Well, it’s official: Shep Smith is the gay, anti-Fox News hero we never knew we needed. After all, he should know a thing or two about the conservative propaganda cable network, considering he worked there for more than two decades.
Smith abruptly left the network in 2019, and it didn’t take long before he was spilling all. the. tea. Earlier this year, he blasted Fox News for the spread of misinformation, and his fellow anchors for sharing too many opinions and not enough facts during their broadcasts.
“Opine all you like, but if you’re going to opine, begin with the truth and opine from there,” Smith said.
“When people begin with a false premise and lead people astray, that’s injurious to society and it’s the antithesis of what we should be doing: Those of us who are so honored and grateful to have a platform of public influence have to use it for the public good.”
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Smith was a Fox News host from 1996-2019. He stayed there as a way to counteract all the misinformation viewers were being fed, but he reached his breaking point when network execs refused to intervene when a feud with fellow Fox News host/homophobe Tucker Carlson reached what HuffPost described a “full-blown civil war.”
Drama!
To this day, Smith has no issues calling out his former employer.
“I don’t know how some people sleep at night,” Smith said during a 2021 interview, noting that the network continues its reign of spreading false information. “I know that there are a lot of people who have propagated the lies and who have pushed them forward over and over again who are smart enough and educated enough to know better.”
“I stuck with it as long as I could,” says former Fox News host Shep Smith. But does he think some of his former colleagues spread disinformation? “I don’t know how some people sleep at night… There are a lot of people… who are smart enough and educated enough to know better.” pic.twitter.com/pqrOhVuKgR
— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) January 19, 2021
Today, Smith is an anchor with CNBC, where he remains committed to stopping the spread of false news.
“I can’t act irresponsibly in a public way when it comes to disseminating information because that’s injurious to society and I won’t do it,” he told The Advocate about the new gig.
And as for being a gay journalist? Well, Smith loves that too–as he should!
“Life is wonderful being out and gay and proud,” he said in the same interview with The Advocate. “I live my truth; it’s not very interesting. I have a partner of nine years who I’m madly in love with and who I get to share ups and downs with and who’s my rock and who loves my family.”
“I’m so thankful to be in this position. I know even in this woke world, there are plenty of people struggling. Struggling about who they are and what people think of them. If you live your truth, there are no limits. I’m so proud and happy to be part of this loving gay community. It’s fantastic.”
Now that’s the kind of truth worth putting on the front page of any newspaper.
Mister P
They are spreading lies because they make money doing it.
If yelling fire in a crowded theater when there is no fire is bad, then doing it for money is way worse.
Jim
Unless Shep Smith is willing to date me is it really important if you’s gay or not???
Vince
Are you really that stupid or just trolling?
Kevan1
As shallow as Fox (Entertainment) news.
mailliw110
If all the other “dating apps” fail you, then you do this. YIKES!
MissTerri
Now THIS Queen is Hi-LAR-ious!!!
Hdtex
“Miss Terri”…..the voice of human GARBAGE
Den
Thinking that his constant use of the infantile “hi-LAR-ious” is humorous is yet another sign of his emotional/psychological problems.
Cam
Hi @MissTerri,
I LOVE that as a right wing troll, you’ve been so neutered that you can’t even try to post a comment, just a little comment about something being “Hilarious”.
I LOVE how the posters here have ground you down into that. Don’t worry, Putin’s busy, he might not notice that you aren’t giving him his money’s worth. LOL
Now THAT is HilAREious!
mailliw110
If you are referring about Trump wearing his pants backwards, then yes, it is hi-LAR-rious!
roxe46
Shepard Smith you lie because the network you are working for are the ones who lie not Fox. They always tell the truth and you know that. I get my news from Fox and OAN and they both put out the truth even if it’s not good but CNN and all the liberal media are the liars and you work for one of those liberal media liars. You really are the one lying and it doesn’t go really well.
zephyr69
You just showed us how stupid you really are. Good job.
cuteguy
Why are Q’anon trolls on here? Are they that bored of living in their mom’s basement? Did mommy go shopping for your “organic” foods that you losers need when ur crying in prison?
vetagainstGOPSeditionist
The Christian way to approach any subject….you lie!! Now let me project and force my opion on you. Turn off that traitor garbage, pretend it’s not about what’s white and the brown people are not the enemy. Caravans a coming…BOO!!!
dmurri
Oh Roxe, honey. You’re on the wrong Q website. The one you’re looking for is QAnon. You’re friends and family are over there. Be gone with ya now, darlin’.
