{"id":1252,"date":"2009-04-23T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2009-04-23T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T18:58:00","slug":"shepard-smith-doesnt-give-a-rats-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"Shepard Smith Doesn’t Give A Rat’s Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just can’t let this go by…<\/p>\n

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Shepard Smith is the Fox anchor most hated by entrenched Fox viewers. This video is a good example of why. Smith takes a principled stand against torture and in favor of living up to our national values when he says:<\/p>\n

“We are America. I don’t give a rat’s ass if it helps. We. Are. America. We do not fucking torture.<\/strong> We don’t do it.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is video from Fox’s Strategy Room, which is a webcast that takes place when the network goes to commercial. So this was never on the air. I think the most embarrassing part has nothing to do with Shep’s language. It is when Trace Gallagher says that he is not saying that torture is right or wrong. That doesn’t seem like something that a moral person would be ambiguous about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just can’t let this go by… Shepard Smith is the Fox anchor most hated by entrenched Fox viewers. This video is a good example of why. Smith takes a principled stand against torture and in favor of living up to our national values when he says: “We are America. I don’t give a rat’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,320,393],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-shepard-smith","tag-trace-gallagher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-kc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40874,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40874","url_meta":{"origin":1252,"position":0},"title":"Shepard Smith Brutally Roasts Fox News in First Amendment Award Acceptance Speech","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/15\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"There has been one voice on Fox News who has dared to challenge the doctrinal mission of America's most nauseatingly right-wing network. 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