Air war breaks out between
Fox News Channel hosts
American Thinker,
by
Peter Barry Chowka
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
9/26/2019 4:59:28 AM
The ideological war between prominent Fox News channel program hosts has gone hot – and this time the dust up is approaching near-nuclear levels of direct on camera mano a mano. The combatants are veteran Fox News afternoon news program host Shepard Smith and prime time opinion show host Tucker Carlson. The foil for pouring gasoline on the long simmering fire between the Fox News opinion and news department sides is prominent Washington, D.C. Republican attorney Joseph diGenova.
Appearing on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Tuesday at 8 P.M. E.T., diGenova called Fox News paid contributor Andrew Napolitano, the channel’s “senior judicial analyst,” “a fool”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
janjan 9/26/2019 5:19:33 AM (No. 189781)
Shep Smiths attempts to appear as an ‘objective newsman’ are failing miserably. Everyone knows he is a flaming liberal. diGenova has no reason to care what he thinks and Napolitano actually is a fool so I don’t see the issue with saying so.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
watashiyo 9/26/2019 5:28:59 AM (No. 189784)
Hang out with a fool and you'll become one.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 9/26/2019 5:33:01 AM (No. 189786)
Donna Brazile. Need I say more?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jalo1951 9/26/2019 5:34:54 AM (No. 189788)
Shep do the world a favor and stop with the diva attitude. I'll take Tucker and Joe over you and the judge any day. As much as you appear to be triggered by Joe get a grip, grow up and please move on to another network. You are no more a hard news journalist than Tucker, Sean, or Judge Jeanine. Only difference is they let you know upfront they are opinion hosts and don't hide behind the "news department" label.
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Juan Williams is an insufferable tool of the left... A Soros dummy, as is Napolitano and an assortment of other clowns from Fox, Cavuto, etc. Did Chris Wallace give the Iranian President interview atop anti-aircraft guns like Jane Fonda? Asking for a friend.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/26/2019 5:46:48 AM (No. 189795)
Fox News really had a bad hair day on Tuesday, no?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 9/26/2019 5:47:09 AM (No. 189796)
Napolitano is taking revenge on President Trump because he wanted to be the nomination for Justice. The president was too smart to nominate him because Napolitano knows nothing about law. Washed up fool.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
franq 9/26/2019 5:55:40 AM (No. 189802)
Shemp Smith? Please.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rinktum 9/26/2019 6:34:55 AM (No. 189814)
Shep is as biased as they come. To label him a newscaster is a joke. He is as much of an opinion guy as Tucker. At least Tucker is watchable. He is a happy warrior, but I don’t believe he is a huge fan of the President’s. He makes me laugh and I try and never miss his show. Shep, I avoid at all costs. He is a diva who loves his own voice and reflection. His solemn virtue signaling is as off putting as his bias. If Fox makes the mistake of letting Tucker go in favor of Shep, I will turn it off completely. Tucker’s show is the only one I watch on a regular basis.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
rsgonner 9/26/2019 6:54:30 AM (No. 189821)
Shep and the "senior judicial analyst" need to go. I refuse to watch Shep. When the "senior judicial analyst" comes on any other program I hit the mute. Fox should look at their bottom line. These stooges are anchors on their profits.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 9/26/2019 7:03:29 AM (No. 189826)
Folks - - you should try to stay on Judge Nappy's good side - - because - -
- - if you ever get a parking ticket in Hackensack - - he can crush it for you. Judge Nappy was one of the all-time great Hackensack Court House parking violations jurists.
And by the way - - the correct spelling is "Di Genova" - - not "diGenova."
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Daisymay 9/26/2019 7:23:36 AM (No. 189839)
I saw the clip from Tuesday and Wednesday's shows with Shep, (his voice makes me turn the channel) going after Joe. Last evening Tucker ran the Clip of the Judge, followed by Shep's Hissy Fit. Joe was on last night and AGAIN called The Judge a FOOL! Then he calmly explained, again, that what Trump did was NOT a Crime. Period! He also explained WHY The Judge always comes down against Trump. It's right that the Judge asked for a Supreme Court Seat and was refused. I find I turn off FOX more and more these days. Chris Wallace, The Judge, Donna Brazile, Shep and Juan Williams cause IMMEDIATE channel hitting off! FOX had better wake up or their ratings are going to drop like a Rock one of these days!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 9/26/2019 7:27:55 AM (No. 189840)
It is time for Shep to go. Never cared for the guy and never will. Fox has plenty of qualified correspondents that can take over effortlessly without a drop in ratings.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 9/26/2019 7:37:33 AM (No. 189846)
Re #15...Yesterday afternoon on The Five (nothing else on) I thought Juan Wiliams was going to cry. Jesse Watters was finally going after Juan and his silly statistics and even sillier legal opinions. It's about time they started shutting down Williams. He is like Bob Beckel...he has lots of leftist opinions and little actual knowledge to back them up.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 9/26/2019 7:40:38 AM (No. 189848)
Shep Smith/Andrew Napolitano......birds of a feather flock together.
