Angered By His Holocaust Museum Shooting Coverage, The Far Right Goes After Shepard Smith

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/12/far-right-shep-smith/

Angered By His Holocaust Museum Shooting Coverage, The Far Right Goes After Shepard Smith

On Wednesday, Fox News’ Shepard Smith responded to the tragic shooting at the Holocaust Museum by a white supremacist by saying that it was time to re-think the Homeland Security report on right-wing extremism that conservatives disparaged. “The right went absolutely bonkers!” said Smith, adding that the report was a “warning to us all” and that DHS was “warning us for a reason.”

Later in the day, Smith said that the e-mail he’s been receiving from viewers has become “more and more frightening.” “It’s been happening over the last few months,” said Smith. “There are people now who are way out there on a limb.”

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As Media Matters noted yesterday, the right-wing has now turned its fire on Smith. On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh mocked Smith’s “whining and moaning and complaining about e-mails”:

LIMBAUGH: As for Shepard Smith whining and moaning and complaining about e-mails, nobody needs to tell me about hateful e-mails, for crying out loud. I get the most vile, sick e-mails attacking me as a “Jew lover” that you can imagine. I don’t read ‘em. I hear about them. They’re in a public account, of course, as you know — and I’m a conservative. Who do you think these hate e-mails from coming from? Where are they coming from? Yeah, I get people, “You Jew lover, you Jew lover!” because I am faithful to Israel and a number of other things.

So, Shep, you got nothing on anybody out there. The vile hate that was 24/7 in most of the American media for the eight years of Bush — and particularly from 2003 on after the Iraq war — nobody, nobody at this point in time has ever done, in our society, anything comparable to the kind of hate that we got from mainstream sources.

Allahpundit of Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air wrote that if Smith truly believes his viewers are “would-be presidential assassins,” then “why doesn’t he quit?” Further out on the fringe, conservative blogger Pamela Geller, who writes at Atlas Shrugs, titled a post, “Please Shepard Smith Out the Door!” She followed it up with a post saying, “Shepard Smith has got to go.” Geller’s call for Smith to be fired is beginning to get traction with some conservatives online.

[get the red out]

1. Showing their true colors

If they can't stand to hear a differing opinion other than their conspiracy theories on Fox News, how on earth can Democrats be expected to compromise with this bunch. And Limbaugh leads them, because every time a Republican elected official disagrees with him he has to go crawling back like a wet dog to beg forgiveness.

It will be interesting to see what happens to poor Shepherd Smith's career for telling the truth about the right.

[OneGrassRoot]

2. I know we have completely different worldviews....

but I'm still trying desperately to find proof of this "liberal media" they keep saying beat up on Bush for the last eight years. The blogosphere, perhaps....certainly not M$M given how unpatriotic it was to do so and all.


"...nobody, nobody at this point in time has ever done, in our society, anything comparable to the kind of hate that we got from mainstream sources."

I think this is one tidbit these people actually believe when they spew it. Who in the mainstream media trashed Bush over the last eight years? Shit, who's trashing him since he's left?

KO was the only one I know of who was critical of BushCo.

:shrug:

[Vickers]

3. I love it when people who poke a wasp nest

are surprised when they swarm.

:rofl:

[KingOfLostSouls]

8. I don't think thats it at all

a lot of longtime DU members have respect for the man after having his eyes opened during katrina. he carries himself often times like a non-partisan, which in itself can be refreshing. he doesn't strike me like he's a democrat, but most certainly not a cheney republican. my guess is he falls into the moderate colin powell area. either way, he's never been one to hold back from calling people out, which I think people respect. I think what may be shocking to him if anything is the level of vitriol and insanity the right has worked itself up into, that simply stating a fact can have republicans wanting to kill you.

[Vickers]

13. Yeah, I've seen people here that appear to semi-respect the guy.

I ain't one of 'em.

[Mari333]

4. I honestly hope the man has a bodyguard

seriously.

[walkaway]

5. Mr. Smith, you are correct and you are in danger.

Get out of there, it's going to kill you on the inside or the outside. No one on the far left is call for anyone's death. I doubt Limbaugh gets death threats from Democrats. The people you are working with are getting more extreme and your audience is armed and dangerous. Can't you get a job at CNN?

[LeftinOH]

6. Who sends Rush "vile" emails -probably not liberals (we wouldn't bother)..??

[NickB79]

7. So rather than attack the people SENDING threatening and hateful emails

They attack the VICTIM of these emails? :wtf:

We need a batshit-crazy smily icon just for situations like this. Add some bat wings to a crazy-eye smily and have it crap every few seconds.

[madaboutharry]

9. Remember how he was mocked when he

was reporting the truth during Hurricain Katrina? He really doesn't fit in that well with these loons. He needs to find another job.

[Downtown Hound]

10. Hmmm...do I sense the unique opportunity for a defector here?

Shep seems to me to be the only one at Faux News with even a twinge of conscience. He's the only one among that group of fascist whores that hasn't come out and made excuses for the torture we've done. Now he's had the guts to come out and question the madness that the right has been feasting on lately, and they're going to throw him to the wolves for it. This is kind of like the end of the Third Reich when some of Hitler's most trusted generals began to turn against him because they could see what a disaster Hitler was leading them into. And they tried to kill him.

If we could somehow get Shep to leave Faux News and go over to MSNBC or maybe even Air America or someplace like it, then we'd actually have a former Faux insider spilling the beans to millions of Americans everywhere on just what goes on inside the network. That alone could do more damage to them than all the brave guests that have gone on there over the years to call them on their bullshit.

[Bucky]

11. Maybe they're setting Shepard Smith up as the new Alan Colmes

Fair & balanced! See, we hire liberals like Shepard Smith here at Fox News!

[Ganja Ninja]

12. I'm surprised they haven't just come right out and called the shooter a hero.

You know that's what most of the hate radio nation really thinks.