Alan Colmes Tells Bill O’Reilly: “Everything Is The ‘Far Left’ To You”

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by Matt Schneider | 10:47 am, December 15th, 2010

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Every Tuesday night on The O’Reilly Factor, political commentators Alan Colmes and Monica Crowley debate one another in an always entertaining “Barack and a Hard Place” segment. Given that the two are related (Colmes is married to Crowley’s sister) and both can play along with host Bill O’Reilly, this segment often seems like a fun family dinner where the participants don’t have to hold back and can say absolutely anything they want, because when the gloves come off, they all really like each other. How else to explain the fact that O’Reilly calling Colmes a “loon,” Colmes saying Crowley is “nuts,” O’Reilly telling Colmes “you and your crew are done” and other insults flying back and forth can all be exchanged with laughter throughout?

This week, O’Reilly disagreed with Robert Gibbs about the healthcare ruling and, when combined with the general unpopularity of healthcare reform, declared “I don’t think [Obamacare] has a future in America.” Colmes suggested O’Reilly not jump to conclusions and also realize that much opposition to Obamacare comes from progressives who think the reform did not go far enough. This suggestion set O’Reilly off and he asked Colmes why he hasn’t realized Obama threw him and the other “loons” under the bus, which prompted the following exchange:

Colmes: What you call a loon I would not call a loon.
O’Reilly: Of course not because you’re one of the loons!
Colmes: O’Reilly, you think everything is far left . . . is there ever just a left? Everything is the far left to you . . . is there a left that’s not far left?

During the very funny shouting, O’Reilly does admit he thinks a center to the Democratic party exists and disputes Colmes assertion that he never says “far right.” Finally, Crowley has to interject and say “hello, I think I’m still on this show.” Colmes often does not get enough credit for being a legitimate liberal, but his immediate and humorous reactions to Crowley’s consistent references to Obama as a “radical leftist” and his willingness to repeatedly take on O’Reilly should earn him some much deserved liberal credibility.

Watch the clip from FOX News below:

Alan Colmes, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News Channel, Monica Crowley

chatmandu002

I feel sorry for Alan sometimes. He doesn’t like having to make up excuses for the far-left nut cases when O’Reilly asks him about the stupid things they do or say.
VoiceofReason

“and his willingness to repeatedly take on O’Reilly should earn him some much deserved liberal credibility.”

And that is worth what these days?

Talk about reputations lower than snake piss………….
Big Eddie

John Prine has a theme song for Alan’s radio show :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh33ipvRSfY
VoiceofReason

Somewhere in America a horse has lost it’s face…………….
http://www.facebook.com/people/Alexander-Scholz/702191335 Alexander Scholz

“far left” is the conservative definition for anything liberal, or, by today’s standards, even anything remotely centrist.
The Real Royal King

VoiceofReason said:
Somewhere in America a horse has lost it’s face…………….

I think Greta O’Van Susteren found it.
Wapiti00

The Real Royal King said:
I think Greta O’Van Susteren found it.

I think it was Ricky Madcow who found the horseface, actually.
Just4thefax

Fact: Alan Colmes was missed from the Fox line up since he didn’t do a good job there much less on this story.
Linda

Alan Colmes is trying to tell O’Really anything? What a joke! O’Really only listens to himself.
Linda

VoiceofReason said:
Somewhere in America a horse has lost it’s face…………….

Your referring to O’Really .. right?
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Libs all think they are the center. LOL. It’s the liberal gene. Mental defect.
writer

Similar to the way that most people appear far right to the King.
rr98411

Wapiti00 said:
I know that he is married to Jocelyn Crowley. My point was that, being her sibling, she she looks very similar to Dr. Monica Crowley and she is, therefore, much too pretty (and probably intelligent) to be married to the likes of Alan Colmes.

Sorry, missed your point… kinda slow today… more to your point, not that it matters but a not so good looking guy generallt pulls a hot gal by either having a lot of money, makes them laugh or remind them of daddy. Not sure what applies here… wow, what does apply here… hmmm
dahni

Tried to listen to Colmes a few years ago. Nothing there but Far Left Opinion. Little intellectual output. O’Rielly has gone so far to the position of “Fair and Balanced’, and of how great Fox is, that he is becoming wearisome as well. Monica Crowly still has opinions backed up by what seem to be facts instead of just a philosophical position. Cooper on CNN offers some good programs. I watch a few other scattered programs until they bring more than one guest. All that does is degenerate into shouting matches about 90% of the time. ‘Channel control clicker’ is good…

Anyone witnessed Weiner from NY recently? I get really bad vibes from his behavior.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

rr98411 said:
Sorry, missed your point… kinda slow today… more to your point, not that it matters but a not so good looking guy generallt pulls a hot gal by either having a lot of money, makes them laugh or remind them of daddy. Not sure what applies here… wow, what does apply here… hmmm

Have you ever seen Dennis Rodman? He is the definition of ugly, yet he is always with hot babes.
felixw

Fox needs vibrant, intelligent leftists on its shows to add to the diversity and dialogue. After all, that is why most people prefer Fox to the competition, where dialogue is squelched and opinions carefully controlled. But, honestly, Fox can do better than the pathetic Alan Colmes. He has one technique and only one technique, which is to justify bad behavior by finding other examples of bad behavior. if a Democrat committed murder, Colmes would find a Republican who committed murder — as if this made murder okay, huh? If a Democrat takes a bribe, Colmes would defend it by finding a Republican who took a bribe. As if this made bribery acceptable, huh? Just watch Colmes for five minutes, and you will see him play this game — again and again and again.

In short, Colmes’ totally vacuous and intellectually dead approach to issues defeats the whole purpose of having him on the air in the first place. The Fox hosts (unlike their counterparts at MSNBC and elsewhere) really want to have an intellectual debate on issues and values. But Colmes makes it impossible with pathetic diversionary tactics that never have any substance. He’s like the first grader who defends some egregious behavior with the excuse that the other kids are doing it too. But even the first grader soon figures out that this is not a real defense and doesn’t convince anybod — why can’t Colmes (or at least the Fox honcho who hired him) figure out that this doesn’t work in TV punditry either.
http://none pyrope

I like Mr. Colmes; he seems like a decent person. I would go so far as to say he’s intelligent. He’s also even tempered and not overtly or maliciously disrespectful, but I just can’t agree with him on many political issues.