Is Fox News big enough for Shep Smith and Glenn Beck?
by Eric Boehlert Link to Article It must have been an awkward elevator ride for Shep Smith over at Fox News headquarters last Friday, heading up to the 12th-floor studio where his Fox Report program originates. I’m just imagining the nasty looks he must have gotten from co-workers — if any of them even agreed to ride between floors with him — on the day that liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman praised Smith in print. Krugman actually referenced him by name as somebody inside Fox News who refused to go along with the ‘big hate’: the right wing’s anti-Obama rhetoric — almost bloodlust — that now dominates conservative discourse. Talk about putting a target on the back of a Fox News anchor. A shout-out from the hated Times op-ed page? Things only got worse for Smith over the weekend when the Times’ Frank Rich also singled out the Fox News anchor for praise. I mean, c’mon. Were Krugman and Rich trying to get the guy fired?! In fact, even before being name-dropped by Times lib
