"More and more frightening e-mails.." "These People are out there" - Shepard Smith

[TornadoTN]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxvunbIWNyI

Shepard Smith probably just became enemy #1 of the rabid right-wingers and Freepers. He's calling them out and setting the record straight.

Watch this video, if you don't watch anything else today.

[TornadoTN]

1. Bump because it needs to be seen nt

[Bluebear]

2. recommended

[malaise]

3. Thanks

Brian Williams is showing the neo-nazis now

[TK421]

4. kicked and rec'd....

[Tansy_Gold]

5. "They're feeding each other." Clue, folks: SO IS YOUR NETWORK

That is probably the first time I've ever watched anything from Faux that wasn't a clip on Olbermann or Maddow, but I was immediately struck by the truly preposterous irony that if anyone is feeding the hatemongers, chief among them have to be O'Reilly, Beck, etc.

What many of them seem to have forgotten is that the Nazis lost. And they lost in spades.



TG

[TornadoTN]

6. Yes indeed - they feed this bullshit

Shepard Smith is the lone voice of sanity on that network. I seriously doubt that after the backlash he's going to get and the campaign against him from the loyal goosesteppers of their audience he'll be employed much longer there.

[GrantDem]

7. After this I'm sure his volume of email will increase...

Mostly directed at him.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Fox will loose Smith

and what happened to him? Did he get a light bulb going on today?

[OneGrassRoot]

13. He lost it recently over the waterboarding discussion, video here:

Used the F-bomb and everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEtFMj6ZiHM


He did great during Katrina.

I've never watched his show, just seen clips, so I don't know if this is indicative of him in general or not.

If he does have integrity, why he is at Faux -- how he can stomach it -- is beyond me.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. It's a job and pays his bills?

media is gotten really small in some ways

[annabanana]

16. Sometimes all it takes is ONE rational voice to break the spell.

Maybe a few hypnotized fox viewers will be shaken from their slumber.

[conscious evolution]

19. I agree

When one of their own turns it can have a devestating effect.
That or they will turn on him like a pack of rabid wolves.

[annabanana]

20. Most will. Maybe a few will not.. . . .n/t

[TahitiNut]

24. Why? Is he tight?

:dunce:

[walldude]

25. It happens with him once in a while, he was the guy who

yelled "Torture is Un-American" on a newscast. He was also quite honest and good during Katrina.

Also Fox just signed him to a new contract, he's not going anywhere.

[Creena]

9. Shepherd for Scarbourough

Come over to the sane side, Shep.

[dmr]

10. He says the RWers are feeding each other in hate without the facts. Well ...

while Shepard isn't as bad as the others, he works for a 24/7 hate-filled/factless propaganda station.

So who's feeding who?

[Myrina]

11. FAUX's version of "We never could have guessed they'd use planes ..."

.... this is their way of avoiding liability and culpability for the monsters they've fomented and spurned to action.
They germinated and groomed and set loose this Frankenstein monster of unbridled RW Fear and Hatred, and now they're acting
surprised? Please.

The chickens are marching home to roost Billo, Beck and Rush ... whatcha' gonna do about it now?

Every single anchor and commentator, even Murdoch himself, should be legally liable for the insanity that's going on in the name of
"American white christian straight marriage anti-immigrant purity bible blah blah" phobia.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Actually this insanity of the right has existed WELL BEFORE

Fox aired its first program.

Not that they have not ahem encouraged some of it... but it's been around for ahem decades.

And I hate to even seem to be defending Fox, which I am not. but this has been going on for oh right after the civil war, well before the first TV or radio transmission ever went on the air.

[Wednesdays]

12. K&R

:kick:

[progressoid]

17. HIs ratings must be pretty good otherwise he would be canned for his outbursts against the party.

Seems like this is happening more and more with him.

Wonder how long before Fox gets fed up and replaces him.

[northofdenali]

18. K&R

This guy was really honest - these were not emotions played by an actor, for sure.

:scared:

[Liberal In Texas]

21. I think despite FNC being the offical propaganda arm of the GOPers, there are people that work there

that aren't completely deluded by the party kool aid. The hate email they're getting must be an eye-opening experience to some like Shep Smith.

It could also be a way to distance FOX from the absolute racist nutters who if they become identified with will marginalize them with the majority of Americans. And that will effect viewership, ratings and revenue. Nothing is done at FOX without the blessing of the top managers. If Shep was pissing them off and didn't change his tune, he would be gone.

So although it seems surprising to hear this on FOX, it really is in their best interest to hold the white supremacists and the absolute crazy freeper mentality at arms length. Pandering to their base is one thing, but I really think being associated with terrorism and murder scares the bejeezus out of them. It remains to be seen if O'Looftah is going to be reigned in some by the FOX execs in the coming weeks.

[Lorien]

22. Freepers have taken over the comments section

nut jobs are still foaming at the mouth about the already produced birth certificate.

[TornadoTN]

23. Freepers and RON PAUL!!!! idiots

I swear, there is so much evidence in that posting section to back up that we as a society have failed to evolve.

[emulatorloo]

26. Thanks for posting this n/t

[Marr]

27. He has these little "unvarnished truth" moments occasionally, where it seems like

the bullshit just becomes too ludicrous and he calls it what it is. I like that guy.

[grantcart]

28. They put him up against Dobbs and I prefer Smith

[bkcc]

29. This isn't surprising.

He was also the guy who cried foul when no one was coming to rescue people during Hurricane Katrina.
It's either all an act or FOX just keeps him around to make it appear they have a conscience.

[onlyadream]

30. Fox is party to blame here, but I'm glad Sheppard is there

so that the people who watch Fox get SOMETHING that is true and normal.

[LaPera]

31. First time I've watched any Fox news in many years...don't ever ask me to do it again....

These clowns are responsible for this idiot sheep hatred mentality, just as the pigman and they are just now shocked....where in the fuck have they been...fuck fox news...Are people going to tune and give their ratings and even high boost because of this obvious revelation...

Fuck Fox news and everyone drawing their big paychecks each week who work for that filthy slimy organization...I won't watch...and anyone who does is contributing to Fox' ratings and hence encouraging Fox through the ratings for more of Fox news lies and hate!

Give your ratings to The Ed Show, Keith Olbermann's Countdown & Rachel Maddow they certainly could use them and are the only fucking people on TV who consistently counter the lies Fox news spews out each & every day...and if they get ratings it's only time before others like CNN and the networks start offering a progressive point of view....why give your rating dollars to fox for more ad dollars?