Fox’s Smith: People who get stuck in toilets are ‘a little crazy,’ just like global warming deniers.
By on Jun 10th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Fox’s Smith: People who get stuck in toilets are ‘a little crazy,’ just like global warming deniers.
Yesterday on Fox News, anchor Shep Smith was recounting the story of a man in Pennsylvania who was stuck in a port-a-potty. According to the York Daily Record (PA), the man was “drunk, naked and wedged up to his waist in the hole of the toilet.” Toward the end of the segment, Smith compared people who get stuck in toilets to “people who deny the whole global warming thing.” “They’re just a little crazy, you know?” said Smith. “What do you do?” Watch it:
A new National Journal poll of 39 GOP lawmakers found that 74 percent of them don’t believe in manmade global warming and are, according to Smith, “a little crazy.”
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Someone at Faux “news” actually believes there is something called global warming?
Smith will be fired in 4…3…2…1..
June 10th, 2008 at 11:48 amHey, this must have been what I was telling you guys about yesterday when I heard it on the radio.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:49 amWell, after all, he is a heretic.
He might be the guest honor at a BBQ, ala Joan of Arc. A “Hot time in the old town tonight.”
snark, snark
June 10th, 2008 at 11:50 amAs soon as JinJin comes through the door, let the beatings begin
June 10th, 2008 at 11:52 amSomeone at faux noise actually went off message? Someone didn’t get the memo….
June 10th, 2008 at 11:52 amEven though this is a hilarious story, I’m not sure that I would compare a drunk who gets stuck in a toilet to people who deny global warming by saying the common denominator is craziness. I think the common denominator here might forging ahead with your plans completely blind to possible consequences of your actions — whether the “blindness” is caused by intoxication or by denial of anything that doesn’t fit a certain ideology.
What’s really amazing about this story is that somebody from FOX NEWS doesn’t seem to be drinking the required Kool-aid.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:52 amA new National Journal poll of 39 GOP lawmakers found that 74 percent of them don’t believe in manmade global warming and are, according to Smith, “a little crazy.”
Does that mean we get to wedge them into toilets? They could keep Larry Craig company.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 10th, 2008 at 11:57 amI’ll be the first to say, Republican Congressmen aren’t a little crazy. They are in fact a lot crazy.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:00 pmPaul W Says:
Does that mean we get to wedge them into toilets? They could keep Larry Craig company.
Ok,that was coffee-spray-on-the-screen funny.
**Gets up to grab a paper towel**
June 10th, 2008 at 12:05 pmUh-oh! He’s in BIIIIIIIIG trouble…
June 10th, 2008 at 12:05 pmHow nice of York Daily Record to print the mans name and age..
June 10th, 2008 at 12:12 pmIIRC, Sheppard has made several off-the-cuff comments on air that do not catapult the RW-Fox propaganda. Crisis of conscience?
We’ll know for sure if he suddenly turns up on another network…
June 10th, 2008 at 12:20 pmThis is his kind of story. Doesn’t tax his “credentials”
June 10th, 2008 at 12:21 pmSo Faux News thinks gunclinger is a little crazy? Ouch.
Isn’t that kind of like Tom Delay saying you’re a little corrupt?
June 10th, 2008 at 12:26 pmWow, for an award winning news organization, TP has been awful quiet on Barack’s VP chair. Instead of commentary on the $7 million in below market loans from subprime lender Countrywide, we get “dinosaur and buffalo farts” and “drunk people stuck in a toilet”. I thought TP was part of the red pill. Maybe not…
http://arisfreedomswitch.blogspot.com/2008/06/vetting-kathleen-for-trinity-role.html
June 10th, 2008 at 12:28 pmPaul W Says:
Does that mean we get to wedge them into toilets? They could keep Larry Craig company.
Yes, but HEAD FIRST!
June 10th, 2008 at 12:29 pmKeep an eye on FauxNews, if this turns out to be more than a slip-up in the propaganda. If they start slipping in more references to global warming that aren’t crazy talk, it’s because they’re participating in the Greening of John McCain.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:34 pmOT…
June 10th, 2008 at 12:35 pmAnyone that’s read my comments will know that I was never one to beat the impeachment drum. Things have changed. Now is the time. Follow this link.
