Bravo For Shepard Smith

[filkertom]

Not safe for work (language):

If you want to pass on thanks, email Shep at studiob@foxnews.com.

(h/t QuietObserver, posting at dKos)

Comments

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Now that was a surprise I did not expect. How very nice to hear something I have thought before closely approximated by someone on Faux News.
The asswipe on the left, on the other hand... Grr.

Edited to note that the title made me think of Shepherd Book :D

[aulayan.livejournal.com]

Wow...This from the guy whose first thought upon London Bus Bombings was "Now's the time to buy."

... Sometimes it's nice when these Fox News people actually show their real selves instead of their paid selves.

[joshuwain.livejournal.com]

Wow! Very unexpected ... and cool!

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

I lolled. And then I e-mailed my thanks.

Thank you for sharing, Tom.

[saganth.livejournal.com]

I avoid Fox News like the plague so I hardly know these asswipes or what they talk about or how they talk about. Not to rain on anyone's parade, but is it at all possible this Smith fellow is not saying that "we don't torture" as admonishment against those who support torture, but rather is saying "we don't torture" as some kind of hard-line support of torture? In other words, is he perhaps defending it by insisting what was done was not in fact torture but just self-defense of our country? Because from where I stand, not knowing these guys (and really, how well can any of us know what these guys really do and do not believe - this isn't Babylon 5 where the real reporters have trouble hiding their feelings about false stories), how can we truly know what they intend to mean when they open their mouths? They lie so goddamned much.

It would be nice if this guy really was taking a stand against torture on the air, but how do we really know?

[faxpaladin.livejournal.com]

1) When the guy on the left tried to weasel his way into the "it may be right or wrong, but it works" line, Smith flatly said, "It's wrong."

2) Smith has been noted previously for bucking the Fox line on the air -- he was the guy who mercilessly mocked Glenn Beck the day of the "9/12 Project" special.

[saganth.livejournal.com]

Ahh ok, I somehow managed to miss it in all of the cross-talk.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

Shep seemed pretty genuinely pissed off about the things that have taken place. Given the vehemence with which he was responding. He seemed to be inclined to take Judge Nepolitano's side of the argument, but I could be wrong.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if he faced some reprisals over this though. Most of Fox is made up of toe the line, toady apologists so we'll have to wait and see.

[caraig.livejournal.com]

And they're going to use the F-bomb as an excuse to can him, probably.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

If they're so stupid as to do that there are other, more legit news organizations, that would very likely hire him.

Shep's got a pretty good track record when you consider how offended he was at the handling of Katrina, and then the "Uncle Tom" comments that Ralph Nader made the night President Obama was elected.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

How did he get a job at Fox in the first place then? Is he an actual conservative?

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

I'd wager he was a conservative, but there are a lot of conservatives who are pissed off about the torture of detainees. You just don't hear about them as much as you do others.

People like O'Reilly manipulate the facts so that anyone who would dare suggest that torture is wrong look like a nut job.

[caindog.livejournal.com]

Bravo for Shepard Smith. Olbermann's five-minute special comments may be eloquent but Smith's "We are America! We do not f*cking torture! It's wrong!" says everything that needs to be said on the subject in five seconds.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

It's about time those idiots at Faux News and their viewers heard some straight up morality. I'm always appalled at conservatives who demonize relative morality (ie a morality not derived from their religion) then turn around and say "it's only OK if we do it" or "if it protects Americans, it's OK". I ask those people, "If Americans can torture to protect Americans, then any group can torture to protect themselves. Is that what you want?" Usually they either shut up or act like they have some special right to judge others.

[scruffycritter.livejournal.com]

Shepard Smith?

Wow. Just Wow.

Not the guy I expected it from. Remember Fox didnt even put an anchor's face up to say Obama won. Shep announced it from a long camera shot of the studio.

[colinmo.livejournal.com]

The quiet "we just don't do it" at the end was stronger than the bomb.

[erinwrites.livejournal.com]

I don't make a habit of watching Fox, but Shepard Smith has impressed me on multiple occasions (openly mocking Glenn Beck among them).

[kakita-shisumo.livejournal.com]

Sweet Georgia peaches, how did we get here? How did we hit a point where a cable TV newsanchor would say, "I'm not saying whether torture is right or wrong," and nobody flinches? What the hell happened to us?

[stdharma.livejournal.com]

I don't know, and I wish someone would tell me, or at least clue me in as to how this happened. This is not the America I grew up in. Hell, this isn't even the America that I became an Adult in. It's more like some alternate reality or something.

I wish someone would tell me, because I don't see us staying together. Then again, we are in The Crazy Years.

Saint Dharma