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Fox News host celebrates his gay lifestyle, slams conservative Christians
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| May 11, 2017
| Peter LaBarbera
Posted on 05/11/2017 4:54:36 PM PDT by ebb tide
Fox News Shepard Smith may have entered a new phase in his life in which he is open about his homosexuality, but longtime viewers of the daytime anchor are familiar with a Shep who reveals his pro-homosexual bias through snarky, on-air putdowns of social conservatives.
Smith went public in October about his long-suspected homosexuality, in an interview with Huffington Post. But he was long suspected of being homosexual, and even was listed prominently year after year in the LGBT magazine OUT as one of its Top 50 most powerful homosexuals.
On April 21, in a speech at his alma mater, the University of Mississippi, Smith said his homosexuality is both important and a non-issue, the Jackson, Mississippi, Clarion-Ledger reported.
I dont think about it, Smith said. Its not a thing. I go to work. I manage a lot of people. I cover the news. I deal with holy hell around me. I go home to the man Im in love with.
The Clarion-Ledger reports that Smith described his homosexuality as my truth, and said he began living it eight or nine years ago.
Smith described Fox News as the craziest conservative network on Earth, WND reported. Though more conservative than most media, Fox News has nevertheless funded the advocacy-oriented National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association with grants year after year.
Speaking against the Confederate flag, Smith told students at Mississippis Meek School of Journalism, You cant be much of an activist when your job is to report the news
but you can remind people what happened under that flag.
On-air jabs target socialcons
However, critics point out that Smith has indeed spoken blatantly like an activist, rather than a newsman, occasionally during his long tenure at Fox News. The following are some examples of liberal activist jabs and cheap shots that Smith has made on air while covering cultural events, ostensibly as a reporter:
- In 2015, Smith went out of his way on air to show his contempt for people like Christian Kim Davis, when he quipped about the Christian Kentucky clerk who famously refused to sign a marriage certificate for two homosexual men: Haters are gonna hate. Oddly, in his talk to the college journalism students, Smith spoke against stereotypes.
- Accuracy in Media reported: In other controversial comments about a pro-Davis rally being broadcast during his show, Smith ripped conservative Christians for a religious play again, saying, This is the same crowd that says, We dont want Sharia law, dont let them tell us what to do, keep their religion out of our lives and out of our government. Well, here we go again. Wrote AIMs Cliff Kincaid: Smith seems not to understand the difference between Christianity, a foundation of the American system that protects religious rights and liberty, and Islam, an authoritarian religion which wants to impose its values on others.
- In 2012, Smith took a cheap shot at the hundreds of thousands of Americans taking part in Mike Huckabees 2012 Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day to show support for the fast-food restaurants Dan Cathy, who enthusiastically defended natural marriage. Smith derided it as the National Day of Intolerance, a deep insult to Foxs conservative audience base, and especially galling because many conservatives (and some liberals) regarded the pro-LGBT Lefts hostility toward Cathy over merely publicly defending traditional marriage as the epitome of intolerance.
- When President Obama flip-flopped (for the second time in his political career) in 2012 by embracing homosexuality-based marriage, Smith said the president of the United States [was] now in the 21st Century. The liberal Huffington Post applauded Smiths pro-homosexual remark, but Rush Limbaugh took him to task for his comment implying that socially conservative marriage defenders hold antiquated and extreme beliefs.
An in-depth 2013 report on Fox News and the larger medias ongoing pro-homosexual and pro-transgender bias for the conservative group Americas Survival is available here.
TOPICS: Activism; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: firechimp; fox; gaystapo; homos; media; msm; shep
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To: ebb tide
When Shemp was a baby, his parents stuck the pacifier in his ass.
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posted on
05/11/2017 5:32:52 PM PDT
by
Joe Bfstplk
(A Irredeemable Deplorable Texan)
To: ebb tide
Never watched his useless show
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posted on
05/11/2017 5:38:08 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: ebb tide
Shep presents the “Russians helped Trump win the election” issue as if it were accepted fact, and he did it again today.
He wants Trump to be found guilty of something, and he wont rest until Trump if “perp-walked” out of the White House.
He’s radical left when it comes to the liberal issues, and won’t allow the imaginary cloud of suspicion that the democrats have created about the “Russian/Trump stolen election”, because it’s important to not allow the people to think that Hillary and democrats actually lost the election.
I think that FOX should be investigating Shep, or at least recognizing the fact that Shep is not about reporting the facts or real news anymore (if he ever did), and that all he wants is to be allowed a venue for advancing the liberal agenda, and his.
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posted on
05/11/2017 5:39:56 PM PDT
by
adorno
(w)
To: ebb tide
Any guy named “Shepherd” deserves to be gay.
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posted on
05/11/2017 5:44:12 PM PDT
by
BobL
(In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
To: ebb tide
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posted on
05/11/2017 5:44:28 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: ebb tide
There will never be a day when I will watch this knobwhomper (unless I’m stuck in the dentist’s waiting room).
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posted on
05/11/2017 5:48:15 PM PDT
by
Rastus
To: HLPhat
Well...this individual thinks "there's something messed up about Trump"....lolololol
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posted on
05/11/2017 5:55:07 PM PDT
by
caww
To: ebb tide
All these years. When O’Reilly and Megan get fired, and everyone starts calling for Shep to get fired, SUDDENLY Shep is telling us how gay he is.
This is just his making himself impossible to fire.
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posted on
05/11/2017 5:55:35 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
To: caww
EHRLICHMAN: Hotpants!
NIXON: Jeeeezus Chr[CENSORED].
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posted on
05/11/2017 6:03:11 PM PDT
by
HLPhat
(It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
To: Ann Archy
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posted on
05/11/2017 6:03:29 PM PDT
by
ptsal
( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
To: ebb tide
I heard the other anchors have it written into their contract that Shep’s chair is ALWAYS removed from the set when his shift is over.
Leakage problems.
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posted on
05/11/2017 6:06:38 PM PDT
by
Bodleian_Girl
("Amazing how far a 84 IQ and a James Brown wig can take you.")
To: All
It’s beyond me why gays must come out and announce to the world that they are GAY!!!!!
I have never seen anyone go out and announce I”M STRAIGHT!!!!!
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posted on
05/11/2017 6:10:20 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: ebb tide
I feel sorry for the broken monkey.
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posted on
05/11/2017 6:11:47 PM PDT
by
glasseye
To: ebb tide
FOX sucks now.... so many liberal minorities bit**ing an yelling their points. Watch Tucker some but the rest is a bad liberal joke especially Shep who thought no one knew he was queer.
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posted on
05/11/2017 6:19:12 PM PDT
by
DOC44
(Have gun will travel.)
To: ealgeone
Shep was part of the overhype of the coverage of Katrina.Shep was blaming Bush for the Katrina disaster.
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posted on
05/11/2017 6:40:49 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(Parroting fake news is highly profitable for some.)
To: JBW1949
I have never seen anyone go out and announce IM STRAIGHT!!!!!Tom Selleck did back in 1991, and again recently.
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posted on
05/11/2017 6:46:57 PM PDT
by
Calvinist_Dark_Lord
((I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper))
To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord
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posted on
05/11/2017 6:48:09 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: ebb tide
Whenever queer bait comes on I change the channel.
To: ebb tide
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posted on
05/11/2017 6:59:20 PM PDT
by
VRWC For Truth
(Taglines now subject to management approval)
To: ebb tide
The eyeliner was a dead giveaway.
40
posted on
05/11/2017 6:59:30 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.)
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