Fox News anchor Shepard Smith on Wednesday criticized President-elect Donald Trump for his shouting match with a CNN reporter.
Trump refused to take a question from CNN’s Jim Acosta during a Wednesday news conference, berating him and accusing his network of reporting “fake news.” The confrontation came after CNN reported that intelligence officials briefed Trump about Russia having compromising information on him — a report Trump denied.
“Though we at Fox News cannot confirm CNN’s report, it is our observation that its correspondents followed journalistic standards and that neither they nor any other journalists should be subjected to belittling and delegitimizing by the president-elect of the United States,” Smith added.
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Maybe Smith should go over to CNN , he would be a perfect fit. Appears that he likes to spin the truth in his world.
Do you really believe they would hire him?
Sheppie has always been a leftist. I don’t know why FOX is keeping him, I guess he is just the token leftist liberal.
I never watch him. Once was enough.
I hear that NBC likes to hire Fox News castoffs…
Shep should not even be allowed to be on fox for he is a fool and i remember him telling people before the last hurricane to evacuate or u will die and this guy is a total idiot and how he get his own slot on Fox surprises me
Smith should leave the Fox news I knew from watching him that he is a leftist I do not understand he was hired by the Fox network.He should try to send his resume to ABC OR CNN.Our new president has been back stabbing by all net work and it makes me sicking.They never did that to Obama,Obama is like JESUS to them.We should try to not watching FOX TILL Mr SMITH is hired by CNN.Let us give a chance to OUR NEW PRESIDENT TO GOVERNOR US THE NEXT 8 YEARS.our president can bring back our country-then we will be respected.
Fire Mr smith NOW HE BELONGS TO CNN OR ABC if they can hire him
Shep banged his head too many times on the headboard while he was playing with his boytoy intern. The effects are showing.
The ONLY reason i can think of that fox has not already released him is they don’t wanna be sued for discrimination for ousting this ***…
Fox keeps Sheeply as a token homosexual…as if the world didn’t move on in regards to this issue.
He should move~~ to CNN!He would fit right in~~ After his big deal on New Orleans flood, I stop by even turning off the TV. He should just put his tooto on and slant his news as he aways does!!
Who cares what this guy thinks? Just another Megyn Kelly creating hate and discontent.
Well, Megyn Kelly is gone… which is absolutely wonderful. We can only hope that Shep and Anderson Cooper have a fling and gets Shep a job offer (that he takes) at CNN.
Shepard Smith is the most boring person on Fox. I cannot bear to watch him. In fact, during Shepard’s time when he is on Fox I watch CNN, so what does that tell you about how bad Shepard is, lol.
This Smith twit is another light-weight reporter who needs to be replaced as part of the ‘swamp’.
i agree. smith should have been fired or quit long ago.
Believe Shep (who is he?) will follow Kelly to NBC or perhaps MSNBC.
Like Kelly, cannot watch him.
Shepard should shepard himself to another station!
Maybe follow Meghan!!!
Journalist integrity is not Shepard Smith’s prime objective in these remarks, but just another attempt to diminish ANYTHING and ANYONE that might stand in the promotion of a gay agenda. It’s all part of the pathology of being gay where the entire world is seen through the spectrum of the loins where most thinking originates whose distorted passions must be protected at all costs.
Cute little powder puff is certainly no honest journalist!
I have noticed Fox is turning into Faux news. Mr. Trump should have just had security take Acosta out in the hall and given him something to think about besides making an *** of himself!! And Smith is a leftist flunky–don’t trust someone who never looks into the camera or the face of someone he is talking to.
If there was no such thing as a microphone or a camera, this pretty boy (camera candy) would be standing on the side of the road holding a cardboard sign reading “Will falsely report the news for food”. I wonder which end of a hammer or screwdriver he uses. Oops I forgot, He’ll have to look up the definition.
It is clear that Smith did not even review the Blitzer/Tapper self justifying dialogue as they commented for some time giving credibility to stuff that was clearly fictitious. As some have said, go back to CNN Smith. As you have gotten older and more pompous Shep, no one believes you any more. OBY, demanding to ask questions is not a right. Acosta clearly should have folded his tent and slunk away before shouting at the President-elect. In a word, he was rude!
