[Brett66]

"I thought a true liberal is someone who was open to the other side and open to all ideas,"

Haven't seen too many of those around. I think they're extinct.

[Sonny M]

Personally, I always wished that MSNBC had done a Alan Keyes and Phil Donahue show, that would have had fireworks all the time.

[DallasMike]

I exchanged e-mails with Colmes a couple of years back and he was a nice, reasonable gentleman. He's proof (and about the only proof) that not all liberals are raving lunatic jerks in the Terry McAullife mold.

I was listening to James Dobson's Focus on the Family a few weeks ago and they had Michael Reagan as a guest. Reagan said that when his sister died, Alan Colmes was the very first person to call him with condolences.

Colmes is a class act. No wonder so many liberals hate him.

[badmrbunny]

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

[At _War_With_Liberals]

'Join us leftists or be crushed' is their MO.

I have no sympathy for Alan. He is a fraud.

He plays a pol part on HC. He strays from lib attacks just enuf to not piss off viewers of the show, because ratings would go down and he would be fired if he said what he really wants to say. HC is his meal ticket to fame and wealth. He will not rock the boat now.

When his run on HC ends, just watch how fast he does a 180 and joins the leftist gang. There is no doubt.

[Drango]

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.

LOL...perhaps I just need more coffee this AM, but this just struck me as funny. Counting words rather than substance! LOL

[fishbabe]

oh my god,conservatives got 700 more lines than liberals....SHUT DOWN FREE SPEECH !!!!!!the poor libs aren't getting their fair share of the lines of communication....

[jigsaw]

Poor Alan's problem is that he's hamstrung trying to defend the indefensible.

[ModelBreaker]

The left has its David Gergen. We have our Alan Colmes.

[Mo1]

You should see the e-mails he gets from people who don't. Wrote one disturbed fellow: "When you talk I fantasize about shooting you. I pretend I have a pistol in my hand and shoot you all over. I pretend to shoot you in the head and in your torso ... If you died I would celebrate."

This from a liberal?? ... A liberal who thinks the war is Iraq is a bad thing?

Well Gosh Goly Gee, aren't they just a fun loving Group ../sarcasm>

[metalboy]

Liberals don`t like Colmes because he isn`t a traitor like the usual liberal. That`s all it is. He doesn`t show full throated on the kness support for Saddam, and doesn`t curse out the US while on foriegn soil. How dare he.

[John Jorsett]

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.

That's because most of the conservative lines are Hannity yelling, "Say it! Say it! Say you hate America. Say you want us to fail! Say it!" It's fun for about the first 2 minutes, then it gets old.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

lib·er·al

• 1. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
  2. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
  3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
  4. Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.
• 1. Tending to give freely; generous: a liberal benefactor.
  2. Generous in amount; ample: a liberal serving of potatoes.
• Not strict or literal; loose or approximate: a liberal translation.
• Of, relating to, or based on the traditional arts and sciences of a college or university curriculum: a liberal education.
• 1. Archaic. Permissible or appropriate for a person of free birth; befitting a lady or gentleman.
  2. Obsolete. Morally unrestrained; licentious

  The dictionary really needs an overveiw and rewritten !

[hosepipe]

"People say to me, `Why don't you fight fire with fire?'" he said. "You fight fire with water, not fire."

Actually, Sometimes, You fight fire by arresteing the democrat sickos that start them

[SupplySider]

Although I agree with Hannity 90% of the time, I much prefer Colmes demeanor. Hannity is a pious knee-jerk conservative who never stops whining. Colmes, despite his inexplicable intellectual attachment to socialism, debates with far more grace.

Liberals should love the guy, he regularly makes Hannity look like an ungentlemanly zealot. I guess that is lost on a party that actually admires Al Franken, Micael Moore, and James Carville.

[alloysteel]

"Liberals" as they exist today, do not tolerate any break in the barricades, and the least show of wavering, or weakness in espousing all the pet causes they have come to bring under their umbrella, is excuse enough to turn with the savagery of Tasmanian devils on the apostate in their ranks.

Alan Colmes may yet become more of a conservative that Tucker Carlson. Perhaps he already is.

[johnfl61]

FAIR is a ACLU socialist instrument.

[Tall_Texan]

As much as I usually disagree with Colmes, I do have to admire his honesty and have sympathy for his situation. He could have gone to hundreds of places and been just another unchallenged leftist media tool. What makes H&C different from Crossfire and other political gabfests (outside FNC and a view shows on MSNBC) is that the topics are usually what the conservatives are talking about, not what the liberals want to talk about.

If Patty Murray says something entirely ignorant about Osama bin Laden, the lib networks pretend it didn't happen or, at best, claim she was misunderstood - making any conservative guest look petty and small for even making an issue of it. But they could spend hours on a perceived gaffe by Trent Lott or Dan Quayle.

On H&C, Colmes often has to play defense and there are few other places on television where liberals have to play defense. He could be on in all sorts of other venues where his liberalism would never be challenged. I admire that he at least allows himself to be challenged where many liberals won't dare expose their shortcomings like that.

[The Raven]

How about the Crossfire show.....??? on CNN......

Do the libs get a good "Right" seat?

[FlyVet]

I don't agree with much of anything Colmes says, but he is a nice guy. Used to listen to his radio show all the time, it was a riot because most of the callers were conservatives slamming on him. He never gets vicious with people.

I imagine all the talk guys and gals get death threats regularly. O'Reilly has said he does, and so has Glenn Beck, who has required security guards at his home. There's a lotta sickos out there.