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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

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To: Brad from Tennessee

My take on Colmes was that he was a bit meek and eventually...really didn’t even believe much of what he was saying. Kind of mailing it in, collecting his paycheck, and secretly wanting to distance himself from the real psychotic lunatics on the left. When it comes to our adversaries Colmes was never mentioned as one of the true reprehensible vermin (like Shaun King, Keith Ellison, Maddow etc)

He was a husband, a father, a good guy from what I hear. May he Rest in Peace.


41 posted on 02/25/2017 7:03:14 PM PST by longsufferingjetsfan
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To: dforest

I guess nobody ever taught them if you can’t say something nice don’t say it at all really f***** up I can’t believe they’re saying this about this man.


42 posted on 02/25/2017 7:15:25 PM PST by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: TakebackGOP
"Alan Colmes didn’t taken non-liberal positions like David Brooks takes non-conservative positions."

That's a good point. I don't see Brooks much but I happened to be at a neighbor's house for dinner and saw the show on Friday. Earlier that day on NPR I heard the Maine crew say the R party is being turned into EthnoNationalists. Friday night, Brooks said the same newly invented vocabulary word and had trouble saying it. Obviously it was the new term passed out on the public broadcasting talking points that day.

43 posted on 02/25/2017 7:20:24 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: stinkerpot65

The nasty little cuck twit who wrote this article.


I definitely think the first five words should be saved for this guy’s eulogy if he loses a cancer battle.

RIP to Alan Colmes, a fair and decent opponent.


44 posted on 02/25/2017 7:23:11 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Well, THIS is mean-spirited.


45 posted on 02/25/2017 7:31:44 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: dp0622
I HATED his views, but for some reason am very saddened. I NEVER saw him as a mean guy, or bitter and angry.

Couldn't agree more. Was surprised how sad I felt. He was a good-humored person; not a hater.

46 posted on 02/25/2017 7:33:35 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: left that other site
He was even remembered fondly here on FR...VERY unusual for a liberal.

In the days when I used to watch Fox News, I couldn't stand him. Whenever I watched Hannity and Colmes, I'd hit the mute button (but still had to see his ugly face).

Nevertheless, I am always sad to hear of someone's passing (unless they're a mass murderer of some kind), even if they're a sworn liberal enemy. When it all comes down to it, we're all human and are headed for the same destination no matter our politics.

Death has a way of putting things in a different perspective. While I didn't like Colmes on TV, I still felt like he might be a fun guy to hang out with and talk to, as long as politics never came up. I do not get that impression from most other rabid, humorless, absolute self-serious libtards dominating most of the media landscape.

I should be shocked with this kind of tasteless vitriol aimed at a man after his passing (especially considering that he was one of their own), but nothing the left does surprises me anymore.

47 posted on 02/25/2017 7:34:10 PM PST by pcottraux ( depthsofpentecost.com)
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To: VeniVidiVici

He looks like Zippy the Pinhead.


48 posted on 02/25/2017 7:34:45 PM PST by pcottraux ( depthsofpentecost.com)
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To: pcottraux

Exactly!


49 posted on 02/25/2017 7:35:02 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

He has the same raised-eyebrow look that toddlers get when they’re about to suck their pacifiers or hug their blankie.


50 posted on 02/25/2017 7:37:15 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: SoldierDad
The only thing I can say about Colmes is that he always, ALWAYS, made me want to reach through my television and smash his smarmy face.

Same here, I hated Colmes. Now Fox has a black guy with glasses that is worse than Colmes. The guy is toxic and argumentative without meaningful facts. Can't remember the name of the black guy, but I hate him more than Colmes.

51 posted on 02/25/2017 8:40:18 PM PST by roadcat
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The rabid screed of the author, Isaac Chotiner, says we need to fund more mental hospitals. The liberal insanity in his piece is revealing mental disease. Trump is like shining a insanity detector over the land which triggers a flashing light: “INSANE! INSANE! INSANE! INSANE!” Helicopters can then swoop down, where workers can dawn straight jackets and send them to the appropriate sanatorium.


52 posted on 02/25/2017 11:09:14 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Hannity had a stronger personally and had the benefit of being right, so he dominated the show to some extent.

But that doesn’t mean Colmes was weak, I remember him as a vigorous advocate for his party’s incorrect views.


53 posted on 02/26/2017 12:00:18 AM PST by Impy (End the kritarchy!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Slate Finally Finds the Bottom of the Barrel With Tasteless Alan Colmes Obituary
http://www.mediaite.com/online/slate-finally-finds-the-bottom-of-the-barrel-with-tasteless-alan-colmes-obituary/


54 posted on 02/26/2017 7:53:37 AM PST by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
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To: VeniVidiVici; Brad from Tennessee
Here are two tweets posted in townhall.com tipsheet article by Matt Vespa

Colmes was actually my favorite liberal when he was together with Hannity. After that not so much

55 posted on 02/26/2017 10:44:31 AM PST by Kaslin ( Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible)
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