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Alan Colmes is a radical and hard-hitting liberal who cohosts [[Hannity and Colmes]] with [[Sean Hannity]]. Despite radically different political philosophies, Hannity and Colmes are friends.

[[Image:Alan Colmes.jpg|350px|right|thumb|Alan Colmes was the liberal co-host of the former ''Hannity and Colmes'' series on the Fox News Channel.]]

 

'''Alan Samuel Colmes''' (September 24, 1950 – February 23, 2017) was a [[liberal]] media personality who hosted a talkradio show on FOX Radio called, "The Alan Colmes Show." Colmes formerly co-hosted the television cable program [[Hannity & Colmes]], along with [[conservative]] [[Sean Hannity]], on the [[Fox News Channel]], until Colmes decided to depart the show, in January 2009. He remained at Fox News as a commentator.<ref>[http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/one-half-of-hannity-colmes-is-leaving/ One Half of ‘Hannity & Colmes’ Is Leaving] ''The New York Times''. Retrieved on January 4, 2009.</ref>

 

Though Colmes identified himself as a liberal and had even written a book about the supremacy of liberal politics,<ref>Red, White & Liberal: How Left is Right and Right is Wrong (ISBN 0-06-056297-8)</ref> he was perceived by many as a conservative "quisling" and as a "milquetoast" strawman, on his own cable show, for allowing Hannity to regularly talk over Colmes and generally disparage liberal thought, without Colmes giving adequate recourse from the liberal perspective.

 

 

Colmes's last appearance on "The Alan Colmes Show" was on February 22, 2017.  He died the next day of lymphoma at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan at the age of 66.

 

 

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