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Fox's Shepard Smith Takes Vacation Amid Feud With Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham

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Smith recently critiqued Fox's opinion shows as mere entertainment that follows no rules.

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Out Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith is going on what he calls a previously planned one-week vacation amid a feud with other hosts, whose work he's recently critqued.

In a Time interview published Thursday, Smith, who specializes in straightforward news, said some of the opinion-oriented programming on Fox News "is there strictly to be entertaining." He added, "They don't really have rules on the opinion side. They can say whatever they want."

A couple of Fox's leading opinionators, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, quickly struck back. Both sent tweets out Friday.

Smith has stood out at Fox for his willingness to do stories critical of Donald Trump -- and to critique the opinion hosts for promoting negative stories about more liberal politicians, such as Hillary Clinton, that are not backed up by facts. Hannity once called Smith "so anti-Trump."

Smith announced Friday afternoon on his Shepard Smith Reporting program that he's "going to take a one-week vacation that was previously planned, and be back in a week, and everything will be peachy-keen and hunky-dory," as The Hill reports. Fellow Fox anchor Chris Wallace, whom Smith was interviewing, responded, "That's what they always say: previously planned and one-week vacation." However, Smith, who is Fox's chief anchor and managing editor, just signed a contract extension for several years.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.