Shepard Smith, on Fox News’ Studio B show, admitted that the much-criticized Department of Homeland Security report (the one Republicans whined about because it discussed the potential for terrorist activities from right-wing extremists). The report has come back into focus with the heinous and cowardly assassination of Dr. George Tiller while he was in church (by an anti-abortion extremist) and this latest act of murder at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. by a white supremacist named James W. Von Brunn, a man who has a track record of violence, racism, hatred of Jews and other forms of hate that seems a mile long. Conservatives unfairly blasted DHS Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and did so unmercifully. Now, the report on far-right extremism was not without some flaws, but the main thrust of it was spot on (warning of violence and extremism from far-right nuts). The report did not single out Republicans. It singled out far-right extremists. If Republicans want to align themselves with those nuts then that is their bad choice.
SMITH: It was a warning to us all, and it appears now they were right.
Check out the video of Smith’s segment. He was very courageous to go against the norm at Fox News.
You have to wonder if Smith will get in trouble for deviating from the hardcore right-wing talking points everyone on Fox News is supposed to parrot.
Media Matters:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906100041
Huffington Post (Jason Linkins discusses the issue and related issues):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/10/shepard-smith-says-his-em_n_214013.html
Talking Points Memo:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/james_von_brunn_a_profile.php?ref=fpa
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