2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFox's Shep Smith: Hillary 'used Donald Trump's own words, was historically accurate on his policies'
SHEPARD SMITH (HOST): That was an extraordinary moment live from Reno, Nevada. The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, Democratic candidate for the presidency, has just tagged her Republican rival as a racist, fearmongering conspiracy theorist who is tempermentally unfit to be president of the United States. The problem with any attempt to rebut her is that in this case she used Donald Trump's own words, was historically accurate on his policies, on all reviewed points. James Grimaldi is a Pullitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where do you begin with this?
JAMES GRIMALDI: I don't know, it was pretty extraordinary and pretty hard-hitting, and as you pointed out used his own words agianst himself.
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SMITH: When you say she thinks they would be more documented, is she accurate?
GRIMALDI: Yeah, they appear to be more documented. Yeah he really trades in hyperbole --
SMITH: He trades in racism, doesn't he?
https://mediamatters.org/video/2016/08/25/foxs-shepard-smith-clintons-speech-tying-trump-alt-right-used-donald-trumps-own-words-against-him/212673
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/25/1563876/-Fox-s-Shep-Smith-Hillary-used-Donald-Trump-s-own-words-was-historically-accurate-on-his-policies
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)democrattotheend
(11,605 posts)She doesn't need to. His words speak for themselves.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)(at least I hope he will). There was a story that he absolutely hates Ailes as he has wanted to come out for years, and he wanted to make his long-term relationship public and known to the Fox audience. The story is that Ailes lost his shit when he heard this and allegedly threatened Shep with dismissal, blackmail out of the news business, a lawsuit over his contract, and all sorts of hideous humiliation. Then Ailes moved Shep -- by far their best live news person (he makes Brett Baier look even more wooden and inadequate) -- to the 3pm in the afternoon low-viewership time slot as a threat and a punishment.
So once in while Shep comes out with great stuff, like these comments! I hope he stays on after Ailes's scum is finally Lysol-ed out of that place and comes out and shakes up the old lady and old man Fox audience.
Great zingers from Shep! I still need to read the whole text of Hillary's speech -- it is already legendary.
Maru Kitteh
(28,339 posts)Fox paradigm.
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)They try to claim that Trump is not responsible for their words. Okay. He just agrees with them!
The non-rebuttal rebuttal.
democrattotheend
(11,605 posts)His complaints about black accountants managing his money, his statement that laziness is an inherent trait in black people, his refusal to rent to blacks in the 1970's...we don't need to tie him to racist outside groups. His own words and actions speak for themselves.