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Certain loser co-editors tell your editor that this Shepard Smith video is “a couple of days old,” and apparently the entire nation watches the teevee at 3 p.m. on weekdays so yeah, OLD NEWS IS OLD, etc., but for maybe the last dozen dignified people in America who DON’T watch the fucking teevee all day, here is Shep calling the entire Fox News audience a bunch of stupid violent nitwits.
We have liked him since his meltdown covering Katrina. And if you do watch cable news, in the daytime, for some reason, make sure to turn on Shepard Smith when that orange-headed vulgarian Lou Dobbs is doing his Mexican mouth-breathing act on the CNN.
Oh and now Rush Limbaugh is going to EAT our nervous Fox News friend, because come on, don’t be a pussy, it’s all Obama’s fault probably! [Talking Points Memo/Fox News]
Can’t see video at work- anyone got a synopsis?
I gotta say, no snark, I kinda admire him for this.
I bet Shep’s inbox makes the garbage we send to tips@wonkette seem like light pleasant summer reading in comparison.
Rush will only eat Shep if he comes sauteed, and with the hippo.
Reverse Psychology FAIL.
synopsis: he said he gets a hundred scary right-wing e-mails a day and it’s scary. disturbing also.
and now since he’s outed these loonies, they’re after his ass (that’s a rumor i heard; in fact, it’s a rumor i just now started).
Funny the only responsible/rational reporter at FOX is ‘allegedly’ teh gay.
and cute, too. You go Shep Smith.
Shep Smith just gave me a boner and I don’t even have a dick.
Maybe the Fox News email should be automatically cc’d to the FBI.
Problem is: the GOP has basically shrunken down to a half-dozen Klan members, a couple of shell shocked Vietnam vets with bits of shrapnel still lodged in their brains, a guy in Tampa who’s just murdered his fifth “dirty slut hooker” and 1,287 talk radio hosts.
Humpback: no snark here either, but my paranoid side asks: is this just the Fox team playing good cop/bad cop, showing how, gosh, this black socialist president is really not good for ordinary American folks, making ‘em all riled up like this, with guns, etc.
It’s frightening that Fox News is so very fucked up that the mere display of logic by someone affiliated with the Network is newsworthy.
The reactions to this are amazing. I was doing “research” on it this morning, and the Righties literally want to string him up and waterboard him to death. FAIR AND BALANCED VIEWERS, mind you. FAIR. AND. BALANCED.
InsidiousTuna: wingnuts can’t spell, they use allcaps and they are fact free.
and maybe a teensy bit scary.
He IS cute. And I’m straight. I think.
I hope Rush likes the taste of eyeliner.
Good heavens, two people on Fox talking sense? Bet you they both get fired.
slappypaddy: Hey, I heard that rumor someplace. Maybe here.
emberglance: If you mean “straight as a horseshoe” then yes.
I think he has been reading Wonkette.
shortsshortsshorts: I also loved Shep Smith when he was making fun of Glen Beck during the ‘they surround us’ episode.
And I was amazed he got away with it without betting fired.
emberglance: Whoa. Your mind is twisty. You should be writing paperback thrillers. Or working for the Pentagon.
Goodbye Shep.
Rush has already called Shep a pussy because he was whining about a few emails. Isn’t Lou Dobbs being replaced with a show to be hosted by Joy Behar? Geez, I can’t tell which would be more preferable! I would be sadly disappointed, though, if Lou didn’t manage to blame the messicans for this outrage! Once again, the white man has been brought down…by a female Jew??
emberglance: Ailes likes Shep. And I assume as long as his numbers are good, he keeps his time slot. When they drop, say hello to your new host….the former Miss California.
Arguably one of the best reporters of his generation who is on FOX News.
“Where’s his birth certificate” is fast becoming a universal euphemism for “He’s a nigger”.
I would hope that popular Conservatives in the media would learn from the frenzied WALNUTS! campaign rallies where Drudge Report style slogans whipped mouth-breather crowds into a foaming-at-the-mouth type frenzy. Let’s tone down the rhetoric so the domestic terrorists don’t shoot up a free clinic when the health care coverage kicks into high gear.
Formerly Preferred: I went mud bogging, I mean I read some stuff in Freeper land.
So far they are just talking about getting him fired. “How dare Fox News have someone who I disagree with on air!”
Shep “Run ‘em over” Smith is either going to be the basis of an MSNBC lite makeover or fired. Prolly.
OMG!!! I’M SO HAPPY HE READ MY EMAIL ON THE AIR!!!!!
emberglance: Maybe they just came to the realization that there is no more profit to be made selling pointless news and sophistry/retarded analysis to an increasingly small demographic. The folks in the FOX boardroom are seeing red ink creep in and decided to make Shep the front man in a serious rebranding. . .
Formerly Preferred: Shep is in a new movie ‘outing’ the RWers.
I expect him to disappear from view for a week then return. Completely back on-message but with one of those funny bumps under his suit jacket
Old Shep is moving his teevee persona to the left. It’s been happening for a while. He is acting on orders from his Jewish overlords, Rupert Murdoch and Leon Trotsky.
