Video of the Moment…Sheperd Smith Destroys Bill Kristol, Bush, Iraq War…

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    Anonymous said on 10/1/2006 @ 10:24pm PT: [Permalink]

    Yeah, except that Shepard is clearly in support of MORE troops and continued war. Not really a tiger changing its stripes rather more like the tiger roaring because he isn’t satisfied.

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    JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 10/2/2006 @ 12:34am PT: [Permalink]

    Merriam-Webster says:

    “Main Entry: 1fox
    Pronunciation: ‘fà¤ks
    Function: noun
    Inflected Form(s): plural fox·es also fox
    Usage: often attributive
    Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German fuhs fox and perhaps to Sanskrit puccha tail
    1 a : any of various carnivorous mammals (especially genus Vulpes) of the dog family related to but smaller than wolves with shorter legs, more pointed muzzle, large erect ears, and long bushy tail b : the fur of a fox
    2 : a clever crafty person
    3 archaic : SWORD
    4 capitalized : a member of an American Indian people formerly living in what is now Wisconsin
    5 : a good-looking young woman or man”

    This word has been on loan to a network. It’s return is long overdue with penalties . . .

  3. 5)
    suds said on 10/2/2006 @ 1:48am PT: [Permalink]

    Yes, Shep was decrying the shame of the Cheney Administration having to wait for elections before sending in more troops–it just came out looking like an attack on Kristol.

    “Man, why can’t we get this overwith and just nuke’m—-damn shame.”

    Kind of like –who was it–Gen. Buck Turgeson.

  4. 7)
    Floridiot said on 10/2/2006 @ 2:31am PT: [Permalink]

    Maybe its all about ratings ?
    If 60 percent polled oppose the war
    Its time to go in another direction for awhile
    After what they helped start back in ’03, along with the “other networks”, I’ll never forgive or forget

  5. 8)
    KestrelBrighteyes said on 10/2/2006 @ 6:07am PT: [Permalink]

    Even one moment of dissent on Fox, who has thus far done nothing but catapult the propaganda and cheer for the Bush administration, is a cause for hope. There are a LOT of people who (for some reason that is totally incomprehensible to me) rely on Fox network for their news, and these people think the rest of us are just Bush-haters who don’t know what we’re talking about. Fox may be the only way to reach those 30-something percenters that still support the current regime – if they can be reached at all.

    I still won’t watch the network – for the same reason I won’t read the National Enquirer – but I’m curious to see if this signals a paradigm shift or is merely a fluke.

    Does Shepard Smith still have a job?

  6. 11)
    big dan said on 10/2/2006 @ 6:15am PT: [Permalink]

    Maf54: Where did you get your boxer shorts?

    Undercover FBI Agent: At a local department store, probably Wal-Mart.

  7. 13)
    big dan said on 10/2/2006 @ 6:30am PT: [Permalink]

    (KristolPNAC31 has entered the chat room)…….

    KristonPNAC31: I’ve seen MAF’s boxer shorts, they have little American flags on them.

    Hannity2: I am in a chat room filled with GREAT AMERICANS AND PATRIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!

  8. 15)
    big dan said on 10/2/2006 @ 6:38am PT: [Permalink]

    Remember when Kristol was on the Colbert Report, and he said, “How’s that thing going? You know, the PNAC thing?” And Kristol went “humm-uh-nuh humm-uh-nuh humm-uh-nuh hummm-uh-nuh…….”

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    Charlie L said on 10/2/2006 @ 11:19am PT: [Permalink]

    Any critique of Bush that doesn’t bring up the culpability of the REPUBLICAN RUBBER STAMP CONGRESS is just part of an overall scheme to allow the Republican Congressional candidates to “run away from Bush” in their local districts.

    FOX is (and always will be) the propaganda arm of the Republican Party and the Administration.

    And to KestrelBrighteyes (#8) I say this about the 30 percent who support Bush without question and watch FOX: If we had honest elections where the majority ruled and the Republicans weren’t able to steal 10% and disenfranchise another 10%, then those 30% who support Bush could just go to hell and die. I have no interest (nor do I believe it is even possible) to reach those people. They are either 1) sick, 2) lacking the mental capacity to think, 3) evil, or 4) too drugged on Meth to comprehend. They are not worth the air they breath and definitely not worth trying to “reach” in any way. Hopefully, they die off before they breed, though I know that’s a lot to hope for.

    The only consolation for me is that Bush, the Rethuglicans, and the PNAC don’t have any great love for that 30% (minus the .05% who are ultrarich) and will use them to their deaths as slave labor and forced consumers. And as they die from a disease they can’t afford to buy the pill for, I’m sure they will cough their last breath blaming Clinton, somehow.

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    Nunyabiz said on 10/2/2006 @ 1:46pm PT: [Permalink]

    I gotta agree 100% with Charlie L.

    Not sure what the rest of you are seeing but this was obviously just a stage play to try and distance “some” repukes from Dubya so the moderates might vote for them, plus also play to that hard core Lunatic Neofascist Christian nutbag base and clearly call for MORE troops in order to PROLONG the War and make it 100X worse.

    Dont be fooled by ANYTHING FAUX news trys to pull.

  11. 24)
    Craig H said on 10/2/2006 @ 6:17pm PT: [Permalink]

    It seems like just more propaganda whose purpose is to lay the groundwork for the draft.

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    Weaseldog said on 10/2/2006 @ 10:36pm PT: [Permalink]

    Notice that the operative word is ‘Hope’. They hope that things can be turned around after the election.

    Bush told us he doesn’t intend to win, that things are just fine in Iraq now. He intends to hand Iraq off, as is to the next administration.

    As far as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield and condi are concerned, what we see in Iraq is victory. They’ve achieved their goals. If we disagree, then it’s because we’ve chosen different benchmarks for success than they have.

    I agree that we just saw a stage play for the upcoming elections.

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