Video: John O’Neill toasts Waffles on Hannity & Colmes
posted at 10:24 pm on November 2, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Et tu, CJ? Et tu?
All right, here’s a little red meat to make amends. I’ve never seen Alan so bitchy!
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Can we get Alan some Midol? Somebody’s sleeping on the couch tonight! I know these two represent two sides of the political spectrum but they can sometimes be very hard to watch.
thedecider on November 2, 2006 at 10:31 PM
I’m hocking up a loogie right about now………
Limerick on November 2, 2006 at 10:33 PM
Alan could save a bunch of money on Prozac by just taking a ball-peen hammer and just hitting himself in for forehead. He will get the same results for minimal cost.
As for what CJ says, he is closer to the truth than you think AP. Just my 2¢ worth.
TwinkietheKid on November 2, 2006 at 10:45 PM
Occam’s Razor cuts deep, amigo. That’s not Shinola you stepped in.
Pablo on November 2, 2006 at 10:47 PM
What’s with Colmes’ shtick about Kerry not bashing the troops? Is that on the Deluded Leftist Robot memo?
Free Kurdistan on November 2, 2006 at 10:49 PM
I’m glad you saw this, AP, I just watched it on Fox. It’s the best video I’ve seen on this issue.
Should be watched by everyone.
Thank God for John O’Neil, his honesty, his courage, and his committment to duty and to his fellow soldiers over three decades after he hung up his boots.
God bless men like that. I’d be honoured to shake his hand.
Christoph on November 2, 2006 at 10:56 PM
Alan was clearly more agitated and animated than normal tonight. Has he seen the internal polls, too?
SouthernGent on November 2, 2006 at 10:56 PM
The Donks can always come up with an excuse for any individual comment (from Kerry, Durbin, Ted Turner, etc.,) but they can’t deny the pattern they have woven over the last forty years. They are, at their core, the party best symbolized by Jane-Fonda-in-the-anti-aircraft-gun.
Coyote D. on November 2, 2006 at 11:04 PM
Republicans: “jumping on the anti-Kerry bandwagon” —-I used to think that Colmes, although VERY often wrong, for the most part was at least respectful of those who disagreed with his brand of “thought”, but after watching him flail and flounder to try (for some unfathomable reason) to defend J.Fruggin’ Kerry, I have come to a different conclusion. He’s just another moonbat waterhead liberal; albeit one with some understanding of the English language. (I’m sure the term “English language” offends REAL MEN LIBERALS to no end.) I’m hillbillyjim and I don’t give a flip WHO endorses this message.
hillbillyjim on November 2, 2006 at 11:05 PM
Alan let it be known that he believes troops terrorize women and children during his rebuttal. Even if the soldiers involved are guilty, it is wrong to group the men and women of the military into that group as a whole. Alan has once again shown us what libs think of our troops and the disdain they hold for those serving.
jeffNWV on November 2, 2006 at 11:05 PM
Alan’s been pissy for the past couple days. It could just be his time of the month, but he acts like he’s been snorting liberal Kool-Aid powder on the whole Kerry issue. He swallowed the bullshit hook, line, and sinker, like a good little mindless liberal drone.
ReubenJCogburn on November 2, 2006 at 11:06 PM
A little birdie told me this is a Democrat supporting website although I haven’t verified that personally.
Nonetheless, it should win the prize for political cartoon of the year.
Da prizhe 4 pic ahv da yeer shood stil go too da troupes.
Christoph on November 2, 2006 at 11:07 PM
P.S Somebody whisper in Alan Colmes’ ear—there is no bandwagon–Lurch ain’t running for anything, except maybe for dog-catcher on the Heinz estate. SSHHhhhhhhh, don’t tell everybody.
hillbillyjim on November 2, 2006 at 11:09 PM
Give Alan a small break, his teams down big, he has the ball and the rest of the players just quit. So he punted :)
LordNazh on November 2, 2006 at 11:10 PM
OK ALLAH AA step#10 Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it! Now go make nice nice.
sonnyspats1 on November 2, 2006 at 11:10 PM
Gotta feel for Alan, being a know-nothing nobody leftist vaulted into the spotlight by a nitwit like Hannity. You can’t bite the hand that feeds you, at least not very hard, but every night some conservative comes on and bitch-slaps you like a maid in a frat house.
It must get old.
Jaibones on November 2, 2006 at 11:11 PM
Allah… look what your comments registration hath wrought.
