Shepard Smith Speaks Some Truth

Jesse Walker | 5.2.2012 5:30 PM

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Alack 13 years ago

That is one of the greatest things I have ever heard.
Brutus 13 years ago

Holy shit, it's like the corona of the sun as it emerges from behind a total eclipse!
1. Death Rock and Skull 13 years ago
  
  Dick Clark was the rapture.
ChrisO 13 years ago

It certainly took ol' Shep awhile to figure that out.
plu1959 13 years ago

Now he knows this?
sticks 13 years ago

Did he just other politics?*
Episiarch 13 years ago

Can't WTFV at work. Anyone care to quote what he said?
1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  Politics is weird. And creepy. And has nothing to do with reality. Something like that.
  1. Episiarch 13 years ago
    
    YOUR SUMMARY GROWS TIRESOME
    
    Where's The Summarizer when I need him?
    1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
      
      He read something about Romney and his wife loving Newt and his wife. Then he said the above.
      1. Episiarch 13 years ago
        
        You may not touch my monkey.
        
        Francisco d Anconia 13 years ago
        
        May I dance instead?
    2. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
      
      Seriously, that is exactly what he said, with the deadest of deadpan faces.
      1. Joe M 13 years ago
        
        "...and now I know lacks even the loosest attachment to anything like reality."
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        It's such beautiful language. Really, he should set it to song.
        
        Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
        
        I have to admit, I felt a tingle down my leg when he said it.
        
        Pi Guy 13 years ago
        
        Saw "...felt a trickle down my leg..." on first read.
    3. Death Rock and Skull 13 years ago
      
      Shepard Smith: "There is a political and spooky, strange, I know that lack even the loosest attachment to something like a reality now."
      
      [Picture darkens, momentary silence, credits roll, lime's in the coconut]
2. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
  
  Mitt called Newt friend. Shep called all pols liars.
  1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
    
    Lies. Then truth.
3. darius404 13 years ago
  
  Shep Smith-
  
  Politics is weird. And creepy. And now I know lacks even the loosest attachment to anything like reality.
Pro Libertate 13 years ago

You know, that actually was fair and balanced.
1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  And awesome. Man, if only news anchors would say that sort of thing more often.
  1. Ryan 13 years ago
    
    Yeah, that's the kind of top notch commentary one only finds in 4 year olds.
AlmightyJB 13 years ago

Now, if he could just stop taking himself so seriously.
Death Rock and Skull 13 years ago

Oh shit. This man's life or career may be in danger. Yep.
MachineGunBodine 13 years ago

Yes, he's so honest & wise. And he thinks Obama's dreamy too.
1. Randian 13 years ago
  
  [citation needed]
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Speaking of weird and creepy.
1. Hell's Librarian 13 years ago
  
  No way, that was funny as hell.
sloopyinca 13 years ago

This is why Shep Smith is the best anchor on news TV. He just flat doesn't give a fuck sometimes and calls people out on their over-the-top bullshit.
1. Francisco d Anconia 13 years ago
  
  Shep
  
  Might need to manually move the slider a bit to get the vid to play.
2. A Mathematician 13 years ago
  
  I think Megan Kelly is better but her show is on in the middle of the day.
3. Monty Crisco 13 years ago
  
  Bret Baier ain't bad and he is the only to have actually INTERVIEWED Obama (as opposed to suck his dick) since he came into office (as opposed to the fawning media's mouth...)
Pope Synchronicity II 13 years ago

Why can't I stop watching?
db 13 years ago

I nearly shed a tear watching this.
Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago

I wonder how many of my Facebook friends will see the headline and be apoplectic and refuse to watch.
Abdul 13 years ago

Some intern is paying another $20 and saying "Sorry you got fired, but you proved your point. They really will read any old shit on the teleprompter."
Kolohe 13 years ago

Shep will every so often, but with some regularity, go off script. It's what makes his show one of the few watchable cable news shows.
TheZeitgeist 13 years ago

I remember when Shep was on a round table discussion back in the Shrubbery days and he went off then too: "WE (we being the USA) DO NOT FUCKING TORTURE!" Shep said banging the round table as the old gizzards looked around at each other, confused at such an aberration of clarity.

I've liked Shep ever since. Its out there on the intertubes somewhere, I'm just too lazy to look.
1. darius404 13 years ago
  
  It's here. I don't know much about him, but these two videos have made me a fan.
Robert 13 years ago

Wha'd he say? I've got no audio or video capability.
1. darius404 13 years ago
  
  Here you go:
  
  Shep Smith-
  
  Politics is weird. And creepy. And now I know lacks even the loosest attachment to anything like reality.
  1. darius404 13 years ago
    
    That was right after he read a statement from Romney to the effect that Romney and Newt are now friends and look forward to working together.
TingoZing 13 years ago

OK see that makes no sene at all dude, None.

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Ryan 13 years ago

Other than this being slightly unusual and his amusing choice of expression, there's nothing interesting about this. What's that saying? Even broken people are right occasionally.
fabius 13 years ago

he then raised his eyes to the heavens and said something about how delightfully weird and not at all creepy things are in Oxford, Miss., and shouted "Hotty mother fuckin Toddy!"...I assume.
Monty Crisco 13 years ago

(As Spicoli)
"AWESOME! TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!"
NL_ 13 years ago

Much like jazz, the magic of this clip is not in what he says, it's in the pauses between his words.

It's like one of those stroke-like migraines that makes reporters babble. Except instead of accidentally speaking gibberish, Shep accidentally had a human reaction.
han 13 years ago

A very good article.

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