As for Smerconish, he can be annoying but he went to heroic lengths to tell the truth about cop killer Mumia. I attended a huge dinner Smerconish put together to honor the fallen policeman and it was from Smerconish at that dinner I learned how strong the evidence was against Mumia (e.g. eyewitness who watched Mumia do the killing, fall to the curb and be arrested).
Just because he calls a spade a spade (Mumia a cop killer) doesn't make him a conservative. I appreciate when he takes up good causes, but he clearly does not have a conservative viewpoint on the world.