Having changed into khaki shorts and a pith helmet, FOXNews’ Shepard Smith, after commandeering a plank of floating lumber from a pair of frightened pre-teen “refugees”, has commenced live, on-air excavations using his travel shoe horn and one of those little fold-out camping shovels he looted from an REI store.
So far his search for “the forgotten and unmourned castaways of Hurricane Katrina” has yielded three corroded D batteries and an empty Blizzard cup —proof positive, Shep reminds us, “that life once flourished in this apocalyptic wasteland, a city where, if my discoveries are any indication, people used to listen to boomboxes and enjoy delicious frozen desserts pureed with tasty candied bits and dispensed into a convenient take away container.”
Seriously. I half expect him to start making little tiny crosses out of the pant hangers he keeps in his suit bag and begin planting them in the mud while a handful of stranded locals break into voodoo lathers and pantomine the beheading of chicken.
Make a voodoo doll of Shepard Smith and have your way with him.
What can I say? He’s no Greta van Susteren, that’s for sure.
I am still awaiting the arrival of The Patron Saint of All Causes Noble
St CINDY
Shep is starting to remind me of Charles “JESUS CHRIST THAT WAS CLOSE! PARDON ME WHILE I SOIL MYSELF!” Jaco from Gulf War I.
TW: Expect, as in “I expect Shep to to drop his mic, grab an AK and pop some caps soon.”
The odd thing is how out of touch the media (all of it, left right and center) is with alot of us, if not most of us.
Go over to The Corner. Jpod has a post up in which he says Smith should get an award for his coverage, and I think he is serious. They all panned the President’s speech on the flood as the most horrible atroctiy ever committed by a sitting president in the history of, like, forever. Though they backed tracked later, when the emails from normal people began to pour in.
The basic disconnect is this, where the media sees wonderful, caring reporters we see self- aggrandizing assholes.
While they claim they are forcing the powerful to aid the helpless we’re all wondering why multi, multi-million dollar media corporations can’t spring for a little bottled water and a few sandwiches for the victims. While they’re all breathless about the scope of their coverage we’re wondering why they can’t use some of their helicopters and trucks and communication equipment to help the victims.
I don’t think they realize that bloviating isn’t being part of the solution. Worse, I don’t think they realize we know that. Until they do they will never be liked, or respected or trusted.
Please go here. Click on the video that is second from the bottom Fox News Blooper. Enjoy.
Tiny crosses. Where’s Cindy when you really need her? For that matter, where’s Robinson Crusoe? Or Francis Ford Coppola? Hell, I’d even take Martin Sheen….
tw: end.
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end.
(And all the anchors are insane…)
I noticed this too. Shep is extremely annoying to this viewer and has been for quite some time before Katrina. Yet, ordinarily sane journos like Jpod laud his performance. I don’t get it.
And I read “The Corner” before I left work last night and was positively depressed by their opinions of the President’s speech. Until I heard it for myself. It was fine, workmanlike. Efficients and demonstrative of a man in charge and on top of an awful, emerging disaster.
Maybe its just that pundits and other journalists inhabit an intellectual space that is world’s apart from the “real world” at least in some ways.
But it’s still annoying as all hell.
Yeah, I watched the “speech” live, and didn’t think anything of it one way or the other. It was a statement about what the fed gov was going to do. It was informative.
I have no idea why everything has to be about style nowadays. It just comes off as so affected—as corvan points out above.
The Media does seem to have something of an “if it ain’t Baroque, go Fisk it” mentality, don’t they?
What would you like Shepard report? Anita (on Fox)just reported that those lousey refugees are littering and somebody has to clean it up. People are dying, wading through raw waste, needing water and food and she worries about trash around the superdome? What an idiot.
Is he still wearing that goddam baseball cap that has “FOX” printed on the front? I quit watching the news after the 1,589,633rd video of those two guys sitting on their front porch waving at the camera.
Personally, I thought it was heart-wrenching when Shep broke down after discovering Natalie Hollaway washed up in a French Quarter bar.
What a coincidence when I saw Bill O’Reilly, Cavuto, and Hannity getting hit by a 100 mile an hour piece of sheet metal, I couldn’t even eat my grinder. Oh the Humanity!
Jeff, to answer your question above, it is because <style</i> is all the Left and Big Media can focus on any longer. They abandoned substance long ago.
I thought I was going to see some Foxnews journo shot last night.
A guy was sitting on top of something sticking out of the water. I have no idea what it was, but the ‘journo’ asked, “What happened to your house?”
I’m pretty sure my response would have weighed about 125 grains and been traveling at about 1250 feet per second.
But that’s just me.
By the way, thanks for including me in “smart folk” in a different post. But there was no call to insult all those other people.