Hannity and Colmes split up

[MessiahRp]

Source: Politico

Fox News announced that after 12 years, Alan Colmes will be leaving the top-rated "Hannity & Colmes" at the end of the year.

“I approached Bill Shine (FNC’s Senior Vice President of Programming) earlier this year about wanting to move on after 12 years to develop new and challenging ways to contribute to the growth of the network," Colmes said in a statement. "Although it’s bittersweet to leave one of the longest marriages on cable news, I’m proud that both Sean (Hannity) and I remained unharmed after sitting side by side, night after night for so many years.”

Sean Hannity said Colmes was "a remarkable co-host," "great friend," and "skillful debate partner.”

Colmes will remain a Fox commentator, and continue hosting "The Alan Colmes Show" on Fox News Radio. Also, he's developing a weekend show.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/1108/Han...

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Well there's one of the two "liberals" Rupert Murdoch named as being on his station a few years back gone... Greta Van Sustern, you're next!

Rp

[Fluffdaddy]

1. Useless................That's all I got to say

[HopeHoops]

2. Couldn't they just prop up a stuffed weasel in Alan's chair? I mean, who would notice?

[KoKo]

27. lol's....

[wizstars]

40. now THAT is an insult to the Mustelidae family!!

you should apologize to the weasels you have offended

[HopeHoops]

51. It is a simple case of coincidental resemblance - no offense to weasels was intended.

[wizstars]

52. Okay, I'll forgive you, but.........

don't be surprised to see the whole SPCW (society for Prevention of Cruelty to Weasels) at your doorstep tomorrow!)

[Changenow]

3. Where will Hannity find an even less effective

"liberal" to replace Colmes?

Maybe they'll call Dick Morris a liberal and marry him off to Hannity?

[HopeHoops]

Then the show would just be two dicks ;}

[Truth Teller]

4. How about Nancy Pelosi?

Think he'd make her as starry eyed as Bush did?

[RFKHumphreyObama]

5. Won't be a problem

They've got a whole set of FAUX news liberals...Pat Caddell, Susan Estrich, Howard Wolfsen

Heck, they could even trot out Uncle Zell

[ikojo]

20. What about Juan Williams?

He's a fake liberal AND he's black!

[cactusfractal]

38. No kidding... Juan Williams

...makes me cringe every time his NON-objectivity is heard on NPR. He needs to be jettisoned...

[stlsaxman]

48. that's the PERFECT choice!

The Sean and Juan Show...

[Fluffdaddy]

6. They can call it ........The Hannity and Toe Sucker Show

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. I'm sure they'll find some spineless DLC lackey to take his place

When does Harold Ford's deal with MSNBC expire?

[harun]

50. I was thinking Harold Ford as well.

[WriteDown]

8. Colmes seemed like a nice guy....

good luck to him in whatever he does.

Not the most effective guy, but at least he seemed genuine.

[Fluffdaddy]

11. Useless...............He let Hannity and his kind walk all over him......everynight

[TheEuclideanOne]

22. EUREKA! They can just put a doormat in his chair with "Colmes" written on it.

Who would really notice the difference?

[tularetom]

9. That poor bastard

They must pay him a small fortune to sit there day after day and be a doormat for the ignoramus Hannity.

But I don't see how much of a price tag they can put on his self respect. He must've got sick of looking in the mirror every morning and pondering what an invertebrate he'd become.

[gtar100]

43. He gets his revenge on his radio show.

If you've heard it, you'd see he's actually quite good at handling rw nuts. And he gets more than his share because he's on Fox Radio. I've had the opposite experience with him than most people here. I never see his show on television and would never bother with it, considering the doofus he had to work with. But I listen to his radio show frequently and, surprisingly (because of his TV reputation), he is fully in charge and his ability to formulate an argument and present his viewpoint is quite respectable. I think you're correct about him getting paid to sit there and let hannity be the dumbfuck he is without too much challenge because Colmes could run circles around him if given free reign. I hope this move frees up his talent and he comes into his own on television.

[madinmaryland]

10. Guess we know Joe Lieberman's next job.

[ksimons]

12. Bwahahahahah!! His royal putridness awaits! nt

[StreetKnowledge]

24. Indeed. When Lieberman loses he'll have to find "real" work. n/t

[madinmaryland]

32. Fox Noise is "real" work???

[Happyhippychick]

13. Oh. I didn't realize that Colmes was supposed to be a "debate partner" - I thought he was a prop to

appear "fair and balanced".

[Idealism]

14. Sean Hannity: Colmes a "skillful debate partner.”

Lol.

[HopeHoops]

16. Sure, in the context of "thank you sir may I have another", I can see that.

[Hissyspit]

15. Why would he want to contribute to the growth of Fox News?

[ThePhilosopher04]

17. Does that mean the Washington Generals...

will no longer play Harlem Globetrotters?

[Frank Cannon]

18. They must have needed a new punching bag down at the corner gym

I'm sure it pays better than whatever he was pulling down at Fox.

[Bette Noir]

19. Greta Van Sustern is a liberal?

I listened to Colmes's radio show a couple of times when I had no TV and only one progressive radio station to listen to (not Fox-- the show is syndicated, apparently). That show had the highest ratio of drunken callers of any I've ever heard. No one who was sober called in-- or at least, no one who was sober got past the screeners.

