Video: Shep Smith rips Obama spokesman over public option for eight minutes
posted at 7:05 pm on August 18, 2009 by Allahpundit
If this were anyone else I’d attribute the anger to righteous indignation in the teeth of feeble Obama spin, but given our suspicions about Shep’s political leanings, it’s hard not to detect a little personal pique at the thought of the public option going bye-bye. The highlight: When he accuses Obama of caving on the P.O. to placate Republicans who are afraid of “death panels,” which is an interesting theory given that (a) the two issues have nothing to do with each other (as Burton reminds him) and (b) as the entire country knows only too well at this point, it’s not Republicans who are stalling the bill, it’s Blue Dog Democrats. Cheer up, big guy: Not only have 60 liberals in the House told Sebelius they’re ready to kill any bill without a public option, but the black and Hispanic caucuses are coming around too — which could mean 120 Democratic votes in the balance.
Below Shep’s clip you’ll find something similar from another guy who’s none too pleased to see the dream of socialized medicine disappear.
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Shep has PMS
Wade on August 18, 2009 at 7:08 PM
It figures that a liberal guy like Sheppard Smith would be angry about the prospects of the government run portion of the health care bill being removed.
SoulGlo on August 18, 2009 at 7:09 PM
That picture is worth a thousand LOLs.
TMK on August 18, 2009 at 7:09 PM
That video has Tool overload.
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 7:10 PM
I so love the pictures of that spokestool. He is so beat down from being, well, beat down all time time.
Spectreman on August 18, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Ienjoyed Meghyn Kelly’s beatdown of Burton last week more than this. She’s tougher. And gorgeous.
kingsjester on August 18, 2009 at 7:12 PM
This bears repeating as often as necessary: Stewart is the Grand Poobah of Doucheistan.
Very possibly the most annoying and self-obsessed media figure in the realm, along with Bill Maher and Olby.
Mike D. on August 18, 2009 at 7:13 PM
It’s the kind of man-on-man intense yelling action that suits Shepard Smith all too well.
Apologetic California on August 18, 2009 at 7:14 PM
If Shep Smith and Bill Burton were both treading water in the lake, about to drown, I would have a difficult time choosing which one I should toss a cement block to.
myrenovations on August 18, 2009 at 7:14 PM
The openly Democrat person dies first. Shepard Smith is a closet Democrat, so he goes second.
Apologetic California on August 18, 2009 at 7:16 PM
That’s why we need Obamacare.
Under Obamacare, there would be enough cement blocks to toss each of them one.
malclave on August 18, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Amen.
When is she going to take over BOR?
Upstater85 on August 18, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Obama has to keep the insurance industry honest with the public option but we have no way to keep him honest.
fourdeucer on August 18, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Shep – the serious journalist following in the footsteps of Geralda Rivera.
Upstater85 on August 18, 2009 at 7:18 PM
I was going to add Chrissy to that list… but he’s too busy being subservient to Obama to be self-obsessed.
Upstater85 on August 18, 2009 at 7:19 PM
So true. I’d almost go with Shep, just so that I’d get to kick Burton in the face before he went down. (just kidding, don’t freak out lefties)
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Shep- The Perez Hilton of Fox News.
AMEN. Meghyn Kelly would dominate if she had Bill’s time slot.
portlandon on August 18, 2009 at 7:20 PM
“If Shep Smith and Bill Burton were both treading water in the lake, about to drown, I would have a difficult time choosing which one I should toss a cement block to.”
It’s difficult to type while laughing so hard.
cdor on August 18, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Shep provides some of the most hilarious screencaps.
MadisonConservative on August 18, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Shep seems disappointed that the President is backing away from the Public option
The_Lid on August 18, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Comment of the month.
MadisonConservative on August 18, 2009 at 7:21 PM
True – perhaps even the Perez Hilton in other aspects too.
Yes she would. She has a lot of potential for someone as young as she is.
Upstater85 on August 18, 2009 at 7:22 PM
MadCon,
It’s competing with this one from the Brazil oil drill thread:
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Is Shep a ‘squuiiissshhhh’…….?
