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Shep Smith slams “Armageddon,” “Marxists,” “socialism” rhetoric: “The fringes believe it” then “do stupid things”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 03/24/10 4:21 PM EDT

From the March 24 edition of Fox News' Studio B:

Video file

Previously:

Beck's “War”: Fox Host Responds To Passage Of Health Care Reform With Violent Rhetoric\

“The end of America as you know it”

Shep Smith Confronts Steele On GOP Rhetoric

Beck: If health care passes, “don't we lose really the Democratic Party to the socialists?”

Asman: “We are moving towards socialism,” independents are the last “hope for turning this around”

Hannity asks if “this very hour” -- “this hour” -- is when America turned “completely towards socialism”

Beck revives witch hunt to paint Obama advisers as Marxists, Maoists and communists

Is Fox News big enough for Shep Smith and Glenn Beck?

Smith to Wallace: “Do you even understand this Glenn Beck Friday? Cause I really don't”

Conservatives attack Shep Smith for his Holocaust museum shooting remarks, call for firing

Smith on DHS report and Holocaust Museum shooting: “It was a warning to us all, and it appears now they were right”

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