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Alan Colmes, Buffoon and Patsy, Was Fox News’ Original Liberal Weakling (Slate)
Slate ^ | February 23, 2017 | By Isaac Chotiner

Posted on 02/25/2017 3:13:17 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

The death of Fox News contributor Alan Colmes, who passed away in New York City this week at the age of 66, has been greeted with an outpouring of emotion from the channel’s on-and-off-the-air talent. Colmes, it seems, was a nice guy, a good friend, and an ideal colleague: all qualities one would imagine people who have had to spend their lives around the likes of Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly would welcome. And while one should usually view tributes to the recently departed with a forgiving cynicism, in this case they are all too believable: Colmes was the most absurd, useless, and mocked television personality in America for many years, precisely because he was nice. In the context of Fox News, being a nice guy—and a “liberal” nice guy at that—meant being a buffoon, and a patsy. Colmes not only played the part to perfection—he defined it.

Colmes had a radio career, but he will almost surely be remembered for his job co-hosting Hannity & Colmes, the dreadful, morally bankrupt, Foxified version of Crossfire that ran for a dozen years and birthed the even more dreadful and morally bankrupt Hannity. The joke about Hannity & Colmes was always that Hannity dominated it to such an extent that Colmes was left as a mere bystander, asking soft questions while Hannity berated whatever liberal guest they brought on that night. This was of course true—Colmes’ air of nearly amused passivity became a running joke in itself—but it understated the way the format of the show set him up to fail. . .

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The Leftist view of the sad passing of Alan Colmes is a polar opposite of the grief and love expressed by FOX's conservative pundits.
1 posted on 02/25/2017 3:13:17 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Leftists are nasty people inside and out. They embarrass me as human beings.

I am really sick of these venom filled pustules.

2 posted on 02/25/2017 3:19:49 PM PST by dforest
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The author is rabid...a horrible thing to witness...


3 posted on 02/25/2017 3:21:02 PM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

He was even remembered fondly here on FR...VERY unusual for a liberal.

Leftists eat their own.

It’s what they do.


4 posted on 02/25/2017 3:21:05 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
These people are totally detached from reality. Yes, Alan was a token liberal. But if David Brooks dies, while I don't have any real respect to show, nor do I have hatred or disrespect.

Liberals are seething with hatred now. It's like an infection they always had, but though it dwells in their lymph system, at the moment it's a chronic puss enflamed abscess at the surface of the skin. May the inflammation increase, may puss spray all over America, may the gaping infection be exposed to the sunlight!

5 posted on 02/25/2017 3:21:06 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: left that other site

I have no fond memories of him at all....


6 posted on 02/25/2017 3:22:05 PM PST by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Sorry to hear of his passing. Although I disagreed with him, he seemed like a very nice guy! RIP Alan!


7 posted on 02/25/2017 3:22:22 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Yeah, real leftists lie, make up facts, filibuster the other side, scream, shout, move the goalposts, change the terms of debate, and declare themselves victorious when they lose.
8 posted on 02/25/2017 3:23:29 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Alan Colmes was the Washington Generals of Hannity & Colmes.


9 posted on 02/25/2017 3:24:12 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: clintonh8r

All I was saying is that FR people are a lot kinder than liberals when somebody (anybody) dies.


10 posted on 02/25/2017 3:24:16 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I was not a fan of his because he was a screaming liberal, but I cannot and would not even think about speaking so repulsively about him as this writer has. The man is dead; show a modicum of respect, you classless liberal.


11 posted on 02/25/2017 3:25:24 PM PST by NoKoolAidforMe (Liberalism is a mental disorder.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I HATED his views, but for some reason am very saddened.

I NEVER saw him as a mean guy, or bitter and angry.

Like most dems.

Just deluded.

RIP.

He was the Joe Scarborough of FOX but a good guy.


12 posted on 02/25/2017 3:26:15 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Colmes was the most absurd, useless, and mocked television personality in America for many years

Slate's just trying to cover for their own Michael Kinsley.

Robert Novak regularly reduced him to stuttering incoherence on "Crossfire."

13 posted on 02/25/2017 3:27:16 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The nasty little cuck twit who wrote this article.

14 posted on 02/25/2017 3:27:33 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

These people are sick and demented.
It as if we were back in the seventies, and all of the Mentally incapable were once again allowed to roam the streets.
We need a Nationwide “come to Jesus” moment...Bigly!


15 posted on 02/25/2017 3:27:54 PM PST by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I actually laughed as I read the article. Not for comes but at how unstable the left is after trumps victory. Everything triggers them. Even the death of a,fellow liberal.


16 posted on 02/25/2017 3:29:25 PM PST by BRL
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Watching Colmes for more than 30 seconds left me wanting to punch him in his weasel face, so I didn’t see much of the show. I’d guess that the authors real beef is that Hannity kicked Colmes’ ass and the author is now blaming the victim.


17 posted on 02/25/2017 3:30:11 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
In all his unhappiness. What a dweeby looking thing.


18 posted on 02/25/2017 3:31:33 PM PST by VeniVidiVici
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To: Brad from Tennessee; flaglady47
The Leftist sickos sure like to eat their own, don't they!

Leni

19 posted on 02/25/2017 3:31:55 PM PST by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!......GO PENCE !!!......Boycott Starbucks and Target !!!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Colmes was more of a modern (not classic) liberal than a hard core leftist. That of course is unacceptable to the latter who now define the Democrat party.


20 posted on 02/25/2017 3:34:06 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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