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The Gay Rights Revolution Arrives At Fox News
BuzzFeed ^ | 8-7-2012 | Rosie Gray

Posted on 08/07/2012 7:38:03 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot

Fractures in conservative opposition to gay rights and even same-sex marriage have now widened to include the core of the right’s message machine, the Fox News Channel, where a cadre of younger voices have begun to defend same-sex relationships and even advocate openly for same-sex marriage.

(snip) Smith is the most notable and frequent example to buck Fox News’ regular party line on the issue.

But the same week that Smith described “Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day,” organized by fellow Fox host Mike Huckabee, as a “national day of intolerance,” Kelly joined Smith on his side of the gay marriage debate ....

Hoover, who was a Fox contributor for four years and is now at CNN, ".... my sense of it is that this is both of them taking a principled stand,” Hoover said. “It probably isn’t representative of Fox’s positioning on an issue. Clearly Mike Huckabee doesn’t feel the same way.”

Another former Fox employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that in fact, higher-ups actively frown on Smith’s outspokenness.

“Shep is on really thin ice,” the former employee said. “If he wasn't so popular and highly rated (and highly paid) Roger [Ailes] would have yanked him off the air months ago.”

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: foxnews; gayanchors; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; media; megynkelly; pinkjournalism; pravdamedia; repulblicans; shepsmith
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Alt title: "Shep On Thin Ice"

Last time I watched Shep Smith was his shameful Super Dome/Katrina coverage, I won't miss the guy.

1 posted on 08/07/2012 7:38:08 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

Shemp is “popular”? With who? I turn FOX off when he comes on. He’s a girlyman.


2 posted on 08/07/2012 7:41:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The NRA did not create James "The Joker" Holmes. Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood did.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
He’s a girlyman.

Worse than that, he's a pillow-biter.

3 posted on 08/07/2012 7:44:20 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Sir Napsalot
“Shep is on really thin ice,” the former employee said. “If he wasn't so popular and highly rated (and highly paid) Roger [Ailes] would have yanked him off the air months ago.”

Nonsense. Smith frequently has the lowest ratings of the FNC evening schedule.

4 posted on 08/07/2012 7:47:14 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: Sir Napsalot

That freak dosen’t get any ratings from me. His eyeliner freaks me out do much I don’t even stop long enough to listen to the BS coming from his yap


5 posted on 08/07/2012 7:54:47 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Shep is just boring for starter ..dont watch


6 posted on 08/07/2012 8:00:10 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I’d guess he’ll be a huge attraction at Salt Pillars National Monument.


7 posted on 08/07/2012 8:03:16 PM PDT by One Name
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To: dalebert

I don’t watch Shep at all.


8 posted on 08/07/2012 8:04:26 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
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To: Sir Napsalot

The issue is not do people who practice homosexuality have rights or not, the issue is whether or not we allow government to redefine marriage in a way that pleases the homosexual lobby.

I don’t want a government that is empowered to police what I do in the privacy of my own bedroom. I don’t know anyone else who does. If people want to practice sodomy that is their own private business, as distasteful as it may be to me and as much as God warns that He forbids it. However, gays do not leave it a private matter. They demand that I approve of their actions.

They do this when I own a bakery and politely decline to bake a cake to celebrate a same sex “marriage”. The demand that a wedding photographer accept the job of photographing that ceremony. The demand that a fast food chain pay a heavy price when its founder voices support for traditional marriage. And they demand the power to teach my child in school that since homosexual (same-sex) marriage is legal, therefore it is “normal” and legitimate, which it never can be.

Advocates and activists for same-sex marriage recoil in horror when anyone suggests that to be fair we must also allow polygamy. Yet their own argument supports it. I wonder how they are going to react when in a few years, their own children will be taught in a Utah public school that LDS-related polygamy is “normal” and legitimate.

