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Acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper announcing the deployment of 1,800 additional US troops to Saudi Arabia.... The move comes hours after explosions were reported on an Iranian oil tanker..... Iran hailing the notion of mediation in its relations with Saudi Arabia..... Intense fighting in northeastern Syria as the Turkish military continues its attack to take Kurdish controlled territory..... Citing a Kurdish source and one at the Pentagon "Newsweek" reported today that some US Special Forces got caught in the Turkish shelling..... In Syria Friday one Russian soldier and two Syrian soldiers wounded when an improvised explosive device exploded..... The Russian...

Shepherd Smith just announced he is leaving Fox News effective IMMEDIATELY

Shepard Smith has come out as a gay man in a new interview. The popular Fox News anchor, who has been with the network since it first launched 20 years ago, spoke about his sexuality in an interview with Huffington Post. Smith, 52, confirmed the long-circulating rumor when he was asked if it was former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes who prevented him from coming out of the closet. 'That's not true. He was as nice as he could be to me. I loved him like a father,' Smith said of Ailes. The 'love' Smith had for his old boss...

Because it was in the middle of the afternoon and because it was Shep Smith I wondered if anyone else had seen this exchange in which Shep chastised Governor Jindal for using an offensive term:The answer was a resounding yes. The offensive term? “All Lives Matter.” It takes a special kind of stupid to berate a former governor for using an innocuous term that some people have decided is objectionable. “Very, very divisive phrase – I don’t understand…so unhelpful.” “Why would you…I don’t understand why you’d say that?” Said by Shep with that tone of superiority made up of equal parts...

The feds say at least one of the gunmen was on their radar for years. Watch how the suspects, even with their rifles and body armor, were no match for a courageous officer with a handgun:

FNC’S CHRIS WALLACE: NETANYAHU “WICKED”, “MALICIOUS” FOR “SNEAKING UP” ON OBAMA’S BACK By Aaron Goldstein on 1.25.15 In an appearance with Shepherd Smith on Friday, his FNC colleague Chris Wallace blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his impending speech to Congress in early March: To give you an idea of how malicious this is, I’ll tell you that US Secretary of State John Kerry met with the Israeli Ambassador to the United States for two hours on Wednesday and Ron Dermer did not announce the fact that Netanyahu was coming to Washington, DC. This is not in order to...

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...

Here is video of Fox News' Shepherd Smith attacking remarks by BP CEO Tony Hayward as "beyond snotty." He was referring to Hayward saying in a newspaper interview that BP would be prepared to pay for "all legitimate claims" associated with the Gulf Oil Spill. When asked to define "legitimate" by a London Newspaper, Hayward apparently said: "I could give you lots of examples. This is America - come on. We're going to have lots of illegitimate claims. We all know that." Well, actually Hayward is right, unfortunately. There will be "illegitimate claims." There are those who live by President...

Here is video of Fox News' Shepherd Smith this afternoon blasting Attorney General Eric Holder for claiming the Times Square Car Bomb attack was "thwarted." "That's not true. That's not true according to the facts as given to us by the Feds. This bomb was not 'thwarted.' This bomb failed." "Now I can think of a lot of different reasons they would want this. For instance, down the road, the next time something happens, they can say,'We thwarted Christmas Day and we thwarted Times Square.' But that wouldn't be the case. And part of our job, I think, is to...

Here is video of Fox News' drama queen Shepherd Smith referring to Arizona's news Anti-Illegal Immigration Law as the "breathing while Latino" law, which he also compared to what he called the old "driving while black" law. The segment with Carl Cameron focused on a statement made by Marco Rubio today in which he expressed "concerns" about the new law, which Cameron described as Rubio being concerned it would create a "police state" in Arizona. Rubio believes this is a "Federal issue."

Here is video of Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele arguing with Fox News' Shepherd Smith about the "Public Option" in Health Care. Smith defended the position that a "Public Option" is NOT Government-run Health Care, which Steele said was "absolutely not accurate." Smith repeatedly interrupted Steele as he tried to explain the GOP position. At one point, Steele told Smith that he had "just repeated the Democrat talking points" very well. . . . (VIDEO)

Shepherd Smith is interviewing Wyoming Senator John Barrasso who believes Obamacare is all about a Government takeover. Shep said WHAT? Government takeover, no it isn't. Then he reiterated what Obummer has said over and over. "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan." blah..blah...blah.. What a bunch a cra! that is! Someone needs to ask Shep WHY an employer would choose to keep paying for insurance plans (especially in this economy) for employees when he/she could simply elect not to and direct the employees to the public option plan? Saying it doesn't make it...

Here is video of Fox News' Shepherd Smith grilling White House Spokesman Bill Burton on the shifting positions of the White House on whether a "Public Option" is a "must" or just "preferred" as part of his Health Care Plan. Burton tried to say no shifting has been going on, but Smith cited MSNBC and their far-left pundits being angry last night at the shifting language of administration officials on the issue. Burton at one point said, "you don't need to have me on your show" if you are going to talk over me. Shepherd Smith - drama queen that...

Shepherd Smith of Fox News needs to take some time off; the stress is OBVIOUSLY getting to him. Shep demonstrated college student naivete and narrow-mindedness regarding necessary war tactics used to protect Americans from our enemies, particularly those who strike us first and want our destruction and demise.

Here is video of Shepherd Smith yesterday making fun of Glenn Beck, his program, and his Glenn Beck Friday that aired yesterday, "You Are Not Alone." I have not been able to stand Shepherd Smith since his hyper-emo coverage of Katrina. He does not have a serious bone in his body, never taking anything seriously it seems, and this is no exception. Why Fox News keeps him around is a total mystery to me. . . . . . . (Watch Video)

Watching Fox news and the lead at 3:00 PM EST, was a rant by Shepherd and Carl, saying how Iowa doesn't matter, as Roger Ailes and Fox News spent millions covering it. I guess Roger & Co, at Fox will not like the results(Huckabee and Obama winning and getting momentum). Roger Ailes and his friend Rush Limbaugh, are not amused, thus this little hissy fit.

I watched Fox News over the last few days. I don't have tv, as of recently, at my own home. Self-editing in order to get to all those books that never get read when TV is a click away. Daughter needs a break from the easy entertainment, too. Been there, done that before; and read a lot! But, anyway, I was on vacation at the Beach with TV, and glad for it. The news had us riveted to the monitor. The chaos was cataclysmic. What was happening? Were welfare blacks going mad? Where was the Governor? Was the government ignoring...

Large explosion on the Gaza Strip. More news to come per Shep Smith. Still waiting . . .

July 12, 2002 It was a race to crawl out of the Nielsen cellar on Thursday among the Big Four primetime networks. Fox failed to generate much heat with the debut of its news magazine "The Pulse" (5.2 million viewers) and the return of "Beyond Belief." ABC was scraping bottom with its 8-10 p.m. telecast of "Star Trek: First Contact" (4.2 million viewers) and even NBC couldn't draw much of a crowd with reruns of its regular Thursday slate. CBS won the night by a wide margin (9.3 million viewers, 3.4 rating/11 share in adults 18-49) on the strength of...

So how many Freepers are going to watch the new newsmagazine show on broadcast Fox tommorrow? To get up to speed, see this previous thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/684085/posts. It's featuring Geraldo Rivera, Bill O'Reilly, anchored by Shepherd Smith. I also believe Laurie Dhue is going to be on the show based on some of the ads I've seen for it. I think I'll check it out. I wonder if it'll get off the ground.