I came across this image while doing a search for another story earlier. Does anyone remember this happening? I don’t.
Here it is —> From 2012: Arizona Car Chase Suicide Shown live on FOX during Shep Smith’s show.
It was about a carjacker who decided the cops weren’t going to take him in alive. [The usual warnings apply]
At about 1:20 is when Shepard Smith starts yelling to ‘get off it!!!’ and then makes this face, and then he apologizes.
Was it a slow news day, Shep?
What do you think of news networks broadcasting car chases, sometimes spending up to an hour on them?
Personally, unless it’s a Congressman running from the law, car chases are of no use to me.
I refuse to watch. Bunch of effing vultures. They’re just sitting in studio hoping someone gets shot so they get a ratings bump.
I’d rather see video of the raids on Kennedy parties.
I do remember it. It was appalling! Did Fox air it on purpose? Yes, of course they did. If it bleeds, it leads. I hate the very idea of personal tragedy as entertainment for the masses. Kinda reminds me of a time back in ancient history when people were fed to lions or made to fight to the death in an arena. But just ask the average person if they’d like to watch a snuff film and they’ll recoil in disgust, right?
Don’t trust the media.
Geoff C. and I, both Northwest natives, get a big laugh out of the fall/winter/spring storm warnings around here. They have two stock film footage: Weatherman in huge, fur-lined parka and “No Parking” sign flapping in the wind. Like one in the northwest has ever seen rain before. Jeeze. Hilarious to watch these people hyperventilating the weather.
I do remember it.
Unfortunately for FNC and Schemp, I also remember him hitting a person who was holding a parking space with his car during the 2000 election. Had my doubts about him up until then. That sealed it for me. He was a dick then, and nothing has changed.
I remember it. I remember thinking not a lot of splatter for a head shot. I’m sure it happened but weird.
I think we can blame OJ for this.
Shemp looks like an angry black man in that first pic.
I remember it very well and Fox hasn’t shown another car chase since as far as I know since I don’t watch them anymore or any other news. I absolutely can’t stand Shep but it shook him badly.
I’m sure there are a lot of things Chep and friends don’t want us to know, suicide being the least. Remember Chris Cuomo telling us that it is illegal for us to view Hillary’s emails? It’s OK for us in the media to view them, and we’ll tell you what you need to know, he said. We are fools to put up with this crap.
Ever since Katrina I have made it a personal point of honor to not watch Shlep.
Ya, car chases are boring but seeing a self erasing thug check out is a pleasant change. Not to mention little Sheppies facial expression and blubbering apology.
Note to the punks out there: keep wearing those ridiculous pants, they allow you to run like a winged pegasus.
Ah yes. The family tried to sue the networks for airing it. Turns out his lil’ son was watching daddy on the TV playing with the police.
So Arizona.
Smith and Kelly were written off my list as soon as they started on Trump.. when they weren’t demoted or fired, I began questioning Fox News.
I thoroughly detest that tubesteak connoisseur. His demeanor, his voice, everything about him makes me want to take a shower using DAWN just to get the slime off of me.
Snails and slugs envy him for the sliminess.
Balloon boy did it for me. I practically hit my knees in prayer. Wasted a whole afternoon and felt guilty if I didn’t continue to pray/watch.
A real turning point with media.
The Shepster Has 5 Years Before Turning In’to Morton Downey Jr. !!!
I’ve never wanted a tan that bad….(See what I did there)….
Remember this Shep Smith blooper?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzV8wrnLfS4
Plantsman, i hope you mean that in the sense that Mort Downey is dead.
I never watch that maggot. I barely watch Hannity and Martha.
We need a channel that runs footage of Ryan and The Turtle doing a thelma and louise into the grand canyon.
I don’t need a TV, I see him when I wee-wee.
Guilty. I did watch a few. They never did a follow up on those chases to tell us what it was all about.
The only thing I remember about Morton Downey Jr. is the time I heard him call liberals a bunch of liberal pablum (baby food) pukers, back in the 80’s sometime when he had a syndicated radio program. He was about as unhinged on the right as Jerry Springer was to pop culture. But he could be funny in a crazy sort of way.
That front page pic of Shep looks like Ben Grimm morphing into The Thing.
I remember this well. Believe it or not, I do not hold Shep personally responsible for this. And any time a video ends with a thug assuming room temperature, it’s a good thing.
Listening to a car chase on KFI is a thousand times more interesting than seeing one on TV.
I do remember it and I thought to myself, Fox and Shep would do anything for ratings. Just like he did during Katrina.
Tired of car chases.
Show us some perp walks.
Jarrett, Emanuel, Comey, DWS to name but a few.
And Cankles. Don’t forget Cankles.
Saw it happen live. Now I watch LIVE PD.
http://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Thing-Marvel-Comics-Fantastic-Four-Ben-Grimm-Early.jpg
KMM. Never saw that. What a blow job Shep is.
Smith and his soulmate Al Sharpton each look like Late Stage AIDS.
Massive weight loss. Skin stretched tight from plastic facelifts to normalize as they waste away.
They each appear to be dying by inches on daily TV.
And no one cares.
Should we?