As for the Palins, Sean Hannity believes in forgiveness. His opinion is important in this case. He'll be the apparent mediator, but why should he roll like a trained pony on this?
I don't think a simple, “I'm sorry” in the TV screen is enough. Colmes should, at the very least, first look Governor Palin in the eye and then her husband. If they don't want to see him, I suppose he's off the hook and can apologize in a more convenient manner.
It appears that Alana Colmes is on Hannity and Colmes because he is so grating. He interrupts constantly for a variety of reasons, to squelch what he doesn’t want to hear, to herd guests, because he can’t interview without trying to place himself as the center of attention, etc. That he continues as co-anchor says someone at FOX wants this insutling prick on the air, one would have to surmise for the grating effect which garners attention because he is so obnoxious. Colmes is a blatant democrat partisan with as dead a soul as any sycophantic democrat. He is a leftist and is a spectacle of disgust. From such many cannot bring themselves to look away. And Sean has been around the Colmescrap too long because now Sean is adopting some of the interruption technique and it is not pretty and drags a gentleman into ungentlemanly behavior. Fortunately, I’m not so much a gentleman as Sean so I feel free to call Alan Colmes the nasty littleman leftist prick he is. He revealed much about his filthy mind with his immediate assault on Saraha Palin’s integrity, and he did it instinctively because he has no integrity of his own. And neither does the giant prick keeping Colmes on the air.