FNC’s Colmes: ‘Tea Party Was a Bunch of Angry White Guys’ with ‘Racist Signs’
On Saturday’s Fox News Watch, liberal FNC analyst Alan Colmes asserted that the Tea Party was a "bunch of angry white guys who went around and put up racist signs." As a debate ensued pitting Colmes against the other three panel members, he later defiantly asked, "How many blacks did they elect?" leading Jim Pinkerton of the New America Foundation to fire back: "The Tea Partiers elected two - Allen West and Tim Scott, Florida and South Carolina."
Host Jon Scott began the segment by assuming that the liberal Colmes would not have any complaints about the mainstream media’s coverage of the elections. After Colmes voiced his approval of the media, Scott sarcastically posed: "For instance, the Tea Party. Tea Party always got favorable coverage, right? Or fair coverage?"
Colmes then unleashed on the Tea Party: "Oh, they got, look, the Tea Party was a bunch of angry white guys who went around and put up racist signs at these at, these events on lawn chairs who had nothing better to do on weekends than sit on lawn chairs with signs suggesting Obama was a Muslim who wasn’t born in this country."
Colmes also clashed with the more centrist Judy Miller who argued that there were also many "mama grizzlies" at Tea Party rallies. The liberal analyst dismissively responded: "I’m sure there were a few mama grizzlies there."
Pinkerton also brought up an infamous example - documented at the time by NewsBusters - of MSNBC using a clip of a black Tea Party activist with a gun, showing him from the waist down only, during a report linking the Tea Party to racist sentiments without showing viewers that he was black. Pinkerton: "The best example was the guy at some Tea Party rally, and they showed a picture - he was carrying a gun - and MSNBC ran the picture of him saying here’s a Tea Partier with a gun, and then somebody else found out the picture was actually an African-American guy "
Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Saturday, January 1, Fox News Watch:
JON SCOTT: Alan, I’m going to guess that you think the media coverage of the elections was pretty fair.
ALAN COLMES: I think they were pretty fair. I mean, are you going to say they’re not? Is that the meme of this show? To knock the media for that?
SCOTT: For instance, the Tea Party. Tea Party always got favorable coverage, right? Or fair coverage?
COLMES: Oh, they got, look, the Tea Party was a bunch of angry white guys who went around and put up racist signs at these-
JUDY MILLER: Angry white guys?
COLMES: -at these events on lawn chairs who had nothing better to do on weekends than sit on lawn chairs with signs suggesting Obama was a Muslim who wasn’t born in this country.
JIM PINKERTON: Give Alan credit for summarizing the mainstream media-
COLMES: Oh, the mainstream media, the evil mainstream media.
PINKERTON: Alan just did it.
...
CAL THOMAS: We’ve seen this media blindness before. We saw it in 1979, 1980 when Bill Moyers came on PBS wondering where all these church-going, flag-waving, patriotic people came from. They didn’t know because they don’t hang out on Sunday mornings or in other places where these conservatives go. We saw the same thing with the Tea Party movement. The media are always shocked, shocked to see these people turn up at the polls and actually do something.
COLMES: How many blacks did they elect? How many blacks are in the Republican Party? How many Hispanics did they elect?
PINKERTON: The Tea Partiers elected two - Allen West and Tim Scott, Florida and South Carolina.
THOMAS: You’re just a counter, that’s all.
COLMES: I’m a counter?
THOMAS: Yeah, you’re a counter
COLMES: No, I’m actually a chair. What do you mean, I’m a counter.
THOMAS: Well, you know, you go by numbers that if you don’t have the exact balance.
COLMES: I’m simply saying, you’re going to tell me, wait a minute, you believe the Tea Party is not basically a white male movement? You don’t think that?
THOMAS: Not all male, no. Look at the women who were elected. Look at the ones who were-
PINKERTON: Tell that to Nikki Haley-
THOMAS: Exactly what I’m saying.
PINKERTON: -Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell.
COLMES: But I’m saying, look at these rallies, you look who’s there, and you look at what the profile is.
MILLER: I saw an awful lot of women.
COLMES: I mean, the Republicans needed to get a black guy to head the RNC in order to make it look fair and balanced.
PINKERTON: The Republicans hired a black guy to prove they weren’t racist?
COLMES: Yeah, right. Look, let’s bear one thing in mind. This country is ethnically 70 percent white. Okay, in any given random group of people-
COLMES: Not for long.
PINKERTON: Well, okay, right now, three-fourths of the people in a crowd will be white. And if that offends you, too bad.