Jim Brown
CNN WAY overuses its “BREAKING NEWS” slogan, to be sure, but OAN is 1) the LEAST “One American” and 2) the farthest thing from news than could EVER be broadcast! I think the vast majority of former supporters of Captain Liar now realize that he was neither a Republican, nor a conservative, but simply a supporter of fascism.
Cam
I love it when right wing trolls think that by yelling something it means it’s true.
Sweetie, you’re just embarrassing yourself.
Oh, and if FOX, OWN, and Newsmax always tell the truth, then tell me why they admitted they were lying when faced with the suit from Dominion voting? They ADMITTED it….I’ll say it again, They ADMITTED they lied. LOL
mailliw110
Still sad that Yahoo doesn’t have a comment section anymore?
Bosch
@roxe are you a parody?
loganNyc
Whatever!
Mister P
Poor Roxe doesn’t have a clue.
laurent7465
Roxe is a Troll and should seek professional mental health care IMMEDIATELY to be de-Trumpatized and brought back down to earth. IF that’s even possible.
Caddy4J
I don’t understand why he stuck around so long if he hated his job, coworkers, etc: he stuck around for the money!! 20 years he brushed all that aside for the all mighty dollar. Now he’s moved on and his ratings are in the toilet. He’s a pissy queen that acted like a Diva, nasty to the staff, threw tantrums and thought he was God. Why now? 20 years have passed and now he’s so mad, he wants to gossip about his former employer. Fox made him extremely wealthy, the money was excellent and now that his shows in the tank, he’s talking like a mad school girl. Maybe some of it’s true, maybe not, but Fox has outnumbered every cable out at every time slot for the past 4-5 years, so somebody doesn’t believe good ole Shep! If I hated my job so much, I sure wouldn’t stick around as long as he did, because my sanity and health is worth more than money. So it’s kind of hard for me to believe him as so much time has passed, NDA or not, he should’ve left years ago, but again money was more important to him.
vetagainstGOPSeditionist
Dude, xanex….change the channel. Repeat.
Cam
Awwww, MissTerri changed back to this screename so it could attack the victim.
Hmmm, let’s see, remember when FOX News had “The war on Marriage” as it’s headline on the webpage and yet Smith went on air to say that the Supreme Court was on the right side of history, which forced Fox to remove that from their site since he was one of their highest rated folks?
But it’s a nice attempt, trying to attack Smith, you’re slightly better at trolling under this screename but your troll game is still sad and weak.
mailliw110
So, as a conservative, you think making money is bad? Fascinating!
marion
Not coming from the States I don’t know much about Shep. But, if eyebrows are an indicator of the gay gene then he has got it good. When did he come out? Was he out whilst a Fox News host?
tomtedbear
Shep came out in April of 2017. There had always been media talk about his sexuality before that however.
vetagainstGOPSeditionist
Fox news promoting the #biglie and continuing to lie to their audience is why over 400 people are up on sedition charges for storming the capitol. Why is there no outrage that they were lied to openly for months. Why follow the orange traitor sheep right over the cliff edge? ?
dhmonarch89
he aided and abetted them for nearly 2 decades- money makes the world go around- hard to respect him/that.
mailliw110
Making money is bad? Says the jealous one.
Openminded
@mail..110, YES making money is bad because if you have a higher income they reduce your government handout checks.
ScottOnEarth
Does anyone really believe he stayed at that vile mess of a network to “counterbalance” the misinformation? He did it for the money. No one with any sense of decency would have their name associated with that cesspool of paranoia, lies and hatred. I have no respect for Shep Smith, gay or not.
