Posted on 11/12/2008 5:56:58 PM PST by RobinMasters
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, host of the highest-rated evening newscast on cable television, calls suggestions of a bias toward Barack Obama by the mainstream media "preposterous."
His sentiment was aired out during a roundtable discussion on his network's "Strategy Room" program.
During the discussion, comedian Nick DiPaolo said, "The mainstream media being so in the tank for Obama ... ."
"Oh, please. That's preposterous," interrupted Smith. "The mainstream media reflected what was happening in this nation. It did not drive it. The blogs didn't drive this movement. The media did not drive this movement. Barack Obama did not lose this election. It was his to lose. It was not John McCain's to win.
"The Republicans had no shot unless the Democrats gave it to 'em, and they didn't. And to blame the media is a copout and ridiculous. We are always here to be blamed for people like you who enjoy that activity. We always will be. When the Democrats lost last time, it was our fault. When the Republicans lost this time, it's our fault. It's not. The nation was changing. Barack Obama did not lose, therefore John McCain did, and that's it."
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How is it that journalism schools have such a knack for finding complete idiots to attend?
Could be wrong, but it seems like I recall that he was a class short of graduating at Ole Miss? I might not be remembering correctly though.
The comedian was more perceptive than Smith. What does that say about Shepard’s knowledge of what has been going on in the print world?
If he’d get his ego out of his butt, he might think more clearly and do his homework.
This bias has been systematically exposed since the late 1960’s when Accuracy in Media was formed (I was there at the birth). Then came CAMERA on the Middle East, and the Media Research Center (and their great newsletter ‘ Media Quotes’).
And even the Wash. Post’s omsbudwoman Deborah Howell has had to admit the media bias of this past election.
I’ll take Megan Kendyll and Lisa Wiehl any day.
Shep taken too many blows to the head.. or head, blows...something like that...I know Shep’s problem has something to do with blow and head...
Please tell me he’s getting the axe when G. Beck starts soon.
Say what you want about Shepard Smith, you have to admit one thing. He squats when he pees.
It would be as good a start as any.
We really don’t want to know the details of his associations.
I have completely stopped watching TV news since election day and I have to say my outlook on life has vastly improved.
Excellent! Twenty five years for me, and I'm tellin' you freedom of opinion is a gift. I intend to take care of it. But to be honest, I've had a long standing bias towards freedom, and thus, against television in general.
He’s a dolt.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32cxf_yuri-bezmenov
They are co opted into the group think by their Marxist Professors, they then are able to deliver the alternate reality nightly to all the drones who live in the “Media Matrix”
Who are you going to believe, Sheppy Smith or your own lying eyes?
Did he say it with "a gleam in his eyes"?
The opinion of a faggot!
shepard smith needs to go.
his producers were bending over frontwards to NOT cover the homosexual marriage bans in AZ, FL and California. NOT A PEEP. (though shepard smith did cover homosexual frolics during hollween in sanfrancisco)
Today shepard smith was giddy like a schoolgirl about connecticut having the Judge caste impost homosexual based marriage on the state.
Please let it be so. When I was watching Fox most of the day and night, the only time I ever switched channels was when Shep was on. I would rather be watch Lou Dobbs and his zombie sidekick reporters on the communist news network.... at least the torture was a few decibels below a root canal.
So who we going to believe? Sheppy Boy or our lying eyes?
As for me, when Shep coomes on the channel gets changed. Been that way for a lot of years.
Then a respected friend on this forum happened to post a comment that he liked Shepard Smith
I tried my best to accept him as an unbiased news reader, but now seeing this little tirade of his I'll have to pass on having any respect for him
What a clueless thing to say.
It's conclusive, he's proved his poofterness.
There are hardly any males at Fox that are are substantial journalists these days.
Those two reporters each have what Shep Smith only dreams he had: a vagina.
Hey Shep, you Chandelier Repairman, why did Governor Rendell and Terry Mcauliff say that Fox News was the most fair and balanced of all the media covering the Democratic Primary? Because the media hated Hillary and were in the tank for Obama. So two Dem leftists stated the truth. Replace Hillary with McCain - do you think the media suddenly turned fair.
Obama was a poor choice for president because the press refused to seriously vet him. It was up to Hillary and Sean Hannity and that is not enough.
The media are not fair with their coverage, period.
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