If Alan Colmes turns up at your Thanksgiving get-together sporting a couple shiners and a re-arranged smile, don't press the poor guy if he claims to have walked into a door. The FNC host just got clobbered by a certified DC heavyweight -- Bob Novak.
Novak was a guest on this evening's Hannity & Colmes. Colmes first questioned the venerable reporter about the item he published this week regarding the Clinton campaign's claim to have a scandalous story about Barack Obama. For the record, Novak stated this evening that since first reporting the story, "I've had substantiation from another source, another very, very good source, who with his own ears heard Clinton people putting out" allegations about Obama.
That's when Colmes decided to press his luck. Mistake.
View video here.
ALAN COLMES: I want to ask you for a second here about Scott McClellan whose book is coming out. And as you know some news broke in the last day or so. He said he unknowingly passed along false information. And then he said five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in his doing so. And he named Rove, Libby, the Vice-President, the Vice-President's chief of staff and the president himself. Is Scott McClellan basically saying they set him up?
ROBERT NOVAK: I have no idea what that's about. I never used Scott McClellan as a source and so I don't even know what he's talking about.
COLMES: I mean, isn't he really saying basically the White House put him out there, hung him out to dry? Knowingly let him say things that were false?
NOVAK: I have no idea. I don't know. I don't think you called me in to talk about something I don't know anything about, did you?
COLMES: I'm just curious because you were part of that story.NOVAK: I don't know what you're talking about. I mean, are you talking about the Valerie Plame story?
COLMES: Yes!
NOVAK: That didn't come from any of those people. It came from the Deputy Secretary of State.
COLMES: I'm just telling you what he said.
NOVAK: Well I'm talking -- you're asking me the question.
COLMES: Yes.
NOVAK: And it came from Richard Armitage, the Deputy Secretary of State. Don't you read the papers?
COLMES: We've talked about this Mr. Novak. I'm aware of where it came from. I'm getting your reaction to some breaking news --
NOVAK: I gave you my reaction. I don't know anything about that. I didn't get any information from any of those people.
COLMES: I understand.
He sure does now.
At the close of the segment, National Review editor Rich Lowry, sitting in for Sean Hannity, observed regarding another subject that Novak had been in a generous mood. Colmes can be heard off camera plaintively clamoring for some of that generosity.
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.
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Ouch! Smackdown!
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 00:00 ET by motherbeltOuch! Smackdown!
Alan should learn the first rule of lawyers: Never ask a question you don't know the anwer to.
The corollary to that rule is: If you ignore the rule, make sure you don't do it to someone with a lot more experience than you.
Jive Turkey!
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 00:00 ET by drillanwrJive Turkey!
Colmes is one of the most
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 00:36 ET by kgColmes is one of the most two-faced hosts on TV. Not to mention he is rude and will not allow anyone answer his questions as he talks over the guests. Plus his mouth runs a few miles a minute. At times while he is talking so fast over a guest's answer, one cannot make heads or tails out of what he is saying.
Colmes has been smacked around allot these last few months. You have to give him credit. He keeps coming back for more. Or is he that thick?
No. He's that
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 01:54 ET by Tom1969caNo. He's that thick.
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The difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives believe liberals are wrong, while liberals believe conservatives are evil.
"Colmes has been smacked
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 11:14 ET by celator"Colmes has been smacked around allot these last few months."
Yes, and he has bravely earned every smack he's received. ;+}
The best smacks are from Coulter. It takes Colmes a minute or two to realise Coulter has turned his own words around to make him look like a dolt. Then you see his eyes kind of roll around in desparation as he begins to slip and slid around.
Colmes and O'Reilly have
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 11:31 ET by MikeBColmes and O'Reilly have the same problem about talking over the reply of someone of whom they asked a question. Both of you: ask the question, then shut up!
I think the motivation of the two men are different. O'Reilly because he is enamored of his own voice, and Colmes because people smarter than he start to give answers that he either didn't anticipate or doesn't like. Regardless of motivation, they are both annoying.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Feel sorry for Colmes
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 00:38 ET by Lame CherryIt is really hard to feel sorry for Colmes as I remember him from his radio stint which was horridly liberal boring before Hannity rescued him and gave him a paycheck.
