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Someone Save Sheppard Smith!

How long can Sheppard Smith survive on FOX with one foot in the real world?

First there was this:



Then this:



Now it seems that his having a grasp of reality has earned him the wrath of the FOX watchers. Here are a few excerpts from the transcript of his latest show:

I read a lot of email around here, and the email, to me, has become more and more frightening. This is not a new thing. It’s been happening over the past few months. It’s been happening, you know, to some degree since the election process went along.

I’m going to read to you a little bit from one v — and I’m not going to read the name. But this is, I promise, a representative sample of the kinds of things we get here:
“Shepard, how dare you tell us to get over Obama not being a U.S. citizen. Where is the birth certificate? Where? He won’t show it, so why are you so trumped up to believe it? I cannot stand Hussein. He is a socialist-Marxist who is at fast rate destroying our country.”

If you are one who believes these sorts of things about the president of the United States — and I could read a hundred of them like this…I mean from today. People who are so amped up and so angry for reasons that are absolutely wrong, ridiculous, preposterous. Yet they are mad. They are very mad that I just called it preposterous…

And as if to prove him right, the wingnuts responded with e-mails to the official website of the lunatic fringe "Free Republic."

E-mails like this:

Shep Smith saying now of Napolitano’s DHS report: “They were right”

Let FoxNews know how you feel about this little angry queer.

I am DONE with FoxNews. They fire this asshole or I am gone.

Wow, I think that might be what we call delusions of grandeur. Do you have any idea how many viewers FOX has? Do you think Rupert Murdoch gives a flying fuck if one inbred mouth breather takes his business elsewhere? Ooh, I'll show them, I'll stop watching! Then they'll have to give in to my moronic demands!

…

We need to call Fox and complain. This is ridiculous! This guy is just your run of the mill jew hater..JUST LIKE THE MUSLIM TERRORIST THAT KILLED ONE OF OUR SOLDIERS!!

This stuff is being stoked by our president kissing up to terrorists and pulling away from Israel! Obama hates jews too!

OBAMA’S FAULT!!

Isn't everything?

Shep having a meltdown right now and mentioning the DHS memo like this now makes it legitimate and bringing up the guy’s military background. I wish I could reach through the TV and ring his scrawny little neck sometimes.

yeah, you should totally try that. If you hit the screen hard enough, you'll go right through it! Then you can wring some necks!

Shep Smith blaming people who “question Obama’s birth certificate…THIS MUST STOP!” and also referred to those who think Obama is a Muslim as “garbage.”

Actually, I think he referred to the crazy notion that Obama is a "secret muslim" as garbage. Not those who believe this particular brand of bullshit. But here, I'll say it for him. If you think that President Obama is a secret Muslim You are Garbage! There, how's that?

Michelle Malkin

Back in April, the Department of Homeland security issued a report warning of a possible rise in right-wing extremist violence. (here) and (here)

Well, a lot of people had some harsh criticism for the report. But none so harsh as professional lunatic Michelle Malkin


(seen here in one of her more lucid moments)




who had things like this to say about the report:

The “report” (PDF file here) was one of the most embarrassingly shoddy pieces of propaganda I’d ever read out of DHS. I couldn’t believe it was real (link)

the piece of crap report issued on April 7 is a sweeping indictment of conservatives. My b.s. detector went off the chart, and yours will, too, if you read through the entire report — which asserts with no evidence that an unquantified “resurgence in rightwing extremist recruitment and radicalizations activity” is due to home foreclosures, job losses, and…the historical presidential election.

Well, within a week, we've now had the assasination of Dr. George Tiller, and a white supremacist shooting up the Holocaust Museum. So maybe the report had a point?
What does Malkin have to say now?

"The truth is, this guy’s a deranged Holocaust denier. He represents no one on the conservative right - not me, nor any of those with whom I associate.”

Yeah, that was the point, moron! The report warned about EXTREMIST NUTS, not garden-variety conservatives.

Prepare for a wall-to-wall onslaught of gleeful finger-pointing on the Left

Prepare for DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s defenders to gloat about vindication.

Um, genius, it's not janet Napolitano being vindicated here since, once again, she had NOTHING to do with this report. The report was ordered by the Bush administration.


Why can't you either just admit that the report was pretty prescient in its warnings or just shut the fuck up about it?

The Stupidest Boycott Ever.

The American Auto industry is in big trouble. Chrysler and GM are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Dealerships are closing, workers are being laid off. But someone has figured out a way to make things worse!
A boycott of General Motors!

