Shep Smith Blasts Repugs Who Failed To Support 9/11 First Responders: “How Do They Sleep At Night?"

[jefferson_dem]

Shep Smith Blasts Lawmakers Who Failed To Support 9/11 First Responders: “How Do They Sleep At Night?”

A wonderful moment of pure outrage–and classic television–from Shepard Smith on Fox News Friday afternoon as he and Chris Wallace waited for President Obama’s tax cut signing ceremony.

Discussing the amount of money on “tax cuts for billionaires who don’t need them,” Smith railed against the very same lawmakers who somehow couldn’t get relief passed for 9/11 first responders.

How do they sleep at night after this vote on Ground Zero first responders from 9/11? Are they going to get that done, or are we going to leave these American heroes out there to twist in the wind?

Wallace, who agreed more should be done for the first responders–some of whom appeared Thursday night on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show in a much-discussed segment skewering Republicans for refusing to support the 9/11 bill.

Shep took Stewart’s lead and ran with it:

Smith and Wallace never named names Friday afternoon, but did rip the “political” failure. “Who’s going to hold these people’s feet to the fire? We’re able to put a 52 story building so far down there at Ground Zero, we’re able to pay for tax cuts for billionaires who don’t need them and it’s not going to stimulate the economy. But we can’t give health care to Ground Zero first responders who ran right into the fire? Went down there to save people? Do people know what this city was like that day? People were walking over bridges they were covered in ash they were running for their lives they were crying their family members were dead. And these people ran to Ground Zero to save people’s lives. And we’re not going to even give them medicine for the illnesses they got down there? It’s disgusting, it’s a national disgrace, it’s a shame and everybody who voted against should have to stand up and account for himself or herself.

Watch it here, from Fox News:

VIDEO at LINK: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/shep-smith-blasts-lawmakers-who-failed-to-support-911-first-responders-how-do-they-sleep-at-night/

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. Shep Also Showed Independence On Katrina And The Slug Who Shot Up The Holocaust Museum

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[Ruby the Liberal]

2. Good for him. That was a great rant.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Shep should make the leap to MSNBC...

He'd be much happier, that's for sure!

[COLGATE4]

4. Smith is the only honest reporter on Fux News. I still remember

him handing O'Leilly his head when Smith was on scene at Katrina and O'Leilly was trying to belittle the situation. Smith looked (and talked) like he wanted to kill O'Leilly for his stupidity. He's an honest journalist, certainly an anomaly at Fux.

[Nancy Waterman]

5. I knew Jon Stewart would get the ball rolling - finally

He shamed them into covering it, but at least they are covering it.

[tanyev]

6. Quite well on their 1000 thread count pillowcases, thank you very much.

[golfguru]

7. Shep = fair and balanced

[leftynyc]

8. Please correct me if I'm wrong

but I didn't hear him say the word "republican" once in that righteous rant. The rubes that watch fox could very well blame the Democrats if that's the case. I may have missed it - I'm watching my beloved Knicks play Miami and am a bit distracted.

[AlinPA]

10. I should have read your post first. That's exactly what I think. By the time the slime on Fox are

done with this, it will be blamed on the Democrats.

[AlinPA]

9. Yes, but he didn't have the guts to say "the republicans". The other guy Wallace just said

"Congress" as if the Democrats were killing the 9/11 Responders Bill.

[MadMaddie]

11. Stewart, Maddow, Shep and others need to put the pressure

on if it doesn't get passed before the end of the year.

When the Repugs come into power the pressure should be amped up..until the entire country is riled up.