Colmes is a combination of stupid, uninformed and flat world, so he is repulsive, Couple that with the weird look he now sports which seems a cross between having a Rosie O'Donnell size fat ejection of botox into his head coupled with full blown aids patients popping the drugs which allows them to die slowly for a massive profit........it is just about as hard to feel sorry for Colmes as it is for OJ Simpson.
But in watching Bob Novak slap him down so easy.......I mean Bob is a senior citizen and not that hard to deal with as he is basically a Jack Kemp Conservative, so he doesn't rile easy.........I just feel sorry for Al Colmes as what does he do now on Thanks Giving?
Thank you to the Oprah "god" for making me look like a martian with a the brain of a Soviet citizen and to top it all off I look like I got aids and am scarier than people at Hollyween with masks with a brain like bell ringer Quasimoto.
Pass the meatless weiners boiled, topped with tofu while we all sit around worrying about dying. Ring my bell.
God help Al Colmes.
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Lame Cherry
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 01:07 ET byAlan Colmes soon to be found here?
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -Chief Justice John Roberts
Holy Cow!
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 10:53 ET by motherbeltHoly Cow! That comment next to Walter Mercado is exactly what I thought when I looked at the picture! LOL!
}}---> Or Peter Noone
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 10:54 ET by Cool ArrowNovak didn't waste a good bitchslap.
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 01:18 ET by CTNovak nor any normal thinking person could make sense of what Colmes was trying to imply, Colmes is just obtuse on a good day. That wasn't even a worthy bitchslap.
Is it me....
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 01:35 ET by superconor does Alan Colmes seem alot angrier than he used to be?
I'm just saying is all.
Victory in Iraq.
I think he's been taking
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 10:54 ET by motherbeltI think he's been taking some hits from the left for being little more than a "straight man" for Hannity, and is trying to show how tough he can be...."make his bones" so to speak.
}}---> Colmes
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 11:00 ET by Cool ArrowThat guy gets really overbearing when he's debating a woman. He's exceedingly buttinski with women.
So...Novak didn't storm off
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 01:35 ET by balboaSo...Novak didn't storm off the set this time, cursing along the way?
French Press (not coffee)
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 06:19 ET by AgnosticNo, but you should give the President of France a lot more leeway. Afterall, he used to facing the liberal media in French not English.
Naw - this time Novak stood
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 16:57 ET by misterbee241Naw - this time Novak stood his ground and held it pretty good too.
There is none so blind as they that won’t see. Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
I wonder if the Hillary has
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 02:48 ET by Right2thePointI wonder if the Hillary has dirt on Obama thing is in any way connected with all the rumor running around about a week or so ago that the LaTimes was sitting on a juicy campaign story and spinning in the wind about if they should publish or not.
I've been wondering if it
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 10:58 ET by motherbeltI've been wondering if it was the "drugs in high school" thing; and did Obama find out about it and decide to put it out there himself first?
Sort of "innoculate himself" against it, like the Clintons used to do. I hope so, because it would just be rich for Her Royal Clintoness to be beaten by the same tactic she and her husband perfected.
}}---> Junky Obama
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 11:03 ET by Cool ArrowHe copped to all the strung out stuff in his book: The Audacity Of a Doper
At the close of the
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 08:18 ET by motherbeltAt the close of the segment, National Review editor Rich Lowry, sitting
in for Sean Hannity, observed regarding another subject that Novak had
been in a generous mood. Colmes can be heard off camera plaintively
clamoring for some of that generosity. (emphasis added)
I'm surprised Colmes wasn't mumbling something about Novak "ducking the issue" or "covering up for the Bush administration", as he is wont to do when it's too late for the guest to answer. That's the only way he is able to get the last word.
The Only Good Thing . . . .
