Alan Colmes Still "Working on" Pilot For Fox

Imus shared with his guest old friend Alan Colmes an e-mail he had just received from Fox's own Neil Cavuto. The e-mail read, simply, "I'm going to kill you."

Colmes happily took it to the next level by adding that in order to do so, Cavuto would have to first get his arms over his huge head. "Uh oh, I'm getting an e-mail now," said Colmes. "It's not pretty."

What is pretty, however, is the nude photo newly-elected Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown took in the early 1980s for Cosmo Magazine. Did we mention he's a Republican?

"Imagine it had been a liberal woman who had posed naked for a magazine," said Colmes. "Could she ever get elected?"

That point is entirely moot, Imus observed, because nobody wants to see any Democratic woman with her clothes off, ever. "Democrats are about the issues," Colmes protested. "They're about moving the country forward."

Unlike, say, Colmes's career, which has been immobile following his 2008 departure from Fox News's "Hannity & Colmes." Sean Hannity now hosts the program, "Hannity," which drew 7 million viewers the night of last week's special election in Massachusetts.

"You were once a part of that," Imus made sure to tell his guest.

Colmes believes last week's Republican victory in Massachusetts might actually help the Democrats change course before the 2010 midterm elections later this year.

"Obama is bringing Plouffe back, which I think is a good move," said Colmes, referring to the President's 2008 campaign manager who is widely credited with running the hyper-organized campaign that landed Obama in office.

"The Republicans are throwing these very smug 'I Told You So' parties," Colmes continued. "This is more about Massachusetts. This is about a very insular place that already had health care, that didn't want to have its tax dollars go to other states for additional health care."

Anti-incumbency fever, he continued, is high, and would affect any party in power. Though he's a big fat liberal, Colmes thinks Obama needs to fulfill his promises,like closing Guantanamo and getting out of Afghanistan, and be more forceful on health care.

"Take the Senate bill, get it passed in the House, make Pelosi understand that they're not going to be able to reconfigure the bill with only 59 votes in the Senate," he said.

Imus paid his guest a rare compliment, saying how much he enjoyed watching Colmes and his sister-in-law Monica Crowley on "The O'Reilly Factor" each week.

"But she's dead wrong," Imus said. "As are you."

-Julie Kanfer