‘Heartbroken’ Neil Cavuto Responds To Shepard Smith Resignation

Fox host Neil Cavuto seemed almost in tears as he came on the air immediately after Shepard Smith announced his abrupt resignation.

Cavuto was speechless for a few moments as he opened his Your World show which immediately followed the final Shepard Smith Reporting show. As Crooks and Liars noted, it appeared Cavuto had no inkling Smith was about to resign.

CAVUTO: Whoa! I'm Neil Cavuto, and like you I'm a little stunned and a little heartbroken. I don't know what to say. Shepard Smith, as I said just a few days ago on this very network, a decent human being, a heart as big as Texas. I didn't say Texas at the time, maybe just all of Manhattan.

Wow, I don't know. A better newsman you probably cannot find. Again a bigger, more emotionally connected to humankind you cannot find. So Shepard, I don't know what the heck you're planning to do or where you'll go, but I just know you'll be great at doing it, and you deserve the best that life has to offer. So I'm sorry if I'm a little shell shocked here, but I'm going to miss my buddy.

Watch it below, from the October 11, 2019 Your World, via Crooks and Liars.

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commented 2019-10-14 00:04:27 -0400 · Flag

Thanks, John McKee. I do care about those things. But everybody makes mistakes so appreciate having another pair of eyes.

commented 2019-10-12 17:23:08 -0400 · Flag

I only pointed it out because it was funny, Ellen. Compared to almost all the websites out there, your spell-checking and grammar is of the highest order :)

commented 2019-10-12 16:43:18 -0400 · Flag

John McKee, that typo was my fault. Brian sends me drafts and I get them ready for posting. I cut and pasted that line from somewhere else in his draft, because I thought it worth putting it up front, and I obviously left out a few letters.

Thank you for catching that. And my apologies to Brian.

commented 2019-10-12 10:50:49 -0400 · Flag

I bet Neil is shocked.

While he’s obviously very conservative and not afraid to press his bias, he has come out on rare occasions to criticize Trump like telling him Fox News doesn’t work for the White House (stifle the laughter). Shep’s resignation under the pressure of recent (and long-term?) events is a shot across the bow Neil needs to talk to Kilmeade for some Trump brown-nosing lessons.

commented 2019-10-12 05:49:16 -0400 · Flag

Time to leave, Cavuto. This satanic network is not worth it. Walk away!

commented 2019-10-11 21:51:03 -0400 · Flag

‘Almost in tea’, Brian? Damn that spellchecker :)

commented 2019-10-11 19:35:19 -0400 · Flag

Hey Neil, if you meant what you said a few weeks ago, that you don’t work for Chump, then you should get out too.