Slog - Comments on Since When Is Alan Colmes Allowed to Wear His Testicles to Work? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his On Fox's Hannity & Colmes today earlier this week Sean Hannity asks the panel this question at about 2:12: "Explain to me, I'm just a regular guy, and I'm wondering uf you can't keep your promise to your family, if you can't keep your promise to your wife, you're having an affair, you're lying about the affair ... why should the American people trust you when you say you're not going to lie to them? Why should we trust you?" They're talking about John Edwards, who actually isn't running for president. Alan Colmes points out that John McCain, who is... Copyright 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:22:33 -0800 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:32:08 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by lol If by "today" you mean, "three days ago".

The internet is a race and you lost.

]]> lol http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102372 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102372 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:27:32 -0800 Comment by Sad Comment @1

Gee, that's the best come back that you can come up with? If I was that lame, I'd probably be very quiet instead looking like a tool, but keep trying there Skippy.

]]> Sad Comment http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102376 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102376 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:34:09 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage Darn.

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102377 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102377 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:34:51 -0800 Comment by w7ngman Anyone who says "the internet is a race and you lost" lost.

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102383 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102383 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:51:35 -0800 Comment by rb Points for pushing them on the double standard, but he's simply no match for Hannity's neocon bait-and-smear. But that's how Faux News wants it, isn't it.

Regardless, double standards are one of the core foundations of the neocon belief system. The fact that McCain is a Republican absolves him of any wrongdoing.

]]> rb http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102384 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102384 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:53:20 -0800 Comment by tsm So torture victims get an automatic license to cheat on their spouses for life? Is that how it works? Weird.

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102391 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102391 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:06:19 -0800 Comment by laterite Russia invading Georgia. The Stranger dumping Ellen Forney. And now Alan Colmes actually saying something interesting and challenging his keeper. I fully expect locusts and plague by midmorning Tuesday.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102393 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102393 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:12:42 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo Draft dodging, cheating on your wife, being a drunk and/or drug addict, lying to Congress and the American people and then covering it up, being implicated in campaign finance scandals, allowing yourself to be associated with loony and divisive religious leaders, changing your mind on issues of importance based on opportunistic reading of opinion polls -- all these things are only damming character flaws if Democrats do them. Otherwise, they're simple mistakes that anybody could make, mistakes that make you older, wiser, more experienced -- and it's in very poor taste to bring them up, thankyouverymuch.

Conversely, being a war hero only works in your favor if you're Republican. Otherwise it's just rank hypocrisy.

It's called a double standard. They work great if nobody ever calls you on it.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102395 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102395 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:14:19 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi allowing yourself to be associated with loony and divisive religious leaders

When a Republican does this, it's not a mistake, it's desirable. It shows he's a man of God.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102397 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102397 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:23:07 -0800 Comment by Mac @ Dan: I agree with you, but McCain's adultery did end in divorce. At least it did with the first wife.

Come to think of it, that guy belongs in both categories.

What a Maverick!

]]> Mac http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102411 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102411 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:49:55 -0800 Comment by PC McCain also dumped his wife after she was in a tragic car accident.

KO so we will bitch about this on Slog but guaranteed, the Democrats nationally and Obama will not figure out how to mount a sustained character attack on McCain an GOP the way the right has done to us for 50 years. D's are just too wussy.

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102413 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102413 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:52:02 -0800 Comment by sugarfree @11: You of course know all about sustained character attacks.

]]> sugarfree http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102420 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102420 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:16:48 -0800 Comment by jiberish reagan and mccain were consumers and they procurred richer more glamourous wives which is what big business is all about. edwards and clinton stayed small scale and how is that going to grow the economy.

]]> jiberish http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102430 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102430 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:51:00 -0800 Comment by newt cheated on his cancer-ridden wife -- how's his career doing? I think it's yet another example of IOKIYAR -- “It’s OK If You’re a Republican”

]]> newt cheated on his cancer-ridden wife -- how's his career doing? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102447 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102447 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:09:27 -0800 Comment by Shocked I am shocked that Republicans talk show hacks would employ a double standard. Shocked. Shocked. Shocked.

What a crock.

The best part was that Hannity didn't even see it coming.

]]> Shocked http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102458 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102458 2008 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:21:27 -0800 Comment by MadderTV "Adultery that doesn’t end in divorce? (Clinton, Edwards.) That’s not okay."

Maybe, but don't think for a second that the MSM and the comedy skit shows on Saturday nights didn't try to break them up.

]]> MadderTV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102479 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102479 2008 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:09:40 -0800 Comment by Vince I love watching the "morally superior" getting their feet stuck in their own muck.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102493 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102493 2008 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:24:58 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV So the logic is that five and half years of being tortured and tormented understandably permits quit your wife and family

...but it's still okay be be President?

Seems the Right Wing is trying to play the "Mental Instability" card offensively.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102511 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102511 2008 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:17:16 -0800 Comment by rjsplow I'm really glad that at a place and time in history where western civilization is faced with a burgeoning food shortage, seemingly unstoppable global environmental change for the worse, terrorism, the specter of a cold war redux, stagflation, rampant governmental corruption at virtually all levels, a rise in religious extremism worldwide, racial tensions, complications from an aging population and a rise in obesity-related health issues that threatens to bankrupt the United States for generations, I must say it's truly comforting to know that our watchdog news-media is keeping its focus on what's really important:

where powerful men like to stick their dicks.

Now, if you'll excuse me I believe there's a "America's Next Top Model" marathon I absolutely must watch.

]]> rjsplow http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102519 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102519 2008 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:12:21 -0800 Comment by sara I love how at the start Amanda Carpenter says while he was running Edwards had adopted "conservative moral values" -- sneaking in the lie that sticking by your sick wife makes you a "conservative." Idiot bitch!

(btw, thx for posting this, even if it was a day late. I wouldn't have seen it anywhere else.)

]]> sara http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102530 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102530 2008 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:57:07 -0800 Comment by RHETT ORACLE So where Hannity is concerned, there would have been no presidential administrations for the adulterers FDR (Lucy), DDE (Kay), JFK (Judith), LBJ (imagination fails but I'm sure he fucked someone besides Lady Bird), RMN (Bebe Rebozo), GHWB (somebody younger than Barbara) RWR (Nancy Davis), WJC (Monica), GWB (Johnny Walker and the whore, Cocaine)...

from Beijing: "Hu cares..."

]]> RHETT ORACLE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102539 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102539 2008 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:46:36 -0800 Comment by Mr. X @19,

(insert sound of Mr. X falling off of chair simultaneously laughing and weeping uncontrollably).

]]> Mr. X http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102576 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102576 2008 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:13:45 -0800 Comment by MBI I remember seeing a quote from McCain, before the presidential campaign, saying that he couldn't really blame his adultery on his time as a POW, much as he would like to. I guess Hannity can do it for him.

]]> MBI http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102823 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/holy_crap_alan_colmes_actually_wore_his#c1102823 2008 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:32:08 -0800