Silence Is Golden
May 5, 2008
From: nancy
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:22 PM
To: Alan
Subject: staying on the RadioSure would make me happy if you would limit yourself to the radio and stay off TV…you are a real embarrassment to Fox New and to Hannity and to all the wonderful guests they have…if all the guests were told they could punch you in the mouth for your stupid remarks and behavior..you would probably be on the floor most of the time…what a goof…
From: Alan
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:31 PM
To: Nancy
Subject: RE: staying on the Radio
So, you’d like to see only people you agree with?
From: Craig
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:20 PM
To: Alan
Subject: Time 2 goColmes, I find it difficult to watch you on the H & C show…you are probably the most bitter person that I have seen…as a near twin to MSNBC’s Olberman…but you trump him.
I give Sean Hannity a great deal of credit for the patience he displays.
If liberalism is a true disease….and I think it is, you would be on the proverbial death bed…
Fox news would be be served to part ways with you, your attitude is argumentative, archaic and greatly appalling!
Craig
From: Richard
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 12:22 AM
To: Alan
Subject: youYou make me and anybody who is even remotely descent or honest want to puke. Cover for Obama all over the place. It just tells people how corrupted you are morally and in every other sense. It amazes me how incredibly arrogant asshole liberals are. It just flows through you idiot. And would you please cover your face. You have one of the most ugly faces on earth.
From: Bob
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:35 AM
To: Alan
Subject: Your Performance This EveningMr. Combs,
I’m generally a tolerant person, but your idiotic immature responses this evening really demonstrated your lack of moral judgment and ability to have a coherent conversation with anyone. Specifically your responses to Mr. Wrights given a multi million dollar home and a couple of Mercedes Benz’s. Truly this is a man of a god; it’s just not the Almighty Father Creator of Heaven and Earth.
I would like to remind you that there are absolutes, and there will be a final Judgment. God help you
From: Alan
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 6:29 PM
To: Bob
Subject: RE: Your Performance This Evening
That final judgment will judge those who judge.
From: James
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 11:45 PM
To: Alan
Subject: liberalsALAN, LIBERALS MUST HAVE AN INGROWN HAIR THAT CAUSES THEM TO BE DUMBER THAN DOG DIRT. IT SAYS IN THE BIBLE THAT OUR LIFE ON EARTH WOULD BE A TEST, AND THAT THE TEST WOULD NOT BE MORE THAN WE COULD BEAR. AFTER MANY HOURS OF PRAYER, MY SOLUTION IS TO SEND ALL THE LIBERALS TO IRAN TO LIVE. IF WE MOVED ALL THE LIBERALS FROM THE U.S. TO IRAN, WE COULD TRIPLE THE IQ OF BOTH COUNTRIES. //// JAMES, AMERICAN
From: Chris
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 1:07 PM
To: Alan
Subject: Howard ZinnMr ColmesI was listening to your radio show on Friday night during dinner, mostly as there was nothing else on.
I heard your interview with Professor Howard Zinn, describing his new graphic novel People’s History of the United States. It is clear from my hearing that the man is a traitor and your agreement with many of his anti-American statements borders on sedition.
I have watched your TV show many years and though I think you are a socialist, I never believed you were a kool-aid drinker until I heard you agree with Zinn’s comments about the “American Empire.”
I for one am proud of the American “Empire” and people like Mr. Zinn are its enemies.
Chris
From: Eunice
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 12:58 AM
To: Alan
Subject: Too Stupid!!!!You are such a tool!!!!!!!
He roles over you every time and you look inept, .which is what you are supposed to do. We all know you make a lot of money, but how do you really live with yourself? You obviously have no beliefs or morals.
Shame on you… you are too stupid to live.