I think the guy in the next cubical may have sent that e-mail.
Yes, I did see that the wingnut blogosphere is calling for “Sam Shepard” to be fired immediately, and pointing out that if these emails were so crazy, why haven’t we seen the BIRTH CERTIFICATE, HMM?
The response to Shep’s criticism is to double-down on the crazy. I’m starting to think these people are not rational.
How is it news that people who watch Fox news are right wing morans?
I saw a Female Jew remark here- and yes, we can take over if we want- so watch it.
With his usual finesse, Michael Savage called Shep a “flaming pinko” for this clip. Ha ha, flaming, I think that’s code. . . .
“We are America!, I dont give a rats ass if it helps!, We are America, WE DO NOT FUCKING EMAIL!
anyone else he didn’t provide a location we could read the emails?
coming up with crazy wingnut snark without source material is difficult.
Shep seems to be playing the hero about once a month on FOX these days and is to be admired for that. Rupert ain’t gonna fire him, he knows haters like us tune in to see Shep, plus if you’re writing in calling him all kinds of scary, hateful names you are probably also watching Shep. There is no downside for FOX, only for Shep’s life. ¡Viva Shep!
These cowardly email writers make me want to say “yeah, you’re real tough behind your laptop, big boy. Why don’t put that down and show us how tough you really are?”
And then I think I’d much rather they stay behind their keyboards acting tough. Because the alternative, like on Wednesday, is much worse. I think I can live without calling out the cowards to show how tough they really are.
DollarStorePregnancyTest: anyone else disappointed…
learn to proofread your posts you dirty commie.
Brendan M.: I’ll keep emailing Fox. Maybe old Shep will eventually pretend to blow a fuse.
finallyhappy: Hey, it wasn’t disparaging female Jews (just calling Joy Behar what she is); it was making fun of Lou Dobbs. Read the post in its entirety!
Is there a pool for how long it takes Fox to fire this poor schmuck? Is 5 minutes from now spoken for?
Something else Wonkette should report on (but wait a day or so):
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2477826/Rude-roof-on-Google-Earth.html
binarian: Shep already took that spot. Sorry.
I half-suspect that Fox News keeping Shep around is some sort of right-wing code in and of itself, like “Where’s the birth certificate” or “Islamofascisisisism”. A code that says “Don’t worry wingnuts, this is as pinko as we get around here! Everyone else here kills hippies in their sleep.”
He’s probably trolling for more bad mail - ups the ratings.
dr.giraud: from one flamer to another.
hobospacejunkie: Fox needs to differentiate itself from the right-wing crazies–I mean, the other right wing crazies. Shep has been assigned to help do this.
Serolf Divad: No kidding about the 1,200 AM wingnut radio hosts. There is a channel on Sirius sat radio …. PATRIOT, I think, and it is just one no-name lamer after another. Same with my local AM traffic station, which apparently can’t afford Limbaugh, so it’s just this stream of nobodies, dull, inarticulate, beaten. Who *pays* them?
Tip of the hat to Shep. He’ll stay around as long as he makes $$$ for Pirate Murdoch. Murdoch mostly don’t give a rats ass what anyone sez as long as it makes him $$$. M. Moore usta have a rather fun & subversive teevee show on Fox in the wayback timez.
Heh. Only one page into the comments and already five, count ‘em, FIVE of these: “YOU A FUCKING MORON.” Where’s the chlorine for the gene pool when you really need it?
Brendan M.: “I’m starting to think these people are not rational.”
Hey now, let’s not jump to any wild conclusions without any evidence whatsoever. We’re not Truthers or anything.
Ken Layne: George Soros, of course.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Only five?
Shep to MSNBC mornings and kick f***ing Joe to Fox where they can all be together and play their nasty little games. God I hate these people. I live in San Antonio, the goddammed city (and county too I think) voted for Obama but there is nothing, I mean NOTHING, but smug a-hole RW jerks on talk radio here.
FMA: Those were the most articulate ones.
Good for Smith. His haters are the low-information voters and the willfully ignorant who get their outrage and talking points from a fat addict on the radio. Thinking is beyond them.
FYI, Joy Behar ain’t Jewish. A fellow ‘comedian’ once appeared on the show and started to riff about how Behar has been ‘accused of being a Jew.’ She’s Italian-American, though she is from Brooklyn.
Ignatius: Née Occhiuto.
I’ll throw-in behind Shep too. He is the one person over at FOX News that seems to actually believe in Fair and Balance. I don’t know why they keep him around when everyone else is a nutter. I remember someone in New York throwing to him during Katrina saying “But it is really not as bad as we have been hearing,” And Shep going off for about three minutes about how it really was that bad, and, yes, the Bush Administration needed to do something, and really should have done it a few days earlier.
