You might know Shepard Smith from his two daily shows on Fox News Channel. You might know him from the huge billboard featuring his face on the approach to New York City. You might even remember him from his bit role in 1997′s Volcano. But chances are, you don’t know a lot about him at all. His favorite beer? Heineken. His favorite music? Hip hop. His favorite politician? Right now, none of the above.

Well, it happened. Donald Trump, a man who once (seriously) was the GOP front runner, has endorsed the current front runner, Mitt Romney. Romney was on hand to accept the endorsement and it wasn’t…uh…entirely the most uncomfortable thing we’ve watched all week.

Fox News’ Shepard Smith is clearly none too interested in Donald Trump’s endorsement of Mitt Romney. Reporting that the Apprentice host’s speech would be coming up in the next few hours, he gave it all the respect and seriousness he felt it deserved.

In other words, he then joked that endorsements from Shakira and Big Bird would be coming next.

Regular viewers of Fox News’ Studio B might have noticed that its host, Shepard Smith, has been lookin’ a little different lately, going from what looked to be about average weight, to thin, to, now, maybe even a little gaunt. “Shep,” I call him, because we’re friends, “Shep. What’s with the weight loss?” And we’re [...]

During Fox News’ Studio B, Shepard Smith tackled the contentious SOPA issue, which has spurred Wikipedia to shutdown on Wednesday. “If you are a content creator, and you are an artist and create something that you own, why should Google or anyone else be able to send it to someone without you being compensated for having created what they clearly want?” Smith questioned Fox Business Network’s Gerri Willis.

Here’s an odd / awesome / oddsome little moment from today’s edition of Fox News’ Studio B. Host Shepard Smith and panelists were discussing the case against Aruba’s Joran van der Sloot when they became momentarily distracted by… bellybutton marks.

By almost all measures starting sometime last year, Rick Santorum outdid himself in Iowa last night coming in at a very close (eight votes!) second place to Mitt Romney. But as his star rises, so do the concerns of those that remember statements he made when he was a longshot for the position or not even running. On today’s Studio B, Shepard Smith brought up one of Santorum’s most controversial comments.

Republican strategist and Fox News contributor Ed Rollins was a guest on Studio B Tuesday, and matter-of-factly told Shepard Smith that he thinks Texas Rep. Ron Paul, “will win Iowa.”

For some people, the Christmas season begins as early as the day after Thanksgiving or even Halloween. For me, though, it isn’t Christmas time till we are officially on the last page of the calendar. It just makes sense. I also don’t really get in the spirit until someone in a Santa costume has a comically horrible accident and the whole thing gets caught on camera. That makes less sense but it’s a family tradition for me so lay off.

Fortunately, thanks to a Florida mall Santa, the most magical time of the year is upon us.

Fox News’ Shepard Smith tackled the latest talking point to emerge from the ongoing GOP debates – that of waterboarding as a form of torture. “Why is one side of the political aisle,” Smith asked, “hugging onto something that’s illegal around the world, including here?” Fox News contributor Judith Miller explained that the argument that [...]

On Wednesday’s Studio B, Shepard Smith along with attorneys Randy Zelin and Keith Sullivan, went over the role Joe Paterno played in the Jerry Sandusky case. Sandusky was the long-time defensive coordinator for the Penn State football team who was arraigned on 40 criminal counts Saturday for various sexual acts with underage boys (The graphic grand jury report can be found here).

Fox News’s Shepard Smith became incredibly animated while discussing the Baby Lisa case on Wednesday’s Studio B and took some well placed shots at his guest legal commentators Arthur Aidala and Randy Zelin. The spirited discussion focused on the missing babies unwillingness to cooperate with local authorities, which he saw as “all you need to know.” His guests, however, defended the legal counsel provided to the parents, suggesting that the KC police were just more interested in “closing a file” than actual justice.

Shepard Smith welcomed public relations consultant Fraser Seitel to Studio B on Wednesday to discuss the dangerous back-and-forth attacks going on in the Republican camp, specifically the barbs being sent Mitt Romney‘s way by Rick Perry. The concern is that whatever negative remarks Perry has about Romney during the nominating process will come back up — assuming Romney is the nominee — in the lead-up to the general election. “These same words are going to come out of Barack Obama‘s mouth later on,” Smith said.