Eunice
From: Richard
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 3:41 PM
To: Alan
Subject: For AlanYou should be fired…..I have never heard such drivel as you put out…..I am unsure why you are still working? Perhaps you are being supported by Oprah…
Who do I talk to to get you off the air…..Answer if you dare……
You seem to revel in your unpopularity, I guess they have to hire some creeps….Murdoch will wise up one day I HOPE…………
Richard
From: mack
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 12:49 PM
To: Alan
Subject: your patriotismALAN
WHERE DO YOU THINK THE TERRISOM WOULD BE TODAY IF OUR PRESIDENT HAD NOT INVADED AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ. YOU CANT HAVE THE PROTECTION AND BENEFITS FROM THIS COUNYRY WITHOUT SUPPORTING IT. IF YOU DONT BELIEVE IN WHAT OUR PRESIDENT IS DOING THEIR ARE FLIGHTS TO TAKE YOUR ASS WHERE EVER YPU WANT TO GO SO LEAVE GEORGE W. BUSH ALONE. I DONT THINK BILL CLINTON COULDN T HAVE HANDLED 9/11
How on earth do so many people manage to walk, chew and even type words with so few brain cells.
Mr. Colmes, my hat off to you for not letting this shameful vitriol get to you.
P.S. how about giving bully-boy Hannity some shit about his connection with Hal Turner.
From: Bob
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 10:35 AM
To: Alan
Subject: Your Performance This Evening
“Specifically your responses to Mr. Wrights given a multi million dollar home and a couple of Mercedes Benz’s. Truly this is a man of a god; it’s just not the Almighty Father Creator of Heaven and Earth.”
Wonder if Bod will show the same outraged at John Hagee’s earnings + property…Hagee and his family approve his pay deal….Nice
The pay deal + property is mentioned in the video bellow at 7mins20sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjMRgT5o-Ig
Ooops…Should read Bob
I’m sorry, but I thought what Nancy said was pretty funny. And even if she didn’t reply to your response, you know the answer is ‘yes’.
I love how the subject of Richard’s email was “you”. LOL I doubt you care he thinks you’re ugly, but I do want to weigh in on that: you’re not ugly, you just let your advertising people take a really bad pic of you once.
“The final judgement will judge those who judge”. Yeah, I think it safe to say that the ones out there judging everyone have conveniently forgotten that.
James sounds like a nice, Christian racist. I wonder how much money he’s donated to local and national charities? (international charities are certainly out of the question)
Would someone please tell me what’s up with this “kool-aid” thing? Where did that come from?
Good grief… I’m pretty certain that the guy bashing Zinn has never read any of Zinn’s work. He’s most likely heard a conservative pastor or teacher disdain Zinn as a traitor, and simply followed suit. Well, I’m almost through with the AMERICA’S EMPIRE one. Now, I’d never even heard of Zinn before he came on Alan’s show. And I’m definitely getting the feeling that he’s a radical. But you know what- he SAID he’s a radical. And he explains why, with facts, evidence, and intelligent synthesis of information. I don’t feel that Zinn is preaching an “overthrow America” message. It appears to me that it’s more like “overthrow corrupt politicians and policies of America”. Being pissed of at Zinn for his disgust with elite corruption is like being pissed of at The Patriots for whining about British rule.
Zinn’s lived through a hell of a lot more American history than most of us. I mean, he really LIVED IT.
HSUK~ Thanks for the link about Hagee’s salary. I have personally never cared how much a pastor makes as long as it’s a small percentage of the total made for the church, church activities, and that the pastor gives THEIR 10% back. Some greedy pastors gave others a bad name. But how else will they be supported if WE don’t support them? Should a pastor roll into the parking lot in a 20 year old beat up Ford when his congregation is pushin’ Benz’s?
“I DONT THINK BILL CLINTON COULDN T HAVE HANDLED 9/11″
Well he could have done nothing, and we’d probably be better off today as a result. We’d certainly have a better reputation among the civilized nations of the world. And just imagine if we had spent $1.3 trillion on homeland security. To actually “secure” the “homeland.” We could have 15 inspectors for every cargo container that comes into the damn country! We could have twelve fences across the Mexican border, each of them ten miles high! We could open a detention camp for suspected terrorists on the surface of the moon!
I think the Kool-aid thing has something to do with LSD, but you’d probably have to ask a neo-Con, since they’re experts on narcotics, and, apparently, everything else.
Alan,
Why do you legitimize HANNITY and colmes? the topics and guests are always skewed republican? don’t you have any self respect? Your name is on the title, yet you either are too weak to have a say in the topics and guests, or you actually approve of them, both of which make you a tool of conservatives.
