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There was a car chase today in Florida. This is not unusual. What was unusual was that this particular car chase garnered the attention of FOX's Shep Smith. For the uninitiated, Shep Smith covering your frantic, last-ditch effort to escape the police is roughly akin to Martin Scorsese telling a mafioso he wants to buy his life story, or Gauguin saying your lawn has the most striking fauna in Tahiti. It means something. The man knows quality. So does Twitter.
TURNE ON FOX: Shep Smith just went from junk-touching to a live car chase!! Chase video, Shep talking junk touching. AMAZING
Shep Smith bringing his A game with this non-car chase/car chase.
shep smith car chase. right now!!
is there a more beautiful sequence of four words then "shep smith car chase"? RT @michaelscherer: shep smith car chase. right now!!
Live now on Fox News, with the nation's No. 1 car chase anchor, Shep Smith. RT @annieg917: CAR CHASE! Who knew a mini-van could go so fast?
All work ceases during a Shep Smith-narrated car chase. #fact
This might be a top-5 Shep Smith car chase moment right now. Just outstanding.
Did that guy just shake the police? He parked, walked slowly into the building. Shep is stunned! "I don't know, you decide."
"Was this a police chase or were we just following someone late for work."
A sampling of Smith's his earlier work:
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