I used to turn into him several years back, when at least pretended to be quasi-conservative. His show is before Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity, so you would think he would at least be in the same zip code.
He started to get really annoying once he went on MSNBC for opinion, and then went sprinting to the left when the Marxist there starting feeding his ego. His self promotion for his own books, articles, and sound bites is truly nauseating. He acts like a kid who found his father's porn stash under the bed.
On top of all that, he constantly berates and belittles his staff on the air. If his engineer does not have some obscure sound clip up "right away", Smerconish loses it and acts like a complete jerk. He treats his producer and all the staff the same way.
His mentor is Sen Arlen Sphincter.
Now you know more.
On top of all of this, when he came out for Obama and sold his soul to him, he stopped talking about topics in real and meaningful ways which might hurt Obama - the economy, terrorism, health care, etc. Oh, he touches on them, but on the fringe, and has guests on that twist things for Obama. Then, Smerconish runs out of things to talk about, so he goes off on some stupid weird news clip or something.
It really is pathetic.