Maggie Shnayerson

Above, even though you’ve seen it a dozen times already, because I do SO love me some Shep Smith. Even when people say I don’t.Only Glenn Beck (Just now on his show—Are we calling it that? Sure!) on the civic center that just got all shot up in Binghamton, NY: “Is this a place—a sanctuary for illegal immigrants?”Ignore Glenny-poo: As he reminds us every chance he gets, he’s not a journalist, he’s an opinion-maker. What in the HOLY DOOM TOMB is an opinion-maker?

No police officer had to take this man out, who had terrorized this center and this community. He killed himself. Can you imagine—what a coward. Locked them in, trapping them like mice in a cage, mowed them down. He’s dead now. Now Neil Cavuto.

In the absence of any additional news, Fox News anchor Shep Smith will fill your on-air gaps with somber prose, a skill he’s got pretty well wrapped up by now. Smith was Fox’s on-the-ground guy for Princess Di’s death, the Oklahoma City bombing, the execution of Timothy McVeigh, Columbine, TWA Flight 800 and Hurricane Katrina.

Get this man some uppers, stat.