Posted on 06/07/2006 5:55:04 AM PDT by Mike Bates
While some press attention has been focused on the seeming odd-couple of Rupert Murdoch raising money for Hillary Clinton, another fascinating relationship has apparently been developed between Fox News and Hugh Hefner's Playboy. Fox News' Neil Cavuto aired an interview with Hugh Hefner on May 4, on the grounds that the announcement of his "Playmate of the Year" was "business news," and Fox News anchor Shepard Smith is interviewed in the June issue of Playboy magazine.
Asked about Internet stories that "lack veracity" but which serve as news. Smith replies, "Swift Boats," as if the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth had been engaged not in getting out the truth about John Kerry's military career and dubious war crimes charges, but in smearing the Democratic Senator and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate.
I'm sure you all remember that Fox News is supposed to be the conservative channel.
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It is strange in the sense that Smith talks about his "group" at Fox News, which wants objective news coverage, and other nameless people who don't seem to agree. However, he denies Fox has a conservative agenda, says he's never been asked to push a conservative point of view, and that he loves and trusts Bob Schieffer of CBS News.
Except for the devotion to Schieffer and the smear of the Swift Boat vets, the exchanges are mostly irrelevant and beside the point, which is that a Fox News anchor had made Playboy into a "respectable" forum. I suspect it is part of the same plan that involved Fox News media personalities such as Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity interviewing Howard Stern, who has attracted millions of listeners by talking dirty. This is the kind of audience that is supposed to count.
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You are right on. Like most liberal Democrat vermin, Shep is not too bright in the brains department!!! Not worth watching!!! Braindead!!!
Amen.
Fully agreed.
BTTT
Charles Krauthammer is great! Clear thinking and devoid of an agenda; he tells it like it actually is. Truly a no spin dude!
My favorite!
Except for Brit's program, it is becoming almost unwatchable. One gets very tired of O.J. redeux, night after night...
Shep was a liberal way back when he worked at our local NBC affiliate here In Panama City. That's why he always seemed like a fish out of water to me in his current position.
Julian is just dumb, but O'R's jive about "protecting the folks" drives me nuts(ier).
I have to agree with you.
The fact that the smear campaign by the left against Fox News continues with as much venom as ever is laughable, since Fox sold out to the pressure some time ago.
Too true. The only time Shep ventures into the closet is when he needs a fresh jug of mascara.
As you already know, I disagree. The man is as smooth as silk and quick on his feet--both properties you want in a news anchor. Don't let politics blind you, he is quite good at what he does. Anyone who considers FNC "conservative" is, frankly, nuts. They are not, and never were, conservative. They are merely less liberal and a little more balanced than the rest of the MSM.
Thats the way he wants it. Confusing. he hasnt made all his records public, When he does we will all know it.
I think of Shep as a newsreader rather than as a reporter, but that's just me.
Ding, ding, ding!
Perhaps he's just an essentially jolly fellow.
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Was surfing along and there was Tiki on our local Fox station. He's just so kewl!
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