And, for what its worth, Alan is actually a pretty nice dude when he isn’t worked up on TV.
DaveS on November 2, 2006 at 11:13 PM
I call Alan Combes, “ol dead eyes”.
Has anyone else noticed that he has a dead expression while “interviewing” guests?
Left_Behind on November 2, 2006 at 11:14 PM
You boys have Alan’s number tonight. He has been OTR for the last week — maybe he has seen the internals — but I think the left just has a special place in hell they’d like to put John O’Neill and the Swifties.
Heh.
Jaibones on November 2, 2006 at 11:15 PM
Christoph–I second the nomination for “political cartoon of the year”; however, I must nominate the IRAK jpg. for STATEMENT of the year. God bless’em.
hillbillyjim on November 2, 2006 at 11:18 PM
Hear, hear, hillbillyjim.
AP, that’s a great cartoon. Post it somewhere!
Christoph on November 2, 2006 at 11:20 PM
Or… link to it. Copyright and all. ;-)
Christoph on November 2, 2006 at 11:21 PM
I have comments to make about Mr. Colmes offensive treatment of Mr. O’Neil. However, since this blog is rated “PG”. I shall refrain. After all, I’m just a poor, undereducated(BA), enlisted man and should not comment on my “betters”.
MCPO Airdale on November 2, 2006 at 11:30 PM
Damn right, MCPO Airdale.
Shut-up and don’t criticize Master Kerry. He’s eating hor’dourves and crow.
Christoph on November 2, 2006 at 11:31 PM
It’s not fair to have Coulter, Levin, and Hannity on there at the same time. Poor Colmes at that other dude were getting steamrolled.
p0s3r on November 2, 2006 at 11:38 PM
still learnin’ folks–thanks for your patience
hillbillyjim on November 2, 2006 at 11:18 PM
sorry I didn’t provide link for my STATEMENT of the year nomination:
hillbillyjim on November 2, 2006 at 11:40 PM
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/01/lazy-and-uneducated-photo-of-the-day/
hillbillyjim on November 2, 2006 at 11:43 PM
Ugh Hannity & Colmes is sooo hard to watch. Hannity’s presumptuous constipated look juxtaposed against Colmes “I slap fight like a 10 year old girl” whining, is too much most of the time. Can we get Colmes in a death match with a gay republican staffer?
Theworldisnotenough on November 2, 2006 at 11:53 PM
( All right, here’s a little red meat to make amends. I’ve never seen Alan so bitchy! )
Alan is usually bitchy when he’s over his head.
His last words in the clip calling John O’Neil shameful
for exposing Sir Kerry says it all.
Texyank on November 2, 2006 at 11:53 PM
Constipated Americans, Unite! This is clearly constipationalism. Oh the humanity. Anti-constipationalist bigot. Constipated people are people too. (not to mention the slap-fightists). Where’s the ACLU on this travesty?
hillbillyjim on November 3, 2006 at 12:16 AM
I’m perhaps alone among the masses on this, but Alan Colmes doesn’t really bother me, on the infrequent times that I’ve seen that show. He’s miscast as a foil for Hannity, but he seems a generally decent and intelligent guy, and I say that even though I disagree with his politics.
This clip, however, represents Alan carrying water, pure and simple, for Kerry. And it’s almost as disgusting to watch as that Larry O’Donnell meltdown of several years ago. Because he’s carrying a Dem’s water? Hardly. Because he’s doing it so poorly and transparently? Yup.
Patton on November 3, 2006 at 12:31 AM
I am so glad to find that I am not the only thoughtful, serious conservative who finds watching H&C a bit difficult–unless Ann Coulter is on. Hubba hubba.
urbancenturion on November 3, 2006 at 12:37 AM
Patton & others favorable to Mr. Colmes, I used to watch them more often, before I became hopelessly addicted to HOT AiR. Back then Alen was calmer and more reasonable. Lately he’s become annoying beyond belief. Hannity annoys me too when he argues a point into the ground, long after it’s already dead.
They know exactly when a hard break is due - then use tonight’s tactic of slamming the guest, with no choice to respond. Alen also, of late has developed this annoying trait of blindly standing up for the opposing of anything. You say black, he says white, just because. He can be reasonable though and I find him well-bred. Something happened in the last year.
Best part of the tape “…these boys are all better than Kerry on his best day” –O’Neill.