COLMES: No, but it’s more than three fourths people at the - it doesn’t offend me, Jim - but more than three-fourths of the people at these events were white and male.
PINKERTON: It does seem to offend, it does seem to offend you. You call them racist.
MILLER: They were not male.
COLMES: Of course they were.
MILLER: There were many, many women. There were mama grizzles, as Sarah Palin called them.
COLMES: I’m sure there were a few mama grizzlies there.
MILLER: There were many mama grizzlies.
PINKERTON: The best example was the guy at some Tea Party rally, and they showed a picture - he was carrying a gun - and MSNBC ran the picture of him saying here’s a Tea Partier with a gun, and then somebody else found out the picture was actually an African-American guy
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Simple math for Colmes:
Submitted by P. Aaron on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:19pm.
Blatant Ignorance = Alan Colmes
I'd say that Allen is the
Submitted by msh1973 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:51pm.
I'd say that Allen is the "Angry White Guy". What do you all think?
I think Alan Colmes is the
Submitted by 26CX on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:03pm.
I think Alan Colmes is the angry white liberal guy who sees his utopia crumbling before his eyes and doesn't want to admit it.
Skeletor is just a
Submitted by Clutch1956 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:16pm.
butt-ugly poofter in a perpetual, petulant and impotent froth. No one cares what blather poots forth from his steaming cakehole. He is an irrelavant little nobody that no-one in their right mind gives two figs about. He would be better employed as the boogy-man under the bed to scare children into going to sleep (he sure has the looks for that, his only 'redeeming' trait.)
What a wonderful characterization of Colms and....
Submitted by Cincinnatius on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 12:56pm.
Clutch 1956, I thought only my wife and I referred to Colms as Skeletor! That said, I will gladly second your comments of him and his (lacking) attributes were pure gold!
There's proof...
Submitted by neighb on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:50pm.
I looked up "Angry White Guy" in the dictionary; and I'll be dad-gummed if Colmes' ugly mug was right there next to the definition.
Neener, Neener, Neener!
Submitted by gailannr on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 12:19am.
Allen Colmes is the "Angry White Guy!" I knew it all along. Something just told me! Neener, Neener Allen! I'll bet your probably a descendent of the French Hugenots too!! OMG I hope not, you might be a loser relative of mine! Note: Angry, white, French Hugenot still looking for and expecting reparations! You Loser!
Permanent News Watcher?
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 12:21pm.
I know they need to find things for Alan to do, but does it have to be on this show? Miller is dopey enough with her prissy little-girl act, then trashing Palin the minute the commercial comes on.
news watch no more
Submitted by gr29az on Mon, 01/03/2011 - 9:40am.
i've been watching this show from day one
didn't mind the libs they had on either
since colmes (commy puppet) appeared i'm gone
hope fnc wises up
Ignorance, implies someone
Submitted by danbo on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 6:21pm.
Ignorance, implies someone who doesn't know. I don't think Allan is that clueless. He doesn't want to see or a Joe Wilson said...
"You lie!" Rep. Joe Wilson R-(SC)
every interview
Submitted by Captain Evilstomper on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:28pm.
I see with colmes he comes off as condecending dick. Just another angry liberal. He says things, and when you don't agree with him then all the disrespect comes out. The attitude seems to be 'if you don't agree with me then you're too stupid to treat with respect.'Alan Colmes Needs..
Submitted by GeneralAl on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:30pm.
Alan Colmes needs a complete makeover to improve his image. Changing his political views wouldn't hurt either!
www.generalpatriot.com
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
well captain*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:32pm.
Respect is supposed to go both ways even when in disagreement. Try it.
But...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:42pm.
...the Captain's observation is pretty accurate.
maybe so cowboy*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 12:01am.
But his name is Alan not Richard.
i call it like i see it
Submitted by Captain Evilstomper on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 1:28am.
Alan colmes has nothing but contempt for conservatism. If I had ever seen him exhibit respect for anyone he disagrees with, I could concede you were right.It's becoming commonplace,
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:44pm.
It's becoming commonplace, isn't it?
I respect Alan Colmes
Submitted by 26CX on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:52pm.
I respect him so much I gave him an MBA*
*Mute Button Award. I mute him every time he comes on.
So now he has a MBA to go
Submitted by steve2526 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:47pm.
So now he has a MBA to go with his BS & PhD*
*Bull S#@% Piled High and Deep.
A member of the right-wing media
I love Alan Colmes'.......
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:32pm.
....sister-in-law (Dr. Monica Crowley).
Oh, yeah...
Submitted by Cowboy on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 5:48pm.
Oh, yeah...
