Red Eye Panel Blasts Fellow Panelist For Dissing Rand Paul Filibuster

Senator Rand Paul continues to receive praise from all corners of the media, including Fox's late gab fest Red Eye for his filibusterhref> on droning American citizens. All but one of the panel from Saturday morning's broadcast, comedian Joe DeRosa, showered Paul with positive comments for his filibuster. DeRosa called Paul's performance 'showboating.'

'This was showboating and nothing more. This was ridiculous. This was exactly like when Trey Anastasio plays a 35 minute solo. 'Look! I can do this! Nobody wants to listen to it though. It was annoying. It was dumb. It was like a bad Andy Kaufman routine. It accomplished nothing. And it was a show piece. It was a way for the right to take a shot at the left and I get it,' said Derosa.

Red Eye host Greg Gutfeld thanked DeRosa for his Phish reference but derided DeRosa for saying that it was a left vs. right issue.

Reason Magazine editor-in-chief Matt Welch noted agreed with Gutfeld and noted that there is now a bipartisan civil liberties caucus in the Senate that speaks up on issues like drones. Welch called the filibuster and civil liberties caucus 'awesome.'

(Full disclosure I am a paid contributor to Reason magazine.)

Derosa continued to defend his opinion on Paul's filibuster saying that the right doesn't have much of a leg to stand on when it comes to civil liberties.

'The right is the team that usually doesn't really have a problem with this sort of thing. Don't you think they are showboating a little bit? 'Look! Look what Obama is doing'' said DeRosa.

'Joe, you are making a mistake. Rand Paul is at his heart libertarian. I would not put him as a traditional conservative,' said Gutfeld, who admitted that he likes drones and agrees with DeRosa but that if the roles were reversed Democrats would be up in arms if a Republican president had a similar policy.

During the halftime segment with Andy Levy, DeRosa was taken to task by Levy for not recognizing that Paul actually does care about civil liberties issues and that wasn't showboating. Levy noted that Jedediah Bila pointed out early that this is right in Paul's 'wheelhouse.'

'I agree that he's very passionate about it. I agree that he really cares about it. I think there are more effective things you can do with your time. It's like fireworks,' DeRosa said.

Gutfeld that took a shot at DeRosa's comedic career and performing in-front of a small crowd at a nightclub.

Levy suggested that some of the Republicans, like Marco Rubio, that joined Paul on the floor of the Senate during filibuster may have a political motive in joining him.

Watch both clips below via Fox News.