{"id":5746,"date":"2017-02-23T18:32:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/23\/alan-colmes-1950-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T18:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:32:01","slug":"alan-colmes-1950-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/23\/alan-colmes-1950-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Colmes (1950-2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Being a nice guy covers a multitude of sins. I find it impossible not to feel sad over the passing of the gentlemanly and mild-mannered Alan Colmes who <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2017\/02\/23\/alan-colmes-dies-66\">died<\/a> at age 66. But he really was a foolish and benighted leftist. &#0160;Better Right than nice. From a <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2010\/04\/the-racism-charge-the-lefts-attempt-to-shut-down-debate.html\">2010 post<\/a> of mine:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">This [the racism charge] is now the party line of the Dems and toe it they will as witness the otherwise somewhat reasonable and mild-mannered Alan Colmes in this&#0160;segment, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q927JUuGoxY&amp;feature=youtube_gdata\">Political Hatred in America<\/a>,&#0160;from <em>The O&#39;Reilly Factor.<\/em>&#0160;Colmes begins his rant around 6:07 with the claim that &quot;what is driving this [the Tea Party protests] is racism.&quot;&#0160; It looks as if Colmes is under party discipline; otherwise, how could so intelligent and apparently decent a man say something so blatantly false and scurrilous?&#0160;&#0160;That something so silly and vicious should emerge from the mouth of a twit like Janeane Garofalo is of course nothing to wonder at. What idiocies <em>won&#39;t<\/em> HollyWeird liberals spout?&#0160; But Alan Colmes?&#0160;&#0160;If we&#0160;remember that for the Left the end justifies the means, however, things begin to fall in place.&#0160; The Left will do anything to win. Slanders, smears, shout-downs . . . all&#39;s fair in love and war.&#0160; Leftists understand and apply what I call the <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2010\/03\/should-conservatives-take-the-high-road-when-opposing-the-left.html\">Converse Clausewitz Principle<\/a>: Politics is war conducted by other means.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">UPDATE (2\/24). &#0160;A Slate leftard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2017\/02\/23\/alan_colmes_was_fox_news_original_liberal_patsy.html\">attacks<\/a> the dead man:&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Colmes was the most absurd, useless, and mocked television personality in America for many years, precisely because he was nice. In the context of Fox News, being a nice guy\u2014and a \u201cliberal\u201d nice guy at that\u2014meant being a buffoon, and a patsy. Colmes not only played the part to perfection\u2014he defined it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a nice guy covers a multitude of sins. I find it impossible not to feel sad over the passing of the gentlemanly and mild-mannered Alan Colmes who died at age 66. But he really was a foolish and benighted leftist. &#0160;Better Right than nice. From a 2010 post of mine: This [the racism charge] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/23\/alan-colmes-1950-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alan Colmes (1950-2017)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}