| − | '''Alan Samuel Colmes''' (born September 24, 1950) is a [[liberal]] media personality who hosts 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 will remain 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> | + | '''Alan Samuel Colmes''' (September 24, 1950 – February 23, 2017) was a [[liberal]] media personality who hosts 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 identifies himself as a liberal and has 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. | + | 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 graduated from Hofstra University, in New York. | + | Colmes graduated from Hofstra University, in New York. |