Shep Smith Explains How White House Took Dig at Fox News at SOTU Lunch

White House Drops ‘News’ from Fox News Placeguards at State of the Union Lunch (National Review Online)

It was a subtler snub than the Obama administration’s 2009 claim that Fox News was “a wing of the Republican party.” But that didn’t stop Fox anchor Shepard Smith from calling out the White House for slighting the news network at Tuesday’s State of the Union lunch.

Smith spent much of his on-air news hour waxing poetic about the lunch, which President Obama held in order to lay out his policy proposals before a small group of influential news anchors.