Shepard Smith: The oil spill could be a bigger story than 9/11

Shep is a passionate man but sometimes his passion can get the better of him and this may have been one of those times. I can understand what he was driving at but honestly his choice of analogies came off as tone deaf to me. Whatever damage the oil spill does to the Gulf, its inhabitants, and nature, nothing that will happen can come close to the murder of thousands of people which instigated two wars that are still keeping tens of thousands of our service men and women overseas in dangerous territory and the hardening of a nation that no longer feels as secure as it once did. But that’s how I feel. What do you think? Time for a poll question…