Why? Why did I have to look? I knew the story would be disgusting. Yet for some reason I had to see just how disgusting…

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Shepard Smith, the endlessly endearing [to the people at Gawker] (and easily angered) Fox News anchor, has likened the right-wing channel to a “family,” with president Roger Ailes as its domineering father. Which makes it only slightly awkward that in early 2012, the 49-year-old anchor started courting an attractive young production assistant who worked under him on Fox Report With Shepard Smith. Now they are a couple.

Gawker has learned that Smith is dating a 26-year-old Penn State grad and Fox Business producer named Giovanni “Gio” Graziano. According to multiple sources with knowledge of their relationship, the couple met sometime after Graziano started working at Fox Report in October 2011 as a production assistant. He’s the man with whom Smith frequents Bathtub Gin.

“Yes, that’s Shepard’s boyfriend,” Katya Minskova, the Bathtub Gin waitress Smith berated in March, confirmed to Gawker when shown a photo of Graziano.

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A guy as PC as Shep knows it is oppressive to have sexual relations with young underlings.

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Smith was concerned about the optics of dating a subordinate. Last year, according to [a] former Fox News employee, the anchor arranged for Graziano’s transfer, in October 2012, to Fox Business Network, where he was installed as an associate producer for Varney & Co. “Shep had to move him to Fox Business to avoid a ‘conflict of interest,’” the former employee, who asked not be named, explained.

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Whether Graziano still works for Fox News and even where he lives could not be determined by Gawker, despite exceedingly dogged efforts.

Left unexplained is why a supposedly “right-wing channel” like Fox News would employ a moonbat like Shep Smith in such a regrettably powerful position. It probably isn’t because of his weepy and buffoonish coverage of Katrina, which left a bad taste in the mouth for years.

http://moonbattery.com/?p=38498

It's been so long since I watched Fox that I didn't even know who he was. They lost me within the first year when it became obvious it was nothing more than a "Good Cop/Bad Cop" thing with CNN.