Seven Percent Solution on August 18, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Yes, yes, let’s watch Kelly vs this garbage.Much better scenery.
Jeff from WI on August 18, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Given our electorate and our media I’m not sure that’s true, but it certainly ought to be true.
Missy on August 18, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Here’s an idea. How about a National Registry. If you don’t have health insurance, you sign up. If you spend every waking moment wringing your hands worrying about people without, you go and sign some one up on YOUR health insurance.
Everybody WINS!! People get health insurance, and people that are so plainly distressed about it can have piece of mind by actually helping those in need.
I win because I have the knowledge that LibTard asswipes that love to be so caring and compassionate with other people’s money won’t be getting any of mine to waste on another poorly run, government #hithole.
Bonus!!!
BigWyo on August 18, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Here’s a hint for you Stewart: Obama is not a Jedi.
AZCoyote on August 18, 2009 at 7:31 PM
What you didn’t know Shep was a Bush hating liberal? You must have missed his fake Katrina broadcasts.
tarpon on August 18, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Insurance companies have competition with each other dorkus.
- The Cat
MirCat on August 18, 2009 at 7:32 PM
BEST
SCREENSHOT
EVER
aaahahahahahah!
blatantblue on August 18, 2009 at 7:34 PM
I love it. Liberal punk meltdown by all three of them cause they know the public option is dead.
Now, let’s annihilate the rest of the bill(s).
Where’s the f’in GOP with there plan?
Sapwolf on August 18, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Yep. He ain’t Jedi, he’s Sith.
Sapwolf on August 18, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Haha
visions on August 18, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Shep is so butch when she’s angry.
Ghoul aid on August 18, 2009 at 7:36 PM
That screenshot on the front page is the best!
CP on August 18, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Just wondering if the Kool Aid drinkers are still under Obamas spell?
Jeff from WI on August 18, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Shep is a little light in the sneakers
Wade on August 18, 2009 at 7:40 PM
The way the left has demonized the health care industry, the pharmceutical companies and the insurance industry it makes you wonder how they stay so healthy.
fourdeucer on August 18, 2009 at 7:41 PM
BOOTLICK MEDIA BOY vs. WHITE HOUSE TOOL/STOOGE
Burton/Gibbs (either one….crazy/crazier….pick your crazy)
I knew this would be the only hope for the Republic. Dems turn on their own because the G.O.P. lacks the stones to say anything or pick anyone coherent enough to actually SELL THE FREAKING MESSAGE to the American people.
MESSAGE TO THE DOOFUS GOP
Pull your heads out and pick a spokesman that can actually make the case why the Dems/Libs suck!!!! My gosh, will these dumb BLLEEEEP Republicans ever get a freaking clue?
Sorry….we were discussing Burton and Shep? I lost my train of thought.
PappyD61 on August 18, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Shep: “I could run hours of videotape…”
Shill: “You could not run hours of videotape…”
Later:
Shill: “As I said, I could run hours of videotape….”
What a catfight.
Marcus on August 18, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Stwe’s point seems right, which is why conservatives need to explain the facts in more than just bumper sticker quotes.
jgapinoy on August 18, 2009 at 7:42 PM
…I mean his point about gov’t competing w/ private sector.
jgapinoy on August 18, 2009 at 7:42 PM
No need to stress out. That’s a two-blocker if ever there was one.
novaculus on August 18, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Obama the flip flopper. He has been a huge disappointment thus far. Even if he passes this HRC with a strong public option, his reputation will still come out fractured in all of this.
And to think i voted and trusted Hussein to deliver on his promise during the campaign. Real black men aren’t cowards like this jerk
Afrolib on August 18, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Is Shep pissed that Burton didn’t call him ‘the day after’, or because he didn’t receive the obligatory ‘reach around’?
PappaMac on August 18, 2009 at 7:44 PM
BTW, just saw Chris Matthews on a repeat of “Hardball” call himself a “political moderate” so Shep would have to wear a housecoat and hair curlers during the news to top that.