Cam
Except when they were pushing the “war on Marriage” headlines, he pushed back and said the Supreme Court was on the right side of marriage and forced them to remove those headlines from their page. So yeah, he pushed back.
mailliw110
Most people work for money. What do you work for?
Ronbo
FOX makes money from charging content carriers exorbitant rates than from advertising! Contact your carrier – cable, Sling, YouTube, etc… – to let them know that you do NOT want FOX included in their standard package. If people want FOX, then the individuals who want it should pay for it. I don’t want to be forced to subsidize a known propaganda network.
rray63
I’m sorry, we are the most judgmental people, outside of the Bible thumpers there are. We only see our collective opinions. Do any of us ever dare look at anything outside of our bubble. I don’t know about you folks but I don’t want to be like them, ever. I’m lucky, I’m almost sixty years old and have had only the rarest of disrespect thrown at me. We are applauding Smith, why? Do we support him because he’s like us and is trashing a news organization we hate? Or do we stop and wonder why, truly why, he was a hypocrite for so long. We can justify it with falsehoods, or make excuse after excuse, but he is the worst of us, even if he does belong to a network we agree with. Wake up folks, is this how we want to act?
justyouandi
Shep’s truth is what he WANTS to be true.
Cam
Wow, you brought out THIS old screename????
Shep’s book must REALLY have you right wing trolls scared.
ingyaom
Luckily, no one watches Fox News – their actual news programs, like Bret Baier, get about 2 million views, while an opinion host like Tucker Carlson gets about a million more … so not even 1% of America is watching this stuff … And that’s all it takes to be “#1 in cable news”!
nm4047
I see what you did, made an unsubstantiated claim using % as part of your claim, much the same as Fox does. Funnily, 75% of comments with percentage are made up and as such never challenged with ‘what source are you quoting’? It maybe true that less than 1% of American get their news from Fox by 25% over 65yo’s get their news from Fox & unfortunately this is the demographic that gets the most attention. Millennials don’t watch schedule TV and very rarely watch any news other than push notification from facebook which is the more concerning issue. Let the dinosaurs watch the preachers as that viewer group is already think much the same way as the bias of Fox.
Cam
@nm4047
What exactly was unsubstantiated about his claim? He said Bret Baier got around 2 million views, with Carlson getting around a million more. Then pointed out what percentage of the U.S. population that equaled out to.
These are the ratings for Carlson’s show as of 6 days ago. As you can see, they are around 3 million, which is what @ingyaom said. So where is the problem?
“Fox News host Tucker Carlson was the most-watched host in cable news for May, with Tucker Carlson Tonight delivering an average total audience of 2.937 million viewers.”
Openminded
So, MN4047, is your 75% claim one of the 75% untrue percentage claims? Funny that you claim percentage claims are mostly false by presenting a percentage claim.
mailliw110
Yeah, I didn’t like story math problems when I was in grade school, either.
loganNyc
Miss Carlson is a screaming closet case if ever there was one… Would run into him almost every other morning in his little favorite upper Eastside French bakery… Nibbling on his croissant, sipping his Americano and flailing about like a banshee… His career was on a downward spiral when he got axed from Cnn, not once but, twice– only after having been axed from MSNBC, not once but , twice. She’s found her voice, pandering to a captive audience of angry, disenfranchised, clueless conspiracists for whom he has utter disdain!!! Oh the sweet irony!
ingyaom
Cam is right – that’s what I did there.
SamB
He’s still corrupt, but now he’ll be spreading the lies spread by the other side. He’s trying to say he was at Fox so long to counter their lies LOL. What a martyr. Mainstream media is garbage and so is this guy.
Openminded
The sad truth is that you could replace the word “Fox” with the word “Queerty” in the first few paragraphs of this story and it would be equally as accurate. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
mailliw110
I’m pretty sure Queerty is not a cable show.
radiooutmike
Shep was the actual news part of Fox News, or as close as they allowed.