It was a Fox News love-in when anchor Shepard Smith visited “The O’Reilly Factor” to talk about his recent televised face-offs with Ralph Nader and Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher. Well, maybe not a full-fledged love-in, as Smith took a mild swipe at network superstar Sean Hannity while he was at it.

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