I would not describe myself, all things considered, as a huge fan of Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith. Credit where credit is due, though: When a couple of his colleagues tried to hem and haw and generally dodge the reality of the Bush Administration’s recently disclosed torture memos earlier this week, Shep let ‘em have it. "We are America," he reminded them, his voice rising as he prepared to hit those two with an obscenity-laced dose of truth. "I don’t give a rat’s ass if it helps! WE ARE AMERICA! We do NOT f—ing torture!" Check it out, below (NSFW language, clearly).
Damn right. The freakout seems to have occurred on a Fox News webcast, not an actual TV show, which is too bad. As far as I’m concerned, Fox ought to encourage Shep Smith to express his real feelings this way as often as possible on television, though I supposed he’d have to tone down the profanity. Whether you agree with him or not, I think Fox News could only benefit from letting its anchors challenge each other a little more often instead of always mindlessly repeating the party line. Or do you disagree?
Shep Smith is my favorite person on foxnews. In fact, he’s the only person I like on fox news.
This definitely caught my attention. While I may still have my reluctancy to trust Fox News for things, I will keep my eye on Shepard Smith.
While I may not necessarily agree with his opinion, I love Shep. He’s one of my favorites on Fox and I love to see him all emotional about stuff.
Ooh, just wait until Limbaugh takes Shep behind the woodshed and whups some good ol’ conservative values back into his heinie.
Oh to be young and naive. Of course we torture.
Wow, integrity. Standards. How refreshing. How come I never see this kind of stuff when I watch Fox news?
Here’s more of Shep’s greatest hits:
Absolutely awesome.
Shamrock, I don’t think he was denying the existence of torture, I think he was saying “We don’t torture” to mean “We shouldn’t torture.” I think he meant that even if torture “helps,” that America is (or ought to be) better than that.
Which is what America really is about — people can have different beliefs and ideologies, but at the heart of everything should be a belief in the Americal IDEAL. And the ideal does NOT include torture. Shep seems to be on the side of the American Ideal, not American Expediency.
Shep, the cream always rises to the top and you’ve done it. In spite of Fox News, your better self has had enough. Good for you.
Wasn’t Shep the one who stood out on his balcony in the French Quarter after Katrina an mockingly declared ‘Well, it looks like New Orleans dodged the big one AGAIN’ ?!? I haven’t been able to watch the tool since.
ANybody who is in favor of torture better be damn well ready to defend it when our enemies use it on OUR soldiers then. In the eyes of many in the Arab/Muslim world we are considered terrorists and threats to their national security. Now we can debate about the rightness or wrongness of that view but it is the way some of them view us. So what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
I don’t want any of our soldiers tortured, But if we are doing it then we have to be prepared to accept that it’s being done to our men and women.
“…instead of always mindlessly repeating the party line.”
You don’t actually watch Fox News, do you?
Credit where credit is due indeed. Of course, I’ll happily watch Jack Bauer torture people left and right, but I don’t want it in reality.
lol Colbert showed it last night too.
http://tvdonewright.com/2009/04/24/tv-tonight-friday-april-24th-2009/