I'll take diGenova's legal opinion over Napolitano's any day.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
3D-Chess 9/26/2019 7:44:27 AM (No. 189853)
Greg Jarrett should be the new Fox News legal analyst. Nap has used up his cred. Time adjourn ole boy.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 9/26/2019 7:55:40 AM (No. 189861)
It's long past time for the smarmy Smith to have been given a one-way ticket to CNN.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
mizzmac 9/26/2019 8:22:04 AM (No. 189886)
I change the channel every time Shepherd Smith appears. His self righteousness and self importance is insufferable.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/26/2019 8:33:15 AM (No. 189893)
Shep, feh… Nobody listens to him. I was thrilled to watch DiGenova go after that fraud, Napolitano. And call him out publicly for his bitterness about something he concocted, the notion that he’d ever be nominated for the Supreme Court. He was no higher level than the judges on our local court, and that for a relatively short time and years ago when he was a great deal younger than he is now. And a number of them are smarter than Sappy Nap. They also know enough to know what they do not know. Fox has spun him into such a glorified role - Senior Somethingorother - that he actually believes the hype they have created around him. He is a pathetic little creature in bad hair and excruciatingly bad suits, making pronouncements from a warehouse of judicial ignorance.
Di Genova was unsparing in his criticism. Outspoken. Told the truth as someone who knows how little Napolitano knows, how wrong he is. It was a joy to watch.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
lakerman1 9/26/2019 8:36:49 AM (No. 189896)
I gave up on Judge Andrew Incompetano about 3 years ago. He seems not to understand the law.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
lisa belanger 9/26/2019 8:43:15 AM (No. 189905)
he is right napo;litano is a bouffon with his hair
color the same as his suit....he is angry at trump went to see him
to put him on the supreme court trump said no. and shep smith
i do not watch him another slime bag
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
PChristopher 9/26/2019 8:56:17 AM (No. 189919)
I watched that show yesterday after work. When diGenova called Napolitano a fool, I burst out laughing. I used to like and respect Judge Andy but since he returned to Fox he has been a reliable liberal tool. Can't stand him or Smith. I love me some Tucker!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
rochow 9/26/2019 9:00:51 AM (No. 189926)
Napolitano became a partisan hack when he was not given a job by the new administration, AG or anything else! Shep Smith, well he is what he has always been. Some might remember him going down to New Orleans and displaying his foul mouth when he argued with a woman who took his parking space which was not his, but his attitude of 'don't you know who I am?' reeked all over New Orleans. No clue why Fox kept him. Now it's becoming clearer. Llllllachlllan Murrrrdockkk is phasing in more and more lefties, getting rid of anyone on the right. I listen to Varney and Emack, though she is not a R. Goal of this playboy is that no right wing network exists any longer. Sad, he did not build it. I hope Tucker stays, always spot on.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
SabraJet 9/26/2019 9:09:07 AM (No. 189935)
I haven't watched Smith since his childish antics reporting on Katrina, it was awful, but not the end of the world. Instead of reporting from NY he was playing like and "actual" reporter, which he is not, and just went to pieces -live on the air.
a bit of diversity is good, I like Cavuto and Wallace. Their opinions are just that, they don't always agree with Trump but neither really swing Left.
But having said that, Fox is not owned by Conservatives, not even by Americans, but Brits. Sad news (sorry about pun) is that on TV, they are all we have. Happy day would be if the owners just turned management over to real Conservatives and stepped back and just raked in the money. Hope never gives up!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/26/2019 9:12:47 AM (No. 189939)
Tucker Carlson best be careful. Shep Smith will hit him with his purse.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
hisself 9/26/2019 9:48:37 AM (No. 189968)
Just before this started, I read an article which showed 5 recent times in which judge nap has been wrong. Possibly coincidentally, those were the last 5 opinions he issued. . .
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 9/26/2019 10:07:06 AM (No. 189990)
In any battle of wits between Nancy-boy Smith and Tucker Carlson, Nancy-boy arrives nearly unarmed.
