# Shepard Smith is the fucking Antichrist. Tell your friends. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 3, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827 "2003-05-03T06:44:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kang\_and\_Kodos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@Kang\_and\_Kodos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kang_and_Kodos)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/1 "2003-05-03T06:44:07Z")
Mr. Smooth could be anally-fisted live by a Klingon platoon and still not skip a beat. Surely, this means something. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/2 "2003-05-03T06:54:54Z")
It means you need to get out more, son. Or I need to become an even bigger geek to grok you. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/3 "2003-05-03T07:08:16Z")
Now, what has Shepard done to deserve such ire? Surely his sublime “blow job” blooper a few months ago is worth _something_! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/4 "2003-05-03T07:10:21Z")
Who the hell is Shepard Smith, and what has he done to the Klingons? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/5 "2003-05-03T07:51:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*Who the hell is Shepard Smith, and what has he done to the Klingons? \*\* Yeah. What Miller said…plus, what are Klingons, apart from ‘things’ on the starward bow in that groovy little song that came out…ooh…maybe 15 years ago? God, I do love being so geeky (in the traditional sense of the word) that I don’t understand GEEK. Well, I think I do anyway. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/6 "2003-05-03T07:55:08Z")
[Who is Shepard Smith?](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1260,00.html) (Check out his picture. He’s got scary eyes. But I like him anyway. He’s funny.) ---
**Author:** ![d\_redguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@d\_redguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d_redguy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/7 "2003-05-03T08:05:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Derleth \* > \*\*It means you need to get out more, son. > > Or I need to become an even bigger geek to grok you. \*\* I don’t think that you need to become a bigger geek if you can use the word “grok” in a sentence. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/8 "2003-05-03T08:12:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kang and Kodos \* > \*\*Mr. Smooth could be anally-fisted live by a Klingon platoon and still not skip a beat. > > Surely, this means something. \*\* Unless you’re a cable news junkie, you won’t remember that this ability is _precisely why he got the job in the first place_. He was a correspondant, reporter, whatever. Then came that fateful day in July 2001. The stars were aligned perfectly, the cosmic grace smiled upon him, basically he was in the right place in the right time. Of all things to happen on a lazy July afternoon, OJ Simpson called in to Fox News. Why? Nobody knows. But he did. And Shephard took the call. And he kept OJ on the line, through some sort of inexplicable magic, for a solid hour. No commercial breaks. No preparation, he had no idea whatsoever that he’d be interviewing OJ Simpson, in one of the extremely rare cases over the past half-dozen years in which he sought out the press of his own accord. OJ Simpson, the man whose story had been the focal point of the media for 2 solid years during the 90’s. Without any time to prepare, without any time to take a breath, Shepard Smith dove right in. He asked the questions you just couldn’t expect to ask (Nicole, the “true killer”, etc), in an honest way w/o any butt-kissing, and _pulled that fucking shit off!!!_ He asked those questions, let OJ respond, and kept the guy on the line for an hour. I am a cable news junkie, I watch 'em all. What Shepard Smith did that afternoon while I watched was quite simply an amazing piece of journalism. Say what you will about OJ as a subject matter for journalism, but his interview was strategically amazing. Considering the responsibility that the station tossed onto him, to keep OJ on the line w/o commercial breaks for as long as possible, with zero preparation…simply stunning. And he got a big promotion as a result, he got to host Fox Report, his own hour as an anchor on the most watched cable news station on TV. The man earned it. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/9 "2003-05-03T08:19:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \* > \*\*[Who is Shepard Smith?](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1260,00.html) (Check out his picture. He’s got scary eyes. But I like him anyway. He’s funny.) \*\* Oooh…they ARE freaky eyes aren’t they!