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Shepard Smith, Accused of Sexual Assault, Resigns From Fox
National File ^ | 10/11/19 | Tom Pappert

Posted on 10/12/2019 6:38:14 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Shepard Smith, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump who was accused of sexual assault by a man who claims he awoke to find Smith in the same bed with him with his tongue down his throat, is resigning from Fox News amid a growing feud between him and Tucker Carlson.

This afternoon Smith released a statement explaining that he is resigning from Fox News effective immediately. Smith explains that he asked Fox News to be released from his contract so he can pursue other opportunities, and Fox News first asked him to stay before releasing him.

Smith’s departure comes months after Patrick Howley broke the accusations against Smith from a man who says he was molested by the former Fox News anchor.

Howley reported:

“I wake up, and Shepard is on top of me, like, in a towel or a bathrobe. And he’s got his tongue down my throat and his hands all over me. Completely uninvited. I mean, I gave him no signal. There was nothing,” John Doe #1 says in the interview — excerpts of which are presented in audio form above.

“I had also volunteered to sleep in the spare, so it wasn’t — I never invited myself to his bedroom,” John Doe #1 said.

“I pushed him off. I was like, ‘Dude what are you doing?’ And he’s like, ‘what you don’t like it?’ There was like this, kind of like No!, and he kept going, he kept pushing. Like, pushing his hands on all these spots,” John Doe #1 said.

The departure also comes after weeks of feuding with Carlson, who anchors Tucker Carlson Tonight, one of the network’s most highly viewed programs.


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To: FreedomPoster

Re blowing the whistle on Shep:

In hindsight, that may have been a poorly worded way of putting things that I now regret.


101 posted on 10/12/2019 9:49:53 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: FlipWilson

LOL!

Sorry, it was low hanging fruit.

OOPS!


102 posted on 10/12/2019 9:50:56 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Bonemaker

“Leland Vittert?”
Hope not. He is the WORST at interrupting.


103 posted on 10/12/2019 9:51:19 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: duckman

I was sick kidding...can’t stand the loathsome prick.


104 posted on 10/12/2019 9:53:03 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Enlightened1
“I wake up, and Shepard is on top of me, like, in a towel or a bathrobe. And he’s got his tongue down my throat and his hands all over me. Completely uninvited. I mean...

This explains why the Daily Mail said he was escorted out of the building.

So it's safe to assume FOX didn't ask him to stay? /s

105 posted on 10/12/2019 9:55:10 AM PDT by GOPJ (Change the name from "Deep State" to 'Corrupt Mindless Bureaucracies'.... it's more accurate.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Jedediah Bila should go too...ASAP.

She’s defending Pelosi as a patriot - gets shot down by Pete Hegseth.

Starts at 1:42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=99&v=381xi4EIOcE


106 posted on 10/12/2019 9:55:52 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: brownsfan

His contract won’t let him go to another station for a while. I think FOX included the ‘no compete’ clauses to their conservatives couldn’t leave as a group and form their own network...


107 posted on 10/12/2019 9:56:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (Change the name from "Deep State" to 'Corrupt Mindless Bureaucracies'.... it's more accurate.)
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To: kiryandil

“Good thing Shemp has lots of friends.

I mean, he literally has friends up the @ss...”

Oh, that was good. :)


108 posted on 10/12/2019 10:27:12 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: mewzilla

A comment on Breitbart’s Shep article said he was escorted out of building.

Looking for proof of that one.


109 posted on 10/12/2019 10:30:05 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: mewzilla
It is not. FOX is tolerant and forgiving of the antics of the practitioners of the alternate sex.
110 posted on 10/12/2019 10:35:17 AM PDT by sport
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To: newfreep

Fox News,,,,failures and low life scum & ?Vermin...that must be let go, fired, “immediately”, if FNC/FBN is to survive”
- Chris Wallace
- Neil Cavuto
- Donna Brazile
- Chris Stilewalt
- Bret Bair
- Charles Gasperino
- Judge Napoli
- Martha McCallum
- Arthel Neville

Fox News: Dump these deadwood losers and you will own the world of TV News!!! Keep them on your payroll and you are going down the drain!!!


111 posted on 10/12/2019 11:01:13 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: DarthVader

I think Smith is gone because he was a mole for Deep State and his cover’s been blown.


112 posted on 10/12/2019 11:06:28 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: mewzilla

And f I’m right and Smith was a mole, what did FNC and/or News Corp know and when did they know it.


113 posted on 10/12/2019 11:11:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Enlightened1

Is he sure it was Smith’s tongue?


114 posted on 10/12/2019 11:32:45 AM PDT by Hootowl (i)
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To: JudyinCanada

BTTT


115 posted on 10/12/2019 11:42:35 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: scottinoc
...Judge Napolitano will get him off.

That may have already happened. ba-dum-tss

116 posted on 10/12/2019 11:46:37 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

I haven’t paid attention to FNC for a long time. Arthel Neville is back at Fox!?

She used to be one of BOR’s producers back when he was still bearable, say 15 years ago. Obviously a Liberal, she came on camera about once a week, and did manage to keep BOR’s head from getting too big. When she left for CNN is when BOR became unwatchable due to his ego, is my take.

CNN was really a natural home for her. WTH is she doing back at Fox News!?


117 posted on 10/12/2019 12:13:29 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: brownsfan

Smith mentioned yesterday, so I read, that he has a “no compete” clause in his contract, thus he won’t be on CNN/MSNBC etc.


118 posted on 10/12/2019 12:39:47 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: scottinoc
Judge Napolitano will get him off.

In more ways than one. :-)

119 posted on 10/12/2019 4:05:50 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: mewzilla

Both


120 posted on 10/12/2019 5:28:12 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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