Shepard Smith Out At Fox News https://www.zerohedge.com/political/shepard-smith-out-fox-news ... Word of Smith's departure comes two weeks after a "war of words" broke out between Smith and fox anchor Tucker Carlson, after Smith called Carlson and legal analyst Joe diGenova "repugnant" in a daytime analysis of their reporting on the Democratically manufactured Ukrainegate scandal. ... Napolitano concluded that Trump's actions regarding Ukraine constituted "a crime" during the day on Tuesday. diGenova had called Napolitano a "fool" for his analysis on that night, to which Smith returned fire the following evening, stating that diGenova was a "partisan guest" who was "repugnant" for attacking Napolitano. “Apparently our daytime host, who hosted Judge Napolitano, was watching last night and was outraged by what you said and quite ironically called you partisan,” Carlson replied. Later, Carlson took yet another shot at Smith to conclude the segment: “It doesn’t seem honest to me when a host, any host on any channel, including this one, pretends that the answer is obvious. That’s not news, is it? That’s opinion. Why do we find ourselves in a situation where people aren’t willing to admit that their passions are guiding their news coverage? Wouldn’t it be better if we just said out loud you know this is what I think? For example you will never hear me criticize Rachel Maddow. I never agree with anything she says. But she is straightforward, it’s her opinion. Why wouldn’t it be better if we were all that transparent about what’s driving our shows? It makes people cynical when you dress up news coverage, when you dress up partisanship as news coverage and pretend that your angry political opinions are news, you know, people tune out.” And now Smith is out. *** Fox said in a statement (via Forbes): NEW YORK - October 11, 2019 — FOX NEWS Channel’s (FNC) Shepard Smith will step down from his role as Chief News Anchor and Managing Editor of the network’s breaking news unit and Anchor of Shepard Smith Reporting, announced Jay Wallace, President & Executive Editor of FOX News Media. This afternoon’s edition of Shepard Smith Reporting was Mr. Smith’s final show, during which he addressed his decision. A series of rotating anchors will host the 3PM/ET time slot until a new dayside news program is announced. ...