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KissMyAsscroft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:10 PM
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Can we find our own "Alan Colmes" for Air America...


Why doesn't Air America get a conservative strawman to appear nightly to be bashed by one of the hosts. Can we find our own Alan Colmes?

Any suggestions?
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:11 PM
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1. We don't need another goddamned conservative voice in U.S. media!
Even a milquetoast conservative.
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renegade000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:11 PM
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2. that would be amusing...
but why should we sink to their level?

hmmmm...although, the sheer entertainment value might outweigh the desire to establish some sort of moral superiority ;).
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rwheeler31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:12 PM
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3. We do not want to be like them.
nt
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:13 PM
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4. I nominate Bob Boudelang. (nt)
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:16 PM
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7. That would be funny
Pair Bob Boudelang up with Janean Garofolo for a comedy bit.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:20 PM
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9. I heard Franken is good at that kind of thing
Speaking in a funny voice and building a character out of that. Is that accurate?
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:32 PM
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13. That would be the idea
but I am not that familiar with Franken's work but it would be a pretty slick bit maybe a once or twice a week.
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Ladyhawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 03:33 AM
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19. Name the character "Bill O'Colmesy" or something like that.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:14 PM
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5. In Other Words, Who Is the Wimpiest Wingnut? How About Poppy? n/t
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:14 PM
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6. If you want to listen to wimpy GOPers there are plently of places
you can go. But why waste what little air time we have available on bad GOP sludge?
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Dufaeth Donating Member (764 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:18 PM
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8. I know!!!! Alan Colmes!!!
would be perfect!
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KissMyAsscroft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:21 PM
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10. HAHAH!!!


So true...
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Mel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:24 PM
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11. Boring
no way!
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gemlake Donating Member (535 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:28 PM
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12. The head of the Log Cabin group
is one Repug that would send the right-wingers into an apoplectic fit. But which Repug is as wimpy and milquetoast as Colmes? The difficulty lies in finding someone who falsely labels himself or herself a "conservative" to make money, as Colmes calls himself "liberal" simply to serve as a weak foil for right-wing TV.
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:44 PM
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14. Very Goooooooood! Our Own "Alan Colmes". Ha!
Isn't it a riot? Colmes is little more than a metaphor now, isn't he?

Here's hoping Alan Colmes, Roger Ailes' sock-puppet male-whore, reads this thread to learn how absolutely despised he is.

"our own Alan Colmes"...KissMyAsscroft, you have a beautiful mind.

I only wish that SNL or John Stewart would have a skit heaping a big helping dish of humiliation onto Colmes letting him know how low he is esteemed.
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TheWebHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 09:49 PM
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15. Franken is pals with "G" Liddy
and has been a regular... that'll probably be as close as you can get.
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pa28 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-04 10:03 PM
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16. Ben Stein
The new voice of Conservative America.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 03:07 AM
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17. Franken has his dittohead friend, Mark who ends up agreeing
with him every time.
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Michael Costello Donating Member (179 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 03:22 AM
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18. Get a wealthy sounding one
Get someone with an upper class British accent, or who is very WASPy (like Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island) and have him say stuff like that Bush aide about how it's good American jobs are moving to India and China and that sort of thing.
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