jps wrote:
Shepard Smith is sounding the alarm.

The wingnuts are going crazy...


Fox News' Shepard Smith's pretty well known -- and oft praised -- for
the way he can size up a news event and expose his own authentic
concern without seeming mawkish or phony. And in the wake of today's
shooting at the Holocaust Museum, Smith went on the air today to talk
about the emails he's been receiving for "the past few months," and
how they've been getting "more and more frightening."

SMITH: There are people now, who are way out there on a limb. And I
think they're just out there on a limb with the email they send us.
Because I read it, and they are out there. I mean, out there in a
scary place...I could read a hundred of them like this...I mean from
today. People who are so amped up and so angry for reasons that are
absolutely wrong, ridiculous, preposterous."

He went on to read an email, filled with the usual paranoid "birther"
nonsense, which included an admonishment to Smith. "This is, I
promise, a representative sample of the kind of things that we get
here," Smith said.

Time will tell if Smith's colleagues at Fox stop taking these sorts of
emails casually. Smith clearly could do that no longer.


Taking them casually? Fox encourages them. O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, et
al, are there to whip the simpies up into a frenzy, with the hope that
mayhem will result. Fox is the helter-skelter network.


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The modern GOP is little more than an army of moral absolutists led by a
gang of moral nihilists.