Posted on 02/11/2007 3:56:49 PM PST by RedRover
On the February 9th broadcast of Hannity & Colmes, Alan Colmes made an outrageous and poisonous statement that was not corrected on air.
Speaking to Oliver North, Colmes supported Congressman John Murtha's ugly and destructive lie that, "no question about it", Marines in Haditha had "killed innocent civilians in cold blood".
Defending the indefensible, Colmes told the viewers that there have been "confessions and convictions" in the Haditha Marine case.
Now Darryl Sharratt, the father of a Haditha Marine has a question:
"I would like to ask Alan Colmes where he got his information. There have been no convictions. There have been no confessions."
On the February 10th broadcast of Kit Jarrell's The Front Line, Mr. Sharratt stated, "Evidently, he is not doing the research to be on national television. He comes out in front of millions of people and makes this statement and it is 100% wrong."
So what now, Fox News?
If Mr. Colmes' false assertion continues to be left uncorrected, Fox News will contribute to a tainted jury pool, cause additional pain to the families, and mislead supporters and potential donors to the Haditha Marine defense funds. Through his statement, Mr. Colmes reached millions of people with the message that guilt has already been established.
Fox News and Alan Colmes must make amends...
1. Fox News owes its viewers the opportunity to hear from Darryl Sharratt or other Haditha Marine family members to set the record straight. None of the Haditha Marines have yet faced a hearing. Anything that is known about the case or the investigation has been leaked by prosecutors and politicians. The media has been complicit in this and it must stop now.
2. Alan Colmes owes the Marines and their families an apology. I suggest he make it in the form of a donation to any of the Haditha Marine Defense Funds. (For Mr. Colmes' convenience, all the information he needs about fund donations is here).
These are fair requests to make of a news channel long supported by patriots. Now it's up to Alan Colmes and Fox News.
David Allender
Defend Our Marines
PS. If you have a blog or post online at military websites, please help spread the word. We will keep you posted.
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Smarty pants.
I e-mailed Alan Colmes and he responded, saying he corrected himself on his show last night.
smooth, you clearly have more juice with the Mods than me. Would you mind asking that [Update at post 216] be added to the title?
Poor, pitiful Hannity and Colmes, wiling away in their unforgiving environment, eh?
LMAO!
Use correct English, lily.
It's Anna's baby daddy.
; )
Yes.
I respected him for interviewing Diana Irey early in the campaign. But he never followed up. Didn't attend the Boot Murtha rally. Didn't have her back later in the campaign when it would have had more of an impact.
And I was truly hoping that he or Colmes would say, "You know, fair is fair. I'm writing a check to the defense fund to be sure these Marines have the best defense money can buy."
I better stop now because I'm still pretty angry, truth to tell. And we have to keep focused on moving forward.
I'm gonna do what mamma always said (just for this minute, anyway), if ya can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
Okay, minute's up.
They're a morphed version of Jerry Springer and this incident is what sealed that opinion.
That non-forgiving environment comment PISSED me off.
You have all the pics.
all your pics are belong to me haha
Huh?
awwwwwgeez, I can't explain it : (
smooth, can you help?
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