Marcus on August 18, 2009 at 7:45 PM
No suspicions here, the guy is and has been a full out lib. And this is the typical liberal hissy fit that the far left is having about the public option.
This is absolutely a blue on blue fight! Shep needs to relocate to MSNBC where he can be with his daddy Olberdork.
conservnut on August 18, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Barackdad Bill: The President never said what he said.
Tuning Spork on August 18, 2009 at 7:47 PM
It’s fun watching heads explode.
aikidoka on August 18, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Obama is circlin’ da Escalades’s (no more wagon’s up there, that’s too raaacist) up in DC on Thursday. He has lost the initiative and needs to get his whackjobs out on da street, yo.
ted c on August 18, 2009 at 7:48 PM
I give Shep credit this time.
He was actually asking tough questions to a Tool about the
PresidentOne flip flopping, and Fox News only closet Democrat was calling the Tool out on it.If you listen to it closely, he did what a good, objective
Democratreporter would do in this situation and that is ask tough questions about whymythePresidentOne flip flopped on something he apparently didn’t promise…according to the Tool.Scoreboard44 on August 18, 2009 at 7:48 PM
When will your self-hate stop?
Apologetic California on August 18, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Red on Red Crime.
Scoreboard44 on August 18, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Or would that be Blue on Blue.
Scoreboard44 on August 18, 2009 at 7:50 PM
I’m confused.
Scoreboard44 on August 18, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Wow…
What….the…Hell..?
BigWyo on August 18, 2009 at 7:52 PM
My area of expertise is vampires.
Do zombies actually eat each other or do they just hissy incessantly?
Oh Mercy on August 18, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Shep was almost shaking at the thought that the public option would not be available. He likes Obama’s talking points even more than he likes Obama! “Not to be an advocate here” he says. Sure Shep, like your not an advocate for govt. health care. (Neither is AARP. /s)
BTW, Burton was the same guy who refused to answer Megyn Kelly’s questions a few days ago on the snitch program. Sort of like Gibbs not answering Garrett’s questions and putting him down in the process.
Who’d have thought John Stewart is at least smart enough to start seeing through this President. But not without another shot at Boooossshhhh.
Christian Conservative on August 18, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Ouch!!!!!
ladyingray on August 18, 2009 at 7:52 PM
And Meghyns a real woman. Shep just plays one on TV.
Tim Zank on August 18, 2009 at 7:54 PM
The public option is related to “death panels”–a public option would give the gov’t even more control of life and death decisions involving the American people. Both are about gov’t control.
karlant on August 18, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Chancellor Palpatine comes to mind…
ConservativeJawa on August 18, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Minus a few wrinkles of course.
ConservativeJawa on August 18, 2009 at 7:56 PM
But only after a sufficient period of end-of-life counseling.
Django on August 18, 2009 at 7:58 PM
THE GOP PLAN IS HR 2520.
andy85719 on August 18, 2009 at 7:58 PM
The first vid was funny. On to the second.
JiangxiDad on August 18, 2009 at 8:00 PM
I wouldn’t trust this “man” with my 14 year-old car, let alone my daughter. He wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him in the backside…
Fuzzlenutter on August 18, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Comical. I loved how they were falling all overthemselves with the “With great respect…” phraseology. Get a room, you two!
Political leanings? I didn’t think his political leanings were the ones we were suspicious about!
jtownsley on August 18, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Had to stop the second one at 1:31. Wasn’t funny.
JiangxiDad on August 18, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Throw it to Burton, Shep’s a Pollyanna and would try to save Burton and you take ‘em both out.
thomasaur on August 18, 2009 at 8:03 PM
I don’t watch Shep but I did this time just to see him beat up on “Meathead” Burton…but Stewart…I just…Can’t…do…it.
d1carter on August 18, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Shep is going to blow a gasket one of these days.
WisCon on August 18, 2009 at 8:04 PM
.
Bumpersticker Update: Obama Lied, Grandma
Dieder..Survived?dont taze me bro on August 18, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Do real men leave their kids to grow up without a father?
