Yes, I know, there is practically nothing that a Fox News person can say or do that’s vile enough to cost them their job.  Bill O’Reilly is still batting cleanup even after being exposed as a creepy sexual harasser, and Glenn Beck just keeps on inciting the lunatic fringe while shedding advertisers like a leaky centrifuge.  But I think Shep Smith has really gone beyond the pale here:

"Over the last 10 years health care costs in American have skyrocketed. Regular folks cannot afford it, so they tax the system by not getting preventive medicine," Smith said. "And we all end up paying for it. As the costs have gone up, the insurance industry’s profits, on average, have gone up 350 percent. And it’s the insurance companies which have paid and which have contributed to senators and congressmen on both sides of the aisle to the point where now we can’t get what all concerned on Capitol Hill all seem to [believe] and more than 60 percent of Americans say they support, a public option."

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"Every vote against the public option is a vote for the insurance companies," Smith said. 

The likelihood of a bill without a strong public option "has been an enormous win for the insurance industry," Smith said. "But I wonder what happens to the American people when we come out with legislation which requires everyone to have insurance … but does not give a public option. Therefore, millions more people will have to buy insurance from the very corporations that are overcharging us. … It seems like we, the people, are the ones getting the shaft here."

I mean, really.  How can Fox News be expected to tolerate this sort of outrageous behavior?  They’ve already given him a pass for saying mean things about torture, how much more can they take?  It’s simply scandalous that they continue to employ this horrible man!  Scandalous, I say!  Oh dear, I think I feel a swoon coming on…