Alan Colmes

Alan Colmes (* September 24, 1950 in New York City ) is an American journalist, radio and television presenter. Colmes was where he accompanied primarily known as a co -host of political information and discussion program Hannity and Colmes as " liberal " counterpoint to his conservative partner Sean Hannity the political agenda.

Life and work

Colmes studied at Hofstra University. His public career began Colmes as a stand- up comedian and finally received various exposures to regional radio stations such as WABC, WNBC, WHN and WEVD in New York and WZLX in Boston. Size Colmes gained fame in the 1980s as host of the broadcast by WABC broadcast W. Alan B. Colmes, in which he informed the audience to 1988 for breakfast and work Driving time about current events. Along with some other radio hosts Colmes developed in the late 1980s the project Daynet in which he his own show, The Alan Colmes Show, the, contributed, with whom he made ​​his breakthrough in the national radio. 1994 Daynet was sold to the company Major Networks, Inc.. Today Colmes radio talk show will be broadcast from the owned by Rupert Murdoch located the television stations Fox News Radio.

1996 Colmes was added to the staff of the newly founded television news channel Fox News Channel. Immediately after the start of broadcasting in October 1996 along with Sean Hannity Colmes got his own show Hannity and Colmes, which first aired on October 6, 1996. The program offers a mix of information and debate, with Colmes and Hannity exemplarily represented by the official version of the transmitter, the two dominant polarities of the American political spectrum: While Hannity represents conservative ( Republican ) views in conversation with Colmes and the guests of the show, Colmes occurs as an advocate of liberal views on the purposes of the Democratic Party. November 24, 2008 Colmes announced his withdrawal from the program Hannity and Colmes.

Colmes describes himself as a liberal - which in American usage means as much as a moderate Left Directional - a self-assessment of the editors of Fox News joins in Colmes biography on the station's website, which states, this is "a hard-hitting liberal ". Many critics, however, question the sincerity of Colmes 's liberal outlook. So Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Hannity & Colmes compared with a phony sports match in which Colmes - according to the most conservative vision of Fox News and its owners - would fall to the task of being subject to any conversation with Hannity, so in a suggestive way the audience to prove the " correctness " of the conservative point of view. The documentary Outfoxed, which deals critically with the transmission practices of Fox News, already provides the visual appearance of Hannity and Colmes as a form of audience manipulation: While Hannity - the representative of the conservative point of view - a handsome, well- souped-up, clean-shaven, hemdsärmeliger All-American guy was, resembled Colmes - the representative of the liberal point of view - more like a squirrel: a slip of a figurine with glasses, thin face and kletschig acting hair. The makers of the documentation to see this as a subliminal hint to the audience to collect revenue in favor of conservative opinions: If " some guy " ( Colmes ) represents the liberal point of view, the implied insinuation, so could be something wrong with this apparently ok.

Colmes is married to Dr. Jocelyn Crowley, who is a professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.

Writings

• Red, White & Liberal. How Left is Right and Right is Wrong, 2003.

• Radio journalist
• TV journalist
• Journalist (United States)
• Americans
• Born in 1950
• Man