Shep Smith slams Breitbart’s Big Government website

Posted by The Right Scoop on July 21st, 2010 in Politics | 30 Comments

Shep says they didn’t run the video because they don’t trust the source, given all the inaccurate videos that Breitbart is responsible for that has deceived the world.

Wow.

Honestly, to this very day, I have never heard of an inaccurate video being posted on BigGovernment.com. I’m sure he’d bring up the Sherrod video, but the point of posting the Sherrod video wasn’t Sherrod at all, but the fact that the NAACP has racists in its midst, given it’s decision to judge the Tea Party as racist. The video has taken quite a hit now that the video has come out, but as several of my commenters have expressed, the applauding of the racist act and the colorful language used by Sherrod was disturbing in the least. Point being that Breitbart never called for Sherrod’s dismissal or any action whatsoever – he just wanted to point out the ‘demons’ in their own closet.

Which brings me back to Shep’s claim that there ‘inaccurate’ videos on Breitbart’s site. Again, I’d love to see just what he’s talking about because I don’t think they exist, but I would imagine that he probably won’t even see this post.

One last note. Isn’t it interesting that the MSM has quit talking about the Tea Party being racist? It seems that, for a moment, it has. You can thank Andrew Breitbart for that cause I’d say that was quite a feat to take them off message. LOL!

CDS in Manitoba

Why is this guy still on the air, especially after the Jennifer Lopez incident many years ago?
http://twitter.com/artfromtex Arthur Autrey

You know, if Shep wants to distance from Breitbart and Big Gov., that's fine. I think he's stupid to do it, but hey, it's his choice.

But he went a step further and insulted his web-site, lied about it, and firmly took a position of opposition.

I've heard rumblings that Shep doesn't like Glenn Beck, the tea partiers or most Conservative bloggers. He's such a vanilla centrist. Right now, could you be any more irrelevant than to be a centrist? We are in the middle of an idealogical war for the direction of this country. You have to realize that. It's not 1996 anymore where we can play political patty-cake with each other.

Choose a side, man. I guess Shep has chosen to not decide, therefore he'll be someone running up to the Ark screaming, “Let me in!!! I 'get it' now!!!!”

Shame too. He could be a useful guy if he'd just wake up.
texasgirl46

For some reason I couldn't watch past second 30… but I can say this about Shep…some times I think he drinks on the job…I've heard him say a lot of dump sh*t….
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/ Stephanos Anton Ballmerfeld

hmmmmm
dmk2113

“Honestly, to this very day, I have never heard of an inaccurate video being posted on BigGovernment.com.”

ACORN “exposé” anyone?
lilium479

Shep view the whole tape……….not only is she a racist….worse she is a Marxist.
Besides this is about Naacp and not Sherrod.
http://www.therightscoop.com/ therightscoop

so tell me how they were inaccurate.
http://twitter.com/artfromtex Arthur Autrey

your point?
http://twitter.com/artfromtex Arthur Autrey

Right on!
http://twitter.com/TJexcite Trevor Johansen

Shep is just angry he not on the new journolist as he was on the old one.
punditpawn

He's on the air because he's capable of speaking while hyperventilating which give the false impression that everything he says could be important. That apparently attracts some viewers. I personally can't watch the guy. It's like listening to rap music which, by the way, isn't music at all. It's a rhythm with lyrics, not music.
dmk2113

Are you f'ing kidding me?

Every single person in those ACORN videos was exonerated of any wrongdoing. One guy who was accused of trying to help them set up a human smuggling ring was actually pushing them for information so he could then immediately call the COPS and report it all to them.

The Attorneys General of all cities where ACORN was filmed have cleared every employee in every video of any legal wrongdoing. The entire scandal was one enormous fraud.
cubachi

Shep Smith is disgraceful and owes Breitbart an apology. I want Shep to prove to all of us when Breitbart ever lied. What a false and distasteful accusation by Shep. Such a punk.
williamm

Nielsen ratings yesterday

The Fox Report w/ Shep – 1,625,000 viewers (423,000) (788,000)

Glenn Beck – 2,402,000 viewers (637,000) (972,000)
grizzlybarrmomma

Shep has done the Tea Party a great survice. Complain not you heathens.:) This website has had the best free advertisement known to man. After this news came out about him and his site I checked it out for the first time.
http://www.therightscoop.com/ therightscoop

So you saw the videos, right? and you are ok with that decision? How in the hell was it an enormous fraud??? Did you even watch the videos?
http://www.therightscoop.com/ therightscoop

Oh and just as a side note, I'm sure you are probably ok with how the NBP voter intimidation case of 2008 turned out too…right?
dmk2113

Actually, no, I haven't seen the unedited videos and neither have you. But I have seen the edited ones, that have been described as “inaccurate” and “edited to fit a political agenda”.