Colmes is the male Joy Behar
Submitted by CarolinaJimbo on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:33pm.
Liberal, arrogant, and ignorant. Apologist for Obama and the Progressives.
Yeah....but....
Submitted by neighb on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:54pm.
Behar has a bigger manhood.....
Why did they invite Colmes on
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:47pm.
Why did they invite Colmes on this show? He obviously has nothing but contempt for it's premise and everyone else on it. He contributed nothing to the discussion except his ridiculous one-liners. He was nothing but a distraction. They could have on Miller and Kirsten Powers and other liberals, but they keep bringing on Colmes or Ellis Hennican who won't even dicuss or address the topic of bias. With them on it, the show usually devolves into a discussion of the political issues themselves, not the media's coverage of them. NewsWatch used to be my favorite show on Fox News. Now, I don't watch it at all.
Why do Prog/Libs.....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:40pm.
....use "angry white guy" as if it is the worst thing in the world one could possibly be? I'm kinda proud to be an "angry white guy".
Substitute "white" or "guy"
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:44pm.
Substitute "white" or "guy" with another color or sex and you will see how politically incorrect it reads. Can't have that.
Yup. Would be like saying
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:56pm.
Yup. Would be like saying the Martin Luther King ralies were just a bunch of angry black people who had communist propaganda for signs.
Using that example was the
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:11pm.
Using that example was the most effective method I've seen of exposing this tactic they use in their attempts to trivialize conservatives. Perfect.
More double standard
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 6:27am.
The same goes with 'power'. 'Black Power!' is A-OK, 'White Power!' is racist. 'Girl Power' is A-OK, 'Guy Power' is sexist.
Colmes didn't get the memo.
Submitted by Van Halen on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:45pm.
Colmes didn't get the memo. That's a tired old Liberal accusation that was disproven months ago. Try a new one, like oh, TEA Party people murder puppies or TEA Party people fly UFOs or something that the Leftists will fall for.
You weren't supposed to tell
Submitted by Outback Jon on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 3:20am.
You weren't supposed to tell anyone about the UFOs. Shhhh!
I see Colmes as nothing more
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:54pm.
I see Colmes as nothing more than a progressive caricature. I can't take him seriously, even in opposition.
He does come across like he's
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 8:58pm.
He does come across like he's an actor playing a liberal doesn't he? All one-liners with no thought or even philosophy behind what he says - even if it's wrong. Like Ed Schultz, all that's left is the obnoxiousness. He's an on-air troll.
Who was it that said?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:03pm.
One poster here carried a tagling stating "A nation can suffer its fools but not its traitor"?
Cheer up! At least Colmes isn't a traitor.
As far as I can
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 3:06am.
As far as I can tell.................he's an alien!!! Alien Colmes........................and an ugly one at that!!
Killa37 accidentally exposes himself.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 8:41pm.
'Sup Matthew.
Busted. I found your ID on FreeRepublic too.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 8:49pm.
The funniest thing I ever read about Alan Colmes (from a lefty site), to paraphrase: "Fox News chose him to be their token liberal because he is repulsively ugly, has an irritating voice, and is an idiot - it is a clever ploy to make leftists look bad..." 35 posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:44:32 PM by M203M4Naaaaaaaaah,
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 01/03/2011 - 3:08am.
Naaaaaaaaah, Vet...........although I'm not sure where you're going with this......I've NEVER spent 30 seconds on 'Facebook', or "My face', or 'Your face', or whatever the hell it's called!!! I thought Colmes looked like a friggin' alien the first time I saw him - years ago - and then his attitude and political pursasion just solildified my belief that the guy - not unlike Boy Blunder - is either from another planet, a parralell universe, or is so out of touch with reality that he can't help himself from BEING himself!!!!
I think Big Bob Blecher and Phallis Pelican are really smarmy snotty libs.........but they both PALE in comparison to a dweeby dork like Colmes. Hannity used to tear this clown a new one every night, and Hannity isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer either!!!
It was a joke Big Guy.
Submitted by The Vet on Mon, 01/03/2011 - 1:41pm.
I just found some souls saying the same thing as you. I played it off as though they were you.
I figured you were joking,
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 01/03/2011 - 6:55pm.
I figured you were joking, Vet..............ain't no thang............but I really don't know anything about the 'Face' stuff.........at least not that I can talk about in this setting!!! Hahahahahahaha!!!
The surf was about 40 feet yesterday on the outside reefs!!! Awesome!!!!
If this is the best they
Submitted by Edhenry on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:05pm.
If this is the best they have, conservatives win
Why is Colmes not proud of his heritage?
