Just a Typical Monday: Alan Colmes Accused of Being No Fun, Argumentative, and a Coward

Weenie that he is, Alan Colmes divulged today that during commercial breaks Imus engages in games of Angry Birds on his iPad. But Colmes was inaccurate. “I either do that, or I play chess,” Imus clarified. “I’m not very good at Angry Birds.”
 
Then Imus observed that his guest, a Fox News contributor, doesn’t seem like he has much fun in his life. “For fun, I come here,” Colmes said, confirming Imus’s assessment.
 
And when he really wants to party, Colmes sits around and thinks about things like Congress finally reaching an agreement to fund the federal government late last Friday night. “There’s no way they were not going to have a deal,” Colmes said. “It would have killed the Republicans not to have a deal because generally, the Executive Branch wins in a situation like that, when there’s a government shutdown.”
 
Impeding the process all along were the Tea Party members of the Republican Party, who did not want to negotiate or compromise on issues like abortion. “They think they’re standing on principle, and it’s only going to hurt them,” Colmes added.
 
Imus noted that many Americans embrace the goals and philosophies espoused by the Tea Party, but Colmes disagreed. “Most polls show the Tea Party is losing altitude,” Colmes said. “Fewer and fewer and fewer people are actually supporting them. I think they’ve turned off a lot of people with their very intransigent rhetoric.”
 
For instance, the Tea Party continues to demand lower taxes for all Americans without acknowledging that maybe the timing isn’t right for that sort of policy. “It makes no sense,” Colmes said. “They need that money in order to pay the bills.”
 
One of the ways Colmes pays his bills is by hosting a nationally syndicated radio program, which he used last week to take Donald Trump to task for his nonstop ranting about President Obama’s birth certificate. But as Imus and Bernard see it, Colmes and other Liberals are “bullies” and “cowards” afraid of actually attacking Trump.
 
“I kept pressing him on this ridiculous birther stuff, and he kept denying the facts,” Colmes said. “It got to the point where, how many times can you ask the same question?”
 
Then Colmes tried explaining the difference between a certification of live birth—which Obama requested, received, and released to the public four years ago—and a certificate of live birth. The latter, he said, is never released by the state of Hawaii, regardless of whether the person requesting it is the President or a pipefitter.
 
Asked if this is true, Bernard replied, “Not according to Donald Trump,” which, as Imus pointed out, isn’t exactly the best ammunition.
 
The whole charade is, in Imus’s view, stupid and embarrassing—kind of like the United States getting involved in the skirmish in Libya, where, despite Obama’s claim to the contrary, troops have been on the ground since the air assault started a few weeks ago.
 
“We always have CIA on the ground anyplace where there’s an air power,” Colmes said, then insisted this operation does not “smell the same” as Iraq because, for one thing, the U.S. actually has more allies involved with more troops than it ever did in Iraq.
 
Not that he’s a fan of the military action in Libya. “I’m just saying it’s not the same thing as Iraq,” Colmes added politely, but was accused of being confrontational anyway.
 
“That’s why Hannity got sick of you,” Imus said. “Because you come in and argue all the time.”
 
-Julie Kanfer