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Fox’s Smith avoids story covered heavily by colleagues
AP via WP ^ | November 9, 2017 | By David Bauder

Posted on 11/09/2017 5:43:01 PM PST by Mr. Mojo

NEW YORK — While Fox News Channel has spent hours talking about Hillary Clinton and an Obama-era uranium deal in recent weeks, its news anchor Shepard Smith avoided the story entirely.

Fresh evidence that Smith is an island unto himself at the news network came in research released Thursday by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America. During the three weeks starting Oct. 17, Fox News spent just under 12 hours talking about the Uranium One deal, with 29 percent of that time on opinion host Sean Hannity’s prime-time show.

Smith’s 3 p.m. weekday newscast didn’t mention the story at all during the three weeks, except for two minutes on Oct. 27 — when Smith wasn’t in and Trace Gallagher substituted for him.

Fox did not make Smith or the show’s executive producer available for an interview on Thursday. The veteran newscaster is often criticized by Fox’s more conservative viewers for reporting on views they disagree with.

“The base doesn’t like Shepard Smith,” said Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the conservative Media Research Center. “That would be a heck of a Christmas present — dump Shep, let MSNBC have him.”

Fox News, in response, said Smith was “one of the most valued and talented journalists” at the network.

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To: Mr. Mojo
Fox News, in response, said Smith was “one of the most valued and talented journalists” at the network.

I hope this is equivalent to the Baseball owner's 'vote of confidence' for a Manager of a losing ball club.
Owner: 'Manager Joe Bob has my unequivocal vote of confidence' ... and then, voila, Manager Joe Bob is fired two days later.

21 posted on 11/09/2017 7:07:20 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Mears

That particular verse doesn’t get played on the classic rock station in my area: Rock musicians singing about blue collar guys talking about rock musicians. People have become so triggered, irony and satire is completely lost on them.


22 posted on 11/09/2017 7:11:45 PM PST by ThomasSawyer (Democratic Underground: Proof that anyone can figure out how to use a computer.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

For the life of me, I can’t understand why Roger Ailes ever hired Shep to begin with, or why he kept renewing his contract.

The dude’s as queer as a three dollar bill, and a liberal to boot.


23 posted on 11/09/2017 7:14:06 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: ThomasSawyer

“People have become so triggered, irony and satire is completely lost on them.”


Exactly!

When I was raising my kids I told them part of adulthood is knowing how to laugh at themselves——in other words,life was not all about them,

They are passing this along to my grandkids———and we all laugh a lot.

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24 posted on 11/09/2017 7:20:33 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

Agreed. People are so self-centered with such a sense of entitlement, that they can’t even laugh at themselves-always primed to be offended.


25 posted on 11/09/2017 7:36:39 PM PST by ThomasSawyer (Democratic Underground: Proof that anyone can figure out how to use a computer.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

FOX news management is full of IDIOTS.
The only people who watch CHIMP the CHUMP are prog/lib queers and lesbos.


26 posted on 11/09/2017 8:06:50 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: atc23

I don’t know; is giving blow jobs to everyone in upper management dirt?


27 posted on 11/09/2017 8:09:09 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

28 posted on 11/09/2017 8:36:34 PM PST by Dick Bachert (Why are damn near ALL the SEX FIENDS Democrats?)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Shemp must live in Manhattan w his boyfrind or his trans mate or whatever. So if anything is super breaking Fox can send a limo for him. The decent and normal - heterosexual Fox News personalities usually live out in the burbs.\\

So just saying Shemp has his usefulness to Fox due to his living in proximity.


29 posted on 11/09/2017 8:41:30 PM PST by dennisw (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it is enemy action.)
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To: Bullish
Shep is a puckering A-hole... No wonder.

Enough with the rampant exaggerations and hyperbole! Everyone knows that Shep couldn't get his hole to pucker if he had an alum enema.

30 posted on 11/09/2017 8:42:46 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mears

They did the next best thing: they edited out the verse. Incredibly, one of the liberal hosts on the Sirius XM classic rock channels plays it unedited and says she won’t play it at all if they insist on the edit. Good for her.


31 posted on 11/09/2017 8:46:33 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Alas Babylon!

I always thought Dire Straits was sympathetic to working-class men in that song, even though they included prissy stink — er — sting to deliver the opening lines “I want my MTV”. The lines you quoted can easily apply to sting.


32 posted on 11/09/2017 8:53:08 PM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: dennisw

Whenever I watch youtubes of election night 2016 (which I do frequently), I just shake my head at the Shepah for botching his call for Trump’s victory. He said “Trump is the president of the United States.” When at that time, Trump was actually president-elect.


33 posted on 11/09/2017 8:59:28 PM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: atc23

What, Smith just gets to cover whatever he wants to cover?
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About a year ago they made him head of Breaking News. He is able to break into any program airing and take their time with his leftist views while doing live coverage of events.


34 posted on 11/09/2017 9:43:27 PM PST by octex
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To: Mr. Mojo

Shepard Smith must be one of those taking bribes from the Clintons and the DNC.


35 posted on 11/09/2017 10:39:42 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Mr. Mojo

Sheppie is Gay so he is UNTOUCHABLE and he KNOWS it!!


36 posted on 11/10/2017 3:50:35 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Seriously???? I always wondered WHO watched him because I know NO ONE that does!


37 posted on 11/10/2017 3:51:47 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Shep is the token gaylib on Fox.


38 posted on 11/10/2017 3:53:56 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Ann Archy

Yup. If you watch Fox and Friends while you get ready for work, when you shut off the tv, the tuner is still receiving the FoxNews stream. So you are counted as a viewer during the daytime in the cable universe.


39 posted on 11/10/2017 7:17:16 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

We should all turn the Drama Queen off as soon as the program comes on. Maybe Fox would get the hint. But they’ve given him that big room with all the toys in it to use as he needs or wants. Maybe that’s why Fox thinks he’s brilliant? I could care less. His reporting is biased and lacking.


40 posted on 11/10/2017 7:25:22 AM PST by Exit148 ((Loose Chnge Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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