Submitted by Kansasgirl on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:05pm.
I almost feel pity for this man. He has such contempt for his own skin color. (sigh)
I'm not proud of my skin
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:08pm.
I'm not proud of my skin color. It's just what I came wrapped in.
It's a good thing too. If
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:13pm.
It's a good thing too. If you were actually "proud" to be white then I would have to warn you of being called a racist.
It's never a good idea for
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:21pm.
It's never a good idea for anyone to let skin color define who they are.
Chris
Submitted by well99 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:12pm.
That hit the nail on the head.
excellent Philosophy
Submitted by 26CX on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:18pm.
but what would that do to the NAACP's raison d'etre?
It would be the NAACP's sans
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:24pm.
It would be the NAACP's sans raison d'etre? :)
It is the content of your character that matters
Submitted by Clutch1956 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:24pm.
Like Ms. Clutch and I were discussing tonight, I don't care what shape (male/female) or color that the vessel is that contains the content of the message is, it is the content that matters. Unfortunately, we have the Lamestream Media going around slapping skull & crossbones stickers on the conservative vessels, scaring the dumb masses who won't look any farther than that slopply-applied poison label when the contents of the vessel are just the exact medicine that we need.
Wha?
Submitted by Kansasgirl on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:07pm.
Like I haven't been called a "racist" my entire life. /sarc.
→ Must be tough
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:19pm.
Must be tough when you've got somebody like Colmes playing the advocate.
Playing the advocate? Colmes
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:24pm.
Playing the advocate? Colmes would be better suited for playing the avocado.
Rather see him play the
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:32pm.
Rock, my fascist side
Alan Colmes
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:17pm.
Here's Alan in his previous career.
I think
Submitted by panzerakc on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 5:14am.
the avocado would probably win.
No Contest
Submitted by IrateNate on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 11:43am.
Avocados have stones...
Colmes during the holidays
Submitted by Xango Annie on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:15pm.
Boy, holiday gatherings with his family must be tons of fun...there are a lot of libs I can..sort of.stomach on tv..and he isn't one of them....so pathetic.
And again....
Submitted by tampamom25 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:27pm.
Once again we see a liberal with no really valid viewpoints to express, no sensible arguments or discussion, all he has to offer is name-calling and race. That's what liberals do....they call names, get loud, get offensive, and use the race card. Colmes is an advertisement for using the remote to change channels. Muting him doesn't do it for me, cause I can still see him:o(
These shows are becoming a joke.
Submitted by ajkrik on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:30pm.
Really. How hard is it to have some intelligent discussion from divergent points of view?
Fox succeeds sometimes but Colmes is just a joke. His responses are scripted from the liberal playbook and you can almost predict what his assinine responses are going to be. Can't Fox make an effort to tone down the circus atmosphere. I'm sure viewers would enjoy and benefit from some real discussion.
Ah well. The more years change the more they stay the same.
You got it
Submitted by bsny on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 7:15pm.
"
"His responses are scripted from the liberal playbook and you can almost predict what his assinine responses are going to be". He was the perfect foil on H&C, because one could easily make the argument that Sean's responses are scripted from the CONSERVATIVE playbook and you can almost predict what his assinine responses are going to be.bsny---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 7:24pm.
BS artist from Noo Yawk--- Hannity definitely does utilize the Conservative Playbook. When asinine is spelled "assinine", however, it is a direct line to the Party whose mascot is a jackass.you called poor old ajkrik
Submitted by bsny on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 8:31pm.
an ass - he is the original speller! I just copied and pasted.
bsny---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 11:43pm.
ajkrik contributes intelligent posts, unlike you. If you indeed copied and pasted a misspelled word without adding -sic-, that just proves you are an idiot.
I'll concede I'm a Jackass
Submitted by bsny on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 8:47pm.
Just find it delicious that Gov. Christie is an elephant!
Hey, 26CX*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 9:20pm.
"I'll concede I'm a Jacka**....bsny"
He has confessed, you now owe me 10 bucks.
Cajun
Submitted by 26CX on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 10:03pm.
Sigh. I assume you're still accepting PayPal?
sorry mon ami*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 10:16pm.
Cash only. You wouldn't want me to endure an IRS audit right?...;-)Small, non-sequential bills?
Submitted by 26CX on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 10:28pm.
And the usual drop-off place and time?
I have GOT to stop making bets with you.
Same place, usual time*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 10:53pm.
But I'll be generous 26, I'll buy the first round. You are right though, with the number of trolls lately posting stupid stuff, it really isnt fair. Wouldn't want you to end up in the po' house.
