More sanctimony from Shep Smith. Roger Ailes needs to talk this guy soon — or send him the way of fellow liberal hack (and ex-FOXie) David Shuster (another lib who thought his unprofessional musings were Murrowesque), to MSNBC.

 Pretty easy to grow it yourself as well!

Shepard Smith is one of the few respectable personalities on FUX News.  I have to say that it is unfortunate to see him look so unhealthy.

Pot should be legal with the same law as booze. Booze is the drug of choice and this drug does more harm to families and kills on the highway. Booze also makes you an angry person, pot makes you laugh and mellow. Rather see someone come home with a joint than a six pack. 

Sorry liberal pot heads and Ron Paul supporters, but Texas has the right to enforce the law of their state.

I could also easily apply the same logic of “this is a stupid law” to New York’s gun control. 

Eat a doughnut Shep!  Man he is looking sickly.

“Legal Analyst Mercedes Colwin who pointed out that her brother was an undercover NARC”

Where I grew up that would be a serious mistake.  See Ya Bro!

Every fuppet has a role on the Fuppet News Channel.
Ailes sends on Shep as the unfocused moderate Mommy Mommy, it’s just teddible out there! Chicken Little fuppet. 

The War on Drugs has been a fantastic long war, at least for the Repooterprober party – just not in the obvious way on, you know, drugs.  

The drugs part was always cover – right from the moment Nixon got first sworn in a president & declared it, it was really the War on Dirty Hippies, opening movement towards what thereafter became a continuing series of wars every bit as impressive as the series that brought down the Spanish Empire:

the Southern Strategy; the Reagan War on Regulations; the Poppy Bush War on Hobos; the Gingrich War on Language; the Baby Bush War on the Middle Class; the second Baby Bush War on the Budget; the post-Buckley/Bush Bircher Resurrection Crusade (a.k.a. Tea Party); now, the War on Reality. 

This sort of aimless Woe Is Us crap isn’t going to offend Ailes in the least; I have no doubt whatsoever that Ailes ordered it up. Ailes perfectly understands that his demographic, pretty much synonymous with the South that’s never going to admit defeat in the Civil War, will never ever admit defeat in ANY war declared by one of it’s authoritarian icons. They still haven’t given up on any of Afghanistan, Iraq, Viet Nam or Korea; it’s always that some liberal Democrat president screwed it up or surrendered precipitously, or some Repooterprober president was betrayed by a liberal Democrat Congress.

The typical FNC viewer’s reaction to Shep’s Lament will be not just to want to phone into Limbaugh demanding Obama stay the course, but that we double-down on the War on Drugs. It’s always the same: never give up; never give in; never surrender; stay the course.

Well sure: bring back Prohibition. Never give in; never give up; never surrender.

Must be a lot of fatties posting reader comments here, if they think Shep is sick. It’s like when wingers suddenly realized Obama was president & opened up by calling him ‘too skinny, so must be sick’. This is how people used to look before fast food, industrialized sugar, & driving everywhere. Go back & look at pictures. It looks to me that Shep decided to cut sugar & other pointless carbs & poisons out of his diet & started on a exercise routine.

 note that Fox News uses Shep (aka, “The SCHELP”) Smith, a d-cRAT, to illustrate two very important characteristics of d-cRATs. First, the Schlep’s inability to pronounce the simplest of words (much like the Ted Baxter character on the Mary Tyler Moore show) shows that d-cRATs are incapable of doing even the simplest of tasks, i.e., newsreading, correctly. Then there’s Schelp’s fascination with bears – especially when they bounce on a trampoline. This, of course, shows that the mental age of even adult d-cRATs remains firmly locked in the pre-adolescent era. Watch The Schelp and learn what imbeciles d-cRATs are!

There is always the issue of cocaine trade partially funding Al-Qaeda. In light of that, perhaps an effort to end trafficking networks is more than just a cultural thing.

LOL now the conservatives hate Fox News as well. You guys gonna start hating on rich white elderly Christian males that live in rural areas next?

List of things conservatives hate: the president, liberals, minorities, the poor, the rich, non-Christians, liberal Christians, women, gays, people who have sex, the mainstream media, and now Fox News. Who will you guys alienate next?

I think the real question this article begs is… Is Shep Smith sick?

Apparently a lot of people have noticed: http://boards.library.trutv.com/showthread.php?304130-Is-Shepard-Smith-sick

I hope he’s OK. :-/

Your rant made me think of Blotter Acid…  LOL! 

They hate the people that have moved on… like most of the country is doing.. moving on from the joke that is the GOP.

Shep happens to be right on this one, I personally have no use for drugs in my life but I do know what it is like to stare down the barrel of a gun shoved in my face as a teenager looking for money to purchase crack holds my life in the balance….  we have done nothing in this so called war other than to spend 100′s of billions of dollars, overcrowd our prison systems, destroy Mexican sovereignty, and create millionaires and billionaires out of a rather unsavory and murderous group of people.  Every day we continue to fight this so called war we invite more organized crime of a particularly violent nature into our communities. 