That settles it. You can’t fix stupid, and Shep Smith is terminal.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:43 pmWas that O’Biley who got stuck in the outhouse? I have a copy of Mad Magazine he can read until he gets unstuck.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:45 pmWhoop-dee-doo: Did Shep. also mention that 95% of FOX’s host’s are ‘a little crazy’?
_AIO_
June 10th, 2008 at 12:49 pmO’Biley can read?
June 10th, 2008 at 12:55 pmHmmmm. Seems the Kool-Aid might be weakening a bit. Pickles is also off the reservation:
Laura Bush told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl that she wants the first woman president to be a Republican, but she has admiration for Clinton’s endurance.
“I know what it’s like to run those campaigns,” the first lady said.
Laura Bush also defended the wife of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama. Michelle Obama said during February campaign stops in Milwaukee and Madison, Wis., that she was proud of the United States for the first time in her adult life. Barack Obama later said she meant that she was proud of the politics of America for the first time.
“I think she probably meant ‘I’m more proud,’ you know, is what she really meant,” Laura Bush said. “You have to be very careful in what you say. Everything you say is looked at and in many cases misconstrued.”
/snark
June 10th, 2008 at 12:57 pmI understand the need and glee reporting the latest gaff or outright lie from Fox. But after a while isn’t like reporting the score from the latest Globetrotter game?
June 10th, 2008 at 1:02 pmI hate to rain on the Shep Smith rehabilitation parade, but he didn’t refer to man-made global warming, just global warming. Even Bush admits the planet is warming, he just says we don’t know why.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:05 pmShep Smith wears more make-up than Liza Minelli.
Who the Hell names their boy ‘Shepard’? Is it his job to watch over flocks of ’sheeple’? If so, he must have graduated from…
‘Flock U’.
I know, b-a-a-a-d joke…
June 10th, 2008 at 1:12 pmAh, yes. Here comes Keltoi to apologize for the idiot fringe.
Nice going.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:12 pm.
Of course FOXPRAVDA didn’t flash that this was the opinion of Shep and not FOXPRAVDA…
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June 10th, 2008 at 1:22 pmgummitch Says:
“If they start slipping in more references to global warming that aren’t crazy talk, it’s because they’re participating in the Greening of John McCain.”
That was very observant gummitch. This seems to be the case. They have a new empty shell that needs to be appear enlightened. These people care about nothing except self validation and power.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:25 pmjohnboy:
June 10th, 2008 at 1:25 pmWhat are you fumbling about trying to say?
Leftside Annie Says:
Ah, yes. Here comes Keltoi to apologize for the idiot fringe.
Nice going.
Someones Grrooow-Cheee.
I didn’t apologize, quite the opposite, you guys are giving him credit he may not deserve.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:41 pm# 29; Zimzone:
I agree, it’s really kewl when Shep. wears that black eye-liner on the top and bottom of his eyes, and gets that lilt in his voice.
(not that there’s any thing wrong with that.)
_AIO_
June 10th, 2008 at 2:18 pmPaul W Says:
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A new National Journal poll of 39 GOP lawmakers found that 74 percent of them don’t believe in manmade global warming and are, according to Smith, “a little crazy.”
Does that mean we get to wedge them into toilets? They could keep Larry Craig company.
Wouldn’t that be a “wide stance wedgee”, then?
June 10th, 2008 at 2:53 pmKeltoi Says:
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I hate to rain on the Shep Smith rehabilitation parade, but he didn’t refer to man-made global warming, just global warming. Even Bush admits the planet is warming, he just says we don’t know why.
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June 10th, 2008 at 2:57 pmSpeak for yourself; you’re the only one here in denial. I suspect you’re just hurt because Shep didn’t ask you to march with him is HIS parade.
Careful, Shemp, to bite the hand that feeds you. Karl Rove will eat a kitten for your insolence.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:00 pm“Toilet people from Fox are warming a little when stuck globaly”. Crazy!!!
June 10th, 2008 at 3:41 pmyou will never see Shep’s hands above his waist and on the desk. Why? Well his nickame in HS was pud.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:03 pm