Not horrified - you would need to be a relevant or at least serious person to engender that. "Amused" is a more apt response to an abject moron doing his thing.
Posted on 04/15/2019 1:20:15 PM PDT by Red Badger
Fox anchor Shepard Smith on Monday melted down when a French guest attempted to explain the ongoing attacks, violence and vandalism against French churches. Talking about the fire engulfing Notre Dame, where the cause is unknown, guest Philippe Karsenty began, “For the past years, we've had churches desecrated each and every week all over France.”
Just seconds after his guest was introduced, Smith immediately jumped in and reprimanded, “Sir, sir, sir, we're not going to speculate of the cause of something that we don't know! If you have observations or you know something, we would love to hear it.” After Karsenty attempted to respond, Smith shut down the whole interview: “No, sir. We’re not doing that here. Not now. Not on my watch! Philippe Karsenty, it’s very good of you to be here.”
Twenty minutes later, Smith came back to concede the point about violence against French Christians, allowing, “There have been a number of attacks on Catholic churches in the Paris area. But those two things [the Notre Dame fire and past incidents], we are not connecting at this moment.”
Newsweek reported on March 21, 2019:
Vandals have smashed statues, knocked down tabernacles, scattered or destroyed the Eucharist and torn down crosses, sparking fears of a rise in anti-Catholic sentiment in the country.
Last Sunday, the historic Church of St. Sulpice in Paris was set on fire just after midday mass on Sunday, Le Parisien reported, although no one was injured. Police are still investigating the attack, which firefighters have confidently attributed to arson.
The website Churchpop.com noted,
Since early February, vandals desecrated more than a dozen Catholic Churches throughout France. They’ve looted, burned, destroyed statues, threw consecrated hosts all over the floors, and marked a cross on the wall with human feces.
The Washington Post on April 2 reported: "Among attacks on churches in February, a cross of human excrement was found in the southern city of Nimes, a statue of Mary was smashed in a Paris suburb and a statue of Jesus decapitated...”
Of course, that doesn’t mean, in any way, that’s what is happening in Paris. And people shouldn’t recklessly speculate. But neither should Smith decide a guest is unlistenable simply because he tries to inform an American audience about what's going on in France.
It’s not as though Smith himself hasn't speculated. In 2017, he became unhinged while discussing the Russia investigation. In 2015, he yelled at a fellow Fox host during a discussion of riots in Baltimore.
A transcript of the exchange and Smith’s follow-up can be found below. Click “expand” to read more.
Not horrified - you would need to be a relevant or at least serious person to engender that. "Amused" is a more apt response to an abject moron doing his thing.
Smith is repulsive. I cannot watch him. Why does anyone watch him.
Sure, but something like that have happened *at any time.*
What does one say about the fact that it happened at the start of Holy Week?
What does one say about the fact that the Christchurch Mosque shooting was on March 15, and the Notre Dame Cathedral fire was on April 15?
When it could happen at any time, is it okay to ask why it happened at THIS specific time?
-PJ
Perhaps, but remember how much we chastise CNN, MSNBC etc for speculating with guests on the opposite end of the spectrum.
As much as I despise Shemp and don’t particularly care for Cavuto....I’ll cut them a bit of slack on this. Time will tell if ND is related or not and probably best for now not to conjecture.
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Yes I read the posts.
But now is the time to speculate.
I don’t...................
Shepard Smith Shuts Down Discussion of Attacks on French Churches:
Was the front of Sheps pants all wet. Bet they were .
The first pic I saw,,,had a scaffold..to my left of it.
I speculated possibly it was rehab/construction related? I dunno....
But would not surprise me it's ISLAM related...they are the people of death and destruction..
Could be an accident.
But I kinda doubt it.................
That Musli-b*itch Omar wins.
Fox is just as cowardly as the rest of the Democrat media. There are only 3 shows left that lean Right.
Sorry, disagree.
Not only am I NOT going to do what I loath in the left.....I am not going to give them ammunition to feed into their narrative that we on the right prejudge all situations to be of terrorist origin.
Just like CNN, MSNBC, MSM all looked ridiculous when the Mueller report came out because they based opinion/reporting on what may be as opposed to what is.
It is easy enough to wait for the arson report !
News should never engage in uninformed speculation !
The MSM is always telling us that they serve to put the news in "context." Wouldn't that recent pattern be context?
Would it be "context to point out that the Christchurch, New Zealand mosque shooting was on March 15, and the Notre Dame Cathedral fire happened on April 15?
Smith was right to come back on the air and clarify the facts of what Karsenty was saying, which was undoubtedly on the minds of most Parisians.
-PJ
He loves the mussies until they chop his head off for being gay
I switched to CNN also. And they were consistent to say it’s not known if the cause was accidental or intentional
I doubt it was an accident...
WTC-They failed in '93 but came back in '01
ND-They failed in '16 but came back in '19
please feel free to add to the list
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