Explaining The Job Of A REAL JOURNALIST-To Bill O'Reilly - Shep Smith Mocks Hannity/FOX

[kpete]

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Explaining the job of a real journalist, Shep Smith mocks Hannity.»

Last week, Fox News host Shepard Smith pressed Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher for suggesting that a vote for Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) would be a vote for the death of Israel. Obviously disgusted by the Republican-endorsed attack, Smith called the claims “frightening.” As a guest on Bill O’Reilly’s show last night, Smith explained that a real journalist “who holds truth dear” has to fight against the “dangerous” lies told during a campaign:

SMITH: And I think that some of this disinformation, some of the lies that show up on the Internet, are dangerous. And those of us who hold truth dear, it’s our job to set the record straight.

O’REILLY: OK, but you work for the FOX News Channel, which is the most unfair channel and is always trying to get the Republicans elected. So you can’t be doing this stuff. You can’t be challenging Joe the plumber and Ralph Nader.

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SMITH: That’s Sean Hannity’s job.

When O’Reilly tried to put himself in the same journalistic category as Smith and Brit Hume, Smith clearly didn’t buy it, joking that when he hears criticism of Fox News’ bias he replies, “Are you only watching that O’Reilly cat?

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/07/shep-smith-oreilly/

[CitizenPatriot]

1. Revisionism: the GOP way. nt

[bbgrunt]

2. Smith is the only one worth watching on Faux

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Well, that's a sign things are getting better

There used to be nothing worth watching on FoxNews.

My television watching is confined to clips seen here. From what I've seen of Shepard Smith, I am pleased.

[Bette Noir]

3. Why are we still talking about that ignorant skinhead?

Joe the Plumber should be *over* by now.

I don't watch Fox, but the clips I've seen of Shep Smith are okay. I especially liked how he took Nader apart for calling Obama an "Uncle Tom."

[Hulk]

5. Shep Smith IS the only one worth watching on the propaganda network...but...

it's another egotistical ploy by the ranting lunatic, bor, to try to put himself in the same boat as Sheppard Smith. Smith has a conscience, and isn't going to take the blatant lies and bull shit. bor simply makes it up and goes ballistic on his guests like a crazed lunatic.

Yes, it seems a few of the propaganda network are stepping up. But I would in NO WAY put bor into that group. Such a pompous fool. He doesn't even see the difference.

[theblasmo]

10. He's A Tool...

... in that they can always use him to point out their so-called "unbiased" nature when someone calls them on the other stuff. "But what about Shepherd Smith? You wouldn't call him biased now, would you?" It's nice to see some chink in the armor, but as long as he's useful to them as an answer to the bias question, he'll be there. Once they don't need him, they'll think of something else.

Yeah, well, you do take what you can get from those asshats. It keeps them from having to use Colmes' name all the time to defend themselves.

[AspenRose]

6. Watch your step, Shep

You were also very truthful about Katrina. Too much more "truth-telling" at Fox and you may be out of a job!

[daggahead]

7. AIIIHHHHH fart in your general direction.

:puffpiece:

[theFrankFactor]

8. Fuck Them, This is Damage Control!

Shep is okay I guess. But this is likely the shape of things to come until they can put a noose around Barack Obama's neck. O'Reilly is a fucking liar and a clown- a hired buffoon.

Look (as Cokie Roberts like to say so condescendingly), the Republicans (visa vie, Fox News) have been pantsed, wedgied, humiliated, seen for what they are by millions of Americans and they have to eat some shit for a while until everyone but a few if us forget what fuck ups they are.

C,mon, Joe the fucking Plumber, Sarah Palin, those fucking morons who were s few hoods short of a KKK fashion show at the McCain Palin rallies- THAT'S THEIR AUDIENCE!

They are shit. Never Forget Bush Cheney!

[cooolandrew]

9. Oh cool the meme worked rhetoric toned down nicely there. Let's keep the next president safe >

wouldn't want to have to raise the rich's taxes to 50 percent if anything bad happened to him. Of course the rich not liking tax increases that won't happen so we're all cool.:)

[Heather MC]

11. I think some of the "REAL" journalist on FOX are fighting to Maintain a good reputation

Chris Wallace
Shep Smith
Not so sure about Brit Humes. I think they pay him enough not to give a fuck

[dothemath]

12. somebody will pick him up ....................

or he will write an expose' of Faux News that will make him a very rich man, if he talks, read 'tells the truth', much more.

He is on the edge, my fellow prisoners, of losing his job.

Much more of him talking this way and he will found under a bus somewhere.

Go for it, Shep, a lot of people are starting to take notice. Hope springs eternal, as they say.

[progressoid]

13. Fuck 'em. They are trying to re-brainwash their viewers into believing they are 'fair and balanced'

See, it's just Hannity that is right wing. The rest of Fox is neutral.

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[mopinko]

14. right over his head

that is pretty funny. shep's digs just sailed right on by.

[Chovexani]

15. I think Shep is trying to make a run for it

Run, Shep, run! Before they release the hounds!

[Hulk]

16. joe the impostor is LIVING PROOF...we are a nation of morons....

Just look at his following? These dumb asses think he is "mr. america". The skin head can't articulate a thought...of course, his thoughts are so twisted he doesn't know how to connect the dots with what he want to say. He ISN'T "joe the plummer"...he's not even a licensed plummer, so he is scamming the profession and taking money out of REAL plumbers pockets. He is so f*cking dumb, he doesn't get that President elect Obama's plan is going to assist the working class that he really is represented by; and he's a talking piece of nonsensical jargon and twisted logic for the piss poor losers.

This idiot is a joke..and he has a HUGE following....of f*cking morons. We truly are a nation of morons. We're #1. I don't think there is another country on earth as totally stupid and ignorant as we are. What a shame.