Fox News Channel’s Shepard Smith has always been known to call it as he sees it when it comes to current events, even as he remains FNC’s signature news anchor.
Yesterday, Smith explained the situation in Egypt as only he could: in a straightforward but extremely compelling way. It was not an opinion segment, like Bill O’Reilly’s “Talking Points”, but it was not strictly confined to reading reports off of a TelePrompter either.
“If you have nothing for your children to eat, and you don’t have a way to get anything, and there are no stores, and there is no place really for you to go, and the government is trying to crack down on the military to stop your protests, your options are limited. The prospects of anything good happening before order is restores is limited at best…
From all reports, it would appear that somebody has ordered forces loyal to this president to turn on the citizens of his nation.”