Shep Smith: Death Threats Tied To 'Over-Inflated Rhetoric' (VIDEO)

Shep Smith has tied the recent spate of death threats and slurs against members of congress to "over-inflated rhetoric."

"I wonder when it is an isolated incident becomes a string of things," he said Wednesday. "You wonder when some in there, on both sides of the aisle, are gonna look in the mirror and go, my over-inflated rhetoric is causing some people...[to] go out and react given the information that they've been given. I just wonder if anybody's gonna settle down a minute and go, Wow, we better settle down here, relax."

Shep continued on that subject with a hint that he was really talking about those on the far right, including possibly his Fox News colleague Glenn Beck.

"What we do know is that when leaders on either side of the aisle go with this over-inflated rhetoric and they tell us it's the end of the world, it's Armageddon, the Marxists have taken over Washington, it's the end of the world as we know it, we're moving into socialism," he said, "when they say things like that, that maybe some of them don't believe, and then the fringes believe it, and then they go out and do stupid things...Well, I mean, it's all kind of tied together isn't it?"

David Shuster called on members of congress to tone down their incendiary, violence-promoting rhetoric as well Wednesday.

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