Liberals berate Fox News liberal Colmes

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[doug from upland]

Too bad he is so wrong on our impeached rapist traitor.

[OldFriend]

The powers that be in Philly are wanting him to run.

I wish he would just run to rehab.....he is out of control with his fast talk and spit spraying on the guests.

[what's up]

Alan is not in the group of worst-liberals like Paul Begala, Rahm Emmanuel, etc.

I heard him say the other day that he was against all the Rush-bashing that was going on...and I have heard him make similar statements before.

If there are going to be liberals debating in this world, I prefer Alan.

[Timesink]

Not a Shenanigan or Schadenfreude, but pingworthy IMHO

[NutCrackerBoy]

In his best-selling book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them," Al Franken ridicules him, even reducing Colmes' name to a smaller type size than Hannity's.

OK, the smaller type thing is humorous. It's the same phenomenon we have seen umpteen million times on traditional (read: left-leaning) debate shows where you have some guy "from the Right!" (as Ann Coulter has pointed out)

[Timesink]

The liberal media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Media studied two weeks of "Hannity & Colmes" this summer and found that between the co-hosts and their guests, conservatives spoke 2,768 lines to 2,004 for liberals.

FAIR has pulled this statistical stunt several times in the last few years, even though they know it's BS. The reason the conservatives get "more lines" is because we're in power. Any news program that wants to cover the news is going to spend more time talking about what the actual leaders are doing and saying, not what the anklebiters are moaning about.

And we won't even begin to discuss the simple reality that there are not always "two sides to every story".

[Clintonfatigued]

The reason the current left dislikes Alan Colmes is because he is a different kind of liberal. He is an old-fashioned liberal who seeks to be fair to everyone and keep an open mind. Long ago, that was part of liberal orthodoxy. But those admirable traits have been replaced by mindless, militant Politial Correctness. Also, Colmes is simply a soft-spoken and mild-mannered personality. That doesn't indicate a lack of conviction, it's just the kind of person he is. Not all people are firebrands. In fact, Colmes provides a contrast with rapid-fire Hannity in personality as well as outlook. That's another reason that Hannity & Colmes has sometimes passed Larry King in the ratings. The politically correct crowd is mad because it's not their kind of strident leftism that Colmes presents.

[Welsh Rabbit]

Franken imagines Colmes having to earn his Fox News Channel salary by doing other odd jobs.
"In Alan's new autobiography, `Back to You, Sean: The Alan Colmes Story,' we learn that Colmes' duties as co-host of `Hannity & Colmes' include adding toner to the copiers and printers, loofah-ing Roger Ailes in his personal steam room, and ordering Chinese food for editors working on misleading video packages," Franken writes.

This is the first thing from Franken I have ever read. So it takes Franken and about 20 Havard grad students to come up with a poor Dave Berry imitation?

[Paleo Conservative]

Conservative fans of Sean Hannity have little use for him.

Oh no, he's a useful idiot. If Colmes didn't exist we'd have to invent him.

[Clintonfatigued]

Very well-stated!

[vp_cal]

mark my words- Sean Hannity will one day
run and possibly win the presidency.

Many people who do not have time to
think deeply about an issue will tend to
think of his simplistic arguments as being
brilliant. And women think he is 'telegenic'
as well.

To me he seems like a cross between a
a guy who got kicked off the high-school
debate club and a street thug with a baseball
bat.

He brutally cuts people off, shamelessly distorts
their positions and then uses twisted logic to
support his own views...

o'reilly, self-serving though he may be, for me is the model of someone who can agressively and eloquently convey a complex but logical point of view. Sometimes it is spin, but if you agree with his premises, then his logic makes
sense.

[ChadGore]

The Liberal Hate:

[ConservativeMan55]

Go back to DU you troll! ZOT!!!

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[Cathryn Crawford]

I personally respect Alan Colmes a great deal. There are times when I'd rather hear him than Hannity.

[Randjuke]

Aieeeeeeee!!!!!

[NutCrackerBoy]

o'reilly, self-serving though he may be, for me is the model of someone who can agressively and eloquently convey a complex but logical point of view

Neither O'Reilly nor Hannity hold my interest. Hannity on the radio is at his most interesting when debating honest, smart lefties (eg. Donahue).

[Randjuke]

Heh, funny you should mention Tucker, I was thinking of him as our version of Colmes.

I had the same thought, but after further reflection Colmes is much more able then Carlson. At least Colmes can put together a coherent argument instead of just roll his eyes and groan. Tucker Carlson is the ultimate bender-over and ankle-grabber.

[stands2reason]

I think liberals have no place in the Democratic Party anymore. What's odd is how the media uses the phrase "liberal democrat" to describe the far left, which actually is less than liberal and more autocratic.

[Tennessean4Bush]

Colmes, despite his inexplicable intellectual attachment to socialism, debates with far more grace.

He is graceful, but routinely pushes vacuous and facile arguments and lines of questioning in a 3rd grader style. But gracefully, no doubt.

[mrustow]

Colmes is rare for a liberal - he actually has integrity, and sometimes he even makes sense.

He's a throwback to a time when the concept "patriotic liberal" was not an oxymoron.