Yes, really!

It seems to have started with some columnist named Hugh Hewitt





















(seen here painted for Halloween)

Hewitt had this to say about GM:

I won't buy a socialist car, which means I won't be buying a GM or Chrysler car for as long as the U.S. government owns huge blocks of the companies.

Even if massive subsidies for a time present appealing products at subsidized prices, however, I won't be visiting a GM or Chrysler lot no matter the product offered.

So, no matter how good the car, and no matter how good the price, you will pass up the deal because it offends your ridiculous ideology? Is that what we're getting at here? If Gm ends up making the best car on the market (maybe bringing back the Bel Air? A boy can dream!) you will buy an inferior car and pay more for it because the government bailed out GM. Wow, talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!

Buy Ford. Buy Toyota. Buy anything that isn't owned and operated by the federal government.

That's right. It's better to support one of our foreign competitors than to buy from a company which has offended Hugh Jass, I mean Hewitt.

And of course, the flaming bag of poo on the doorstep of intelligent discourse, Rush Limbaugh is jumping on the moron bandwagon.

Limbaugh reassures any GM workers who might be listening that the boycotters aren’t angry at them. “They don’t want to patronize Obama. They don’t want to do anything to make Obama’s policies work!” he explains. “This is an untold story, by the way. Of course, the government-controlled media is not gonna report anything like this but there are a lot of people who are not going to buy from Chrysler or General Motors as long as it is perceived Barack Obama is running it, because people do not want his policy to work here because this is antithetical to the American economic way of life.”

So, sure, thousands of decent hard-working Americans might lose their livelihoods, but it will be worth it to be able to point at Barack Obama and say ( in a sing-song cadence) "haha ha ha haha! Your policies didn't work! Because we sabotaged them and brought down a major American company in the process!"
Oh, and not to quibble, but there is no "government-controlled media" in this country. I think you're confusing the US with North Korea again. Are you finally giving up on the "liberal media" myth and moving on to a new paranoid fantasy?

Oh, and also, fuck you.


ADDENDUM:

Apparently, Hugh "Jass" Hewitt (Yes, I know i stole that from the Simpsons) is quite the little boycotter, although he's pretty modest about it:

I don't resort to boycotts often. In seven years on the radio, I have urged exactly one: Against Target, for throwing the Salvation Army from its doorways. I still maintain my refusal to enter Target, and hope you do as well.

I think maybe Hugh has a different definition of the word "often" than the rest of us. Let's see, he has urged boycotts of:

TARGET (see above)

CANADA:

Looks like Boycott #2 is on the horizon. If Canada can't defend the free speech of its most talented native son, then it shouldn't be getting even our devalued tourist dollars.

VERMONT:

It is time to cancel that trip to Vermont. Be sure to tell the Vermont Chamber of Commerce why you aren't coming and drop a note to the Burlington Free Press to let the state's leading paper know as well. The Vermont tourism industry can thank Pat Leahy, the father of the mother of all Senate boycotts.

And

PEPSI:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1406817/posts

Dead Tigers

There's an old joke about a guy standing on his front lawn shouting and waving his arms. His neighbor asks him what he's doing, and he says "scaring away the tigers."
"There are no tigers in North America," says his neighbor. "see," says the man, "it's working!"

That's what I think of every time I hear one of the Bush administration apologists claiming that "They kept us safe for 7 years after 9/11."

I'm so sick of this bs being trotted out that it was torture, warrentless wiretapping, etc. that foiled various terrorist plots, but they just can't tell us about them. When you busted a half-dozen potheads in Florida who talked about maybe blowing up a building in Chicago,. you trumpeted that from the fucking hillsides. When you caught some knuckleheads allegedly planning to disguise themselves as pizza delivery guys and blow up Fort Dix, it was front page news. But the plots that were thwarted by your illegal methods, those are top fucking secret. "Gee, we're trying to get those files de-classified, then you'll see, blah, blah, blah. . ." You want me to believe that you prevented an attack? Show me a dead tiger.




I want to know what terrorist plot you foiled by waterboarding. Because you sure didn't get any information you could use to prevent our allies in Madrid from having their trains blown up.

And what information did you get from tapping phones without a warrant? Obviously, nothing about anyone planning suicide bombings in London.

And we still don't know who mailed anthrax to two US Senators.

So what did you prevent? What plot did you foil? Show us the dead tigers!





If you can't show us one credible threat that was thwarted by your illegal means, then shut the fuck up about keeping us safe.










No Tigers were harmed in the making of this blog post.