{"id":1537,"date":"2007-11-19T11:48:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:16:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:04:39","slug":"time-for-shepard-smiths-coming-out-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"Time for Shepard Smith&#8217;s coming out party?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tabloidbaby.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/time-for-shepard-smiths-coming-out.html\">TabloidBaby writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With his elevation to $7 million salary level, Fox News reader Shepard Smith has now surpassed Campbell&#8217;s Soup pitchman and Food Network producer Gordon Elliott as the most successful graduate of the tabloid television series A Current Affair reporting ranks.<\/p>\n<p>He can also be seen as Fox News&#8217; answer to CNN&#8217;s $5 million boy, <a href=\"http:\/\/tabloidbaby.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/tabloid-babys-person-of-year-for-2005.html\" target=\"new\">Anderson Cooper<\/a> (&quot;DC&quot; to their &quot;AC?&quot;).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_UURsFGI0ahk\/R0HUf61pOdI\/AAAAAAAAEK8\/u1negwvAgR8\/s1600-h\/images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_UURsFGI0ahk\/R0HUf61pOdI\/AAAAAAAAEK8\/u1negwvAgR8\/s400\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134618695014365650\" \/><\/a>Both made their telegenic bones in 2005 during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Coop with his dewy-eyed reports and Shep, who just happend to be staying in the French Quarter at the time (days before New Orleans&#8217; annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.365gay.com\/newscon05\/08\/083005newOrleans.htm\" target=\"new\">Southern Decadence<\/a> weekend), with his self-righteous (but right-on) Blanche DuBois hissyfits and tantrums.<\/p>\n<p>In the months to follow, Cooper made history as television&#8217;s first openly-gay news anchorman&#8211; a role that made him Tabloid Baby&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tabloidbaby.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/tabloid-babys-person-of-year-for-2005.html\" target=\"new\">2005 Person of the Year<\/a>.  Smith kept his &quot;soft Southern drawl&quot; at bay, but for some reasonfound himself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=shepard+smith+gay&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\" target=\"new\">&quot;outed&quot;<\/a> numerous times in recent years by various gay publications and websites (including regular &quot;snarky&quot; comments by the New York City media site Gawker).<\/p>\n<p>And in today&#8217;s New York Times there are numerous &quot;double entendres&quot; hinting that Roger Ailes is positioning his network for the more liberal Democratic White House years in the post-O&#8217;Reilly era.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TabloidBaby writes: With his elevation to $7 million salary level, Fox News reader Shepard Smith has now surpassed Campbell&#8217;s Soup pitchman and Food Network producer Gordon Elliott as the most successful graduate of the tabloid television series A Current Affair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1537\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tabloid-baby"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}