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Car Chase Ends With Suicide On Live TV — SHEP SMITH DECLARES 'WE REALLY MESSED UP'
News Busters ^ | 9-28-12 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 09/28/2012 1:01:42 PM PDT by STARWISE

A stunning moment just happened on Fox News...

Shepard Smith was in the midst of narrating one of his famous car chases.

However it appeared to end in tragedy, as the suspect ran out of his car and shot himself in the head on the middle of a field.

After a quick break, the network cut back to Shep Smith, who was stunned and apologized for not cutting away sooner.

He explained that there was a problem with the delay.

"We really messed up." *snip*

If you must see what happened, Mediaite has posted the video.

Here is Shep's stunning apology.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


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KEYWORDS: carchase; fnc; shepherdsmith; suicide
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To: STARWISE

They apparently enabled the delay, but left the live feed on the air. When you decide to use the delay guys, you have to actually cut to it. Flippin’ amateurs.


21 posted on 09/28/2012 1:22:24 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: STARWISE

I don’t normally wish a firing on anyone, but I would like to see Shep replaced. He’s irritating. Harris Faulkner, who hosts the Fox Report on weekends, would be a decent replacement, if she wanted to work weekdays.


22 posted on 09/28/2012 1:23:40 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: miss marmelstein

tasteless metrosexual.

Actually, I think he is a tasteless homosexual


23 posted on 09/28/2012 1:26:57 PM PDT by Bitsy
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To: STARWISE

It caused me severe emotional distress. I saw it live while DVRing it. I need treatment for newly aquired PTSD symptoms and monetary relief for my pain.

SOME ONE WILL GET FIRED for it. As was reported earlier, They had a delay feed and Shep was watching the delay and WE were watching live. Shep was hollering to get off the shot way after the guy offed himself.


24 posted on 09/28/2012 1:31:27 PM PDT by halfright (FAST & FURIOUS! DON'T ALLOW THEM TO DIVERT YOUR ATTENTION.)
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yeah saw this live.

they had it on delay but i saw it.


25 posted on 09/28/2012 1:32:03 PM PDT by snowstorm12
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To: STARWISE

Not buying this nonsense.
The media wants to broadcast “reality”V car chases hostage situations etc. Well today you got reality.


26 posted on 09/28/2012 1:32:14 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: radiohead

I just watched that one; hadn’t seen it before, but had heard about it. Wow, what a terrible shocker.


27 posted on 09/28/2012 1:32:33 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Libs, dems, unions, leftist scum & murderous muzzies - are like bacteria: attack, attack, attack!)
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To: STARWISE

I remember a nighttime car chase north of Los Angeles... the car veered onto the shoulder at high speed and rammed into the back of a parked semi on live TV.

Looked intentional, but it’s hard to say. We sure can’t ask him, he ended up in tiny pieces all over the interstate.


28 posted on 09/28/2012 1:32:33 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Eat Mor Chikin!)
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To: miss marmelstein

Why is the unvarnished truth a disgrace?


29 posted on 09/28/2012 1:32:58 PM PDT by al baby (“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
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To: STARWISE

Oh, good, I was starting to be afraid we wouldn’t have duplicate threads on this earth shattering news!


30 posted on 09/28/2012 1:33:36 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: ArmstedFragg; MinuteGal

“They apparently enabled the delay, but left the live feed on the air. When you decide to use the delay guys, you have to actually cut to it. Flippin’ amateurs.”

Yup, that’s what happened. The “ending” took me by surprise, because it happened so suddenly, but it was a long distance suicide so you really couldn’t see any blood or gore. I think the guy was on some sort of drugs, as he stumbled out of the car, ran down a little sloped path, stumbled again and fell, seemed disoriented, and turned suddenly, then blew his brains out. All you could see is him firing the gun (right side of head) and then crumple.

That’s when you hear Drama Queen (Shep) shrieking “cut away, cut away”, which they finally did. Then it went to Ads, and when the show came back on, Shep wouldn’t say anything more other than to watch his evening show for what happened to the guy. Nice lead in for his evening show, n’est pas? So tune in tonite at 7 eastern time on Fox for the end result, which those of us who were watching already know.


31 posted on 09/28/2012 1:34:54 PM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: ArmstedFragg

Director’ll blame that on the TD and the TD will blame it on the director. The Tech Director is never believed in those circumstances. Even if the intercom was being recorded, and you can clearly hear the director call the wrong camera, they’ll say the TD should have known better.

Joy of being a “below the line” crew member.


32 posted on 09/28/2012 1:35:50 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: STARWISE
Let's not forget, it started with a car jacking, multiple shots fired at the PD by the perp, going 110 MPH for over an hour and half. The taxpayers just saved themselves thousands of dollars on this scumbag. Justice served. Just like the liberal/commie/coexist types don't want us to see the videos of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center towers anymore. It's the real world don't like it change the channel.
33 posted on 09/28/2012 1:37:23 PM PDT by pietraynor (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Ronald Reagan)
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To: STARWISE

We’ve been drench in blood and violence by hollywood and the “news channels” for so long that live moments like this have become part of the wall paper.


34 posted on 09/28/2012 1:39:39 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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Video of chase with Shepard Smith apology

http://youtu.be/XkGphC5hxuM


35 posted on 09/28/2012 1:42:07 PM PDT by spectr17 (What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?)
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To: STARWISE

Oh my. Glad I was out running errands this afternoon. I usually enjoy a car chase when they happen during Shep’s segment. Yikes.


36 posted on 09/28/2012 1:42:58 PM PDT by Qwackertoo (Romney/Ryan 2012 The Future of Our Children and Their Children are at stake.)
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To: STARWISE

Was this live? they’ll never learn.

I remember budd dwyer and his envelope, also the late ‘80’s
bank robbery in nyc with the Suzuki samurai.


37 posted on 09/28/2012 1:43:45 PM PDT by Morris70
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To: miss marmelstein

“Network and cable news are a disgrace. Sorry, but it’s true.”

Maybe the hovering news helicopter drove the shooter over the edge.


38 posted on 09/28/2012 1:44:06 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: piasa

No, I mean he should resign because he is a disgrace.


39 posted on 09/28/2012 1:45:20 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: STARWISE

.... The media and Democrats have just been handed another issue to harp on and keep the airwaves busy for the next few weeks!!!


40 posted on 09/28/2012 1:45:43 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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