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 09:22 ET by BourbeauAbout the hapless Alan Colmes is that he's employed (thus not a negative stat) even if it's barely. He adds absolutely nothing to the show, other then being the uninformed, overly sensitive, liberal hack. I'm amazed that Fox has not tried to pair Hannity with someone more substantial in appearance and intellect that can carry a debate whether you agree with them or not. Me thinks Sean Hannity has a very soft side to him, and long ago convinced the Fox people that he could work with the guy. Too bad he was successful.
}}---> Bourbou
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 09:28 ET by Cool ArrowI just don't see eye to eye with Colmes. Was Jack Elam his daddy?
That's an Insult
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 13:18 ET by Del DolemonteTo the Elam family.
PS, Colmes still has his radio gig, still as boring as ever.
Oh, it's you Bob!
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 09:45 ET by acumenNovak makes a point which is almost lost in Colmes unhealthy desire to blame Bushs' inner cirlcle for all the perceived outrages in the world.
Regardless of the words of any others, at the end of the day Novak wrote the piece on double nought Plame and Armitage was his source. That should be the end of the story.
But we know all too well how these "macacans" in the demedia like to build mountains utilizing mole hills - which balances so nicely with their snatch defeat from victory over America's enemy forte.
Just like dressing up liberal in a "progressive" suit. Nothing progressive about not moving on Alan.
Colmes
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 11:45 ET by iveseenitallIt really would be refreshing to see just one intelligent, well-educated commentator on t.v. IMHO, O'Reilly comes the closest. Guess they have to play to the ignorant masses; so they hire ignorant people with below average I.Q.'s.( quite similar to Hillary Clinton ). Sad.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Poor Alan
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 12:21 ET by CalifMoeI think part of the "Alan" issue is that after being with Fox for so long, that he's come around from the darkside. He now must stand and support the lefts agenda that he really doesn't agree with fully. And to support the center or right, he would not have a job very long. Watch him start to laugh sometimes when he needs to support something so stupid like code pink or Rosie, it just cracks me up.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Long ago in a land....when
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 18:12 ET by NortoLong ago in a land....when we had cabal, I saw an abortion segment on the h/c show and Alan was decidedly uncomfortble taking the "pro-capital punishment w/out a trial and no chance of appeal" stance he was being asked to do. Since then I have felt sorry for him and suspect he is a closet "lifer."
I saw this last night.
Thu, 11/22/2007 - 16:52 ET by misterbee241I saw this last night. Novak ripped Colmes up pretty good. It was like Colmes was in a knife fight and everybody had a knife except Colmes.
Right after 9/11, I was actually starting to like Colmes. But he went back to his old ways. It's not his viewpoint that I dislike (he has a right to his opinion) but it's his condecending manner.
If it was just Hannity on the show I'd watch it every night. But now I only watch it if Glenn Beck has nothing interesting going on.
There is none so blind as they that won’t see. Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
A tired old hack
Fri, 11/23/2007 - 04:46 ET by drummasterSmackdown? Hardly.
Novak essentially repeats his "I don't know anything" claim 6-8 times in just about as many sentences. Even if one can forget that this is a lie as Novak proves many times in his own memoir (he received leaked information from Rove, Libby and others in the administration many times); and even if one overlooks the hilariously disingenuous idea that Novak has no familiarity with leaks from the Bush administration, it's just a very limp , fact-free counterargument.
As we're seeing around the country and in all kinds of forums, when the Right's bluster and bombast lose their tenuous foothold on facts, and when they lose all traction with the voting populace, the results are kind of sad. A bloated, enervated carcass that's best described as "Novakian."
Reading comprehension,
Fri, 11/23/2007 - 15:28 ET by MikeBReading comprehension, much?
Novak said, "I never used Scott McClellan as a source, so I don't know what he's (Scott McClellan) talking about."
And, one more time, dm, Plame was working at CIA headquarters because her name was shopped to the KGB by Aldridge Ames. Therefore, she was already known to KGB. And, if she was known to KGB, she was probably known to Stasi, DGI, and every other intelligence service hostile to the United States. She had been back in the States for well over 5 years before Armitage (not Rove, not Cheney, not Bush) mentioned her name to Novak, so she did not come under the purview of the law concerning identifying covert agents.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan