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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: adorno
FOX should be investigating Shep
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At least as thoroughly as they investigated BO’R before they kicked his ass out the door.
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posted on
05/11/2017 7:06:59 PM PDT
by
V K Lee
(DJT: "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ")
To: ebb tide
Shep Smith is a homo? Well roll me in bread crumbs and call me veal cutlet.
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posted on
05/11/2017 7:07:10 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.
Shep Smith is a homo? Well roll me in bread crumbs and call me veal cutlet.Next, they'll try to tell us that Liberace was gay.
To: WhatNot
Shep is not gay Hes mentally ill.
.and a poor reader.
To: Ann Archy
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posted on
05/11/2017 7:47:12 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord
That article is from 97. Recent?????
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posted on
05/11/2017 7:47:56 PM PDT
by
leaning conservative
(snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: ebb tide
Nasty little piece of work.
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posted on
05/11/2017 7:48:21 PM PDT
by
anton
To: ealgeone
Liz Wheeler and “Tipping Point” and Graham Ledger “The Daily Ledger” are my favorites.
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posted on
05/11/2017 7:59:33 PM PDT
by
teletech
To: ptsal
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posted on
05/11/2017 8:18:44 PM PDT
by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
Comment #50 Removed by Moderator
To: ebb tide; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum
Unfortunately, we're stuck with Shemp Smith.
It's no mystery why he's come "out" so publicly at this particular time. It's job insurance.
With all the comings and goings and sexual turmoil at Fox News, his job is secure because he's now a protected minority. You know the drill...I don't have to explain any further.
Same with Wan Williams and Whorealdo Rivera, they are protected minorities and will haunt us forever.
Smart move on the part of Smith.
Leni
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posted on
05/11/2017 9:05:41 PM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(GO TRUMP !!!.....GO PENCE !!!.....GO USA !!!)
To: All
Bump to # 51 re: Fox's Shepard Smith
Leni
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posted on
05/12/2017 8:37:09 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(GO TRUMP !!!.....GO PENCE !!!.....GO USA !!!)
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