Fox News’ Shep Smith Drops the F Bomb on Torture
Fox News anchor Sheppard Smith officially went off the Murdoch reservation today. In response to the release of the Senate torture report, Smith dropped the F bomb on the Fox News program Freedom Watch. Watch the segment…
Quite astonishing, actually…
Partial transcript:
We are America! I don’t give a rat’s ass if it [torture] helps, we are America! We do not fucking torture! We don’t do it.
Bet he’s shopping resumes today.
little late for that sentiment, eh?
brendancalling wrote:
The cynic in me would think that Smith’s rant was scripted and approved by FN boss Roger Ailes…
I’m very sorry Richard.
I can NOT and WILL not play the video.
It would be too much like fucking torture.
(Jeez, Man! It’s bad enuf just to read about their shenanigans!)
Peter of Lone Tree wrote:
Nah, you gotta play this one, Peter - it’s a keeper.
Sounds like Mr. Smith will be doing a little “soul-searching” to decide if that fat paycheck from Fox is MORALLY worth what he has to do to earn it.
AfGuy wrote:
I suspect it depends entirely on the options available to him - but most of us have to make those kind of value / moral judgments at some point in our lives.