There is an element of holding feet to fire. However, next time there's a debate, just listen to the tone, logic, and quality of argument from him, and pretend that he is David Gregory or Russert interviewing the President.
To me, he substitutes shrillness and illogic for substantive and reasoned positions, something for which we justifiably deride liberals in the press.
That being said, he's a wildly successful talk show host and I'm not.
IMO, Sean does a great job. The only exception is him having ANY lib on. When I tune in - the last thing I want to hear is ANY twisting the facts, clueless, lying lib. And then he is most gracious to them - and they KNOW he will be that way.
I'd never give them any air time - they already have the MSM 24/7.