While FOX continued to pounce all comers in the ratings, it was MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell who made for the most intriguing storyline: Friday marked his last show at 8 p.m. (he’s being swapped with Ed Schultz and starts broadcasting at 10 p.m. tonight), and he went out with a bang, finishing in second place behind [...]

Thursday night’s ratings would have been excused if they were a little low; there was, after all, a World Series game, and MTV had the Jersey Shore season finale (and reunion!). But that wasn’t the case at all. Maybe it was Gadhafi’s murder, perhaps it was a string of repeats on other channels (Bill O’Reilly, [...]

There’s really nothing funnier than a news anchor clearly not caring about the story he’s being asked to report. Recent examples have starred the likes of Bob Beckel and Don Lemon, and now we can add to that list one Shepard Smith.

Apparently some in the media are trying to turn the re-entry of a dead NASA satellite (the size of a bus) into Skylab 2.0. However, Smith could only get a few sentences into his report on the (infinitesimally small) chances of getting hit by pieces of the falling craft before stopping and declaring the story “the stupidest thing we’ve ever done!

15 years ago Fox News Channel officially joined the cable airwaves, and seeing as they have spent the last decade as the most watched cable news outlet, you would forgive them for taking a victory lap to celebrate. Literally.

As part of a larger campaign to observe 15 years on air, Fox News Channel will be hitting the road, sending many of their top on-air talent to numerous locations around the nation to report live and broadcast their shows. Starting out from Orlando on September 19th, the tour will hit six cities across the country, airings special episodes of key shows from each stop.

A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Fox News’ Shepard Smith was contributing to Fox News’ digital-only eBook, Rise of Freedom: The New World Trade Center, which became available on August 23rd.

In the eBook, Smith looks back on his experience covering the 9/11 terrorist attacks. An experience, he recalls, that moved the veteran reporter to tears.

Hurricane Irene is slowly making its way through the eastern seaboard, and on Fox News today, Shepard Smith, who does not normally anchor on Saturdays, updated viewers on the latest on the scope of the hurricane and how it has impacted the region.

In less than a month, the nation (and, specifically, the media) will commemorate 10 years (ten. years.) since terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. To that end, HarperCollin and Fox News Channel have joined forces to publish a digital-only eBook, Rise of Freedom: The New World Trade Center on August 23rd.

The eBook will detail the planning and construction that has gone on at Ground Zero since the attacks through text, photos, animation and video.

Ah, the campaign trail: that all-American journalistic adventure where, equipped with a camera, a notepad, and dreams, anything can happen. Just take what happened to “Campaign” Carl Cameron in Iowa today– giving an on-location report of a Republican fundraiser, who is to appear but Mitt Romney, munching on a hot dog and “spontaneously” bumping into Cameron to say hello on camera. If Romney doesn’t win the presidency, this appearance at least merited him a good 27 Oscars.

With World Wrestling Entertainment’s SummerSlam this Sunday night on Pay-Per-View, it seemed like an appropriate time to realize that the primetime cable news universe can often resemble the world of professional wrestling. With various hosts often feuding with one another, and frequently giving passionate “promos” regarding why their network or their show is the best, it’s time now to recognize who each host actually is inspired by in the WWE and then to pit the oversized personalities of cable news up against one another in a no-holds barred showdown!

The opinion news media (and, ahem, those who cover it) have experienced something of a love/hate relationship to the debt crisis. On the one hand, it’s nearly impossible to create engaging, insightful commentary on the fact that something is still not happening. But, then again, the opinion news machine is nothing if not creative in what it elects to report on and the narratives spun out of these headlines. So let’s take a moment and analyze those in the media who came out on top in their coverage of the debt discussions, be that coverage straightforward reporting or subjective analysis, and those who dropped the ball somewhere along the way.

On his show earlier today, Shepard Smith wondered why President Obama would accept a temporary deal to raise the debt ceiling when the Republicans will change the terms of their negotiations anyway.

With tonight’s MLB All-Star Game set in Arizona, organizers decided to use the opportunity to honor and showcase one of the state’s most beloved heroes, the young intern that saved Rep. Gabrielle Giffords‘ life during last January’s fatal shooting. Before tossing out the first pitch, Daniel Hernandez sat down for a chat with Shepard Smith on the opportunities before him since the incident, how he and other victims are coping, and moving forward for Arizona.