Oh, no, Cajun!
Submitted by 26CX on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 11:00pm.
Nobody is buying any rounds! The last time we did that you got me tipsy and took even more money from me on a bet to see who could list the first 20 prime numbers the fastest.
Once bitten, twice shy, my dear.
The liberals like Colmes are
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:30pm.
The liberals like Colmes are basically saying that it is de-facto racism if too many white people congregate together for anything, even though race has nothing to do with it. It's why television shows insist on the awkwardly placed "token" or why golf didn't make the morning news until Tiger Woods entered the game. It's why guys like Bryant Gumble say the Winter Olympics i"look like the G.O.P." I could go on but you get the picture.
I've always thought it to be
Submitted by Smartypants on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:39pm.
I've always thought it to be pretty odd that, when people gather for any purpose and most of them happen to be white, the media blames the particular group of people because more minorities did not show up. Point out where exactly the Tea Party excluded minorities from its functions. In fact, many minorities have spoken at these events. So, it is the fault of the people there that more minorities did not show up? This is a ludicrous perspective. The Winter Olympics are no different, but Bryant Gumbel and his small mind cannot comprehend the fact it is not the fault of anybody in particular that more minorities do not participate in winter sporting events, or that more black people do not show up to watch the Winter Olympics.
It all goes back to the
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:52pm.
It all goes back to the liberal mentality of creating "victimhood" when there really isn't any racism going on. Vanity Fair took some of the most beautiful blond women in Hollywood and put them all on the cover. Well, that was deemed racist. Too many white people in one place. The T.V. show "The Bachelor" is being called racist (mostly stoked by rags like NewsWeek) because most of the male contestants are white. Also, when a white IS a contestant, he only has white women to choose from. The show broke the ultimate rule of having too many white people in one area.
Victimhood. It Pays The Bills.
P.S. Google "Lord of the Rings" and "Racist". Lots of folks are saying LOTR is racist because there are no tokens. Same with Harry Potter.
Actually
Submitted by panzerakc on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 5:17am.
HP does have a "token" - the kid who announces the Quiddich games. Can't remember the character's name at the moment.
Dean Thomas is who you're
Submitted by ThatDude on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 11:18am.
Dean Thomas is who you're thinking of.
There's also the Patil sisters and Cho Chang. Seems to me that HP also has its tokens (though relatively proportional to each race's representation in the UK.) This eternal focus on race by the left IS racism, and they push their form of racism using the word "diversity."
Let's try for some diversity of opinion and take a step away from the sheep mentality that comes from race-based politics and group identification. I would think most people of conservative libertarian ideology would identify themselves as an individual with affinities and traits common to different groups without allowing the group to identify them as a whole. I appreciate the goal of the tea party and I vote Republican, but like any sentient being, I refuse to let the actions of others define me and therefore will not be labeled as either.
→ No way, MModerate
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:30pm.
Colmes feels it is incumbent upon him to condescendingly speak dung to power, revealing just how pitiable he believes those he defends to be.
LOL!
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:54pm.
LOL!
Colmes
Submitted by ripper58 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:42pm.
is always good for laugh,what with the condescending sneer and the eyebrow (left one?) that always seems to want to creep up his forehead. What's up with that anyway? He looks so stoopid that you just have to laugh and not take the nitwit serious!!
95%
Submitted by ripper58 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:44pm.
of blacks voted for Obummer....nothing racist about that eh Colmes??
Can't find an honest Democrat
Submitted by ron8072 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 9:46pm.
There used to be a definite meaningful difference between liberals and conservatives. Now, the liberals see themselves as so much smarter than everyone else, they see no need to research anything. Everything they honestly think, they heard from a liberal, and a liberal would never lie, now would they? In other words, if a liberal makes a statement, it is automatically a fact. For the liberals, the only liars are the conservatives. Who cares about truth? How long has it been since you had a discussion with a liberal that didn't devolve into one of several liberal talking points? I don't know about you, but for me it has been a long time. I can remember the first discussion about what was happening in Iraq and a liberal friend said that Bush was dumb. After that any discussion was impossible. I either had to agree that Bush was dumb or there was nothing further to discuss. Sad.
Its obvious Colmes
Submitted by NVRAT on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:10pm.
You watched the MSM cuts with fogged up coke bottle glasses, combined with a mental blockage of truth and what do you have?...Liberal Blindness. Just go away Alan the people have finnaly seen what Liberalism is and what destruction it can cause. With any luck Liberalism is dead the real people have donned their Tea bags and marched to DC...the dead beats stayed home and watched you.
