# Is Shepard Smith Walking a Razor Fine Line?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 11, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shepard-smith-walking-a-razor-fine-line/499407 "2009-06-11T02:42:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shepard-smith-walking-a-razor-fine-line/499407/21 "2009-06-15T18:13:09Z")

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And no man wants to be… er, accused of _that_…

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-shepard-smith-walking-a-razor-fine-line/499407/22 "2009-06-15T19:07:08Z")

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> [@yorick73](#):
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> So you think Alan Colmes, Geraldo, Bob Beckel, Susan Estrich, Juan Williams,  
> Kirsten Powers, Greta, Mara Liasson, Geraldine Ferraro, Ellis Henican, Howard Wolfson, etc. are right wing loons? Granted, there are not a lot of liberal anchors on Fox just as there are few conservative anchors at MSNBC (are there any?). Fox does a fairly good job of having dissenting points of view on topics as opposed to being a right-wing circle jerk.

Most of those are only “contributers,” not hosts. Alan Colmes was technically a “co-host,” but his real job was to be a lapdog and a punching bag for Hannity and guests.

If you’ve seen Greta’s show lately, you’ll see that she’s veered right into the same wingnut territory as Hannity. Geraldo sane? I’m not sure about that.

Beckel and Ellis are a couple of frequent “contributers,” who actually offer some degree of strong opposition, but they’re never allowed on balanced panels, and don’t get free reign to say very _much_.

Mara Liasson and Juan Williams offer pretty tepid resistance to the crazy even if they aren’t crazy themselves.

So I’ll go ahaead and stick with my opinion that Shepard Smith – or at least his _show_ – at least appears to _me_ to be the only oasis of sanity on a network otherwise dominated by right wing demagogues. I don’t really think seeing Bob Beckel doing a five minute segment on Hannity’ show against Hannity plus two other conservatives really qualifies as an “oasis.” More like getting splashed witha Dixie cup.

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