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Shep Smith Mocks ‘Glenn Beck Friday’: ‘I Don’t Even Know What The Heck The Thing Is’
Think Progress —
Tonight, Glenn Beck is hosting a life special to assure his conservative followers, “You are not alone.” While purporting to promote the special, Fox’s Shep Smith repeatedly mocked Beck and the program, admitting that although he watches Beck’s show, he doesn’t listen to it. Smith also pointed to a giant satellite truck parked outside and wondered if it was for Beck’s “ego.” Chris Wallace told Smith he must be jealous:
SMITH: Do you even understand this Glenn Beck Friday? Because I really don’t.
WALLACE: Well, I do, and what pains me — and you know, Shep, how highly I respect you ...
Glenn Beck Friday!
Balloon Juice —
Via the Library Grape, I see that it is Glenn Beck Friday at Fox, and I am sure it is just a coincidence that it is also Friday the 13th. At any rate, apparently the MSNBC folks were not the only folks getting notes from corporate HQ on what to and what to not talk about, as it is pretty clear Shep Smith was told to heavily promote Glenn Beck’s doom bunker or whatever. Apparently, he was not amused, and the result is this pretty entertaining montage of Shep openly mocking Glenn Beck all day long: ...
BREAKING: Glenn Beck Iz Surroundin Yr Base, Seein U Nood
Firedoglake —
Perhaps you've felt some vague creeping unease lately, some indefinable sense of shuddering wrong -- a worrisome suspicion not unlike that of having reason to believe that the real reason Arlen Specter is smiling on the C-Span is that he's secretly wearing your underpants. Your favorite underpants. But the ...
Shepard Smith Mocks Glenn Beck
News Hounds —
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who didn't “get” the significance of Glenn Beck Friday beyond the fact that Beck kept telling us how momentous it was. In between crying jags, that is. It's interesting to note that Beck seems to be antagonizing his co-workers. Besides Shepard Smith's funny mockery, Bret Baier was obviously less than amused when Beck said he looked like he should be on Leave It To Beaver. Smith video after the jump (via Think Progress).
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Sunday, March 15, 2009
The Latest on Air America —
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Sunday, March 15, 2009
God Bless Shep Smith
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
The only sane person left on Fox News. And when did Chris Wallace have his sense of shame removed?
Video: Glenn Beck Cries on the Air
Drudge Retort —
Fox News host Glenn Beck was overcome by emotion several times during the taping of his primetime special Friday, incredibly awkward television mocked openly by Fox News' Shepard Smith. "He advanced his Unified Field Theory of All Bad Things Are The Same ... and then forced himself to pretend to cry - wrack himself with creepy, fake tears," writes Jason Linkins, "as he talked about "being the person we were on September 12."
Glenn Beck Rising
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Media, Viral VideoForget about Rush Limbaugh, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Bill O'Reily, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and all the other headline grabbers. They've got nothing on FOX News's latest populist superstar, Glenn Beck. Though Beck has not yet overtaken O'Reilly and Hannity in the ratings game, he's gaining fast, with an average audience of 2.3 million viewers on the network whose VP for programing recently described as the "voice of opposition" to the Obama administration. And if it's one thing that Beck has got down pat, it's voicing opposition. Beck, who got his cable start on CNN's Headline News, has seen his ...
Wollt ihr den Totalen Krieg, Amerika?
Hit & Run —
Via Andrew Sullivan, Glenn Beck amends previous claims that America is headed towards some hybrid of Soviet communism and squishy Eurosocialism. We are, he now understands, fast becoming a fascist country. ThinkProgress does the yeoman's work of cutting together the best bits: One caveat, says Beck: "Like it or not, fascism is on the rise" though we are not hurdling towards a Hitlerian future— this despite breathlessly sermonizing ("where have we seen this before?") in front of a montage of Nuremberg rally B-roll. Isn't it curious, Beck observes, that the 1916 "mercury dime" featured the fasces ...
Beck Likens Obama To A Cancer In The Country
News Hounds —
Glenn Beck, who puts himself forth as such a great patriot that he gets weepy just thinking about how much he loves his country, showed off his latest way to smear it yesterday (6/9/09): by likening President Barack Obama to a cancer. With video.
Early in the show, Beck fingered Obama as part of the movement he submits is destroying America, the progressives. Of course, Beck and the panel didn't stop there with the Obama attacks. They also painted him as an unpatriotic Marxist, someone who is against the separation of powers and, adding a little extra fear mongering, Beck announced that much worse is yet to come.
In an unbalanced panel that included no Obama ...
Conservatives Attack Fox's Shep Smith
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Media, Viral Video, Guns, TerrorShephard Smith is something of a contrarian at FOX News. Over the past few months, he has often poked fun at Glenn Beck, criticized the use of torture on terror suspects, and this week, cited the Department of Homeland Security's report that singled out right wing hate groups when reporting on the Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting.
If, as Charles Krauthammer put it yesterday, FOX News created an alternate reality for its viewers, Smith has seemed somewhat reluctant to play along. As a result, some conservatives are calling for him to be fired. WorldNetDaily and Rush ...
Eric Boehlert: Is Fox News big enough for Shep Smith and Glenn Beck?
Media Matters for America - Latest Items —
It must have been an awkward elevator ride for Shep Smith over
at Fox News headquarters last Friday, heading up to the 12th-floor studio where his Fox Report program originates. I'm
just imagining the nasty looks he must have gotten from co-workers -- if any of them even agreed to ride between
floors with him -- on the day that liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman
praised Smith in print. Krugman actually referenced him by
name as somebody inside Fox News who refused to go along with the "big
hate": the right wing's anti-Obama rhetoric -- almost
bloodlust -- that now dominates conservative discourse.
Talk about putting a target on the back of ...
9 Principles, 12 Values, & Lots of Yummy Glenn Beck Tears
Hit & Run —
Fox News uber-host Glenn Beck tears up explaining his big 9/12 project. FNC colleague Shep Smith is not impressed. Reason's Michael Moynihan appeared on Glenn Beck's show several times, without tears.
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