But the difference is that LDS-related polygamists never demanded that I approve of what they were doing. And by now it is clear that approval is the thing that gays want most of all from the rest of us. Sorry, God defines marriage, not the Human Rights Campaign!


9 posted on 08/07/2012 8:07:39 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: Sir Napsalot

Hoover always screamed ‘liberal’ by her demeanor and viewpoints. Good riddance.


10 posted on 08/07/2012 8:14:49 PM PDT by citizen (America is at an awkward stage...Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards)
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To: sheikdetailfeather
I don’t watch Shep at all.

It's been a while since I've seen ol' Shemp too. It was occasionally amusing to hear him stumble over two syllable words.

11 posted on 08/07/2012 8:16:30 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN

This post, ‘The Gay Rights Revolution Arrives at Fox News’
mentions a HOOVER, but doesn’t give us her first name. So I went to the link to read the full article.

“In television people are worried about the demo,” said Margaret Hoover, a former Fox News contributor and former Bush administration staffer who left the network last year, referring to television advertisers preoccupation with viewers between 18 and 49. “‘Are you getting the demo?’ And the demo supports gay rights.”

It is Margaret Hoover. She and her RINO husband, former Rudy Giuliani adviser, JOHN AVLON, are so pro-gay, that I wonder what goes on in THEIR bedroom. They are both despicable.

And to think that her great-grandfather was HERBERT HOOVER.


12 posted on 08/07/2012 8:19:48 PM PDT by NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN ('he who creates something worthwhile, never dies.'')
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To: DeFault User

Replacing Shep Smith with Shemp Howard at FNC would be a vast improvement.


13 posted on 08/07/2012 8:19:48 PM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: theBuckwheat

Agreed....but you are being too gentle.

Using the arguments of the fag cabal, then bestiality is JUST fine. That’s right. Two thousand-plus years of culture mean nothing. Fine. If taking it up the a** is hug-worthy and deemed normal by the fags, then by God those who love to give it to chickens or sheep or goats or horses or whatever should and MUST be given the same rights; the same recognition. I mean, who are we to say they are wrong?????


14 posted on 08/07/2012 8:22:49 PM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: theBuckwheat
approval is the thing that gays want most of all from the rest of us.

The thing that homosexuals want more than anything is Unrestricted Access To Young Flesh.

This is how they replenish their numbers, how they recruit, and how they chiefly satisfy their lusts.

15 posted on 08/07/2012 8:23:08 PM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Shep Smith. Proof that, unlikely as it may seem, Rex Reed has fathered a child.


16 posted on 08/07/2012 8:25:57 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN
And to think that her great-grandfather was HERBERT HOOVER.

And Herbert Hoover was a big government "progressive" RINO, truly an elitist member of the GOP-E of that era. Walter Lippmann, an extreme socialist, was among Hoover's supporters, because as president, he advanced "social justice" programs. Sure, Herbert Hoover had an 'R' next to his name as did Jacob Javits, Bob La Follette, Nelson Rockefeller and others of that ilk.

In contrast, Calvin Coolidge was a fine man of principle, a solid Christian Conservative. I think of Edith and Archie singing the opening to All in the Family. The lyrics ought to be:

Mister we could use a man like Calvin Coolidge again...

17 posted on 08/07/2012 8:35:25 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Seems like we were changing the channel too much unless Sarah was on during Greta’s hour so decided not to watch FOX at all. Just too many people whose comments irritated us too much. We do watch FOX Business channel a lot.


18 posted on 08/07/2012 8:38:02 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Dropped the television satellite service nearly a decade ago. Saw it coming. Where feminism enters, homosexualism follows. Have fun. Enjoy the slide.


19 posted on 08/07/2012 8:41:27 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: RichInOC

I discovered a while back that shep smith looks a lot like bart simpson.
(sorry, bart...)


20 posted on 08/07/2012 8:41:38 PM PDT by jim-x (9/11/2001 - Never forget, Never forgive.)
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