After this scene, how long before Shep Smith is no longer at Fox News?

scheming daemons

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Thu Apr-23-09 11:48 AM
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After this scene, how long before Shep Smith is no longer at Fox News?

Fox anchor Shepard Smith, on a post-broadcast Webcast, lost it when discussing his opposition to waterboarding, etc -- bellowing: "We are America!" (slamming the table) "I don't give a rat's ass if it helps. We are AMERICA! We do not f*****g torture!!"

See the video here:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0409/Shep_Smith_drops_antitorture_Fbomb.html

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Deja Q

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Thu Apr-23-09 11:53 AM
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1. If he does, it's only because he said a swear...

Shep might be in denial. Our country engaging in torture seems to legitimately haunt him and he doesn't want to acknowledge the possibility.

I've mocked him at times, but something about his presentation - I think he wants to believe America is morally better than to torture. And in that vein, he's utterly right. We should be better than to have to resort to torture.

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csziggy

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Thu Apr-23-09 11:56 AM
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4. Picking a nit

You said, "We should be better than to have to resort to torture."

We did not HAVE to resort to torture. The Bush regime CHOSE to torture.

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DebbieCDC

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Thu Apr-23-09 11:54 AM
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2. Well when the Fux anchors start coming out against torture

You know someone can sense which way the political wind is blowing.

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Dappleganger

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Thu Apr-23-09 11:55 AM
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3. I didn't see the news clip...

was it on delay or did the bleep it?

Yeah, they should fire his ass like the hypocrites they are and let him be a star on MSNBC. :D

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Towlie

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Thu Apr-23-09 11:59 AM
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5. Help me out here. Did he mean that we shouldn't torture or was he denying that we were?

The claim that "America does not torture" can be taken two entirely different ways.

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