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Kingofalldems

(38,458 posts) Mon Oct 29, 2018, 08:17 PM Oct 2018

I bet Trump has asked Fox to fire Shep Smith:

For reporting actual news.

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I bet Trump has asked Fox to fire Shep Smith: (Original Post) Kingofalldems Oct 2018 OP

Oh yeah, I bet you're right. irisblue Oct 2018 #1

I don't know how he's kept his job thus far. He's often not on the Fox/Republican Script. n/t libdem4life Oct 2018 #2

Shep just got re-upped to new contract for reasons. empedocles Oct 2018 #3

Obviously, Fox is hedging their bets. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2018 #5

Doesn't NBC have an opening? Pope George Ringo II Oct 2018 #4

Shep be much more influential and effective for civility, on fox empedocles Oct 2018 #6

Isn't his show real news? The rest are all opinion talkers. pwb Oct 2018 #7

irisblue

(32,980 posts)

1. Oh yeah, I bet you're right.

Reply to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2018, 08:21 PM

Oct 2018

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)

2. I don't know how he's kept his job thus far. He's often not on the Fox/Republican Script. n/t

Reply to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2018, 08:22 PM

Oct 2018

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

3. Shep just got re-upped to new contract for reasons.

Reply to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2018, 08:22 PM

Oct 2018

OAITW r.2.0

(24,504 posts)

5. Obviously, Fox is hedging their bets.

Reply to empedocles (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 29, 2018, 09:39 PM

Oct 2018

They can't keep putting clothes on the Emperor Wannabe. They probably know that the next few years will expose a lot more corruption that makes Fox complicit in propping this fraud up. Resigning Shep gives them someone that they can point to when advertisers start to leave Fox en masse.