Now that the leftist media has realized that Donald Sterling is one of them, they are back on the gay bandwagon. Gawker reported (falsely) that Fox News demoted Shepard Smith because he wanted to come out of the closet as being gay. Anyone who watches Fox News regularly when Shepard Smith is on would hardly be shocked if Smith finally came out of the closet. Why would Fox News care if Shepard Smith finally came out? It was Fox News that gave that no talent hack Sally Kohn her 15 minutes of fame, and now she landed a big contract with CNN. Last I checked, Kohn is a lesbian, and a pretty obvious one too. Even left wing biased Politico shoots holes through the Gawker BS. I don’t like Shepard Smith. I can’t give a rats ass what his sexual orientation is. He’s a left wing hack, just like the rest of the mainstream media.
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A Gawker report alleging that Fox News chief Roger Ailes prohibited host Shep Smith from coming out as gay contains mulitple factual inaccuracies, according to Fox News sources.
The report, which Fox News calls “a complete fabrication,” states that Ailes told Smith he was not allowed to come out because Fox News viewers would not tolerate a gay news anchor. The report states that the exchange took place during Smith’s contract negotiations, and that these negotiations took place after a July party at which executive vice president Bill Shine “flipped out” when Smith showed up with his boyfriend.
POLITICO has learned that Shine was not in attendance at the party cited in Gawker’s report, but rather in Charleston, South Carolina, with his family. Moreover, the party in question took place on July 4, after Smith renewed his contract with the network in June — which means the contract negotiations were over by the time Gawker’s alleged exchange would have taken place. Though as a Fox News spokesperson told POLITICO, “No such meeting ever took place in regard to Shep, nor would it ever.”
Max Read, Gawker’s editor-in-chief, said Wednesday afternoon that the story had been updated to note that Shine was not at the party. “Otherwise we stand by our reporting,” he said.