More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
In a tirade on Monday, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith dismissed legitimate security concerns in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks as a “collective freak-out” that was potentially “dangerous.” He then proceeded to condemn anyone opposed to bringing thousands of Syrian refugees to the United States as “extreme forces within our own political system” that lead us “towards self-destruction.”
Talking to former Ambassador Edward ‘Skip’ Gnehm on his 3 p.m. ET hour show, Smith ranted: “You can hit us. But when they hit us, these extreme voices, Skip, are gonna step forward again and try to lead us all right off a cliff. I hear them today....history is extremely clear, when you demonize broad swaths of people, you get what you call them. That’s what you get. You reap it, you will sow it.”