Fox's Shep Smith Calls Robin Williams Coward for Suicide

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From: The David Pakman Show

[samsingh]

1. and i thought shep smith was a little better than his fox idiot peers

fox news needs to be dismantled

[HERVEPA]

2. Way late on this one.

He did. But he later issued a very sincere and very real apology, not the usual BS kind.

[hlthe2b]

3. Yes. I agree. His apology was prompt and I believe very sincere as well.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

4. The apology was good, but I think we should cut just about everyone some slack

for a few days.

Someone on my FaceBook feed posted that it's like we all lost our favorite funny uncle at the same time. We are all grieving, in a way this nation hasn't grieved together, in decades. And because Robin Williams was such a presence in our lives, the hurt is far more personal to us in a way I have never seen in a celebrity death, though the death of Princess Diana comes closest.

Unfortunately, everyone grieves in their own way, and some of those ways will necessarily not be ways we might approve. Anger at a person who takes his own life, however irrational, is perfectly natural. Hence the tendency to use words like "cowardly" (i.e., if he had just held on one more day, maybe I could have helped him) or "selfish" (i.e., he ended his own pain, but in the process caused so much pain to the rest of us). These words are born in the anger of grief, and that anger has to burn itself out in its own time. I long ago learned never to begrudge a person their manner of grieving.