The arrogance of these media people is incredible. Shepard Smith included. They seem to think they can dictate how a news conference is to be run, even when it is someone else’s gig. First, CNN wants to make up news and false news at that. Second, Trump catches them at it and will not feed more opportunity for them to lie. Third, the CNN person gets mouthy because he couldn’t bully Trump around. Forth, Sheppard Smith calls out Trump for something that really isn’t any of his business. Or perhaps, it is one of Sheppard’s boyfriends. Although I was led to believe the real boyfriend is a different guy at CNN. Shep is a poor example of a journalist himself and should move to CNN. I would then have a new person at Fox to watch because Shep truns my stomach and I refuse to watch him. I am intolerant, I imagine! So what, I can choose as I see fit, Smith and his boyfriends are not fit to me!
I guess the media is beyond the grandiose and their own sense of self worth these days.
The way Presidential (and elect) have run (even with Slick Willy) is this:
1. President (or elect, or Press Sec, or whomever) takes stage and speaks.
2. The press corps raise there hands (just like you learned in school before socialism set in causing a free-for-all me-me-me mentality).
3. The “speaker” calls on 1 person so they may ask a question(s).
4. Speaker responds.
5. Repeat steps 2-4 until the speaker decides it is over.
Shep – go the frack away and take CNN and Buzzfeed into the cesspool with you.
Acosta was verbally accosting POTUS-elect. DJT was firm (speaking up to be heard over the reporters all vieing to be heard while shouting out questions or “pick me”). After the conference, ABC twits blame DJT for being confrontational and berating Acosta and at waf with the media.
They still don’t get it. Outed for all MSM in bed with Dems for decades and now the new sheriff says “law and order and civilized behavior!” Well, MSMs need to start acting professional and fix their moral compass (if they still have one)!
They certainly are arrogant.. I have NEVER understood thow ANYONE can feel that since THEY are the ones invited into someone else’s home for a presser, that THEY can dictate to the host how it will go down…
THEY ARE GUESTS at the request whim of the president. START acting like it or don’t get invited back..
good old shep smith the liberal in conservative clothes.
did someone smash his snowflake?
“…..(no) journalists should be subjected to belittling and delegitimizing by the president-elect of the United States.” But – it’s OK for them to do it to a President-elect??? The hypocrisy of the Left is mind-boggling.
OK to do it for a Republican candidate,but lay off a Dem
These people de-legitimize themselves by being liars and making up false news!
And as i said above, NO GUEST in someone else’s house should be allowed to freely SHOUT at the host.. with out having any ramifications come his or her way..
Sheppard Smith who recently came out of the closet as Gay is of course a libtard cloaked in conservative clothes. He belongs at CNN. He is a fraud!
Fraud? OF COURSE, just like all of the other , IMBECILIC HYPOCRITES on the ClintonNewsNetwork, eh ?
Send him to MSNBC so he can join his fellow turncoat Kelly!
Shepard Smith has always been a liberal Communist. I have not watched his show since the New Orleans Hurricane. He used to bash George W. Busch at every occasion. There was nothing he could do right.
Shepherd Smith has been against Donald Trump, our President-Elect, from the very beginning! The CNN reporter in question gave NO RESPECT to Donald Trump – but what liberal reporter has been polite to anyone other than another liberal??!! The CNN reporter should be replaced by another CNN reporter capable and demonstrates self-control and respect!!And, as I refused to listen to Megan Kelly – the Queen of “rude, interruptive, egotistical rantings”, I have refused to listen to “Shepherd Smith and his offerings of garbage”. It’s really a shame reporters refuse to neutrally just report the news…and without the smirks, raised eyebrows, tonal innuendos. TV news today is presented to us by grandstanders only! Like Hollywood, they just want to be in front of the camera! Good riddance to Kelly – and please let Shepherd Smith accompany her! Frankie Jim Bockman, Stockdale, Texas
Yes, I must say that I stopped watching Fox News on any regular basis ever since they hired Megan Kelly witch/ It appears that their old “fair and balanced” went off the deep end when they hired all the libtards = Kelly, Smith, whatsis face with the mustache geraldo, the token black guy, and i believe even some of the news casters are also leaning left. Sad. I gotta get my news from alternate sources these past couple years. trunews.com , beholdisrael, for starters.
i guess Shep passed his job interview for CNN, huh?
Hey Shep just go snuggle up to your man, everything will be great.