Just a reminder of why 9 p.m. is much more enjoyable
Submitted by Cape Conservative on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:21pm.
Don't miss Alan Colmes one bit! He's just one more arrogant progressive who sees what he wants to see...NOT what is actually there! He joins Pelosi in the Hall of Shame for her 'astro-turf' description, when it was the progressives who had to pay people (union hacks) to attend their events while tea partiers footed their own expense - and the black congressman who insisted a tea partier had called him names and spit on him. Yet no one could come up with one video or picture of said offense even though Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 for one.
At every Cape Cod tea party gathering (some held in Hyannis near the Kennedy Compound), there were young families, retired folks, many men and lots of 'mama grizzlies'! And NOT ONE nasty sign to be seen anywhere!!!! UNLIKE the signs carried by the progressives during the recent election! And need we go into detail of the filthy rotten character assassinations that took place in races all across the country by those same Democrats that Alan Colmes tries to hold up as pure as the new driven snow???????? He makes me want to VOMIT!
This comment comes from a proud Tea Party mama grizzly, otherwise designated by Homeland Security as a Domestic Right Wing Terrorist!
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HATE?
Submitted by amyshulk on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:34pm.
Is it just me or do you all notice he acts rational until challenged, then it’s “But ma, johnny did it toooooooooooooooooo”
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/alan-colmes-brilliant-leftist-analysis-angr...
Ronald Reagan
Colmes, like many other
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:38pm.
Colmes, like many other liberal commeenters today, strikes me as reveling in his own sneering obnoxiousness. He enjoys being a jerk.
Nonsense
Submitted by NL207 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:14pm.
Colmes doesn't even know he is a jerk. He is oblivious to any sort of reality.
"Nonsense" I would guess that
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:19pm.
"Nonsense"? I would guess that my guess is as good as your guess.Besides, there's no point in getting hot about it. it's not like my guess was meant as a compliment.
You give that mope way to
Submitted by NL207 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:23pm.
You give that mope way too much credit. He truly does not think there is any doubt that his sensibilities and positions are the correct ones. The distorted prism through which he views life is entirely invisible to him, not part of his self-awareness.
There are lots more of these clueless knuckleheads where he came from and they are going to vote in 2012. If the MSM media cabal that promotes their viewpoint as journalism isn't toppled by then, look for a very difficult election.
I give him no credit at all.
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:41pm.
I give him no credit at all. I've known dumb people who were obnoxious and knew they were obnoxious and liked being obnoxious. I can't stand Colmes but I don't think he is so far gone mentally as to be totally unaware of his own personality. You may disagree, but I think my assessment is more likely the case.
He is totally unaware of what he stands for.
Submitted by NL207 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:49pm.
The proof lies in his inability to see the Tea Party for what it actually is: a genuine grassroots movement of ordinary people. What the TEA Party is advancing is so alien to him that he can neither comprehend it nor explain it in any other terms except racism. It is clearly NOT racism. In fact, it has nothing to do with race at all but instead addresses government fiscal irresponsibility. Colmes cannot even come to grips with the naked truth the Liberals are spending us into bankruptcy so he explains away opposition to this spending spree as racism.
So, you think he is mentally
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:56pm.
So, you think he is mentally ill? Not responsible for what he believes or says? That he's so impaired mentally that he can't see reality? You make him sound pathetic. I see him as worse than you do. I think he's a liar and a charlatan. He knows what he's saying isn't true. He knows that the people at those rallies aren't racists. He says it anyway to denigrate the opposition. He know's it's a lie. That's why he has a smirk on his face when he says it.
Colmes drank the kool-aid ...
Submitted by NL207 on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 1:08am.
He is a true believer. His God is Liberalism. You, me and the TEA Party oppose Liberalism. Therefore in Alan Colmes eyes we are all heretics. One of the tenets of Liberalism is anybody who is white, male, and not liberal is by definition a racist. Colmes applied this rule to the TEA Party.
I will argue Colmes interprets all observations in the context of Liberalism and rejects any 'facts' that contradict his belief system. Denial. Colmes does not lie because he truly believes what he says is fact : "the TEA Party is racist", he truly believes this. Does this make him mentally ill? Some people argue that is the case. Rush Limbaugh often argues that Liberalism is a mental disease. Where do we draw the line between the fool and the nut case?
→ He's bound to know
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:52pm.
Such uncalled-for doting paternalism can't possibly sit well with that group he failingly attempts to champion here.
Who was it that actually asked Alan Colmes "Please Mr. Colmes, would you be my Atticus Finch"?
→ flailingly?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:53pm.
