Posted on 08/16/2017 2:14:40 PM PDT by CedarDave
Fox News host Shepard Smith said Wednesday that the network tried and failed to get a Republican on-air to defend President Trump's controversial comments on violence in Charlottesville, Va. over the weekend
"Our booking team and they're good reached out to Republicans of all stripes across the country today," Smith said on his show "Shepard Smith Reporting."
"Let's be honest, Republicans don't often really mind coming on Fox News Channel. We couldn't get anyone to come and defend him here because we thought, in balance, someone should do that," he continued.
Smith's comments followed an off-the-rails press conference by Trump on Tuesday, during which he reasserted claims that "both sides" were to blame for violence during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Saturday that ultimately left one dead and at least 19 others injured.
You had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest, and very legally protest," Trump said, referring to individuals protesting against the removal of a Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue in the town.
Not all of those people were white supremacists, by any stretch."
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Maybe even the dregs of the Republican Party are finally realizing that there is no point in talking to people like Shep Smith. All it does is give people like Shep an excuse to pretend to be important.
Time for Trump to dump the Traitorous Republican Party. I will NEVER for for a Republican again, except Trump.
NEVER VOTE........write to fast
I’m ashamed that I’m “late to the game”, but I turned Fox News off between 3:00 & 4:00 Pm & again from 5:00 to 6:00 PM & sent an email to Fox to let them know why.
I don’t believe that. Mo Brooks would have
Shep, you could not find the truth, period.
Fox News should dump this freak.
Do not feed the beast.
I don’t know if they are lying. They may be just incredibly stupid. After Trump condemned white supremacists several times a reported asked, I didnt understand what you were saying. You were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly.
I don’t know if they are lying. They may be just incredibly stupid. After Trump condemned white supremacists several times a reported asked, I didnt understand what you were saying. You were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly.
Who besides housebound cat ladies and poofters watch this creep?
No. He is white and southern. That makes him a racist.
#ShempLIES
Newt Gingrich was on Hannity the night before defending Trump.
I guess that Shemp and his staff are so insulated from such circles as to be oblivious - kind of blind to Republicans much further right than Lindsey Graham.
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FOX News did everything they could to get Hillary elected.
They have acted with malice towards Trump ever since.
Never Trumpers and RINOs are FOX News.
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I disagree. OReilly gave a platform anytime he wanted it. Free campaigning time since Hilalary refused to come on.
As an employee, he made himself, his network, his program, his producers and his management look bad, biased, weak and inefficient.
(...not that Fox News isn't already getting that way all by itself...without help from him).
Leni
FUSMITH
Shemp is the boss ...
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