Trump knows what liars CNN/ Clinton News Network, they shouldn’t be putting out false news, they LIE.
Who cares what Smith thinks? Keep it up Smith maybe you will be the next little media starlet to get an education. I am frankly tired of the boorish attitudes and behaviors of the main stream media, they are in no position to lecture anyone on honesty or etiquette.
Hey Shepard….. Acosta and his ilk have been trying to belittle and delegitimatize Trump for years, especially over the past 1.5 years. So I think some payback is appropriate.
Shepard shows his dislike of Trump. He criticizes his treatment of Jim Acosta. Acosta is an agent of the CLINTON News Network and all they provide is propaganda! I’m glad he refused to take Acosta ‘ s question.
Maybe Shepherd would be a better fit at the Leftwing CNN.
Shepard Smith doesn’t belong on Fox News. I suppose he thinks it is fine for a reporter to shout at the President Elect… but he is wrong. He needs to find a new home. I have lost all respect for him.
Between the erstwhile Megyn and Shep Smith, makes one wonder does FNC deserve any part of its ‘conservative’ reputation?
Megyn’s gone. The sodomist Shep may soon join Don Lemon at Corrupt News Network.
When he made the comment during an interview over police shooting in Louisiana that saying Blue Lives Matters was inciting hate I saw him for what he is, this latest blurb solidifies it, follow Megan, pack your **** and hit the road jackass
[Between the erstwhile Megyn and Shep Smith, makes one wonder does FNC deserve any part of its ‘conservative’ reputation?]
I wondered that for years myself.. THey have a # of liberals (many outspoken) on their shows… I guess its so they can keep their ‘fair and balanced’ mantra by having both sides of the spectrum there…
Keep in mind – “fair and balanced”. I know Fox has a reputation for being conservative and for the most part they are – but to keep a balance they need people like Smith to counter those like Hannity.
That said, the first time I tuned in to Shepʻs show I checked to make sure I had the right channel! He makes no effort to hide his liberal bias – and since his show is suppose to be NEWS and not commentary he should do that.
Fox has hit the bottom. Megyn Kelly ruined Fox, and it just continues to spiral downward. There are two people I admire greatly and respect, and they are Watters and Judge Jeannine. They are fabulous individuals who are well worth watching. They are brilliant and courageous.
I always felt that the “Fair and Balanced” moniker was gonna be Fox’s downfall..
IMO they should have said “Truth and balance against all the other networks.”
Shepard Smith is sounding more Radical Leftist every day. Anybody who defends the disrespectful actions of the CNN Reporter has their head where the sun doesn’t shine.
Shep, you are running your big mouth just a little too much. that clown from CNN is a poor representative of the TV media. He was rude crude and socially unacceptable in ihs actions at that Press Conference. If he and his immature childish actions and big loud mouth is representative of CNN or any media organization, then as Mr. Hannity said “Journalism is Dead”. From now on I will turn Fox News off at 3:00 PM EST and turn my radio on and listen to Mr. Hannity. I am sick of you and your liberal snowflake mouth!
What goes around comes around. When elected CNN announced they were at war with Trump so why would they expect anything different from him. I stood up and cheered when I watched the press conference. As far as Smith goes I put him in the same category as McCain and our illustrious Speaker of the House in that they are real jokes being even loosely associated with conservatives. Smith would be much happier at CNN or NBC so maybe Meghan can take him with.
Agree. McCain, Graham, and McConnell had better wake up fast. They are intentionally sabotaging Trump’s efforts (or trying to) when I believe he has the best interest of everyone at heart.
It’s time to dump a lot of chlorine into the swamp.
Tom, add Rubio to that list.
I couldn’t believe how vicious his questioning was with the candidate Tillerson. Just really mean, and his facial expressions looked almost sick.
Wonder if he is under pressure from McCain, who is probably hired by Soros.
The money spread around, and Rubio worried he wont get any?
I used to like Rubio, would have voted for him.
But his behavior was just weird.
And, just what do you think the press has been doing to Donald Trump during the election campaign. It’s payback time, my friend. Maybe journalistic standards will improve with Trump at the top.
Why can’t Trump defend himself. That’s a fundamental right for everyone. Frankly, they ought to take the slimy *** from Buzzfeed out back and remind him how life really works. Enough with the stupidity. Damaging someone intentionally has serious consequences later – for all of us. You Shall Not Bear False Witness!!