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/10 "2003-05-03T09:37:19Z")
Rexdart, you’re right. You nailed it. I saw only snippets of the OJ interview after the fact, but the truth is, Shepard Smith is a marvel. I’ve just seen him handle an on-the-fly-no-warning-nor-preparation this-story-just-in kind of thing too many times. The man is unflappable. He keeps on going, and it all seems to seamless, so effortless. No lag. No hesitation. Clever off-the-cuff humor. Even when he blows it. (And he does more than his fair share of bloopers and errors, but it’s OK, 'cause it’s _Shepard_ and he recovers so artfully!) The man is amazing. But I was starting to worry that he’d blow a gasket during this recent war. He kept on going and going, like the Energizer Bunny. The poor man was on all the damned time! Fox must have known that he was unparalleled with such news coverage. Not that I saw signs of him cracking, but I thought, _MAN_! How can he do it!?! I think he did start to glaze over a bit at the end. I knew I did. I was doing a marathon war news coverage thing for a while (working on Photoshop on my computer for hours at a time, with FoxNews on the TV) and there were moments that I thought I’d scream if I heard his voice one more minute. I also noticed that after the war coverage started to “settle down” a little, Shepard Smith was off for a few days. I suspect he went into a coma and got some much-needed sleep. But that’s what you get for being so good at what you do. And he sure is. Kambuckta: Yes. Those eyes are unreal, aren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![d\_redguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@d\_redguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d_redguy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/11 "2003-05-03T09:52:30Z")
Aww, **yosemite babe** has a crush!! Isn’t that cute!!😛 ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/12 "2003-05-03T10:00:12Z")
**yosemite** , if you don’t mind my asking, what’s your job that you have the pleasure of using Photoshop all day? ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/13 "2003-05-03T10:17:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RexDart \* > \*\ ***yosemite** , if you don’t mind my asking, what’s your job that you have the pleasure of using Photoshop all day? \*\* She is obviously a professional Farkerette. ---
**Author:** ![barb\_b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@barb\_b](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barb_b)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/14 "2003-05-03T10:35:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kambuckta \* > \*\*Oooh…they ARE freaky eyes aren’t they!! > > :eek: \*\* No, [these](http://www.alan.com/index2.html) are freaky eyes! ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/15 "2003-05-03T10:44:05Z")
No. I don’t have a crush on Shepard Smith. I think he’s cute, (even though his eyes are creepy) but my heart belongs to Tony Snow. 😉 No, I don’t do Photoshop full-time. But a lot of my free time lately has been devoted to it. I do have a side-line of photography and art (make a bit of money on it). And the TV’s always on–usually it’s FoxNews, SciFi, or Turner Classic movies. My heart also belongs to several male cast members of “The X-Files” and Ben Browder (“Farscape”). So I guess poor Shepard Smith just didn’t make the cut. His eyes are too creepy, I guess! ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/16 "2003-05-03T10:45:32Z")
Barb–yes, those are CREEPY eyes! That one eyebrow going up like that. What _is_ that? ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/17 "2003-05-04T02:14:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by barb b \* > \*\*No, [these](http://www.alan.com/index2.html) are freaky eyes! \*\* Only for a human. :eek: I’m pretty sure Alan Colmes is responsible for at least _some_ of those alien abductions. ---
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/18 "2003-05-04T03:12:01Z")
If you have windows media player, you can view and listen to Shepard Smith’s famous blooper [here](http://www.dailyhog.com/Fox_BJ.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/19 "2003-05-04T03:33:48Z")
You think he looks freaky in that studio picture, check out [his mug shot](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/dsmithmug1.html). ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827/20 "2003-05-05T01:59:54Z")
I love Shepard Smith. I’ve had a crush on him since the fires of Florida, whenever ever that was ( 99? 00?) I love his voice and his sense of humor. And the way he looked at the camera with dignity and grace after the ‘blow job’ faux paux and apologized so nicely. As for the OJ thing. While I didn’t see it ( only in parts when it was fresh) don’t forget, Ladies and Gentlemen, the news anchors wear ear peices, so they can have someone give them cues and whatnot. Still, he is remarkable. And hot. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shepard-smith-is-the-fucking-antichrist-tell-your-friends/172827.md?page=2)