Let’s get the ball rolling with how this all started:
[ Breitbart ] FACT-CHECK: Shep Smith’s Fake ‘Debunking’ of Uranium One Story Ends in Humiliation, Embarrassment.
Fox News’ Shepard Smith drew applause from liberal media outlets Tuesday in a “fact check” marred with mispronunciations and misrepresentations.
Smith, one of Fox’s top liberals and who frequently opposes the network’s narratives, spoke at length on his show Shepard Smith Reports after Attorney General Jeff Sessions floated the idea of a special counsel to investigate recent revelations surrounding the 2010 partial sale of Canadian firm Uranium One to Russian energy giant Rosatom. The sale was approved by the Obama administration as it included the sale of 20 percent of U.S. uranium to the Russian giant.
In laying out the widely reported story, Smith mispronounced the name of the Canadian investor at the center of the scandal (calling him ‘Gweh-strah,’ then ‘Gwy-strah’ instead of the correct ‘Joo-strah’); the name of the government body that reviewed the deal (‘Si-fuhs’ instead of the correct ‘Sif-ee-us); and the name of a senior State Department official involved in the review (‘Fernando’ instead of the accurate ‘Fernandez’). Smith also incorrectly describes Uranium One is a South African company. It was Canadian and is now, in fact, a Russian state-owned company.
The details of the Uranium One story have received broad coverage from outlets such as the New York Times and considerable attention on Fox News, including a one-hour special hosted by Bret Baier which aired in 2015 on the release of the book Clinton Cash.
Among the many things Smith objected to was Clinton’s ability to influence the deal’s approval. “The Clinton State Department had no power to approve or veto that transaction. It could do neither,” he said.
He correctly states that it was CFIUS — the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States — that made the decision. CFIUS is a cabinet-level committee consisting of representatives from several Departments and Agencies, including the Secretaries of the Treasury, State, Defense, etc. Smith claims that State was only one member and that the real decision was the President’s. However, Smith’s claim is misleading. While the final decision technically rests with the White House, CFIUS traditionally, and as far as is publicly known, operates by unanimous consent. Crucially, any one member can block a transaction. Such a “veto” can only be undone by the President, though there is no known case of the President overruling CFIUS since the committee was set up in 1975. In short, the Clinton State Department had the power to effectively gut the deal.
Hillary Clinton, in particular, has a history of resisting these sorts of deals. In one high profile case, a Dubai-based company withdrew from a deal that would put it in charge of several major US ports after a major public outcry. Then-Senator Hillary Clinton was an outspoken critic of the deal and went so far as to co-author a bill blocking the sale. In the case of Uranium One, an objection from a sitting committee member would have been crippling for the deal.
It is only by ignoring this de facto veto that Smith can dismiss Clinton’s role in the approval. Of course, his overall point that her corruption is somehow less severe because she was only one vote is irrelevant to the allegation being made. The particular circumstances of the decision are irrelevant — bribery statutes apply no matter how close the vote. MORE HERE
And now, we get to the part where the LSM has put a tiara on Sheppy’s head and are carrying him on their shoulders like a hero. Why? Because FOX viewers are calling for Shep to be sent to CNN where he’ll be more comfortable reporting half-assed opinions and fake news. Read about that at Big Journalism.
I don’t see him at CNN.
I see him more being co-host
sitting next to Ricky Maddow.
I used to call him “Plastic Boy”.
I quit watching these clowns many years ago, he’s a prime example of why.
Shrimp Smith (hmmm. Autocorrect fixed Shep for me there. I’ll let it stand) has no business on any network.
He’s just another lying, take it up the ass, cock-sucking liberal. Surely CNN has room for a white boy Don Lemon. Give Don Lemon someone of his ilk to get drunk with on live TV this New Years Eve.
It was Shep Smith that got me looking at CFIUS yesterday and saying that every member is nothing but a political appointee who are going to do what their political superiors want not what’s best of the country.
https://iotwreport.com/a-bunch-of-obama-flunkies-gave-uranium-one-the-rubber-stamp/
The CFIUS line of defense must be challenged, breached and destroyed.
I can’t stand watching that over-makeup prissy homo. His only supply of testosterone is from the —– he swallows.
come on…….hes a HOMO-SEX-U-ALL…… he belongs on msmbc lutinic station . Co host w/ brian williams [floating bodies down Burbon st!!!]
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“white boy Don Lemon”
Love it!
I hope AON grows and gets a Breaking News news team. Fox is unwatchable and FBN isn’t always broadcasting.
Could never stand Shemp Smith. Always figured he’d stagger out of the closet one day. His politics suck (just like he does). I’ve always been glad that they cut him back to one hour or so in the afternoon when I wasn’t watching. Then again, I ditched “The Five” because I’ve grown tired of Juan Douchebag’s never ending supply of mindless drivel. It’s SSDD with that clown, just like with Shrimp.
Shep must give somebody at Fox great head.
He always sounded and moved like his thong was chafing him.
where are all the men he abused when they were boys? Have any of them come forward? If not why not?
Maybe a Fox pay-off is keeping them quiet..
@Jimbo, skip One, he uses that time honored Democrat strategy, filibuster/”mindless drivel.”
Did you hear, they are making a movie of ol’ Yellowstain Davis.
I though he did a pretty good job in that PRANCERCISE VIDEO!
Oh wait that might have been Obama…never mind!
They have to keep a few liberals around to look “Fair and Balanced” while the other networks don’t bother with any perception of fair and balanced.
Has anyone used the makeup remover app on Shep? I bet he would barely be there after it’s removed.
This is all very simple. Hildebeast assisted in the transaction, and was paid over 100M for it.
Pompous jackass. Rude to his on screen staff, elitist jerk that thinks he’s above everyone. In other words, a leftist.
OpenTheDoor – HAH!! ;^)
Shep. Did a buncha guys boink your brains out? Judgement impaired by swallowing too much? Looks like you’ve sold your soul to the devil. On live TV you’d watch Hillary throwing screaming babies off the overpass and you’d blame it on Bush.
BathTub Boy part 2
It’s time to get that old hen out of the Fox house.