Michael “Egg Head” Smerconish is a political shapeshifter with an unpleasant voice.
He came up through the ranks as a “conservative” talk show host in Philadelphia, but he somehow scored a major interview on health care with Sheik Obama in 2009, and he eventually parlayed that into a job with CNN as the country swung hard to the left, and he went with that trend.
As for this piece, the phrase “damning with faint praise” comes to mind. Smerconish is not a conservative. At best he is an establishment Republican.
Every time he gets close to praising Trump, he tempers that with weasel words like “for better or worse”. As long as he keeps straddling the fence by playing to both sides, his commentator job with CNN is secure.
But he is absolutely right to criticize Time for not picking Trump as Person of the Year.
IOW, Smerconish is a political whore.
Every time he gets close to praising Trump, he tempers that with weasel words like “for better or worse”. As long as he keeps straddling the fence by playing to both sides, his commentator job with CNN is secure.
But he is absolutely right to criticize Time for not picking Trump as Person of the Year.
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well said.