Dude.
BadgerHawk on August 18, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Shep and Geraldo are a perfect match. They think they have something profound to say; yet, they are totally empty.
mobydutch on August 18, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Do Burton, Gibbs, etc. ever get sick of being such disgusting liars? How do these shameful SOBs sleep at night? HOW!? WTF?!
One funny part, though – Burton channels his boss and throws at least one “let me be clear” in there.
RightWinged on August 18, 2009 at 8:09 PM
I think they’re far more than suspicions. The guy’s a lib, but about once or twice a month he goes after a lib who’s just being too much of a weasely weasel.
RightWinged on August 18, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Who knew it was contagious.
4:33 mark
“Let Me Be Clear”
tjexcite on August 18, 2009 at 8:11 PM
I dig analogy’s, and that was a good one.
right2bright on August 18, 2009 at 8:11 PM
I have to say that at one time Shep appeared to be pretty dead-center or slightly to the right. But his experience during Katrina changed him and his outlook dramatically.
The Opinionator on August 18, 2009 at 8:13 PM
so shep has its panties in a wad. better go home and cry to your boyfriend, shep
bill30097 on August 18, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Would you rather he ram a bill down the throat of a country that doesn’t want it? Is that what a real black man would do in your eyes?
jhffmn on August 18, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Who wins the chief propagandist award?
Robert Gibbs
Bill Burton
Linda Douglass
ThatMan on August 18, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Barack Obama
d1carter on August 18, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Bill Burton looks like a snarky cro-magnon with that unibrow of his. Dude belongs in a GEICO commercial.
Khorum on August 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM
What did Burton do steal Shep’s parking spot?
Caper29 on August 18, 2009 at 8:34 PM
here’s a lib solution:
make age as voluntary as they’ve made gender in some places.
to accommodate the lgbt lobby and the left’s gramscian agenda, in some paces you can say you are male or female no matter what “genitalia you have”.
so…
why not do the same for age?
let people make up their age, too!
if you want medicare and you’re 25, just fill out a form which says your 65.
it’s that simple.
heh.
the left would do the same for citizenship, too: that’s what amnesty amount to.
reliapundit on August 18, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Why waste perfectly good cement? Reel Shep in and then throw him at Burton.
Patrick S on August 18, 2009 at 8:39 PM
FN at least gives you a ‘little’ of both lib and con views. O do not watch Mr. Smith as he is not my bag.
foxone on August 18, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Don’t you think that’s going a little far? Don’t offend us all with that stereotype.
BDev on August 18, 2009 at 8:53 PM
These freaking idiots never understand that they are not typical of America…unless of Americans are all 23 year old liberals living off their parents. Then of course, the inevitable happens and Americans scream ENOUGH at the morons in Congress and guys like Shep and Jon are left miffed and unhappy. If they don’t like it, they can emigrate to some nice sophisticated socialist utopia.
Terrye on August 18, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Still Jonesin over Bush being out of office, eh?
Alden Pyle on August 18, 2009 at 8:59 PM
I never watch Shep Smith and I’m not starting tonight. I’ll have to take ya’lls word for it. But I can definitively say, Shep is a Tool.
Willie on August 18, 2009 at 9:05 PM
RobertBaghdad Bob Gibbs – No contestb3026 on August 18, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Lets just cut to the chase ladies and gentlemen. This is all about free aids/hiv care for all to many of the Liberals. Now that’s really cuttin the costs!
Kill granny to insure and provide medicine for aids/hiv infections!
KILL THE BILL!
dhunter on August 18, 2009 at 9:10 PM
I can’t stand watching the guy, either one..
reshas1 on August 18, 2009 at 9:11 PM
I cannot believe that Shep has this time slot on Fox. He is a C- student newsreader. I think he majored in drama.
DrStock on August 18, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Exit question: Is Jon Stewart supposed to be funny? Personally, I think he’s right up there with Al Franken, who also called himself a “comic”.
GarandFan on August 18, 2009 at 9:25 PM
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