Shep Smith’s Days at Fox Numbered?

July 15, 2017

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Granted, he has been critical of the administration before (for example, having strong words about the way the administration treats CNN), but something will have to give at some point, given the overall tenor of the station’s political coverage. Via WaPo: ‘Lie after lie after lie’: Fox News’s Shepard Smith has a Cronkite moment on Russia. Video and transcript at the link.

Doug Mataconis

July 15, 2017 at 2:12 pm

I’m not sure about that. Smith has been making comments that differ significantly from those touted by the Prime Time lineup of hosts for quite some time now. As has Chris Wallace, who was in the segment along with Smith where those comments were made. Despite that, they’ve consistently renewed his contract.

One suspects that if they let him go, he’d find a slot at CNN or MSNBC rather quickly.
dazedandconfused

July 15, 2017 at 6:44 pm

The days of Ailes keeping all the inmates barking at the same moon may have passed.
Krauthammer, Wallace, Smith openly diverge from the Tucker/Hannity crowd? They need a new iron fist in the glove or they have begun contemplating the unthinkable…breaking Reagan’s 11th Commandment.
guest1

July 15, 2017 at 8:12 pm

Let’s help him exit:
newsmanager@foxnews.com
Kylopod

July 15, 2017 at 9:46 pm

Jon Stewart nailed it in an interview with Chris Wallace a few years ago: Fox keeps commentators like Wallace and Smith around to give the network a veneer of respectability it for the most part lacks. In short, they’re tokens.