Discussion: Fox's Shep Smith Goes Off On Rant About NBC Taking Back Donald Trump (VIDEO)

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Unlike Fox, which stood by its principles after Trump dissed their lead female anchor. Oh…wait…

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Doesn’t SNL get to pick who is on it’s show. I didn’t know they had to get approval from the network to do so. Am I wrong here?

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“At NBC, respect and dignity for all people are cornerstones of our values. Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants, NBCUniversal is ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump,” the network said in a statement. Unless …

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I honestly couldn’t tell you, and I doubt anyone outside of SNL and NBC legal could. My guess is that Lorne Michaels has a tremendous amount of leeway on who and what he does with the show. But at the end of the day, it IS on NBC.

The real point here for me is…Is Smith completely unaware of the on again/off again relationship his own network has with Trump??

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Wow…anyone wanna guess how many zeroes the bonus check had for that one? Talk about projection.

I’m wondering if Faux is angrier about NBC’s alleged hypocrisy or the fact that having Trump on SNL prevents them from complaining that SNL had HRC as a guest but “dissed” the GOP’s frontrunner because something something bias?

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I understand the hypocrisy of Shep and Fox but there is a big difference of NBC taking Trump back to host Celebrity Apprentice and Trump making an appearance on a show being aired on NBC I don;t see any hypocrisy on NBC’s part

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Oh God! I love it so much when Fox freaks out over the little stuff.

And, yes, I’ll be watching SNL. Who gives a shit about NBC?

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You don’t see any hypocrisy?

Exhibit A: “At NBC, respect and dignity for all people are cornerstones of our values. Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants, NBCUniversal is ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump,” the network said in a statement.

Well, in fact:

THEY’RE ALL LOSERS!

Naw man, that’s jilted lover talk. Shep was shafted! Just listen to his tone.

NBC is giving Trump the rope he needs to hang himself, SNL will make him look like a clown…wait…he already does…

Oooooh looks like some one’s just a tad jealous.