Shepard Smith Goes Nuclear Over Viewer's Email

Fox News' Shepard Smith was very upset over an email he received regarding his discussion of the potential bailout of the auto industry, and he was not afraid to show it. Smith read the whole email on the air, and then repeatedly insulted the man, starting off by acknowledging he mispronounced the emailer's name, but flatly declaring he "didn't care." Watch it.

Comments

[kwright]

JimboSlice, pipe fitters are skilled tradesmen.

[CR46]

The pipefitter probably makes more than Shepard so he's jealous!!! And didn't GWB and gang bail out the airlines??

[reasonshouldrule]

Fair and balanced, as always. (smirk)

[testerwebbdemocrat]

"This isn't about politics, Sheppy??!?"

Damn, Rush said just testerday "Everything is politics".

Ohhh, watching you Republics pee on yourselves - its just as much fun as I thought it would be. Hehehe

[kdublya]

Young man yells at cloud.

[gbkc]

Chrysler is owned by a huge equity firm that has been closing paper mills it owns and putting people out of work rather than selling the mills to raise cash. they want to keep all their assets and have the goverrnment bail out the underperforming ones. Genworth announced they plan to by a struggling minnesota based bank in order to qualify for some of the bailout package an shore up their struggling balance sheets. this bailout needs oversight badly. do not underestimate these companies finding ways to get their piece of the pie,

[popples]

Stay classy, Fox News. ;)

[ssg13565]

I don't understand this talk about how the bail out of Chrysler was a tremendous success.

There is very little of Chrysler left. What little that there is will disappear shortly. If this is the success that we can expect from bailing out GM, then this is not a pretty picture. Maybe the slow death of GM rather than a rapid demise is the best we can hope for.

Maybe the discussion needs to change to one about how we will replace the big three with some other industries and let cars be made by the existing successful car companies like Toyota. What steps can the government take to ease the transition for the employees, retirees, and supply chain?

What will happen to the financial system when GM defaults on the trillion dollars of GM company debt being held by the financial system?

[Totto]

Ford and GM build some excellent cars in Europe and Asia ( Vauxhall, Opel, Ford, Mazda, Volvo, Saab). Do you really want to be dependent only on Toyota, Honda and a few secondary Korean and Chinese brands whose quality, in many cases, has declined? Universal health care and currency manipulation is partially responsible for the success of foreign automakers.

[philosopherkingtomas]

professional! he wears way too MUCH makeup,

[Adebukola]

There is enough blame to go all the way around the corner. There is the consumer, who wants exactly what he/she wants. Who cares about the carbon footprint as they drive away in the Suburban, Tahoo, F150, etc. There is the auto makers who could only see the bottom line (profit) not the future. The future was well within the grasp of GM when they made the EV1. Someone killed that project quick. We should blame the oil companies who would not allow cars/trucks/suv's to be made that ran on anything but oil. Are you starting to get the picture. And now I hear that Ford is gearing up to make the F150 at record production levels. I tell you either they are crazy or we are crazy for even considering bailing them out.
My heart is for the unions, who tried to protect their members. Now they are being blamed for this conundrum. They least of all should be blamed. They have made concessions. What concessions has GM, Chrysler, or Ford made? If all they can talk about is failure they don't deserve any assistance. A progressive, innovative company would see the future and begin preparing for it rather than preparing to fail.

[Shashi0224]

The reason republicans won't help the car industry while they helped Wall Street is one is Union and the other is not. Republicans are always anti-union. FOX is republican. Neither Fox nor the republican party have any credibility.

[Lilybart]

Exacatly. God forbid actual workers make good money or get good benefits. No, only bankers and paper pushers deserve the millions in bonuses and salaries.

Unions need to be reasonable, but unions are the only tool that workers have. There is no free market for workers. Companies can take their factories and jobs to another country, but workers can't work in another country. No more BS about free markets being good for workers!!

[TrooAmerican]

Exactly. The UAW has now made 3 contracts in a row total concessions to the corporations... and what have the Execs done? nothing, they havent steered the companies in the right direction, they havent taken huge concessions from their way over paid positions, and they havent moved fast enough to change their business models.
If you are looking for the biggest cost to any manufacturer, look to their executive leadership.
If you are looking for the 2nd biggest cost to any manufacturer, look to their insanely entrenched Dealership contracts which according to NPR cannot legally be broken in anyway other than by a bankruptcy court ruling. The Dealerships have actually lobbied for statelevel laws to maintain their monetary hold and supremecy on scruuuing over the consumers in the name of the Manufacturer.

The UAW's middle class salaries are Not at fault at all for anything thats happened to the Big 3. In recent years it was their declining sales on the most profitable gas guzzlers due to lowering economy and rising gasprices. In the past quarter Sales have dropped 40% due solely to the financial crisis of not giving out loans for cars.... which by the way, Paulson should have fixed by now.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

My father was a Teamster, he worked hard and my mom never had to go to work, he was able to own 2 homes, one 4 family, raise 3 kids and send 2 of us through college. He hated, let me repeat hated the Republican party, after growing in a mining town in PA and living trough the Depression he had no use for a Republican politicians.

[LemonMeringue]

There is a march on the federal building and the IRS in Kansas City at 2 p.m. Saturday.

I hope there are marches everywhere, protesting the bailouts.

[TKDMike]

the country is catching on to faux news and thier IDIOTS and it is making them MAD!! BWAAAHAHAHAAA

[LemonMeringue]

I agree with Shepster.

Each American now owes $35,000. How can our children and grandhildren pay this off? It's reckless.

There will be pain but it will be shorter if we refuse to add to the national debt to pay off failed businessmen.

[ConcernedAboutRFuture]

Ditto. No bailouts for anyone. Let the chips of economy fall where they may. .... until some sanity is brought back to our nation.

Right now, we have to ride out the last bank robbery.... but I'll be damned if I AGREE with it.

My taxes are being taken in protest right now... my money stolen by Bush and all his incompetent CEOs.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

Than we will be like England in the 1970s when conservatives let there auto industry collapse a well fare state.

[LisainNYC]

No it won't. The pain will be drastic and it will turn this country's very bad recession into a devestating depression.

Our economy cannot afford, at this time, to add over 5 million people to its unemployment rolls. The psychological blow that Lehman's bankruptcy dealt to the financial system will be repeated in the wider market if the automakers are allowed to go bankrupt.

Where is the blame for the Bush administration which refused to increase mileage standards and exempted many small trucks and SUVs from the standards that did exist?

And does your concern for our future generation's debt extend to the disasterous war in Iraq that Bush took us into? $25 billion pales in comparison to the $10 billion MONTHLY cost of that fiasco.

[RJII]

Anyway, does Shep wear heavy eye makeup and over pluck his eyebrows? He looks like a female or child mannequin.

[NotBeatenYet]

I think they call it "metro-sexual."

[mcantwell]

Thanks for reminding me why I don't watch Faux Noise. I can't tell the difference between Shep, Billo, or Hannity. They don't know how to deliver the news without being enraged and foaming at the mouth.