You nailed it. Last night he said Israel was carpet bombing Beirut! Then he totally mischaracterized the terrain. I could go on and on, but the bottom line is he doesn't know WTF he's talking about. He misinforms and often inflames already bad situations.
I email Fox 3 times a day asking them to either correct his factual errors or send him home. I don't give a rats behind about his politics or his sexual orientation, all I care about is straight reporting.
Agreed. I get uncomfortable when I see someone's sexual orientation speculated here. That's their business--and God's. Not mine. But I care a great deal about good reporting. And I'm smart enough to see through bias. If it gets bad enough, I will turn the station. Do it to CNN all the time. But CNN tends to have knowledgable reporters on the ground. Shep is not. I can't figure out what he's doing in Israel at all. He's a distraction to the real reporters who know what they're doing. And therefore, he's a barrier to listeners' finding out what the story there is.