And, Ken, Shep is on at Noon if you live on the right coast, so it is easy to catch him during lunch.
ella: …a fat addict on the radio. Ackshually, he wasn’t fat when he was an addict. He lost weight. That’s a beneficial side effect of oxycontin. Just saying.
Ignatius: Well, she plays a very good one on teevee. But, I do think the original intent of my post has been missed all together. Oh well….
Many years ago…during the dial up era, crazy motherfuckers had to get their daily dose of lunacy via the teevee. One of the very best purveyours of non fact based retoric to the lunatic fringe was Jerry Falwell. He used to hoc a video tape based on facts, facts my friends, of how Bill and Hil murdered Vernon Jordon (it was suicide). Point is: there are still people who rely on teevee crazees to deliver their news (yes most of them are in assisted living facilities), and Fucks news has consistantly delivered………I don’t think Shep has a chance with the network
rev_matt_y: 2 planes, 3 buildings.
I just hate the intellectually dishonest way Fox News keeps blaming Fox News for everything.
One wonders why Shep laid down with Rupert in the first place, knowing the tunes that piper payer always calls. We let Murdoch illegally form a network (he wasn’t a US citizen at the time, but buddy Ron Reagan looked the other way), so there is collective responsibility, too.
Ken Layne: The little guys imitate Clear Channel, the fascists who cashed in on wingnut talk, which is incredibly cheap to produce. They did it by monopolizing markets (seven stations in NYC, eight in Phoenix, for example) after “deregulation,” which allowed them to foist nothing-but-talk at the public whether it wanted talk or not. Clear Channel led radio into the zero creativity zone that t.v. had reached decades ago with Happy Talk news and Jiggle Sitcom. And they’re paying for it; revenues were down 1/4 to 1/2 at Clear Channel in the first quarter, even though they are often the only radio and billboard game in town.
I love that Rush “I couldn’t go to Vietnam because of an anal cyst” Limbaugh called Shepard Smith a pussy.
imissopus: Rush couldn’t go because he is an anal cyst- well, that is a fact, at least.
lawrenceofthedesert: Well,it’s not all Clear Channel’s doing. KSFO, the station that gives us Michael Savage and Melanie Morgan, is owned by…wait for it…Disney. Morgan and Savage are gone but now it’s a Rush/Hannity/Mark Levin afternoon hot-air fest. If you’ve never heard Levin, he makes Glenn Beck seem calm.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: I think Shep’s still on the air for the same reason Scarborough is on MSNBC, so they have somebody of a different political view somewhere on the channel the executives can point to whenever somebody accuses them of being conservative/liberal.
toooldtocare: Vernon Jordan is alive and well.
Shep did seem kind of drunk when he went on his “America does not torture” rant.
But I loved him for it.
imissopus: woa, cat fight! Shep will win that one for sure.
Shep’s a good guy. He is the only person on Fox that I can sit through the entire show without screaming obscenities at my TV.
Aurelio: In Eye-talian, Joy Eye. Occhiuto = eye in Italian
dave666: My bad, I couldn’t quite remember…so I googled it and yes it was Vince Foster, not Vernon Jordon. My apologies Dave666, and please tell Vern hello from me next time you see him
emberglance: I agree. FOX is the opposite of journalism. The whole point of this diatribe translated is “It’s insanely dangerous to have a black president, and to elect said black president was very poor judgment on the part of the electorate.” Shepard Smith is a big phony FOX whore.
hobospacejunkie: Eye-tralian chicks are hot. Maybe we should rethink this whole thing.
Run, Shepard! Run, while you still can!
toooldtocare: Vernon is gonna be pissed when he finds out he’s dead.
dave666: also found this http://www.salon.com/news/1998/03/cov_11news.html. It’s awesome that the internet is so easy to use. I forgot about most of this, but I’m beginning to beleive the “Good Time Gospel Hour” was the blueprint for Fucks news
Oh yes you got a fine sister
She warmed my blood from cold
Brought my face to boiling hot
To keep you from the gallows pole
Your brother brought me silver
Your sister warmed my soul
But now I laugh and pull so hard
And see you swinging on the gallows pole
nader paul kucinich gravel: Hey! No fair stealing!
How does this guy still have a job at Fox News? He’s so… reasonable. I thought that was grounds for stoning over there.
But why does Shep act as if he’s above all the wingnut talk? It’s obvious to me that Fox News is the #1 choice among crazy nutjobs, if these two guys were really as concerned as they say they are, why don’t they go work for a REAL news organization. Everyone knows that Fox News is Haterade.
Hopefully you all watched the video. The email he read was a person saying he can’t stand “hussein”, he is a fascist, blah, blah, missing birth certificate etc. Typical wingnut crap. What you DIDN’T hear were threats of violence etc. Sheperd is right, these are lame assed claims, from frustrated(OK, pissed off) people. But you guys can’t possibly have forgotten the venom directed toward “W” and his entire family the last 8 years? Both parties have no shortage of misinformed assholes. The internet just lets these people find each other more easily.
hockeymom: No, silly. Miss Teen South Carolina. And also.