I change the channel or turn off the TV when Nancy-boy comes on, and I tape Tucker to watch at my leisure.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DVC 9/26/2019 10:08:12 AM (No. 189992)
I have to agree with diGenova's assessment of Napalitano, he is a fool, at least half the time.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
farmwife 9/26/2019 10:13:55 AM (No. 190002)
I hardly ever watch Shep because he is such an arrogant person, but happened to see his little meltdown over Napolitano being called a fool. I was glad that Tucker took him on!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Congar 9/26/2019 10:20:43 AM (No. 190010)
Smith and Wallace can stay as long as their checks are cut at CNN, where they belong.
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To #26 and all those like myself turning off FOX the alternative is OAN ask your cable channel to carry it. Verizon already does in my area. They actually report good old fashioned news, you know, stuff that has actually happened rather than the babbling fools everywhere else who tell you what they imagined happened or what they think is going to happen is someone does something somewhere. One America News tune it in and actually also get International news which is something our press is very loathe to give us. lest we realize the rest of world is turning right and getting rid of their leftist garbage.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/26/2019 10:37:39 AM (No. 190029)
Shep spends his after work time at gay bar happy hours and probably secretly meets Nappy there. Nether has real news cred. Joe and Tucker are the real deal all day every day.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 9/26/2019 11:01:45 AM (No. 190045)
Have never been able to watch "Shep" His voice / demeanor / delivery creeps me out.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
judy 9/26/2019 11:20:53 AM (No. 190069)
The so called Judge & Shep are a team! They think alike. I find it sooo odd the judge has different personality when he's on Sheps show compared to other shows ...do does John Roberts...he turns on a dime. I don't trust any of the 3 Stooges! It hasn't been toooo long ago Shep was Excused for a few days for trashing Sean.I think Sheps ratings are sooo low he's depressed.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/26/2019 12:28:47 PM (No. 190152)
I despise the news side: Bret Baier, Smith, Chris Wallace. I don't like Brit Hume, and most of the contributors on Fox News--and I turn them off as soon as their faces appear. I wonder that the ratings organizations do not count the turnoffs when a person appears on their network, because I think the networks would learn a lot, and so would the advertisers paying for these programs based on audiences that are not there.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
lana720 9/26/2019 12:30:54 PM (No. 190155)
I heard Shep’s highly indignant response to this on the radio while driving yesterday. What a self-righteous jacka$$! I switched Sirius to 60s music to calm down. Napolitano’s shelf life expired a couple of years ago. DiGenova is a patriot!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 9/26/2019 12:57:58 PM (No. 190169)
OK I will say it again like I have so many times here this year.
We need our own NETWORK like they have with abc/nbc/cbs/pbs/ a NETWORK of -ALL conservative news about our beloved nation AND a cable news show that’s ALL conservative unlike fox and their NeverTrump gang of fools. And a few newspapers filled with patriotic news to rival the commie rags out there that influence-peddle fake news and lies.
Surely several billionaires on our side can get this project going. If we can build the WALL we can build a conservative news NETWORK!
Stop complaining about every little thing they LIE about and counter their propaganda with conservative truth!
Veterans for Trump 2020
Start our OWN network!
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
little guy 9/26/2019 3:11:06 PM (No. 190263)
I haven't watched Shep since his hysterical coverage of Katrina. Does anyone else remember "the news guy" wailing "Bush, do something?" Him and Geraldo wailing like children as I recall. Two losers. As to Chris Wallace, we stopped watching him long ago. Maria Batrimono's program on Sunday morning is heads and shoulders over biased Chris. At least you know Maria is not exactly unbiased. If these boys want to be seen as even handed news boys, then they have to actually be even handed. Neither Wallace or Sheppy are. As to the latest hissy fit of Shep's, there ain't no one that knows the law better than Joe DiGenova. No one and certainly not Nappo boy. I agree with others. Where are all the wealthy conservatives, Rush? Sean? who should be starting a news network.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Franz 9/26/2019 3:45:22 PM (No. 190297)
Judge Napolitano and Senator Mitt Romney have one thing in common. They both thought they were entitled to prestigious appointments in the Trump administration. When they did not get what they thought they deserved, they turn into "Never Trumpers" with a vengeance. Both are now a nasty pieces of work.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Wary American 9/26/2019 5:17:18 PM (No. 190385)
Shep the DOOCHEBAG should stay at home with his pie hole open for deposits by all of his ilk.
Hair dyed 'nappy' Napolitano is just a spurned NEVER Trumper now in the clASS of donna brazile.
Joe D. just pummeled him to IRRELEVANCY.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
weejun 9/26/2019 6:03:10 PM (No. 190439)
let me make sure I have this right: Shepherd Smith aka the Fox Twit, whose show is ranked 21 out of all cable news shows, is taking on Tucker Carlson, who is no. 2. Can't wait to see on whose side Fox News comes down.
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