True, but they’re moving on because the GOP is showing themselves to be the party of hate.

At the end of the day, you can always count on a redneck conservative to come up with some stupid nickname like “the schlep”.. is that supposed to offend people? It just sounds retarded and makes your entire post/argument sound immature.

Only little kids give people nicknames like that, grow up. 

Don’t you mean heroin? The poppy rules in Afghanistan.

Umm … blotter acid.

Yeah, reading your blog just took me to an alternate reality that I could only remember having visited when I was a kid.

Hey I have an idea – why not spend the resources arresting men of the cloth that rape children instead of chasing young men for small time pot sales? 

Dude wtf? Shep is awesome, did you see what he did on Katrina? How do you know hes a democrat? He seems far too honest and openminded to me and hes never called anyone a racist.

And I for one love the bear, maybe Cooper and Maddow should try it it might help their ratings.

Did he bash anyone?

pfft. Illegal drugs are cheaply available in every corner of the land. They could abolish the Drug Enforcement Agency and it wouldnt make one difference on the availability or price.

Did he say anything that made sense?

Here’s the cliff notes to Hout’s drivel.

I dont like Fox news. I disagree with their prevailing opinion shows and I don’t like their selection of news stories to cover.  Therefore  This disagreement equates to people who watch it being stupid, because I know I am smart.

There…saved everyone some time.

The recipiants of your respect are of no consequence to anybody at Fox news, or anybody else at all for that matter.

FUX news is pretty witty though…..good job….here’s your liberal sock puppet membership card. 

Exactly right. 

Just what I expected when I saw your handle.  Hey, didn’t I see you throwing money at a guy suffering from Parkinson’s?

I’m hoping an idiot named SatanicHamster is next…

Yet, democrats consider people who have “moved on” as a voting bloc….regardless of who they voted for in life.

They already hate me, I’m not a 60 year old redneck.

Good point.  Karen Carpenter was looking good too…

You just can’t reach that level of stupid bro, without a concerted effort….

You’re right, your stupidity must come naturally.

Shep looks really really bad – I hope he is OK.  I know he claims to have lost too much weight, and I hope that is all it is, but he looks tired and beat.

I am really, really worried about him. Something isn’t right.

Which will do more damage and cost more?

The weed these guys sold or the cops who arrest them over it?

The WAR on Drugs kills more people than Drugs every year.

NOBODY dies from Weed.

THOUSANDS Die from prescription drug overdoses.

WHY AM I FORCEFULLY STOLEN FROM (TAXED) IN ORDER TO PUNISH PEOPLE WHO SMOKE WEED INSTEAD OF DRINK ALCOHOL?

Is it possible that Shep has AIDS? He’s looking more and more like Rock Hudson did in his last days

Very succinct.  The law(s) of unintended consequences…

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And most of ‘em are wearing badges.

He has AIDS did you expect him to look good at this time.  This found on a blog re TV reporters who are gay.

With all the sh*t going on and a bunch of pot smoking students is news for you?

Lighten up, light up a joint and relax :)

They’ve profited off of both;  my point is that the war on drugs may seem petty at times, but really does address a serious issue .

The war on Alcohol made more then a few Canadians rich.  I guess I have nothing to do but thank Republicans for making a bunch of fellow British Columbian rich with this current war.

That an easy one…everyone knows your a 14 year old with access to your parents computer….

Much like your opinions are of no consequence.  I must have insulted your propaganda machine. 

These Tgaggers have thin skin!

Self projecting?

Isn’t bankrolling criminals and terrorists obviously one of the unintended consequences of drug prohibition? 

It’s all about market and cost/benefit analysis. Whether any particular drug is good, bad, or otherwise is irrelevant – as long as there is demand for any mind altering substance there WILL be supply; THE END! The only affect prohibiting it has is to drive the price up while increasing the costs and profits – and where there is illegal profit to be made criminals and terrorists thrive.

The laws against marijuana use, cultivation and distribution harm our nation by ruining lives and making a health-improving substance hard to obtain. More people need to use marijuana to lower their chances of developing cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Read the book: “Marijuana Gateway to Health: How Cannabis Protects Us from Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease.”

you are insane if you believe the garbage you are spouting. The war on drugs is completely futile, it does not in any way prevent the flow of money to terrorism, or drug cartels, or anyone. The only rational decision is to legalize and regulate. Prohibition of alcohol should have proven to every one that making a substance illegal and cracking down on it has the opposite effect as what’s intended. Doing the same thing over again, and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Come on people lets get real.

As to the two comments. I agree that drugs should be legalized in the US and that demand is the ultimate root of trafficking. I was pointing something out that adds another dimension to the conversation in my opinion and deserves to be looked at.