Alan Colmes on Rush

Here's the transcript of Alan Colmes comments about Rush today.

RUSH: Here's how it works. Minor player in the big scheme of things, but still, this is how it works. This is yesterday, Megyn Kelly on America Live, Fox News Channel, talking with Alan Colmes. And Megyn Kelly said, "I assume you're not a huge Rush Limbaugh fan."

COLMES: Not only am I not a huge Rush Limbaugh fan, he's politicized it and he's (crosstalk) been decrying others as politicizing it.

KELLY: Okay, but let me ask you...

COLMES: He should be ashamed of what he's been saying.

KELLY: Let me ask you something…

COLMES: He blamed it on the Democratic Party and said the Democratic Party is protecting this guy Jared Lee Loughner.

KELLY: But - but...

COLMES: That's ridiculous too.

KELLY: But he was attacked first. (crosstalk) He was attacked first.

COLMES: Aw, poor baby.

KELLY: Well listen, Alan, I'm just saying...

COLMES: I'm just saying he had no business blaming the Democratic Party. He was way out of line on this.

KELLY: Obviously there was one person to blame for this and it was Jared Lee Loughner.

COLMES: Yeah, absolutely.

KELLY: But I was on the air on Saturday night. There were other people on the air on Saturday night. This was hours...

COLMES: Yeah.

KELLY: ...after the shooting took place, who were already blaming this on the right.

COLMES: Limbaugh immediately lashed out against liberals in the Democratic Party. Something he should not have done.

KELLY: He was attacked and blamed.

COLMES: That's irrelevant. (crosstalk)

KELLY: No one had been attacking...

COLMES: That does not excuse the things he said.

RUSH: That's irrelevant, that's no excuse. I didn't say anything until Monday on this. But this is how it works.