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Shep Smith A decent Journo (Original Post) brettdale Mar 2012 OP
He occasionally has a spat of sanity. Lint Head Mar 2012 #1
I used to live in Miami and met Shep dballance Mar 2012 #2
He's still very biased Major Nikon Mar 2012 #3
uncanny resemblance to Christopher McDonald in Quiz Show Enrique Mar 2012 #4
He has always seemed to me to be COLGATE4 Mar 2012 #5
 

dballance

(5,756 posts)
2. I used to live in Miami and met Shep
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 12:07 AM
Mar 2012

I met Sheppard Smith when he was an anchor in Miami. By no means will I claim to have been one of his friends because I just met him a few times through my friends who worked at the same station. I'm not one of those people who needs to claim I'm a cohort of famous people. I'm not.

I will say Mr. Smith always impressed me as an honest, ethical person. So he doesn't just "come across as being decent." He really is.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
3. He's still very biased
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 12:08 AM
Mar 2012

It's just that occassionally he refuses to buy into some of the batshit crazy ideas that wingnuts dream up. That's all.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
5. He has always seemed to me to be
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 10:08 AM
Mar 2012

the best of an otherwise bad lot. I particularly enjoyed watching him refuse to play along with the Faux party line during Katrina in New Orleans. He practically tore O'Leilly a new one. Smith was on the ground at the Convention Center during the horrible first days and he told it like it was. He certainly seems to have a good deal of journalistic integrity - in fact, I often wonder how he survives on Faux.

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