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Fox's Shep Smith: We couldn't find a Republican willing to come on and defend Trump
The Hill ^ | 08/16/17 04:57 PM EDT | Julia Manchester

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antitrump; fauxnews; foxnews; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; shepardsmith; shepsmith; trumpmedia
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To: CedarDave

Maybe even the dregs of the Republican Party are finally realizing that there is no point in talking to people like Shep Smith. All it does is give people like Shep an excuse to pretend to be important.


61 posted on 08/16/2017 3:10:19 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Hillary for Prison!)
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To: CedarDave

Time for Trump to dump the Traitorous Republican Party. I will NEVER for for a Republican again, except Trump.


62 posted on 08/16/2017 3:10:31 PM PDT by heights
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To: heights

NEVER VOTE........write to fast


63 posted on 08/16/2017 3:11:08 PM PDT by heights
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To: ColdOne

I’m ashamed that I’m “late to the game”, but I turned Fox News off between 3:00 & 4:00 Pm & again from 5:00 to 6:00 PM & sent an email to Fox to let them know why.


64 posted on 08/16/2017 3:12:43 PM PDT by Ky Suzie
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To: CedarDave

I don’t believe that. Mo Brooks would have


65 posted on 08/16/2017 3:16:15 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: CedarDave
Hey Smith, yo makeup is showing. Saw at least four Republicans defending Donald Trump in the last two nights on Hannity.
They may not want to appear on a Shep Smith program because it's fake news.
66 posted on 08/16/2017 3:19:18 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: CedarDave

Shep, you could not find the truth, period.


67 posted on 08/16/2017 3:19:58 PM PDT by mulligan
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To: CedarDave

Fox News should dump this freak.


68 posted on 08/16/2017 3:21:19 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: CedarDave

Do not feed the beast.


69 posted on 08/16/2017 3:23:12 PM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: GOPJ

I don’t know if they are lying. They may be just incredibly stupid. After Trump condemned white supremacists several times a reported asked, “I didn’t understand what you were saying. You were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly.”


70 posted on 08/16/2017 3:25:13 PM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: GOPJ

I don’t know if they are lying. They may be just incredibly stupid. After Trump condemned white supremacists several times a reported asked, “I didn’t understand what you were saying. You were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly.”


71 posted on 08/16/2017 3:25:13 PM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: CedarDave

Who besides housebound cat ladies and poofters watch this creep?


72 posted on 08/16/2017 3:34:45 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Parley Baer

No. He is white and southern. That makes him a racist.


73 posted on 08/16/2017 3:38:18 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: CedarDave

#ShempLIES


74 posted on 08/16/2017 3:38:38 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: CedarDave

Newt Gingrich was on Hannity the night before defending Trump.

I guess that Shemp and his staff are so insulated from such circles as to be oblivious - kind of blind to Republicans much further right than Lindsey Graham.


75 posted on 08/16/2017 3:42:30 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: All

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FOX News did everything they could to get Hillary elected.

They have acted with malice towards Trump ever since.

Never Trumpers and RINOs are FOX News.

.


76 posted on 08/16/2017 3:51:38 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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To: AnthonySoprano

I disagree. OReilly gave a platform anytime he wanted it. Free campaigning time since Hilalary refused to come on.


77 posted on 08/16/2017 4:02:58 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: CedarDave; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; Seattle Conservative; Freedom56v2; pax_et_bonum; ...
Shemp should have been fired immediately after he voiced this lying, weasel statement on the air.

As an employee, he made himself, his network, his program, his producers and his management look bad, biased, weak and inefficient.

(...not that Fox News isn't already getting that way all by itself...without help from him).

Leni

78 posted on 08/16/2017 8:34:41 PM PDT by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!.......GO PENCE !!!......USA !!! USA !!! USA !!!)
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To: CedarDave

FUSMITH


79 posted on 08/16/2017 8:40:03 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God did help the Republic, can we keep it.)
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To: MinuteGal

Shemp is the boss ...


80 posted on 08/16/2017 8:44:08 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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