Entelechy on November 3, 2006 at 12:57 AM
If he’s any indication for Tuesday, things are looking up.
Entelechy on November 3, 2006 at 12:59 AM
John O’Neill is the man. No one wants to fight side by side with Kerry, they know that he has no honor and would leave a wounded comrade to die. How do I know? How many want him around now that he is wounded. The Democrats would eat their own for a few votes. That is why the military is so Republican, they carry their wounded, they die for their comrades, they fight for what is right. Honor and Service, and John O’Neill exemplifies that.
right2bright on November 3, 2006 at 1:05 AM
Give Alan a break. I am going to give him some leeway and say I think he is so bitchy because he knows Kerry said what he meant to say and now he is stuck in the position of defending the piss poor excuse that sorry boob came up with because as a faithful liberal he can’t admit that he believes that is what Kerry really thinks so close to such a tight election.
Or maybe he is just watching how many of the polls are trending towards republicans, who knows.
n2sooners on November 3, 2006 at 1:12 AM
Maybe Allah and KP will meet in the middle on this one. How sweet!
Scotsman on November 3, 2006 at 1:24 AM
Nuanced shades of gray—Osama and his thugs are eating this up with a spoon the size of a bulldozer shovel (with bullets for salt and fedayeen for pepper. Damn, people) or for Senator Kerry’s Fighting Fools: DAM PEEPULheavysarc. If you don’t get it JFKHeinz, at least do us a favor and don’t attempt a joke.
hillbillyjim on November 3, 2006 at 1:51 AM
“You question people’s Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, and YOU’RE undermining the military, and it’s shameful, what you’re doing.” - Alan Colmes
Not “people’s”, Alan. Kerry’s. When you assume command of a unit, you get to learn a great deal about the kind of person who held that command before you. Memos, reports, a very wide variety of documents provide a portrait of your predecessor’s thought process. Not to mention the statements and opinions of unit members who served under him.
And Alan, your recorded attitude towards and verbal treatment of our military gives you NO moral authority to decide who’s behavior is shameful. Shameful was you taking that wickedly cheap pot-shot as time comes to an end, you jerk.
Freelancer on November 3, 2006 at 2:09 AM
That man is a great hero.
Perchant on November 3, 2006 at 2:31 AM
Q: what happens when you put pacifist idiots in charge? A: (see late 70’s) For KerryKorps: (forget about it, it’s the: over your sub-par ignorant, can’t do nuthin’ but pull a trigger and kill, rape, pillage, mind-set, that is, of course, the fault of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Bugs Funny, and Fred from the General Store & John Quincy Birkenfiddle. Q: der ub um ah well, it seems, um, ah,==SORRY, FOLKS, WE’RE OUT OF
TIMEpatience, so now you see how to lead (or wuz thayhat Leed)????HOUR seves intoo the footyoour.hillbillyjim on November 3, 2006 at 2:32 AM
I know that I am running the risk of someone Shooting at me for blog-hogging, but I feel obligated to say this: C’mon people, have a little laugh at yourselves. I know that this is serious business, but if you can’t laugh at your own self, rest assured that someone else will laugh at you anyway. I prefer to be first in line. I’m not gonna back this up with a thesis or a hundred references. I’m just gonna chuckle a little. It is actually fun. Really. By the way, DON’T joke around next Tues. Do the RIGHT thing.
hillbillyjim on November 3, 2006 at 2:56 AM
Alan makes me cringe more than ever. He does not get the concept of one person talking at a time.
Sean is getting harder to take as Tuesday grows near.I’m wishing Roger would slap ‘em both.
I personally can’t wait for Tuesday. Maybe things were more divided during the Civil War — but it wasn’t on TV day & night.
Allah, you’re right — other guys wrong. I don’t see why they can’t see that Kerry just screwed up. It’s not like we have to stop hating him. We still got the gift that keeps on giving as our October surprise.
CanaryinaCoalMine on November 3, 2006 at 3:03 AM
Alan is a brainless mummy. I think he died 10 years ago and no one told him.
x95b10 on November 3, 2006 at 3:31 AM
Where’s the evidence of Kerry’s “prepared remarks”? Can we see this “transcript”? Or does it only exist in the minds of the Kerry staff?