Real progressives have no respect for you.
Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.
That refers to the Jim Jones cult and the Jonestown Massacre. Jim Jones was the leader of a Christian cult from California who moved his cult members to Guyana in the late 1970’s. They eventually committed mass suicide by drinking Kool-Aid, (actually a drink that is like kool-aid) with cyanide in it. Over 900 people died including families with children.
They did so because a number of people had tried to escape and were able to contact a congressman through their relatives. The congressman was able to visit with some of the same relatives and reporters. After witnessing what was going on there, they were shot dead as they tried to board their plane to leave.
That night Jim Jones ordered his followers to drink what had been prepared. They did and died. 900 people. Jim Jones took the easier way out and shot himself instead. The largest mass suicide by Americans in our history.
“On Saturday April 26th , 2008, in Reno Nevada, the Republican State convention came to order with a set agenda and rigged rules to basically give complete control of the Delegate process to the party. The original rules would have only allowed for a set list of people that could be chosen as a whole to represent the state. This slate was created by a small group of people and were never published, and even as we began the convention were not known.
“This was the first attempt to keep complete control of the delegate selection process. After three hours of [debate], the convention modified the delegate selection process to allow anyone to run for a national delegate position. Three would be chosen from each of the three Congressional District and twenty-two from the entire body by each person voting for twenty-two people.
“It was lunch at that point in time, giving two hours for the next play to be planned. Upon reconvening from lunch at 2:27pm, [the party] wasted no time in unfurling a new plan, which was to not vote for twenty-two people at large (that would take far to much time), but instead vote for only five. Anybody with an eighth grade math understanding would know this was intended to cut our voting by four. This just rejected by the convention getting with a 75% rejection vote.
“At this time we split into three districts and began to vote on delegates, this only took about an hour and went rather smoothly in district three and one. District two was continually delayed because of a dispute of whether a printed ballot was acceptable or a handwritten one… After this we came back and began to debate planks on the floor.
“From our previous count from observers in the rooms of Congressional District’s 1 and 3, Paul Supporters had won all three delegates spots in District 3 and one Paul supporter in District 1. The counts of these districts took about 30 minutes after voting was completed. The 2nd District was taking very long to complete and no one could understand the delay of more then an hour. Information from observers within its count room relayed that Paul supporters had swept its three delegates as well. This meant that Paul Supporters took 7 out of 9 possible Congressional District delegates to the National Convention.
“The person walking from the counting room made a straight line to State Chairwoman Sue Lowden, leaning over and whispering into her ear. After the person walked off Sue sat there for about 30 seconds tapping her foot and then stood up and walked over to Councilman Woodbury who was sitting in front of me, leaning over she said, ‘If we can break Quorum, can we invalidate this?’ After saying this rather loudly and glancing at the expression on my face she quickly quieted down and I was unable to hear the rest of the conversation.
“I figured out what would constitute a quorum in this convention of 1347 delegates–674 delegates. Soon after Chairwoman Lowden left, a John McCain staffer, Paul Johnson, came by. I had been gathering signs and information from him all day, and he believed I was a hardcore McCain supporter… He began his conversation with, ‘They [presumably the Ron Paul supporters] are trying to pull a coup, we are going to leave and quarter the convention.’ I responded, ‘Do we even have the numbers, all they need is a couple hundred to keep Quorum?’ He answered back, ‘The powers that be [NOTE: the insiders know the term and use it] have the numbers, I am just doing what I was told to do by my boss.’ At this moment I knew that they had lost control of the convention and were desperate.
“I watched the party officers directly in front of me huddling up with the parliamentarian and trying to come up with something. Soon after this huddle, the party began to filibuster the convention [purposely taking up time] filling it with videos and speakers over a course of 60 minutes. During this time Sue Lowden began barking at Chairman Bob Beers, and I could clearly see Chairman Beers not agreeing with what she was telling him. First it was just her talking to him, but by the fourth time he stepped off the stage, eight people were surrounding him and pressuring him, which I can only assume was to end the convention, since that is what happened next.