As for the NBP case, no, I'm not thrilled with how it turned out, but I'm not certain that all of the facts are out there. And I think you've gotten yourself mixed up into believing that “liberals” are somehow supportive of the New Black Panther party. We're really not.
Leftydad46

HEY SHEPPARD,….your NEWS,….therefore keep YOUR opinions to yourself!
jbluv

I couldn't watch this guy. I refuse to waste my time just to listen him.
Jaynie59

I can't watch Shep. You know who shocked me last night? Ann Coulter on Hannity. I'm a big fan of hers, but her take on the full tape of the speech was right in line with everybody else. She even said that Brietbart was “set up” by whoever sent him the first edited clips.

Wasn't the first line of Andrew's post something like “context is everything”? Oh, well, let's not give him the benefit of the doubt. Let's make sure the Democrats have enough ammo to use this to demonize him, Fox News, conservatives, the Tea Parties, and Republicans. There goes the 2010 elections.

What amazes me is that the same people now kicking themselves for jumping to conclusions over their reaction to the initial edited clips are now guilty of letting the first 25 minutes form their opinions. Yes, the first part of the speech is a harrowing, compelling tale of the racism and bigotry and violence this poor woman grew up with. It's an amazing story for those of us too young to have lived through those times and have never heard a first person account of what it was like.

But right around the 25 minute mark Sherrod's story pretty much ends. She spends the rest of the speech being a matter-of-fact racist. Her story about the white farmer? She says she sent him to a white lawyer so that he couldn't say she didn't do her job. In other words, she was trying to cover her own ass. It wasn't until she found out that the white lawyer was charging the white farmer money, and not doing anything to help him, that she had her epiphany about it being poor vs the haves and not black vs white (although it IS about black and white).

It took a crooked white lawyer screwing a poor white farmer for her to decide being poor was the real issue (although it IS about black and white).

Anyone who thinks Shirley Sherrod deserved an apology from anyone, much less her job back, agrees with the Holder Justice Department that black people can never be accused of, or held accountable, for their racism. Because that's exactly the situation here. Shirley Sherrod did not stand in front of a polling place with a nightstick, and she didn't scream racist garbage about killing cracker babies, but I'm sure those guys stories are just as compelling to someone as Shirley Sherrods' story.
Dabbo

I find myself skipping back and forth between FNC and CNN when “Shemp” is on….that's worrisome to me.

If only Fox would give Beck the 7pm time slot……Shemp is definitely the weak link.
KeninMontana

The real irony here is the left has been nailed by one of their own tricks (Alinsky #3)this is why they are howling like banshees. As a bonus the administration was snared by it as well. I love watching the left desperately back paddling madly slinging mud in all directions as they try to extricate themselves from this debacle. The real joke here is they could have avoided it,had they paused long enough to think about it.
http://twitter.com/aloysiusokon Aloysius Okon

why? what do you find so compelling that's on CNN at 7?
http://twitter.com/aloysiusokon Aloysius Okon

Because opinion is more exciting to watch than news, no doubt!
KeninMontana

Supposedly the Acorn videos are frauds according to Jerry Brown,who it just so happens has Acorn as one of his biggest donors. As far as the employees go the fired are still fired and the suit in Baltimore against O'Keefe and Giles brought by Acorn has been dismissed.
williamm

If that is true, why was a-hole giving an opinion? Now the woman admits she would like to shutdown Biggov. Wants to file a lawsuit against them. There is nothing she can sue for. Now in a-hole Smiths case, he better be able to prove what he said against biggov site.
http://arttelles.com/stop-islamization-of-america/ Art Telles

Shep who…

I don't usually post about a TV host who says something… about someone… about whatever… unless they are defining and defending a point of view… you know, like Glenn Beck does.

So Shep had a “synapse gap brain burp”… so what.

Art
yowzer

They were cleared from any LEGAL wrongdoing because talking about setting up a brothel is not ILLEGAL. The facts are that several acorn employees were willing to help set it up, they were fired for those actions, and congress stopped funding the organization because of those actions. Just because they didn't complete the act by physically filling out the form and helping to set up the brothel doesn't mean the thought wasn't horrible and worth being told
dmk2113

Actually, colluding in the importation of illegal underaged immigrants for human trafficking is really really illegal, but none of the employees caught on tape actually did that.

1) The guy who, under the guise of helping them, was trying to push them for information about where and when their trade was going to go down was doing so for the sole purpose of gathering as much information as possible so he could report it to the police THAT SAME HOUR.
2) The woman who told them to “keep trying because someone will say yes” was, in fact, speaking to the girl who said that she was a prostitute, as in “keep trying to find somewhere for yourself to live”.

May I quote one of the reports on the topic?

“The videos that have been released appear to have been edited, in some cases substantially, including the insertion of a substitute voiceover for significant portions of Mr. O'Keefe's and Ms. Giles's comments, which makes it difficult to determine the questions to which ACORN employees are responding. A comparison of the publicly available transcripts to the released videos confirms that large portions of the original video have been omitted from the released versions.”

The resemblance to this whole Shirley Sherrod thing is actually pretty uncanny. The difference is that this time they got caught – and don't try and argue that Breitbart “didn't know”.

Try reading this: http://www.proskauer.com/files/uploads/report2.pdf

Shep Smith slams Breitbart’s Big Government website

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