Comments on Alan Colmes Leaving "Hannity and Colmes"

Scott Martin commented on 'Alan Colmes Leaving "Hannity and Colmes"'

2008-11-26T19:44:23Z

You are looking at it from a very biased point of view. Hannity and Colmes split everything evenly. They take turns badgering the ones they disagree with until the other steps in belatedly. From what I can tell, they even try to do it every other break, switching back and forth between who gets to take the lead and who has to play defense at the end.

If you looked at any full week of the show, I promise you Hannity and Colmes would be within a minute of each other in total time spent on offense, defense, sucking up to people who agree with them, etc. It's a near-perfect mix, and you'd have to be biased to find any pattern other than what I just noted.

Guests are almost 50/50 splits conservative/liberal. Hannity does seem to have an advantage in choice of topics, but my guess is that's because he is more in tune with what a FOX viewer wants to hear talked about.

shmaverick commented on 'Alan Colmes Leaving "Hannity and Colmes"'

2008-11-26T19:27:26Z

Hannity by himself will be tough to watch for all except his most hard-core fans. But Colmes was never more than window dressing on what is Hannity's show all the way. The topics, choice of guests, and the practice of letting Hannity badger guests for several minutes uninterrupted, until stepping in belatedly--it will be hard to find a serious left-leaning journalist who will agree to participate on those terms.

nd commented on 'Alan Colmes Leaving "Hannity and Colmes"'

2008-11-26T02:16:20Z

Has anyone cosidered buying out Keith Olbermans contract on his junk show and stick him with Hannity? How awesome would that be, common sense vs. no sense at all. Regardless of who it is FOX is stacking their network with some great conservative talent with the addition of Glenn Beck. Gearing up for the fairness doctrine may be their hidden agenda cause its gotta be alot harder to shut up a whole network with so many viewers who are educated and intollerable to liberal mandates. It's gonna be interesting to see who the pick will be for Hannity, but I agree, he does need to be contested or MSNBC might catch up in the ratings. That is a plus for FOX News being they are truly for the most part fair and balanced. Lets see if they stick with whats been working for a long time.

Scott Martin commented on 'Alan Colmes Leaving "Hannity and Colmes"'

2008-11-25T15:13:22Z

NC - I know what you are saying about Hannity, but this works great on TV. He latches onto a few things that really matter, and doesn't stop until everyone has to answer it and everyone who has ever seen him knows about it.

IMO, he was responsible for President Bush winning in 2004 and would have been responsible if Obama lost this year.

Mel commented on 'Alan Colmes Leaving "Hannity and Colmes"'

2008-11-25T12:01:18Z

i like the idea of Kristin Powers as well...and i agree it needs to be Hannity and "Someone"

New Conservative commented on 'Alan Colmes Leaving "Hannity and Colmes"'

2008-11-25T04:41:28Z

I've never been a big Hannity fan to begin with. He hammers the same four or five points everyday. Maybe Glenn Beck can take his place at 9pm EST and Hannity can stick to radio and being a guest commentator.