Since he's a bashing short and is paid by his employer, he's a paid basher.
He's not bashing a short you nimrod, he's bashing a person who shorts stocks - surely even you can see the difference.
It appears we have a communication difficuly due to the fact that you appear to be using a different definition for "basher" than the rest of the known world.
Let me get this straight then. By your definition a paid basher is anyone who says anything negative about anything or anyone else and is paid to do so.
So Jay Leno and your weatherman are paid bashers also?
Market Data 
Markets 
AI
