, Shep makes me smile

[grantcart]

1. Shep makes me smile too

He even throws in the obligatory "both sides of the aisle" to keep his job.

[TheEuclideanOne]

9. Yeah, I always do a double take when I hear "both sides of the aisle".

You are probably right, it is to keep his job. If these newsfolks covered a KKK rally, they would probably say that there was alot of racial hatrid from both sides of the burning cross.

On a related note, what percentage of KKK members and White Supremecist Groups are Obama fans. Okay, I will throw out a round number of "0", so that means that every single racist today is a Republican and probably all very active in the Tea Party movement, and I use the term "movement" loosely" :) (puns intended)

[howmad1]

21. Shep is not that great.

If he had any brains, he would have kissed off fucks news a long time ago. He probably could write his own ticket on any other network. He's just as phony as the rest of the fucks bunch. Amazing how we and desperately need a bone thrown at us once in a while from the right wing, and lap this shit up .

[grantcart]

22. No one said he was great - he is the fly in the ointment or sack of shit in this case.

[Gman2]

2. It is no surprise that Freepland wants to crucify him.

[Pharaoh]

3. Thank you Shep!

K&R

One of the few voices of sanity at Fox.

[Optimistic]

4. For the most part

Sheppard Smith is one of the Best 'Journalists' in the business today. His show is the one show on Fox I will watch because for the most part he gives News,

[Grassy Knoll]

5. He needs an anti-hate network.....

The only guy on fox that doesent have poison tearing down this administration .

[FarLeftFist]

6. Shep will probably be receiving death threats soon too.

[SlingBlade]

7. Both Sides ?

I didn't pull a knife on a Mime, Did anyone else here do that ?

[vaberella]

18. He said that's...he does that time and again.

I've come to read into why he does it. He gets a slew of death threats of his own and for his family from time to time when he leans more center. Secondly, the Repub on the other end of the line would see it as a direct attack and he needs to keep these fools coming on. Otherwise he wouldn't say that. I realized this because on the off chance he speaks what he thinks 100% he reads out the threats and comments against him out loud. I think he's playing this tentatively because when originally he could get away with a mock he's seeing that these loons are acting out----and he probably doesn't want to test the water. I don't blame him.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

19. I was thinking that myself-

Exactly what have Democrats said that's triggered any sort of violent, psychotic behavior?

[L0oniX]

8. Clue: violence comes from violent people.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

10. Shep MUST have something on the folks at Fox Noise

cause he throws out some nice punches every now and then.

[underpants]

25. Shep staying in New Orleans was the deathknell for the Bush administration

Fox viewers couldn't help but see the truth

Shep is the only sane thing on that channel-that is why they stick him on in the middle of the afternoon

[Mr. Sparkle]

11. It is a bit rich considering the network he works for is responsible for a lot of it.

As if we didn't know it already, but Republicans are America's home grown terrorists. We have watched some of their supporters kill in the last few months and their actions and threats since the passage of the health care bill is a new low.

[Hulk]

12. Why do these ass holes always say "on both sides of the aisle"?

Was there a Democratic politician that talked this crap? Was there a liberal talk show host that suggested we go out and get our guns to "take our country back"? I'm lost.

I hate this shit. When someone is doing or saying something wrong...call THEM out on it, instead of watering it down to make it look like everybody's doing it. Everybody is NOT doing it. I don't recall this bull shit when the chimp and darth were f*cking the world up with their criminal activity, and raping the middle class with a nice juicy tax break for the fat cats, etc, etc.

Absolute bull shit!!

[perdita9]

15. Agreed!

I've yet to hear of a liberal showing up armed at a Conservative rally and I wonder how many death threats Mitch McConnell has gotten.

[Quantess]

26. Because FOX makes him say it. FOX signs his paychecks.

For an entertaining documentary, I highly suggest "Outfoxed". It's a few years old, but it's great. Former employees tell about the things they were made to do and say when they worked at FOX.

[Turborama]

13. The guy on the right looks like he's trying to stop himself from laughing

@ 00:32 onwards.

"Both sides of the aisle"? Nah, they own this, there's no shared responsibility.

[butterfly77]

14. Everytime the rightwing ..

puts the blame out they always try to pretend as though it is the Dems who started this shit. We Won and they got mad. They talk their shit to us and we talk back. Although,as far as I am concerned we haven't talked back enough..

[bertman]

16. Alright, Shep!! Way to sneak one in.

As for the "both sides of the aisle" bit, he has to do that to keep his job. Bottom line is that he was saying something that the idjits who tune in to Fox need to hear. More power to him.

Rec.

[vaberella]

17. Unfortunatley...Shep is a lone dove in that army of vultures.

He's the only one I can give my time to on Fox.

[Cha]

20. KR

[Crowman1979]

23. It seems that Shep has a concience and desperately wants to quit Faux news.

For both I applaud him in trying.

[roberterickson]

24. Hate Speech

leads to hate crimes... its not a new phenomenon people