After President Obama announced his long-overdue support for marriage equality, Fox News’ Shep Smith clearly bucked the network’s party line, welcoming him to the 21st century and saying that opponents of equality are “without much question on the wrong side of history.” Video below.
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I’m wondering if he’s actually trying to get fired at this point, or at least trying to see how far he can push things without being fired.
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baal
May 11, 2012 at 11:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Shep’s complying with the “attack the pres at all times” message. It was nice to see him do it from this particular angle though. Very not Foxy to be on the pro-gay side of the ledger. I have it on some authority that the do keep ledgers.
Trebuchet
May 11, 2012 at 11:50 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
He’s wondering if Republicans will try to make this a campaign issue? Seriously? It’ll be pretty much their ONLY issue. Might be pretty successful, too, for them. Unfortunately.
abb3w
May 11, 2012 at 11:51 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
My guess is he’s hoping for an offer from MSNBC to step in for Al Sharpton’s time slot.
Raging Bee
May 11, 2012 at 11:54 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
…saying that opponents of equality are “without much question on the wrong side of history.”
No, no, you read him wrong. What he meant to say is that opponents of equality don’t get much questions from people who are on the wrong side of history.
Must be a misplaced comma thing.
Reginald Selkirk
May 11, 2012 at 12:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
He’s trying out for a new reality show:
Fox Mole II: In Front of the Camera
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
May 11, 2012 at 12:35 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
He’s the one facet of Faux News that actually is somewhat balanced in his news. I read an article about him a week ago, I’ll try to dredge it up again.
Parse
May 11, 2012 at 12:43 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
In 40 years, when the whole marriage equality debate is seen like the interracial marriage debate is seen now, the GOP will point back to Shep Smith to show that they were ahead of the curve on this.
captainahags
May 11, 2012 at 12:46 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
First his statement about Newt Gingrich dropping out, and now this. . . I have genuine respect for Shep.
Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort
May 11, 2012 at 1:08 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I found it! – http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4841
d cwilson
May 11, 2012 at 2:09 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Shep is not going to get fired. He serves a purpose on Fox. As long as he makes the occassional honest statement, they can point to him as proof that the entire channel’s purpose is not to carry water for the GOP.
D. C. Sessions
May 11, 2012 at 3:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
One of the great (and even rarer, honest) comments on politics ever:
dcsohl
May 12, 2012 at 8:52 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m not seeing a video here. I’ve seen it elsewhere, so no worries, but I thought I might point that out. Anybody else not seeing a video on this page?
Doug Little
May 12, 2012 at 11:59 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
D. C. Sessions
No It’s even better than that because you can sub other things into the statement like:
Pat Robertson is weird and creepy. And now, I know, lacks even the loosest attachment to anything like reality.