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There's Fox "News" and then there's Shep Smith

I criticize Fox News more than Rush Limbaugh eats at an all-you-can-eat buffet after smoking weed. However, there is one Fox News personality I like, who stands out from all the others and that's Shep Smith.  Often times, he comes across as the lone sane voice on Fox, that or a guy who has a fetish with playing devil's advocate and getting under his co-workers' skin (not literally, of course). 

On Tuesday night, Shep was his usual non-Fox (meaning sane and reasonable) self, when he said, "Isn't it possible to say, 'We are better off?' I mean you could make that argument and make it pretty succinctly, couldn't you? I mean we were in a pretty bad free fall. I remember a day when we thought that the whole economy of the world was going to collapse and a lot has been done to improve things, hasn't it?"

That's right - a Fox News personality defended President Obama as having improved things in this country over the past 4 years. 

This has been a strange past week for Fox. After Paul Ryan gave his speech at the Republican National Convention, a Fox News columnist wrote a piece which compared Ryan's words to a "mountain of cow dung" and suggested that Mitt Romney's running mate may have been shooting for the world record for lies told in a political speech. Then a couple nights ago, a Fox News television personality defended our current president, insinuating that he has helped improve things in this country during his first term. If, after tonight's speech by the president, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly both say that they've had secret man-crushes on the president and will be voting for him in November, then I'll seriously begin to wonder if the Mayans were right. 

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