Cause to liberals, us conservatives never should be allowed to defend ourselves..
FOX News is not a conservative channel. It only seems conservative in comparison to the MSM. Shemp is a liberal.
Please don’t disparage a Stooge.
You struck out on this one Shep, and now you will have to suffer the wrath of us deplorables!!!
Yo Smith,
Why do you think CNN is referred to as Communist News Network?
Smith is supposed to be reporting the news…that is his job at fox with fancy computers and young girls to pull up computer screens to assist him…it is not his job to give commentary or his opinions…that is a different venue and programing…he needs to go…his job is NOT to spout liberal slant to new stories…replace him.
I really admire him for crossing the conservative/liberal line in support of colleagues. I don’t know who’s right but CNN did vet the information they received. Trump’s denigration. Although I support him on immigration and Muslim vetting, I’m afraid that this is just one more example of a 70 year old throwing a 2-year old-style temper tantrum because he was never punished.
Shep isn’t conservative,never has been. He’s a gay Democrat that usually has a pretty good ability to keep both under wraps. Every now and then his temper flares and both show. He is a pretty good Journalist most of the time
There was no 70-year-old picking on a sodomite! Trump just wouldn’t play their game and all the sodomites had the fit!
So, is a colleague lied about your brother, and consistently tried to destroy him, you would stand up for your colleague? Come on, there is NO defense for what acosta does.
I have been watching politics (debates and press conferences and State of the Union addresses) since Nixon – this latest display by the so-called journalists – press corps – was left side shy of a piranha feeding frenzy – “pick me pick me”, “me-me-me”, and just shouting out questions.
Mr. Trump needed to shout over the media shouts and noises to be heard by Acosta, and subsequently deny him any interaction (since he was poised for another vicious attack as he stood and yelled and would not yield). All Presidents had their couple of favorite reporters that they liked to engage with, yet they always picked many additional ones to dialog with (go watch Reagan through Obama PCs, and during Slick Willy the openly got soft on Dems and lapped at them and openly hostile to Bush II). There were also some that barely got looked over on occasion. Guess what? Too bad! If you openly waged war on the POTUS (elect) then you dug your own grave so now you can lie it!
Regardless of the party at fault for the leaks (likely CIA with an axe to grind) it is shoddy (at best) journalism and completely unsubstantiated – having the source of the leak telling you it is true IS NOT VETTING NOR CORROBORATING.
Finally, as with everything since the election, EVERYONE on the left are the ones throwing the tantrums, fits, meltdowns, etc.
I repeat: It is a privilege not a right!
[was left side shy of a piranha feeding frenzy – “pick me pick me”, “me-me-me”, and just shouting out questions.]
That is why i would LOVE for the press secretary to make all those press corp SIGN IN on a roster sheet. THEN GO DOWN the list (or call by chair #, and NO ONE is allowed to move chair). THEN Tell all those there, “This is how it will be.. Yu want to act like kids jumping out of your seats and waiving your hands like you need to potty, take yourself out of hear and go back to elementary!”.
Smith wants to meet Don Lemon at Corrupt News Network and he thinks ingratiating himself to CNN is a good way to start.
I quit watching Smith a long time ago. He did not vote for Trump, he criticized Trump at every opportunity and he is supposed to be a reporter not a commentator as is Hannity. Seems like Fox would have explained to him the difference of being a commentator or a news reporter.
Shepherd Smith is a cry baby whimp that probably wears panty hose and his cocky biased opinions only shows why Fox is losing people who are supposed to be fair and balanced. THey are all hate Trump loons just like that Megan Kelly and that fully biased black Juan Williams. America is sick of his whining accusations which are totally false like Crooked HIllary has be cleared of any wrong doing when everyone knows she violated everything under the sun when she was secretly and illegally putting our soldiers at risk along with America because she is a crooked Lieing dog along with Obama, Loretta Lynch and about everyone in the democratic party which wrote the book on deplorables. Donald Trump is a hero and God bless him for standing up against the evil liberals and fake press. Juan Williams is a loser just like whimping Shepherd Smith.
I love the only news outlet we have which is Fox News but they need some serious house cleaning. God bless Bill O’Reilly,and Tucker Smith and that tell it correctly angel Shawn Hannity. I simply turn the channel when everyone else comes on in the evenings. I also love Fox and friends