“When he returned to the stage for the last time, Chairman Beers ended the convention illegally calling an indefinite recess without a vote of the delegation to do so, at 6 pm. This was not before their first plan of ending the convention was attempted to be put into play by a member that was not informed calling for a Quorum which we would still have had. But Beers interrupted him saying, ‘I will save you some time’, and called the indefinite recess. Later it was claimed to be the end of the contract of the room. But upon request from the Hotel they gladly gave us three more hours for free.
“After five seconds of pure silence, disbelief, and confusion, a once consistently civil and controlled convention was thrown into ten minutes of anarchy, while the party [leaders] vacated the room out the back doors. Bob Bears attempted to speak with an angry mob with little to no avail before leaving. After this occurred we attempted to reconvene the meeting but fell 70 people short of a quorum.” Too bad.
I am someone that was a Fox fan for me and fam. and friends was Fox or nothing now things have changed it has become a sick jok among many viewrs their line up and it`s not Alen`s fault if anything he had become the reasonable voice on H&C since Hannity has gone LOCO he has turned off many people with his retoric and hate talk to save his behind.
Alen has the persone that sounds educated sensible and keeps some viewers listening.
The scenario and agenda change on Fox is being nnoticed by many viewers, they have changed but Alen has not.
I love this one; don’t mind me fixing the grammar. “WHERE DO YOU THINK terrorism WOULD BE TODAY IF OUR PRESIDENT HAD NOT INVADED AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ?”
I can answer that; according to that report released 2 weeks ago, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban would be the same as it is today; still in control of most of Afghanistan and still plotting against US interests.
In other words, after 7 years in that country, we’re right back where we started.
Damn, AgentX. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Real Story Roxy~ what are you quoting here?
Epiph~ thanks for the info. It just seems like there was some other joke that I was missing. Like when Alan posted the thread on Jenna on Larry King, he said “No Kool-Aid for Jenna”.
“you are a real embarrassment to Fox New and to Hannity and to all the wonderful guests they have…”
I’m sorry, but Fox “News” and Sean Hannity are embarrasments in their own right (or should I say “reich”?). You’d have to be lower than pond scum to be an embarrasment to them (and I’m really stretching it here).
THE WAY FOX IS TURNING OUT THESE DAYS ALAN IS THE COMMON SENSE
HANNITY NEEDS TO BE IN A MENTAL INSTITUTION THESE DAYS THE MAN HAS GONE BUNKER.
But what about The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test?
Ah Ha! I remembered that the above was a reference to writer Ken Kesey (”One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest”)and his activities with friends called the “Merry Pranksters” in which they experimented with LSD traveling on their pyschedelic bus in the late 60’s. But my memory was blurry so I looked it up. That is the name of writer Tom Wolfe’s book about the event.
It also said (wikipedia) that the book is going to be made into a film directed by Gus Van Sant to come out probably in 2009.
Usually though, not drinking the kool-aid, refers to not always following what your so-called leaders tell you to do or how to think. Not allowing yourself to be brainwashed and programmed. Having your own thoughts, thinking for yourself and not always following the prescribed talking points.
Speaking of kool-aid and LSD what are those funny little pics across from our posts?
I don’t know about mine. Doesn’t look a thing like me.
Ohhh riiiiiight, don’t drink the Kool-aid, now I get it. I seem to have been experiencing mind-block or unconscious non-comprehensional syndrome or something.
Sort of like “don’t march in lockstep like lemmings to the edge of the cliff.” I guess someone should have told Republicans to keep away from the Kool-aid back around 2001. Too late now.
I’m a former liberal voter, but have grown more conservative since becoming a mom. I’m also a Christian, and while I am more in line with Conservative thought, it saddens me that so many so called Christian conservatives feel the need to name call as witnessed on this blog. We teach children early it isn’t right to call people names. I love a great debate, but using bad language or tearing apart the person with opposing views will never convince them to consider other perspectives. It just builds up walls and makes the person spewing the hate look like a bully, to put it nicely.
Cassandra~ I assure you that they name-call on conservative blogs as well. But I do agree with your last two sentences.
What the H is wrong with all these sheeple Alan? You are obviously striking a nerve enough to cause such a knee jerk and defensive reaction. Keep up the good work!