Talk:Alan Colmes

David Duke interview March 11, 2015

Colmes interviewed Dr. David E. Duke, Ph.D. on March 11 2015. This controversial interview should be included in the page. Dr. Duke discusses this interview also. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.150.129.220 (talk) 16:49, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Reflist-talk added 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:E9E4:907C:2027:59D6 (talk) 22:12, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

References

Jones

Man, he interviewd Jones again, fisrt time being after the Sheen became the 911TM hero. Impresive, AJ Hammer almost lost his job over that one... --Striver 04:17, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

• • Um, what? --DOHC Holiday (talk) 01:08, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

YouTube links

This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it. Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed. I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy. In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed, feel free to ask me on my talk page and I'll review it personally. Thanks. ---J.S (t|c) 07:49, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I feel that it is highly unreasonable to state that we should remove all links to Youtube considering that most media outlets have their own YouTube channels that do not violate any copyright law. YouTube can be an excellent source to support various claims made by Colmes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.92.141.5 (talk) 05:00, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Picture

This user feels we need a pic. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.251.69.157 (talk) 01:26, 8 December 2006 (UTC).

There was a picture of Colmes' book Red, White & Liberal: How Left is Right and Right is Wrong, but it was deleted. Why?Jeff5102 12:58, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Copyright issues, most likely. Wikipedia avoids use of copyright-protected material, except under narrow conditions of "fair use", e.g., the picture is the subject of the article. The image of a book cover might be used in an article about the book, but not to illustrate a tangentially related article. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)^{T @} 18:16, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Citation needed

I've moved the below here as it's had a citation needed tag for over one month. Please find and add a citation for this before restoring it to the page.

Alan Colmes has often been criticized as being a mismatch with Sean Hannity, who critics say is a much more aggressive debater. It is widely alleged that Colmes was chosen and promoted by Fox News precisely because of his lack of charisma and debating skills, which allows the conservative Hannity to overrun and dominate the show and results in its immense popularity among conservative audiences . [Fact-tagged since February 2007]

Wjhonson 03:40, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Contentious edits to lead paragraph

A user named Astuishin keeps re-editing this page to place the views of Alan Colmes critics in the very first paragraph. While I do not dispute that there are many liberals who think that Colmes is insufficiently left, that's essentially subjective, and not the most important thing about him. His cable TV and radio work is the most important. I have pointed out to this user that the article does contain a section to address the views of critics, but Atsuishin keeps reverting the first paragraph. We've gone back on this for days and days without end, including debating this on User_talk:Astuishin#Please_stop_adding_POV_to_Alan_Colmes_entry_biohis Talk page so I am bringing this to the talk page here in hopes of getting more input. I notice that a lot of Fox News-related entries seem to be dominated by people who do not like Fox News. I understand there is controversy here, but the views of critics are not the most important thing in these related pages. --Faldo57 (talk) 20:03, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I thought this was resolved. Perhaps not.thanks Astuishin (talk) 09:45, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Colbert and Colmes

Alan Colmes co-hosted the first 2009 episode of The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert, it was just stunt but I wondered if it warranted mentioning here? It can be easily sourced as it's available to stream for free from Colbertnation.com. I am new here so I thought I'd ask before doing anything Guycucumber (talk) 14:29, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

I would say its noteworthy enough to have a sentence about it either at the bottom of the career section or perhaps a new section is needed for other things hes been up to or done now hes left fox news. I tried to watch the the full episode but it wouldnt let me, i got a funny message sayin..

""Dear Great Britain, We're terribly sorry, but full episodes of The Colbert Report are not available. But please don't send any Red Coats in retaliation at this time, as you can experience the truthiness at..."

Anyway if you look at the history of the article it had been included for some time until someone changed the story to say he was fired after one show then the whole mention of it was simply removed. So unless anyone objects shortly id say add it with the source to the career section. BritishWatcher (talk) 16:07, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks I should have had a look at the history beforehand, Forteblast removed it initially,

Removed what was obviously a one-off joke, more suited to the Colbert Report article than this one

Which I understand, though I thought since he appeared for the entire episode technically as a co-host it could be considered notable, more so than a regular interview. Notable enough for a one-liner somewhere, at least. Anyway I'll leave it for awhile to see if anyone objects.

As for the video at colbertnation, that's a shame, I'm in Australia and I can stream here, however the episode was reported by a few news sites, I'll check around and see if any are citeworthy. Anyone interested can probably find the video on youtube. Guycucumber (talk) 16:54, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

True curve

Is his eyebrow arched naturally or artificially?Lestrade (talk) 21:55, 26 September 2011 (UTC)Lestrade

Jewish?

Alan Colmes claims to be Jewish. Is this by birth or by conversion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.226.95.18 (talk) 12:28, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Where does he make this claim? Jayjg ^(talk) 02:03, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Here's something about this http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2006/07/26/self-hating_jews_and_the_jewish_state/page/full/ Matthew Fennell (talk) 21:20, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

"After his bar mitzvah, he considered becoming a rabbi." http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/01/nyregion/about-long-island-liberal-or-conservative-both-are-from-li.html Arcanicus (talk) 11:57, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

"Fox News liberal"

I don't see why "Fox News liberal" links to Democrat In Name Only. Smells like editor's POV, or at best, synth; but, the cited source:[1] doesn't even use the quoted term or the linked term. 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:E9E4:907C:2027:59D6 (talk) 22:08, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 February 2017

Please add template: {{not in source|date=February 2017}} following the reference after the first sentence in the Criticism and satire section. The directly quoted terms are not in the cited source. 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:E9E4:907C:2027:59D6 (talk) 04:13, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Partly done: Moved the reference to the point up to which it is supported by the source. Added citation tag to the rest because the sentence starts as .......he has sometimes been referred ........ DRAGON BOOSTER ★ 05:47, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Okay. 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:E9E4:907C:2027:59D6 (talk) 20:43, 25 February 2017 (UTC)