As the dust settles from what was without a doubt the strangest presidential press conference in recorded history on Thursday, many are still aghast that President Trump used the forum to take his attacks on the media to the next level. In particular, the president singled out CNN as being full of “anger and hatred” as well calling the network by his new catch phrase: “fake news.”
Out Fox News anchor Shepard Smith was having none of it:
It’s crazy what we’re watching every day. It’s absolutely crazy. He keeps repeating ridiculous throwaway lines that are not true at all and sort of avoiding this issue of Russia as if we’re some kind of fools for asking the question. Really? Your opposition was hacked, and the Russians were responsible for it, and your people were on the phone with Russia on the same day it was happening, and we’re fools for asking the questions?
No, sir. We’re not fools for asking these questions. And we demand to know the answer to this question. You owe this to the American people. Your supporters will support you either way. If your people were on the phone with her, what were they saying? We have a right to know. We absolutely do.
And that you call us “fake news” and put us down like children for asking these questions on behalf of the American people is inconsequential. The people deserve that answer at very least.
Watch below:
Assuming Trump keeps up with his schedule of watching as much television as he possibly can, we’ve got to wonder whether comments like Shep’s (and so many others) will actually penetrate his reality bubble.
It’s not exactly comforting that Trump had this to say about his performance on Twitter:
Thank you for all of the nice statements on the Press Conference yesterday. Rush Limbaugh said one of greatest ever. Fake media not happy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2017
Oh, well as long as Rush liked it…
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Wow this is actually a gay relevant story. J/K/O/A/I?
In other news he looks embalmed.
DCguy
I love the narrative that you keep trying to push.
As if talking about the most anti-lgbt administration in decades is somehow NOT talking about lgbt issues.
Nice try.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
F?ck off hall monitor
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Kudos to him. Looks like *may* have been misjudged by certain hysterics
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
^* he he he he.
Fücking need glasses or new fingers
mhoffman953
This isn’t really strange. Shepard Smith is somewhat liberal on his show just like how Megyn Kelly was on her show. If Sean Hannity said these things, then we’d be living in the Twilight Zone. So none of this is a shock.
Plus its normal for campaigns to be in-touch with foreign nationals when they are campaigning. So when the news says the Trump campaign was talking to Russian officials during the campaign, that’s not really news, its standard procedure. I’m sure they were in talks with Chinese, German, French, Israeli, and other officials as well. Now, if a presidential campaign colludes with a foreign entity to commit hacking on their opponent, then that would be an issue. But there isn’t a scandal just for talking to people.
DCguy
Sheppard Smith has been the conscience over at FOX for quite a while. Remember during the Supreme Court decision on same sex marriage, FOX’s website was all set up with the headline “The WAR on Marriage!”
And then Smith said on his show that the court was on the right side of history, and Fox had to scramble and remove and change the whole site after he did that.
So this isn’t surprising.
Kieran
Shepherd and South Carolina peach Miss Lindsay Graham would make a nice couple.