Posted on 01/11/2017 2:57:51 PM PST by jazusamo
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith on Wednesday criticized President-elect Donald Trump for his shouting match with a CNN reporter.
Trump refused to take a question from CNN's Jim Acosta during a Wednesday news conference, berating him and accusing his network of reporting "fake news." The confrontation came after CNN reported that intelligence officials briefed Trump about Russia having compromising information on him — a report Trump denied.
"President-elect Trump today told CNN's Jim Acosta the his organization amounts to fake news. CNN's exclusive reporting on the Russian matter was separate and distinctly different from the document dump executed by an online news property," Smith said during his closing monologue.
"Though we at Fox News cannot confirm CNN's report, it is our observation that its correspondents followed journalistic standards and that neither they nor any other journalists should be subjected to belittling and delegitimizing by the president-elect of the United States," Smith added.
During the press conference, Trump continuously refused to let Acosta ask him a question.
"You're attacking us, can you give us a question?” Acosta asked.
"Don't be rude. No, I'm not going to give you a question. You are fake news," Trump responded, before taking a question from a Breitbart News reporter.
Otherwise known as TSUN. Figures.
You beat me to it. :)
Suck it up Shempy boy. Your day will come.
I can’t believe Shemp is still around. I thought FOX got rid of him a long time ago.
When is this creeps’ contract up at Fox? He has a home waiting for him at CNN.......please offer him a job......or a position.....or whatever......;)
Shemp is a typical journwhoralist. He can dish it out, but he can’t take it.
Waiting to the time when Trump takes Sheppie out of the Faux lineup with a powerful Tweet!
Follow Megyn to CNN, pretty boy.
Next thing ya’ know he’ll be weeping with mascara running down his face like Tammy Faye of PTL fame.
....or NBC.
Shep talking for all of Fox News? Somehow I don’t think so.
Maybe he’s wanting a job at CNN.
A more serious discussion:
Who has the better plucked eyebrows? Shep or Chris Cuomo?
I thought “journalistic standards” [talk about oxymorons] involved getting confirmation from 3 reputable sources before publishing a story,especially one as salacious as this.
Clearly, CNN did not do that, so what is S. Smith’s gripe?
Shep who? If I’m home and he appears on the TV... he disappears immediately. He so passed his sell by date.
CNN belittles itself. Trump just points it out.
Shep been to the bath house again?
It Sheppie’s turn next!
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