Posted on 09/28/2019 7:19:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The incendiary on air war that broke out earlier this week, pitting several of the most prominent Fox News channel personalities against each other, has cooled off for the moment. The sudden flare-up of simmering grudges between Fox News’s opinion and news sides that finally boiled over into public view involved opinion host Tucker Carlson, news host Shepard Smith, and the channel’s senior legal analyst Andrew Napolitano. The war of harsh words that went back and forth on Carlson’s and Smith’s programs Tuesday and Wednesday, which also involved Carlson’s guest, Republican attorney Joseph diGenova, was unprecedented and was immediately seized on by a wide range of media as evidence of serious trouble at the country’s highest rated cable news channel.
Shepard Smith (left) and Andrew Napolitano kick off the controversy on Shepard Smith Reporting, Sept. 24, 2019
Gabriel Sherman is the author of a critical biography of the late Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes and he writes often about goings on at FNC for left wing publications. On Thursday, Sherman posted a new article at Vanity Fair, “’It’s Management Bedlam’: Madness at Fox News as Trump Faces Impeachment.” Citing his usual, unnamed, anonymous sources, Sherman wrote:
Seeking to quell the internecine strife before it carried into a third day, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and president Jay Wallace communicated to Smith this morning [Thursday September 27] to stop attacking Carlson, a person briefed on the conversation said. “They said if he does it again, he’s off the air,” the source said. (Fox News spokesperson Irena Briganti denied that management had any direct conversation with Smith).
Sherman buttressed his article with additional unsourced tidbits that represent raw, ideological red meat for his magazine’s Fox News-hating readers:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Ed Henry was at it, again, with Trump bashing, on F&F, this morning.
Folks have mentioned it, here, and on Twitter.
Shep, Anderson Cooper, David Muir in a ménage à trois.
Havent seen Hayes on Fox yet. Does he just show up anywhere or is he assigned to a certain show? One person Im starting to appreciate is Jesse Watters. He enjoys shredding Juan to bits, and its a pleasure to watch.
Night FOX is NOT liberal... it’s the group that pays the bills so Chris Wallace can hire more and more liberals.
Night Fox needs to leave en masse ... and let the liberals at FOX go out of business...
AND commercials - their lack of my viewing is directly due to FOX's choice to give RAT's and RINO's a voice.
juan was replaced with a more tempered herawldo.
Ramblin Jack Elliott sings about Old Shep, his horse.
Fox may be the last standing now (actually One America News is along there as well).
HOWEVER, with John Solomon and crew there might be a new star on the horizon in the near future. Can’t be soon enough!
Who watches hysterical Shep?
“Who watches hysterical Shep?”
If people are stupid enough to watch the obvious lies on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, along with reading Time, The American Prospect, The Chicago Reporter, the Baffler, Current Affairs, Harper’s...and all the blatant other people laying out manure, most likely a lot of people are tuned to Smith.
People are only informed by the easiest method and don’t try to change things in their minds because they are fat and sassy. If people do the above, there is most likely a list of those that watch Smith. And that list is what keeps his sponsors fat and sassy. I didn’t say they were bright, just that they exist. Otherwise he would be extinct.
rwood
Smith's job is to keep the midday moving along until the money-making opinion shows begin in prime time.
One doesn't kill the milking cow, and that ain't Smith.
-PJ
Youre right, it was his dog.
I don't mind "fair and balanced" but I do object putting on Dims to just spout their talking points even video cuts from the LSM and then no questions made of their obvious lies and misrepresentation. Sigh.
give Emily Compagno her own show. she has the smarts, the right politics and the obvious
Just a couple of fellas talking about football baseball hockey home decor, shopping and guys.
I think you are referring to Richard Goldstein. Yes, he is slimey/obnoxious as is Chris Hahn.
Chris Hahn will not let anyone else get a word in the discussion. On Thursday he was on, and the moderator had to almost tape his mouth shut so the conservative could speak.
Tuned out Step years ago. Never liked him
I find myself watching less news on TV. Though I have OAN, News net via antenna, and other networks. I just spend more time reading books or seeing movies.
Fox News should clean up its act.
Meant Shep.
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