# Alan Colmes (of Hannity & ) has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 23, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577 "2017-02-23T18:33:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/1 "2017-02-23T18:33:31Z")
The [liberal half](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/business/media/obituary-alan-colmes-fox-news.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well) of the Fox duo has died. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/2 "2017-02-23T18:51:51Z")
He seemed like a kind, decent, intelligent man. Sixty six is too young. I wonder what the “brief illness” was? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/3 "2017-02-23T19:20:43Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > He seemed like a kind, decent, intelligent man. Sixty six is too young. I wonder what the “brief illness” was? Perhaps some aggressive cancer, like pancreatic. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/4 "2017-02-23T20:08:01Z")
He was probably murdered by the Right. On trump’s orders, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/5 "2017-02-23T21:07:22Z")
RIP…he seemed such a decent guy. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/6 "2017-02-23T21:24:22Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > He was probably murdered by the Right. On trump’s orders, no doubt. Seriously? Haters gotta hate but can’t you give it a rest for just a little while? Alan Colmes seemed like a decent guy. May he rest in peace. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/7 "2017-02-23T21:25:53Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > He seemed like a kind, decent, intelligent man. Sixty six is too young. I wonder what the “brief illness” was? [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/alan-colmes-co-host-of-hannity-and-colmes-and-liberal-in-lions-den-of-fox-news-dies-at-66/2017/02/23/e95ddfae-f9d9-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?utm_term=.038f91af94aa) reports it was lymphoma. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/8 "2017-02-23T23:06:11Z")
He was a good guy. Instead of demonizing people on the right, he’d actually engage with them and try to figure out where they were coming from. On his website, Liberaland, he’d occasionally post excerpts from vitriolic hate mail he received, and poke fun at the senders. That was about as negative as he ever got. I was always a little annoyed at Al Franken for making fun of Colmes in one of his books. (I just checked Franken’s Twitter—no mention of Colmes yet today.) ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/9 "2017-02-23T23:22:27Z")
Aw, that’s sad! He did seem like a fairly reasonable fellow. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/10 "2017-02-23T23:37:29Z")
Reading the comments of right-wing commentators one can almost hear the “He was one of the _good_ ones” level of patronizing that they normally reserve for their sole black friend. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/11 "2017-02-24T00:38:10Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > can’t you give it a rest for just a little while? > [@E-DUB](#): > > Reading the comments of right-wing commentators one can almost hear the “He was one of the _good_ ones” level of patronizing that they normally reserve for their sole black friend. Apparently not. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/12 "2017-02-24T01:14:51Z")
Political jabs are out of place in most MPSIMS threads. This one is beyond the pale in a RIP thread. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > He was probably murdered by the Right. On trump’s orders, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/13 "2017-02-24T01:15:33Z")
Drop the political crap or there will be more warnings. > [@E-DUB](#): > > Reading the comments of right-wing commentators one can almost hear the “He was one of the _good_ ones” level of patronizing that they normally reserve for their sole black friend. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/14 "2017-02-24T01:34:28Z")
I was sorry to hear this news. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/15 "2017-02-24T05:13:33Z")
Sorry, wasn’t aware that we play by different rules in this particular sub-forum. I will try to measure my words more carefully. I did listen, on occasion, to his radio show back in the early nineties. Sixty-six is, as others have observed, way too young. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-colmes-of-hannity-has-died/780577/16 "2017-02-24T14:42:24Z")
Despite the earlier attempts to preempt this point of view as somehow illegitimate, I’ll say what I came into this thread to say: as a conservative, I always respected him, and am saddened by his passing. RIP.