Seixon on November 3, 2006 at 3:53 AM
Sean Hannity is brining himself down by allowing himself to be seen as the weight on the right side of the scale, supposedly “balancing” the featherweight Colmes on the left side of said scale. A moth could land on that scale and tip it; kinda like upcoming “weigh-in” on 11-7-’06, huh? Damn scary if you ask me. Hannity has went from pointed commentary backed by salient argument to finger-pointing and bullying; Alan Colmes has gone from thoughtful dissent to whining, pure and simple. The whole show has gone from “ground-breaking” to “where the hell is the remote?” We’ve got to somehow move past such virulent partisanship and learn to have genuine differences and still move forward so our government can actually move past gridlock when the times so desparately call for action in the face of the blatent Islamofascist Jihadi Imperialist (world domination) aims of our enemies. Pie-in-the-sky, I know; so vote Republican next Tues. so we don’t whine ourselves into Dhimmitude. For you Liberati out there; yes I said “enemies”–probably shoulda said ENEMIES
hillbillyjim on November 3, 2006 at 6:22 AM
Alan sounds like he has a tampon wedged up his ass, sideways.
Sure sounds like he is seeing defeat stolen from the jaws of victory.
E L Frederick on November 3, 2006 at 6:24 AM
could be a rough draft for next J. Webb novel coming to a store near you.
hillbillyjim on November 3, 2006 at 6:46 AM
No one understands Alan. It’s a cry for help when he gets so sassy. “Give me a hard slap and a good rogering” is what he is crying out.
Hening on November 3, 2006 at 7:22 AM
Christoph - I don’t know who your “little bird” is, but they couldn’t be more wrong about AttackCartoons.com - and since I’m the webmaster, I should know.
I’ll have to tell the Varmint someone thinks his site is “Democrat supporting.” I don’t know if he’ll laugh or be mortally insulted, but either way it’ll get a rise out of him.
xardoz on November 3, 2006 at 7:41 AM
Hillybillyjim wrote:
LOL…..EXACTLY!!!
Left_Behind on November 3, 2006 at 7:56 AM
AP,
you cut that one too short. Alan and John were still gong after each other until they cut to commercial, maybe 10-15 seconds more. Alan clearly has disdain for John O’Neil for
trashingspeaking the truth about Kerry. Alan was just soooo agitated. I guess Alan doesn’t buy the Swifties’ story. Too bad. He can get worked up all he wants becuase he is intellectually lazy, as most libs are.JohnnyD on November 3, 2006 at 7:58 AM
You’re right AP, I’ve never seen Alan so bitchy, and thats saying something because he quite often gets snotty and very bitchy with conservative guests.
But this Colmes outdid himself - He totally insulted the guest, with a most inflamatory statement, “You’ve made a career out of bashing Kerry”
John O’Neil, much to his credit, was able to remain calm and respond with dignity about Kerry’s reckless statements about our troops throughout the last 35 years.
John O’Neil - Has the patience of a saint. And he comes off as a credible gentleman while Alan Colmes came off as a desperate mean-spirited attack dog.
flagwaver on November 3, 2006 at 8:18 AM
Hasn’t anyone noticed this is Colmes trademark signoff with any conservative guest? I swear the DNC must give him a talking point zinger tailored specifically for the “enemy” guest appearing each night.
Then, when for all intents and purposes the interview is over, the background theme music fades in, the camera is panning away from the guest, Alan, with smirk and blank stare, tosses out that zinger like an unexpected hand grenade and the guest is denied any opportunity to respond.
Last night’s zinger ….. “You question people’s Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, and you’re undermining the military, and it’s shameful, what you’re doing”, pointed out previously in this post by Freelancer and Texyank. Thanks guys.
We should all question Alan’s ability to debate any issue off the cuff and without a stack of
talking pointsnotes in front of him.fogw on November 3, 2006 at 9:00 AM
Give Alan a break.
GMAFB!
Douche bags like Alan and Kerry have American blood on their hands. If the Left spent the same energy supporting the troops as they have undermining them we’d be significantly further along in the GWOT. And there’d be significantly fewer American troop casualties.
God bless John O’Neil and Colmes and his ilk can go to hell.
there it is on November 3, 2006 at 9:10 AM
I too have a hard time watching H&C anymore. I check Hannity’s website for the guests appearing before I tune in.
I’m having a hard time with the fair and balanced part lately, also. Aside from the big guns on FOX, the rest of the talking heads seem to spout Democrat talking points or show similar bias when they are reading the news. I can’t remember the source, but there was a comparision of political persuasions between FOX and the MSM which posited the MSM breaks 90+/5% to Dems in voter registration as opposed to 80+/15% Dems for FOX. You can look at FOX as 3 times more right wing than the MSM, or 11% less liberal.
