Some sad news today:
Alan Colmes, the longtime liberal TV and radio host for Fox News, has died after a brief illness, the network announced Thursday. He was 66.
Colmes was best known as the left-leaning foil to conservative Sean Hannity on the prime-time Fox News show “Hannity & Colmes” when the cable news network launched in 1996. Hannity took over as a solo host in 2009, but Colmes remained with Fox News as a commentator and a syndicated radio host until his death.
Colmes had told listeners in January that he was dealing with a medical issue.
While Colmes received a lot of criticism for being Sean Hannity’s counterpart, especially from Senator Al Franken’s (D. MN) fantastic 2004 book, Lies & The Lying Liars Who Tell Them, he left Fox News to run Liberaland blog and contributed to AOL News. He also wrote the books Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right and Right Is Wrong (2003) and Thank the Liberals for Saving America (2012). As a tribute, here are some of Colmes greatest hits: