Alan Colmes
Alan Colmes (born September 24, 1950 in New York City, New York), is the liberal half of the Fox News Channel's popular political debate program Hannity & Colmes, along with conservative Sean Hannity. He started his radio career in New York when WABC hired him, then a comedian, to do the morning drive time show billed as "W. Alan B. Colmes" but when he was fired and got jobs at WNBC and WEVD, he dropped the middle initial B.
He was a well-known radio talk show personality in the New York City area hacving lost his job at WEVD when that station was bought by the ESPN wing of the Diseny media empire and converted to all sports before he was hired by Fox News Channel CEO Roger Ailes. The open spot had been temporary labeled as "LTBD" or "Liberal To Be Determined."
Colmes hosts his own nationally syndicated radio show, The Alan Colmes Show, formerly Fox News Live with Alan Colmes.
Colmes is married to Dr. Jocelyn Crowley, the sister of conservative radio host Monica Crowley, who has substituted several times for Hannity on Hannity & Colmes. His parents are Louis and Fay Colmes.
Colmes has written one book, Red, White & Liberal: How Left is Right and Right is Wrong (ISBN 0060562978) which was published in October 2003.
Colmes says that, despite their philosophical and ideological differences, his relationship with Hannity is a warm one, and that the reason for the success of Hannity & Colmes is "because of our differences, not in spite of them."
Criticisms
Alan Colmes has been criticized by some liberals for not being as aggressive as Hannity on television. One prominent critic has been Al Franken in his books. He printed Colmes' name in a smaller font throughout his book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by referring to Hannity and Colmes as "Hannity and Colmes". Colmes has often been referred to disparagingly as a "Democrat In Name Only" or a "Fox News liberal" [1].
Bob Garfield, interviewing Colmes for On the Media, asked him if he were "the human straw man" and a "foil" rather than an equal of Hannity. Colmes replied that if the audience saw him that way that was "their problem", and said "It's more fun for me to be in a situation like this than to preach to the choir!" [2]
Trivia
- Colmes was the last voice heard on 66 WNBC and counted down the time before WNBC was replaced by WFAN.
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