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Why Shep Smith finally walked out of Fox News for good
CNN ^ | 10/11/2019 | Brian Stetler

Posted on 10/11/2019 6:26:32 PM PDT by RummyChick

With President Trump actively distorting the truth and many of his own colleagues helping him do it, the Fox News star prided himself on anchoring a newscast that countered the network's pro-Trump opinion shows. The way Smith saw it, he was making sure that accurate information was getting on Fox's air. "I wonder," he told a Time magazine reporter last year, "if I stopped delivering the facts, what would go in its place in this place that is most watched, most listened, most viewed, most trusted? I don't know."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 12ththread; brianstetler; clintonnonnews; cnn; fiction; foxnews; shempsmith; shep; shepsmith; shepsmithresignsfox
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To: RummyChick

He and his high horse can go join Meghan Kelly.


41 posted on 10/11/2019 6:53:35 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: RummyChick
"shep is writing a tell all book"

Yep! Probably co-authored with Joe Biden since Joe just announced that he spent most of his life around those bathhouses having lots of sex... They make a perfect couple...

42 posted on 10/11/2019 6:57:53 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: RummyChick

Of course I want to full story on Shep but CNN sure as hell won’t deliver it. All I know is AG Barr spoke with Murdock and within days or hours Shep was escorted out of the building. Probably in violation of some law or espionage. He is pure scum, and should have been fired based on Katrina coverage (if not sooner).


43 posted on 10/11/2019 6:58:48 PM PDT by shalom aleichem (Barr and Durham! Get movin'. Time's awastin')
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To: Rastus
This POS CNN hack fails to mention that the pro-Trump guys who give opinions are on opinion shows. Shep the creep was giving his opinion day in and day out on what was supposed to be the actual unbiased part of the programming.

Shep sure was. It's called editorializing. His comments about upholding journalistic standards are pure BS. He was the opposite of a journalist. I don't care about a person's sexual orientation, color or whatever as long as they report the news accurately and with as little bias as possible. Opinion shows are TV's editorial page. The news department should just report the bare facts and let the viewers decide. I'm glad to see Shep the fraud gone.

44 posted on 10/11/2019 7:03:53 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Nothingburger
"Someone explain: Why so much attention?"

Because we were at a loss with no one to kick around anymore when we got rid of Alan... Shep-dip was Alan's stand-in... Now were are screwed again... Although with the Wisconsin soy-boy on the board of directors, we'll probably have Shep-dip's replacement soon...

45 posted on 10/11/2019 7:04:32 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: RummyChick
Brian Stetler is the buffoon who swooned over Avennati, making his opinion about anything worthless.
46 posted on 10/11/2019 7:05:31 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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CNN is ATT

Dump ATT


47 posted on 10/11/2019 7:06:33 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: RummyChick
The way Smith saw it, he was making sure that accurate information was getting on Fox's air.

I didn't know he is a comedian! He is the most non-accurate jerk on Fox, pumping in his bias and lies and treating it as information! Good riddance.

48 posted on 10/11/2019 7:08:19 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: RummyChick

Brian Stetler of CNN writes that he is concerned about other people supposedly distorting the truth...

Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is a riot.


49 posted on 10/11/2019 7:08:20 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: RummyChick

Well, it’s CNN. They, and their 256 viewers actually believe that pablum.


50 posted on 10/11/2019 7:13:56 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Nothingburger

Indeed - most enlightening to hear from that beacon and fountain of factual information - CNN’s Brian Stelter.


51 posted on 10/11/2019 7:14:34 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: RummyChick

He must have seen his numbers.


52 posted on 10/11/2019 7:18:10 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: RummyChick

I don’t believe this for a second. The network was already left-leaning and you’d think they’d welcome his everyday comments.

Something else going on here.


53 posted on 10/11/2019 7:18:18 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: steveo

“So who gets his parking space?”

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-nov-20-mn-54794-story.html


54 posted on 10/11/2019 7:18:43 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: dead

Are you serious? Is that him?


55 posted on 10/11/2019 7:19:47 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: shalom aleichem

Do you think Shep’s name will be mentioned in the IG report and Barr was giving Murdock a heads up?


56 posted on 10/11/2019 7:20:23 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: hsmomx3

He wants to spend more time with his husband.


57 posted on 10/11/2019 7:23:29 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: RummyChick

Good riddance! I knew Shep was a fake journalist when I watched him cover the Hurricane Katrina story where he was an eye witness to hundreds of people stranded on the freeway above the undrinkable floodwaters in hundred-degree heat dying of heatstroke and thirst while city trucks repeatedly drove by. never once dropping off drinking water to those poor people.

Shep saw this for days an never took the New Orleans mayor to task for not having easily available drinking water despite city/federal hurricane preparation exercises that required stockpiles of drinking water. But then, the mayor was black and Shep directed his criticisms solely at President Bush and ignored the mayor’s corruption and incompetence.

Shep saw this atrocity yet refused to name or blame the culprit because he was black. I knew then that Shep was an intellectual coward who groveled before the Race Card and would be more at home at CNN than at Fox.


58 posted on 10/11/2019 7:38:45 PM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: RummyChick
With President Trump actively distorting the truth and many of his own colleagues helping him do it

What load of manure that claim is.

59 posted on 10/11/2019 7:40:48 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: lodi90

“Kiss and tell book? “

The last thing anyone needs to hear from Shemp is who or what he kissed.


60 posted on 10/11/2019 7:42:32 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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