SHEPARD SMITH IS A SOUTHERNER | 2005-04-15
Shepard Smith on Fox News is a Southerner, and he makes no bones about it. He just said, "We still have some Southern civility here." He refers to the South by its other name, God's Country. He speaks fondly of the University of Mississippi Rebels.
Smith has no Southern "accent." But on the air, Roger Mudd has no "accent" either. But in person, Mudd has a VERY Southern "accent."
I put "accent" in quotes because WE don't talk funny, THEY do. Right after Jimmy Carter won the election of 1976, Tennessee Ernie Ford said, "Finally we are going to have a president who doesn't have an accent."
Smith talks like a Southerner. He makes fast jokes and is entertaining. He makes you relax.
And I always suspect he knows a lot of things he's not allowed to say.