A biography for Shepard Smithhasn’t been written yet.
“I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.”
“I like stories that affect families.”
“When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the one doing the news. It's my show, and there's no place for opinion on my show. It's uninteresting to me.”
“Not even my parents know how I vote.”
“I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.”
“I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.”
“It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How could you, how dare you?' Well, they don't know me.”
“I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.”