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Fox News chief anchor Shepard Smith leaving the conservative network day . . .
CNBC ^ | 10/11/2019 | Dan Mangan

Posted on 10/11/2019 1:37:44 PM PDT by BAW

Fox News chief news anchor Shepard Smith is leaving the conservative cable network after 23 years, it was announced Friday.

Smith’s appearance Friday on “Shepard Smith Reporting” was his last appearance on the network, according to Fox News. In addition to working as chief news anchor, Smith had been managing editor of the network’s breaking news unit.

Smith’s departure follows a report that he was warned last month by Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and network president Jay Wallace not to criticize the network’s evening anchor Tucker Carlson again.

Smith had said on the air that it was “repugnant” for Carlson not speaking up in defense of Fox News contributor Andrew Napolitano after a Carlson guest, attorney Joseph di Genova, called Napolitano a “fool” for saying that President Donald Trump had broken the law. Di Genova is a legal adviser to Trump.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 8ththread; fox; shepardsmith; sheppard; shepsmithpartner; shepsmithresignsfox; shepsmithtucker; smith
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To: I want the USA back

He very likely has a non compete.


41 posted on 10/11/2019 2:10:20 PM PDT by RummyChick ("Pills, money .. this city is wicked. Your best friend will kill you here." Smoove about Baltimore)
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To: BAW

Better read: Liberal leaves liberal leaning network.


42 posted on 10/11/2019 2:12:13 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: I want the USA back

Maybe Shep, and the little boy whose stool he pushes in will now have time to relive Joe Biden’s reminisces of “gay bathhouses” and “round-the-clock sex.”


43 posted on 10/11/2019 2:13:47 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: BAW

It is a good start.


44 posted on 10/11/2019 2:13:49 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar
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To: laplata
"I remember the Indian Chief Test Pattern."

You're not alone.

45 posted on 10/11/2019 2:14:29 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: RummyChick

He does....going to be awhile before we see him on air again.


46 posted on 10/11/2019 2:15:07 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: BAW

Paul Ryan’s fault.


47 posted on 10/11/2019 2:15:17 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: BAW

The Fox makeup budget gets an unexpected windfall!


48 posted on 10/11/2019 2:16:18 PM PDT by xp38
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To: mass55th

He’s going to work at a gay bar in customer servicing.


49 posted on 10/11/2019 2:18:46 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: BAW

Conservative network?!

Only between the hours of 8 to 11 PM Eastern, weekdays.

At the moment.


50 posted on 10/11/2019 2:22:01 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: BAW

Yahoo and Hooray! Replace him(?) with the Judge. No, not Nappy, Jeanine.


51 posted on 10/11/2019 2:22:11 PM PDT by matthew fuller ( Trump's new immigration policy- Manifest Destiny!)
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To: BAW

Something else to consider: Shep signed his current, $8 million-a-year contract when Roger Ailes was still running the show, and he was the primary anchor for breaking news. Now, the prime time anchors lead the coverage during their programs, and there are plenty of equally capable anchors during the day, including Bill Hemmer and Harris Faulkner.

It has become very clear that Shep really doesn’t fit into the network’s future plans. And paying a mid-afternoon anchor $8 million is way over market value, especially when you consider he’s making more than David Muir and Lester Holt, and they attract many more viewers than Shep. If Smith remained at Fox, he was looking at a steep pay cut, and I’m guessing his ego couldn’t handle that. Look for him to pop up at MSNBC, and be an utter flop.


52 posted on 10/11/2019 2:22:47 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: RummyChick
He very likely has a non compete.

Unless the net lets him out of it...

53 posted on 10/11/2019 2:23:18 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: BAW

When was the last time that any news anchor voluntarily left his job for reasons that didn’t have anything to do with a penis?


54 posted on 10/11/2019 2:23:50 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation gets the government it deserves." -Joseph de Maistre)
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To: BAW

His new gig is a candy factory job packing fudge.
I think it’s a candy factory.


55 posted on 10/11/2019 2:30:04 PM PDT by Joe Bfstplk (No real problem has a solution.)
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To: Inspectorette

Tween Barr visiting Murdock and Cavuto unaware there more to this story


56 posted on 10/11/2019 2:32:43 PM PDT by advertising guy (When they told Jerry Nadler he had a flesh eating disease , they gave him 87 years to live)
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To: Ann Archy

Yes!


57 posted on 10/11/2019 2:43:02 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep)
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To: BAW

I guess if you have even close to a balance between conservative and liberals on a network you are considered conservative. Kinda like the Philadelphia Eagles were criticized in the papers for being racist because they dared to have >40 percent white guys on the team. Horrors!!


58 posted on 10/11/2019 2:44:10 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: dp0622

LOL!


59 posted on 10/11/2019 2:44:40 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep)
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To: Travis McGee

Oof!


60 posted on 10/11/2019 2:46:11 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep)
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