Take your pick.
Lib Media Hacks are so...so...incensed!
Submitted by ChrisNH on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 10:52pm.
I absolutely LOVE seeing lib media hacks getting livid & enraged. It's proof that things aren't going well for them, and that is EXACTLY as it should be. The madder lib media hacks get, the more I like it!
Look up the word "retarded"
Submitted by Average_JoeMN on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:11pm.
Look up the word "retarded" in the dictionary and there's Alan Colmes picture.
Snort.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:11pm.
Alan Colmes trying so hard to prove some kind of media bias, but it backfires in his face constantly to the point of being a laughing stock. He is worse than the MSDNC crew--at least they are far more honest about their derisive attitude towards conservatives than Alan.
Hard to believe that Monica Crowley is his sister in law. Just another case where you can't choose your relatives............................
But....
Submitted by echojack on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:13pm.
Colmes looks white, and kind of like a male. And he always seems angry. Doesn't that mean HE's got to be a racist?
Heh
Submitted by Jamson64 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:26pm.
So he protests racism by smearing an entire group of people as being the same. Hmmmmm
My favorite
Submitted by pbthinker on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:49pm.
I never thought Colmes was the brightest bulb in the chandelier and he certainly proved it on this topic. Very seldom does this show get to a 3 - 1 situation, usually the liberals stick together. If you couldn't say enough correct to have Judy Miller on your side, you've really screwed up.
My favorite media bias situation, when it comes to the tea parties, was the D.C. rally where Kelly O'Donnell went out and found a black guy at the rally and asked him if he felt uncomfortable. He said, "No. These are my people. Americans." She was certainly shocked. It was a pretty funny moment. I wish I was there I'd have shaken that guys hand.
as usual with liberals
Submitted by theduck6 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:54pm.
they run their mouths about things they have no knowledge of. I have been to numerous TP rallies and a more law abiding, peaceful, friendly bunch you will not meet.
The louder they scream the more it must hurt.
Absolute Caricature
Submitted by BW222 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 11:55pm.
I don't think we could invent a liberal like Alan Colmes - from his goofy looks to the outlandish things he says.
Interesting to me how SMUG Colmes and his ilk are
Submitted by TexasMom0517 on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 12:19am.
I'm always amused by the arrogance and hypocrisy of the Professional Left. Whether it's Colmes (self-indentified Liberal), Scarborough (absurdly self-identified "conservative"- stop me before I fall down laughing), Mika Brezenski (self-identified Liberal), or any of the Liberals who populate the lame stream media, they possess a hubris that knows no bounds. They have an overweaning pride about their intelligence (much of which seems quite undeserved), their "tolerance" (belied by their vicious personal attacks on those with whom they disagree), and their "compassion" (only for the annointed victim class, while perpetuating policies to maintain their status in that position in society).
I was grateful when Hannity no longer had to put up with Colmes- he was such a smug and pompous snob with minimal critical reasoning skills. He merely parrots the lines supplied by Podesta and Media Matters, without regard to facts or data. I would welcome a good debate if it were supported by facts. The Professional Left cannot stand facts, they interfere with their narrative.
Here Is An Angry Black Man
Submitted by im41 on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 12:29am.
Raw Video: Democrat Supporter Attacks Photo-Journalist, GA Senator Robert Brown Supporterpredictable parrot
Submitted by TerryWest on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 12:50am.
Alan Colmes dose nothing more then rattle & ramble off talking points and tiring old rhetoric , he has no mind of his own.
This argument just goes to
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 1:50am.
This argument just goes to show how insular the hard left really is. The only people who buy this "Tea party people are racists" line are the die-hard leftists that already are die-hard leftists. Conservatives know it's crap and even most moderates have grown weary of the everything-is-racism arguments that bombard them daily. 11/2 proved the argument just didn't work, but the hard left voices in the media still keep repeating it. The only reason these talking heads think it works must be due to their being surrounded by likeminded leftists in their daily lives. Why else would they keep saying this if it was not the case? I swear these people live in an echo chamber.
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Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
Why Fox continues to keep Colmes on the payroll...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 3:23am.
I'll never know...He brings absolutely nothing of any constructive use to any discussion that he's involved in. Colmes' rhetoric is 100% pure unthinking, illogical liberal bs. At least most of the liberal "contributors" that Fox has on are somewhat reasonable and rational in their discourse, but not Colmes. I can usually guess almost exactly what his position will be before he even opens his mouth, he is so predictable. All we ever hear from him is liberal Democratic bs. I'm at the point now that whenever he comes on the screen, I immediately change the channel or hit the mute button...How Sean Hannity ever tolerated him for as long as he did is a mystery to me...Five brief minutes of looking at his ugly mug and listening to his tiresome libnut crap is all I would ever have been able to stand.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Fox has Colmes on the payroll
Submitted by Cowboy on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 3:36am.
