Personally, I cannot stand the jerk - Shimp Smith... he is a condescending liberal a-hole... But, I believe his current weight loss is due to an excessive response to competition from Fox Business News... namely Lou Dobbs... Dobbs has created a clone of his former CNN show on FBN... in the same time slot as Shimp... 7:00 EST. Dobbs is reducing Shimp’s audience share and in response Shimp Smith is over doing it in an excessive diet in an effort to look younger - BUT ... Smith does not understand who his audience is or at least WAS... What we see is Shimp Smith Worried near to Death ....
Shep has more viewers than all the other news shows in his time slot combined.
Shep = 1.686
More Slanted News By Communists (MSNBC) = 805
CNN = 376
HLN = 398