Also, John O’Neil was a lifelong Democrat until he realized it wasn’t his party anymore (after he had worked on the John Edwards 2004 Presidential primary campaign). He’s like Zell MIller, in that he can’t abide fools, who also happen to be traitors. Alan doesn’t say anything about O’Neill’s Dem credentials, does he?
enigma00825 on November 3, 2006 at 10:25 AM
Oh my God, thry’re BROTHERS , Kerry and Colmes…look at ‘em.
Seriously tho, when Oneill said what the service men and women were feeling and saying i.e. “what’s going on in America” , that really pulled at my heartstrings. This stuff really hurts our soldiers thousands of miles from home protecting US.
shooter on November 3, 2006 at 10:43 AM
Alan calling John O’Neill shameful?
Let me get this straight:
Kerry lying about Cambodia - good
O’Neill demonstrating said lie - shameful
Ok Alan, you have your priorities and morals in good working order. Not.
CrimsonFisted on November 3, 2006 at 11:09 AM
…Colmes arguing against troops accused of rape, on the weight of evidence from the *ICRC* (a respectable source, no?)…in defense of Kerry’s broad-brush statement that our troops rape and terrorize in the middle of the night.
…your finest hour, Allan….
Puritan1648 on November 3, 2006 at 11:39 AM
…yeah…but they were talking over Levin, et. al., so’s you couldn’t hear ‘em….that levels the playing field somewhat.
Puritan1648 on November 3, 2006 at 11:43 AM
…you get folks who bring position papers and searing, reasoned logic…to a knife-fight.
Puritan1648 on November 3, 2006 at 11:47 AM
Never watch H n C…because of C…I listen to H on the radio…makes more sense to me without the distraction of C…
areseaoh on November 3, 2006 at 12:11 PM
I’m lovin Levin!
CanaryinaCoalMine on November 3, 2006 at 1:10 PM
Remember those lizard guys on Land of the Lost who lived in pyramids and adjusted the crystals on a podium. They also shot arrows I think and Hissed. Kind of look like a mix between William Blake’s Ghost of a Flea and Colmes.
Drtuddle on November 3, 2006 at 1:11 PM
What’s with Colmes’ left eyebrow, everytime he makes a pointed comment it rises up 6″ into his never ending forehead.
I give no quarter to Colmes as some of the other bloggers do, such as he’s really a nice guy, other than his being a liberal. Alan Colmes is nothing more than a snake in the grass. He bites then slithers away. This guy is no more than a mind conflicted liberal loon. His only purpose is to be the pious Hannity’s foil.
I agree that the show is a bit much to handle lately. It mimics a Chinese fire drill most of the time.
Hannity has become too full of himself and needs to reign in his ego somewhat. Who wants to see Sean riding a horse or trying to sing at one of his unending “freedom concert?” That’s not why we tune in, stick to the debating issues! At least TRY to debate rather than screaming overtop of one another.
As for Alan, I’m convinced that a coup de grace is the only thing that will cure his scrammbled leftist brain. He’s beyond redemption.
gunter on November 3, 2006 at 1:15 PM
Drtuddle on November 3, 2006 at 1:11 PM
Sleestaks, man! Alan Colmes is a Sleestak!
John O’Neill is the Man for saying that any of the troops in Iraq are more heroic than John Kerry. I’m so sick and tired of people who know nothing of war or heroes telling me that Kerry’s a “war hero”.
ReubenJCogburn on November 3, 2006 at 2:20 PM
Alan has devolved into little more than Kerry’s bedpan emptier. No doubt his hostility towards O’Neill is because of the SUCCESS of the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth in torpedoing Kerry’s 2004 run for the Presidency.
Remember this Swiftboat advertisement? 35 years later, Kerry is still insulting our intelligence as well as the troops. Colmes dishonors himself by trying to whitewash Kerry.
georgej on November 3, 2006 at 3:16 PM
“Hanoi John” Kerry said what he said, not once,
but three times.
Alan Colmes, is the epitome of a rat democrat
apologizing for a loser. Face it, Senator John Kerry
has disdain and contempt for our military that is
way far more than any one in congress.
IMO, Kerry is an out-n-out traitor to this country.
byteshredder on November 3, 2006 at 5:15 PM