Who is Alan Colmes?

Rush played a soundbyte from Colmes from last night. It was one of the stupidest things I've ever heard a grown man say, and I'll share it later on tonight after Rush's transcripts our up on his site.

Basically, Colmes said "Poor baby" to the idea that Rush was upset because after the attempted murder of the Congresswoman, his rhetoric and that of Sarah Palin - [but really, more Sarah Palin], was being blamed for the attacks. Rush defends himself, and Colmes says, "He shouldn't have said it [saying the blame belonged to the Democrat party in toto]." So in essence Colmes is saying that the right can be accused of inciting mass murder and just have to smile and say yeah, he's correct, without defending themselves, because to get upset is childish, but when the left is accused of inciting mass murder, the person doing it (in this case Rush, but probably anyone) has no right to say it.

It was just a ridiculous thing to say and everyone who values common sense and intelligence should print it out and frame it as an example of someone who apparently can't think very well, i.e., is not at home to Mr. Logic.

From Wikipedia
Alan Samuel Colmes (born September 24, 1950) is an American radio/television host, liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel, and blogger. He is the host of The Alan Colmes Show, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show distributed by Fox News Radio that also airs throughout the United States on Fox News Talk on Sirius and XM. From 1996 to 2009, Colmes served as the co-host of Hannity & Colmes, a nightly political debate show on Fox News Channel.

In addition to broadcasting, Colmes runs the popular Liberaland blog and contributes to AOL News. He wrote Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right and Right Is Wrong (2003).

Early life and educationAlan Colmes was born in New York City. He attended local public schools and went to Hofstra University, where he graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree from its School of Communications.[1] While at Hofstra, he worked at its radio station WRHU.

Career
Colmes began his career in stand-up comedy. He developed his radio career in the Northeast, eventually working at stations such as WABC, WNBC, WHN and WEVD in New York, WNHC in New Haven, and WEZE and WZLX in Boston.

His radio career took off when WABC hired him for the morning drive time slot. He was billed as "W. Alan B. Colmes," as in the station's call sign. He moved to WNBC in 1987, but his tenure there would be short when, in 1988, NBC announced it would close its radio division. When WNBC went off the air for the last time on October 7, 1988, Colmes' was the last voice heard. He has been syndicated nationally, starting with his involvement with Daynet, a venture created by Colmes and other regional radio hosts. Daynet was sold to Major Networks, Inc., in 1994. Colmes kept his own show, which is distributed by Fox News Radio.[4] He was well-known in New York when he was hired by Fox News CEO Roger Ailes in 1996. He was the co-host of Hannity and Colmes, beginning with the Fox News Channel launch on October 6, 1996 and ending on January 9, 2009. He also appeared live on Shovio.com's innovative new broadcasting technology, TalkBackTV.

Colmes left Hannity and Colmes at the end of 2008. Fox replaced it with Hannity, premiering in January 2009. Colmes has continued as a commentator on Fox News, most often on The O'Reilly Factor, which precedes Hannity. He frequently appears with his sister-in-law, Monica Crowley. He is a frequent guest-panelist on Fox News' late-night satire program Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld.

[edit] CriticismWhile Colmes describes himself as a liberal and his Fox News biography touts him as "a hard-hitting liberal," he has sometimes been referred to disparagingly as a "token liberal" or a "Fox News liberal." Colmes told USA Today that he is "quite moderate."

During his run on Hannity and Colmes, Colmes was criticized for being less charismatic and telegenic than Sean Hannity, and just a "seat-filler" for the liberal side. Some newspapers reported him as being Hannity's "sidekick". Democratic Senator Al Franken criticized Colmes in his book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, saying he refused to ask tough questions during debates and neglected to challenge erroneous claims made by Hannity or his guests. Franken claimed that Colmes did not speak as much as Hannity during the show. Some critics questioned whether or not both hosts receive equal time to interview guests. Some of Colmes's liberal critics, notably commentators at Media Matters for America, praised him toward the end of the show's run. He began to cite their reports in interviews with some conservative guests on the program.

Bob Garfield, interviewing Colmes for On the Media in 2003, asked him if he was "the human straw man" and a "foil" rather than an equal of Hannity. Colmes replied that if the conservative members of 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."

Personal life
Colmes is married to Dr. Jocelyn Elise Crowley, a professor of public policy at Rutgers University. Her sister is Monica Crowley, the conservative radio and television commentator