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Article: For Alan Colmes, Nothing But Left-Handed Praise; Talk Show Liberal Takes Heat From His Own Kind
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 29, 2003
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Alan Colmes is being ignored.
He walks into La Colline on a recent morning, accompanied by a Fox
News publicist. The Capitol Hill restaurant is heavy with members of
Congress, staffers and lobbyists, none of whom notices the co-host of
a top-rated cable news show in their midst.
Colmes, 53, is the designated mild liberal on Fox News's prime-
time debate show, "Hannity & Colmes," the ideological and stylistic
counterbalance to bulldog conservative Sean Hannity. He's in town to
promote his new book, "Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right &
Right Is Wrong."
At the moment, he is here for breakfast, if anyone ever gets
around to seating him. Finally, he sees the reporter he is to meet
and ...