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    Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' 'Lack of Balance'

    Another Reason to Love Shep Smith

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    Image of Trystero Trystero
    10/28/09

    In reply to Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' 'Lack of Balance'
    I don't think Smith is a leftie. I think he's a paleo-conservative who believes in integrity. #foxnews
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' 'Lack of Balance'
    Maybe he was referring to the softball aspect of the interview? Fox News is notorious for letting the party masters use its airways as a free political commercial venue, which if nothing else violates journalistic ethics. #foxnews
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' 'Lack of Balance'
    In other news, today's NYT reports, "CNN Drops to Last Place Among Cable News Networks". #foxnews
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    10/28/09

    @ihatetwitter: That doesn't surprise me. There is nothing more mealy mouthed than the "Fox News with a Friendly Face" positioning CNN has been trying out for the last few years. Liberals are no longer amused and conservatives are too stupid to see that, with the possible exception of Rick Sanchez and the old cranky guy, it's a lot of unchallenged conservative blather--contrary to what they've been programmed to believe by the conservative hive mind. And since the last thing cable news offers is news, people who watch choose to watch the 24-hour opinion channel that most aligns with their own beliefs.
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    10/27/09

    In reply to Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' 'Lack of Balance'
    Fox finally learned that employing only pitiful, zombie lefties isn't the way to go, and that everyone has a TV set, not just red-staters. So, they let Shep and his Q rating be the supposed opposition leader instead of Alan "Skeletor" Colmes.

    Trouble is, thanks to their audience getting twice as loony over having a black prez, they are getting too cocky/reckless, and providing him with too much ammo on a daily basis. It could also be that he's getting fed up and will be taking an hour from Wolf Blitzer on CNN sometime soon...his neighbor Anderson Cooper might think that's just fab...
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' 'Lack of Balance'
    I'm pretty sure Shep's "moments of responsibility and balance" are just strategic and encouraged by the network. The stunts get Shep interviews full of sloppy kisses by publications like Esquire and the New York Times where they go in about how independent and wonderful he is and he goes on about how FOX is totally balanced except for a few shows that are plainly opinion. FOX people never get invited for profile interviews normally by the regular media, let alone the sort of fawning Shep has been getting.

    And FOX needs someone to point to as a at least vaguely lefty or fair sort of presence now that Colmes is gone. #foxnews
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    10/28/09

    @mostlymartian: Colmes being gone is a good thing, he was basically the Washington Generals.
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    Image of Niko Bellic Niko Bellic
    10/27/09

    In reply to Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' 'Lack of Balance'
    My guess is: he was told to make Gawker today. #foxnews
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' 'Lack of Balance'
    I don't know. It's hard to dislike the guy. #foxnews
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    10/27/09

    In reply to Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' 'Lack of Balance'
    When Shep asks Anderson out, he will be voted off the island. #foxnews
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' 'Lack of Balance'
    I can't seem to make that first sentence work. #foxnews
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    10/27/09

    @Bulkington: Indeed. I guess that's why it says "How awkward." #foxnews
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    10/27/09

    @goetz: I think if "demanding" were changed to "asking", then put a comma after that and after "candidate", it would be clearer.

    Go ahead, try it! #foxnews
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    10/28/09

    @A Message To Rudy: I don't know, if we leave the roots there's a chance the rest of the sentence might grow back. #foxnews
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    10/28/09

    @goetz: We have a winner. #foxnews
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' 'Lack of Balance'
    For just a minute there I thought I would have to look outside to see if the Moon had in fact turned to blood. Wait, that was the river.... #foxnews
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    Image of Calraigh Calraigh
    10/27/09

    In reply to Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' 'Lack of Balance'
    '' Starting to suspect '' ? Really?

    Fox News is Fox News is Fox News. The whole, ''Shep is on our side! '' and '' He's going rogue! '' thing is pretty much what Ailes is counting on.
    Fox is hateful, but they're not stupid. They're precisely the opposite; they're crafty, like... a fox.
    If anything, this is about as contrived a set-up as is televisually possible.

    There's always a catch.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    10/27/09

    @Calraigh: THIS. #foxnews
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    Image of dontread dontread
    10/27/09

    @Calraigh: Sure I bet Shep is sitting back right now sipping martinis and laughing an evil, sinister, laugh as he contemplates his own goofish persona as the affable left-wing underdog in a room of GOP pitbulls.
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    Image of Inescapeable Picnic Inescapeable Picnic
    10/27/09

    @Calraigh: Exactly. Why would they tell the dogs the point of the dogfight? The philosophy of the place is much more easily shaped by careful selection of people than openly declared mandates. #foxnews
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    10/27/09

    @Calraigh: Another possibility is that he wants to remain employable by someone other than FOX someday. #foxnews
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    Image of Andrew Kornfeld Andrew Kornfeld
    10/27/09

    @Calraigh: But Shep's been taking digs at the rest of Fox News for the last year (or more) as far as I can tell. Of course, they haven't fired him like they did Marc Lamont Hill, their other correspondent who showed hints of liberalism. I dunno, maybe I just want to believe one person escaped their dumb fucking clutches #foxnews
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    10/27/09

    @Andrew Kornfeld: I agree, it's a lovely thought, but that's all it is. Shep Smith isn't a poor, tethered waif, bravely raising a fist to the establishment. He can leave anytime he wants. #foxnews
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    10/27/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: Someday.... someday when though? He should be striking while the iron is hot, no? #foxnews
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    10/27/09

    @dontread: And believing he's the lone wolf, bravely treading a dangerous path, keeping his head while all around are losing it, fighting the good fight, blah, blah, bleurgh- this is more plausible to you?
    The only thing Shep Smith and his schtick serves to illuminate is that Fox '' News'' is pure theatre. Everything is for show.

    And no, I don't think he, or Ailes or anyone at Fox stroke cats and watch vt's back on 12 million screens. For the simple reason they don't give enough of a shit. It's business as usual.
    They are a sophisticated, manipulative army of fearmongers and Shep is doing trojan work. #foxnews
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' 'Lack of Balance'
    So, if Shep had had control then... what?
    Something isn't right here.
    I smell a Danish Rat. #foxnews
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    Image of Fancynancylynn Fancynancylynn
    07/27/09

    In reply to Another Reason to Love Shep Smith
    Colonel Rebel at Ole Miss: World's most absurd, racist and outdated school mascot. Silliest: Delta State's fighting okra, complete with boxing gear and bruises. I do love Mississippi so much y'all.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    07/27/09

    @Fancynancylynn: Nope. Silliest school mascot: The North Carolina School of the Arts' fighting pickle (warts and all--and let's not get into the kind of warts they might have been).
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    Image of Fancynancylynn Fancynancylynn
    07/27/09

    That does it: In the Octagon this weekend the Fighting Okra and the Fighting Pickle.....this is the ultimate challenge for the ultimate silliness! Yes!@The Lone Scout:
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    07/27/09

    In reply to Another Reason to Love Shep Smith
    Go to hell Ole Miss!
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    Image of DaeSu DaeSu
    07/27/09

    In reply to Another Reason to Love Shep Smith
    As a native New Yorker living in Boston, I've always told folks here that New Yorkers had better things to do than waste their hate on Boston. Please don't make me out to be a liar, Pareene!
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