[Jamiecon]

Scoble - enthusiastic about everything, always all-in, naive, friendly, innocent, perfect teeth, health obsessed self-publicist

Paxman - cynical, jaded, sarcastic, hates politicians for a living, lives on tea, coffee and cereal*

This is like the cross-Atlantic friendship society! Talk about wheeling out your national stereotypes. Well done BBC. Again.

* may not be true, but he looks like it

[greyman]

Why exactly do you consider Robert to be "naive"?

[Jamiecon]

To be perfectly frank it was a throwaway comment - I was being facetious.

I don't consider accusing someone of naivete to be particularly pejorative but if you are offended on his behalf, I suppose I would qualify the comment by saying he strikes me as the kind of bloke that would pay full price at a market stall rather than haggling. As do lots of Americans :-)