[Judi Lynn]

21. Who on earth would have KNOWN? Holy smokes.

The Alan Colmes show sounded exactly as you describe it the few minutes I've heard it stretched over a couple of years. It appears they all call him drunk, as you point out, or their are simply insane, to discharge shots at liberals while he simply takes their calls. You'd think it would embarrass the guy.

[LTR]

25. That's one of the most entertaining things about it

The radio show is a hoot because of all the insane drunken wingnuts that call in. Keep in mind that Colmes is on quite a few right-wing stations, and that helps build up the nutty caller queue. Lionel's show was like that before he joined Air America. And it's one thing that's missing from AAR - crazy wingnut callers.

The insane wingnuts make for great radio. Colmes, ehhh... let's just say he's slightly better on radio than on TV.

[stanwyck]

56. Greta not only is not a liberal,

her show running up to the election was nothing but an anti-Obama hatefest. Election Eve (my husband can't resist switching over to Fox to "see what they're up to") she ran a loop of Reverand Wright her entire show. She also had an embarrassing "Late Breaking News" drama queen moment which consisted of...some guy who knew a guy who said one of the Obama team was critical of Obama for not leaving the church sooner." Oh, the horror.
Greta's show is a tabloid nightmare of purple journalism.
She's become a disgrace.

[Kashka-Kat]

23. Why does Alan Colmes get such little respect ? His radio show is great- he's very good at providing

lots of rope for the idiots to hang themselves. Which they do with great regularity.

Don't have cable or TV and never will so can't say how he behaved there.

[Judi Lynn]

26. They may hang themselves in our eyes, but in their own, they probably think they've done well! n/t

[hangman86]

28. Yeah. On TV he's Hannity's biatch but on radio he exposes Hannity's supporters for what they are

Maybe he's just figuring that out now.

[Ragheed]

29. Lemme guess...they're splitting due to

irreconcilable differences?

[Politicalboi]

30. My first thought was

Dick Morris as a replacement. He can suck Sean's toes through the commercials. But how about O'Reilly. He's a "moderate" His words not mine.

[Crowman1979]

31. This is about as sad as Harold & Lloyd ending their friendship in the movie "Dumb & Dumber"

[tomg]

33. This is an odd statement..

"Sean( Hannity) and I remained unharmed after sitting side by side, night after night for so many years." Well, I don't think Hannity was harmed, but it amazes me that someone can have his spine pulled out of his ass, and then be publicly humiliated for twelve years and not be harmed. Well, I guess there are stranger things. Or maybe it depends on what one means by harmed.

He's developing a weekend show - what is it? A kid' show where they use him as a pinata?

[benld74]

34. but what about the children!???

[HopeHoops]

35. The spawn appear in a new Stephen King movie

[CLANG]

36. I hope Hannity is very screwed for all eternity

[rasputin1952]

37. Hannity would have to call a rock a skilled debater, the man is so damn

stupid he'd actually lose to the rock...

[cactusfractal]

39. So who will Alan be felching now?

He's subsisted for so long on his exclusive diet of whatever drips out of Hannity's nether orifice that he probably can't eat human food anymore.

[cabluedem]

41. Hey, lets have the Hannity and Savage show. All hate, all the time! nt

[FloridaJudy]

42. See? Passing the anti gay marriage amendment

Didn't help a bit. Couples are still splitting up.

Though this one was long overdue, IMHO. One can only take so much abuse...

[Doctor_J]

44. Lanny Davis, your table is waiting

Another weak-kneed TV Dem for Chickenhawk Hannity to punch around. I say proudly that I have never watched a minute of Hannity & Colmes

[SoCalDem]

45. "The Alan Colmes Weekend Show"

Watch the excitement build as we peek in on Alan as he alphabetizes his spice rack and then cleans his ears with Q-tips..

[TankLV]

46. Colmes is just a fucking whipping boy for Insanity...he's no "liberal"

He just sits there and grins...

Hope the door DOES smack you on your way OUT, shithead...

what a waste of electricity...

[stlsaxman]

47. Mamby Pamby Wishy Warshy Alan Colmes... i mean- he couldn't even QUIT with spine...

"yeah... welll i kinda think... it's time to... move on... is that okay, Sean?"

[underdoggie]

49. Hannity and Nobody

Nobody is leaving Hannity and Nobody?

SO?

When Nobody leaves Hannity and Nobody,
it's still Hannity and nobody... no?

[humbled_opinion]

53. LOL... Fox has Liberals on its network?

Who?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

54. Maby they are doing this now because Palin new talk show coming up

I read somewhere FOX is talking about making a Oprah Winfrey type show for Palin.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

55. I'm surprised that Greta Van Sustern counts as a liberal

considering that she went out of her way to go bat for Sarah Palin.

[Critters2]

57. Counts as a liberal on Faux. Nothing like being a liberal in the real world. nt

[hbskifreak]

58. As if....

Alan wants to cut loose on his own so he can help the liberal movement take back Washington and save the world.....

Oh, wait, we already did that without his pathetic ass, didn't we?