Posted on 08/16/2017 2:14:40 PM PDT by CedarDave
Fox News host Shepard Smith said Wednesday that the network tried and failed to get a Republican on-air to defend President Trump's controversial comments on violence in Charlottesville, Va. over the weekend
"Our booking team — and they're good — reached out to Republicans of all stripes across the country today," Smith said on his show "Shepard Smith Reporting."
"Let's be honest, Republicans don't often really mind coming on Fox News Channel. We couldn't get anyone to come and defend him here because we thought, in balance, someone should do that," he continued.
Smith's comments followed an off-the-rails press conference by Trump on Tuesday, during which he reasserted claims that "both sides" were to blame for violence during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Saturday that ultimately left one dead and at least 19 others injured.
“You had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest, and very legally protest," Trump said, referring to individuals protesting against the removal of a Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue in the town.
“Not all of those people were white supremacists, by any stretch."
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What would they expect when they call the DNC for advice?!
Shep lies!
Newt came on Hannity’s show and defended the President. Does he count as a Republican?
If you don't know anyone who will defend Trump out of the 60-odd million people who voted for him, perhaps you should widen your circle of acquaintance beyond your own little echo chamber.
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
Time to have a real revolution, the government is coalescing to stop the one the people attempted using the ballot box.
Apparently not (shaking my head).
I can’t imagine any Republican going on Smith’s show for any reason. Might as well go on CNN.
“Shep lies!”
Probably not; he just knows which weasel Republicans to ask to get the right answer.
That is ‘cause we as “Republicans” are leaving the building. Ask those who voted for him. We haven’t gone anywhere.
Are they asking the same people they polled in Oct. 2016?
That is because they looked no farther than RINOs.
Screw you FOX crap news.
Maybe it’s you Shemp.
Newt would have been VERY HAPPY to defend Trump, Laura Ingram, Gorka, Jay Sekulo, Lou Dobbs, or ANY of Trump’s spokes people!!! Shep IS an ASSHAT!!!
We could not find a brain inside Shep’s skull.
Remember Shep, to the Left YOU are a White Supremacist! It doesn’t matter that you are a Prog yourself and a homo. The color of your skin makes you the enemy. You think that once the Conservatives are safely in work camps or shallow graves that the blacks, SJW girls, homosexuals, and muslims will live in peace. No. Your factions will go to war with each other right away, with the blacks merging with the muslims to create slave girls and dead homos.
There, fixed it.
Anyone watching Fox is complicit in the attack on Trump!
And...he could have called Sheriff Clarke from Wisconsin????
Maybe they don’t want to be on Shep’s show....bet he didn’t think of that.
Someday Shep will be the new Kathy Griffen. He’s an attention whore Peter Principled beyond his natural capabilities.
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