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Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, host of the top-rated evening cable newscast, believes Americans challenging the eligibility of Barack Obama to hold the office of president are "crazies," saying "there is no truth whatsoever" to the suggestion Obama is not a "natural born citizen."

Smith made the remark during analysis of today's shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where an elderly gunman opened fire with a rifle, killing a security guard before himself being shot. Police were probing an alleged white supremacist, James von Brunn, as the assailant.

During his interview with Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Smith said:

"There are these crazies out there who want to pretend [Obama's] not a citizen of the United States, who want to pretend that his religion is something they see as in some way troublesome to them and all of us. And there is a group perpetuating this thought, and there is a culture to which you can attach yourself very easily through the Internet. ... We know it's absolutely – there is no truth whatsoever – zero – to any of those ideas, yet they live within the computer and they fester in people's minds."

Shep Smith attacks right-wing 'crazies' Rips people questioning eligibility as being 'out there in a scary place'
Posted: June 10, 2009 8:30 pm Eastern
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100732

Fox News's Shepard Smith got into a heated debate over interrogation techniques Wednesday with colleagues Trace Gallagher and Judge Andrew Napolitano that resulted in the feisty host using an expletive I'm sure he wished he hadn't.

Appearing on FNC's webcast "The Strategy Room," Smith took issue with America using any interrogation method that could be deemed as torture regardless of whether or not it gave results and saved lives (video embedded below the fold, strong vulgarity warning):

"We are America! I don't give a rat's ass if it helps! We are America! We do not f***ing torture!"

Shepard Smith: 'We Are America! We Do Not F***ing Torture!' By Noel Sheppard | April 23, 2009 - 11:08
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/04/23/shep-smith-we-are-america-we-do-not-f-ing-torture