Shep Smith: Journalists are not the enemy of the people

Are you asking for fairness ...when you extend very little fairness in your use of comparison?

I personally didn't think much of the journalists conduct, even if she did apparently represent every TV station on that day.

Well, good. At least you're showing some sense. Trespass is trespass. The principle is always the same, even if the particular circumstances are not.

Being asked to leave early and not doing so is rude, but not criminal in the circumstances (You do not ever find someone charged in such circumstances).

No, my issue with her conduct was the repeated shouting of a question when no answer was forthcoming, and doing so into a mass of noise. It's undignified for her, uncomfortable for the other people present...and quite frankly the question was not particularly important "do you feel ### betrayed you?"...really?

But as I said earlier, there is also a much bigger, ongoing issue of Trumps vilification of the media. It's bad for democracy.

. Being asked to leave early and not doing so is rude, but not criminal in the circumstances (You do not ever find someone charged in such circumstances).

She was NOT asked to "leave early." Where in the hell would you even get such an idea? Just kinda sounded good, that it?

You can bitch all you want about how much you hate Trump, but that is totally irrelevant to the bombastic self-promotion and self-glorification that Sheppard Smith spewed in the video clip which is the topic of this thread. What a whiny-ass punk.

And you think Trump is an egomaniac!? He is, but not compared to Smith and his ilk.

I've found that one egomaniac does not excuse the behaviour of another egomaniac.

I presume that you weren't calling all the press there trespassers....so then, it appears the only rational perspective was that she was asked to leave early...or else there are double standards going on.

She was the only one trying to interrupt the President

She was the only one being directly told by a secret service agent that he had to leave

And she is a bitch. Respect has to be earned, not given to the undeserving.

Hardly the definition of a trespasser.

Either everyone was being told to leave, or she was being told to leave early.

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And she is a bitch. Respect has to be earned, not given to the undeserving.

So every stranger is allowed to disrespect you? Because that is the literal consequence of 'respect must be earned'. I'm sure you wouldn't like being disrespected by every stranger you meet, so once again, your stance is hypocritical.

Your stance is all over the shop.

I presume that you weren't calling all the press there trespassers....so then, it appears the only rational perspective was that she was asked to leave early...or else there are double standards going on.

No, I certainly wasn't calling everyone there a trespasser. But no, that's not even close to being a rational perspective, let alone the ONLY rational perspective.

She was the only one trying to interrupt the President and trying to forcibly cancel his announcement that the conference was over. She was the only one being directly told by a secret service agent that he had to leave and ignoring him.

She was the only one trying to interrupt the President

Hardly the definition of a trespasser.

Who the hell said it was?

Learn some logic, eh? I can be polite to someone without ever respecting them. A lack of respect is not disrespect. I don't have to respect anyone just because they are alive and breathing. I am, however quite entitled to withhold respect when a person has proven themselves unworthy of it.