Fox has Colmes on the payroll because he makes so many other people sound reasonable.
Guys, just do what I do when
Submitted by Martin2717 on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 3:39am.
Guys, just do what I do when you see these libs speak. Put them on mute. It feels some much better knowing your head won't explode.
Whenever Colmes is on screen
Submitted by bolivar on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 9:18am.
I change the channel. Skeletor is just not in my range of tolerance any longer. When I see that smug ugly puss I want to hit the tv and I like my tv. Skeletor must be ignored and put out to pasture where all good cows belong. Just go out and moo in peace - good Alan - now watch where you step - wouldn't want you to step on any of your cohorts.......you know the PIES!!!!!!!
Colmes is bad at math
Submitted by CrazyHungarian on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 10:29am.
First he complains that the Tea Party is mostly white, but then he bragged that over 92% of blacks (blindly) vote Democratic. That doesn't leave too many blacks that could have shown up at Tea Party Rallies, yet they still elected 2 blacks.
Hannity and Colmes
Submitted by Skragnon on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 11:57am.
I used to watch Hannity and Colmes on a regular basis because Alan came off as a relatively rational liberal (I know, oxymoron).
The point being that Alan might have believed in the cause, he wasn't a Kool-ade drinker on most subjects. To me Alan was allowed to exhibit the calm discussion of liberalism, even if it was wrong, because of the desire for open debate.
Now, since he has moved to his own radio show, I've seen the fall of Alan into the gutter politics of talking over your opponents and derision of their stances. Debate is no longer allowed, you can only believe what the party tells you.
i was getting angry last night because I couldn't hear the others on the show with Alan spouting the party line over the top of them all.
For years I used to think
Submitted by Snappy on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 5:27pm.
For years I used to think that Alan Colmes was just an act to play off of Hannity. I thought no one could be that ignorant and over the top in liberal stereo typical stupidity............ I was wrong.
Hollywood Miscreant
Submitted by FC DOBBS on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 9:07pm.
Poor Alan; He always wanted to be a movie star and he thought he was
good looking and articulate enough to make it in Hollywood, where
there were many other liberals and he would be comfortable.
Anyway, Alan hired an agent and headed to Hollywood , where he
took a screen test. in one of the big studios and then headed
back east.
When his agent found out the test results, he told Alan the only
parts the moguls could use him in, were either remakes of the
classics of Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff. Alan could star in
Hunchback of Notre Dame and/or Frankenstien.
His agent suggested to Alan that he try radio, where looks didn't
mean too much, and thus a star was born. PERSONALLY I WISH HE
STAYED IN HOLLYWOOD.!
" Nobody puts one over on Fred C Dobbs "
scum
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 10:42pm.
Alan Colmes, creepy Ichabod Crane look-a-like, had the audacity to suggest Palin didn’t seek proper pre-natal care during her pregnancy. This is rich coming from a guy for whom “pre-natal care” includes visits to Planned Parenthood butchers. Colmes tried to delete the story when he realized what a jerk he was for posting it. That’s what leftists call “courage.”
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/01/02/top-10-reasons-to-hate-sarah-palin/
Ronald Reagan
Did Colmes
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 01/03/2011 - 10:11am.
have his white sheets and hood on at the time of this unbiased observation?
‘Tea Party Was a Bunch of Angry White Guys’ with ‘Racist Signs’
Submitted by DerRick on Mon, 01/03/2011 - 10:55am.
This isn't even worth a response. Just look at Colmes and laugh.
Who ever was..................
Submitted by Patriot II on Mon, 01/03/2011 - 12:27pm.
supposed to watch colms...screwed up again! That vermin keeps slipping out....lock the door next time will you?
Alan's "Views Buster"
Submitted by serendipity on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 1:51am.
Real Clear Politics - October 3, 2010:
Of the 39 black Democrats in the House, all but two represent districts where blacks are a majority or plurality. One other black Democratic contender is running in a white majority district. So in this election, Republicans are running more blacks in white majority districts than the Democrats are. Shouldn't that be taken into consideration when accusations of racism are being hurled about?
Accusations of racism against Republicans are a staple of Democratic politics because Democrats need to keep blacks on the plantation to remain viable nationally. "Young people and minorities are all the president has left," the National Journal headlined its story on a poll released Wednesday.
Enough said.