I have watched it a couple of times, and they seem to give equal time to both sides.
So what is the problem?
2007-03-29 08:44:23 · 31 answers · asked by Time to Shrug, Atlas 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
So it seems to be a matter of Colmes not doing a good job of defending liberal positions. Is it that because Hannity is better at debating, or that liberal positions are that tough to defend?
2007-03-29 08:59:19 · update #1
because they could not logically refute the arguments that the show presents. So instead, they decide to attack Hannity since they have no other option. It's human nature to attack the person if you lose an argument.
2007-03-29 08:51:14 · answer #1 · answered by dr_tom_cruise_md 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Hannity is a bully and Colmes is a wimp. It isn't that Hannity is better, he is just more aggressive and sometimes irrational. He doesn't listen to both sides, he hears it and immediately finds something shoot it down because that is what he is paid to do. Even when it makes him sound like an ***. Colmes is definitely the more intelligent of the two, he will listen to both sides and some times the other side has a point so he won't be aggressive (it's not in his nature anyway) to defend his side as much. No one is right all the time, and just because soemone refuses to concede a point doesn't mean that point isn't won. Hannity thinks he can spout something that is bull and if he does it over and over again, people will believe it.
2007-04-03 10:22:17 · answer #2 · answered by Penny K 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That show is anything but balanced and is so obviously tilted toward Sean Hannity. I watch it sometimes for the hell of it and it is defiantely geared toward Hannity more than Colmes. Fox News is like that in general when they try to show how they are "fair and balanced". They bring in a strong, well known conservative and always pit them against some no-name, idiotic liberal. Of course some people will say "maybe that's b/c liberals are stupid and don't know anything" or something stupid like that. They always bring in the craziest, dumbest liberals I have ever seen. They do on purpose too to make it seem like the conseravtive is so much smarter and more articluated against the liberal. It's basically like having Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers take on some high school basketball team and calling it fair and balanced. I remember this one time they had two guests, the white, well mannered white guy taking the conservative postion against some crazy, black preacher (who I still don't know why he was chosen to debate) that starting yelling crazy accusations and looking like a fool; that is hardly "fair and balanced". And just look at the two hosts; Sean Hannity is a handsome, well groomed guy and Colmes is some pale, scrawny looking nerd.
They may give equal time to both hosts but they do not give equal treatment at all to both sides. Just look at the backgrounds of the conservative and liberal guests they have, it's amazing at the disparity between the two and that is purposely done.
2007-03-29 12:30:01 · answer #3 · answered by Sav 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hannity rants for a while.. then he lets both sides talk... and he plays clips of his more violent callers... he uses the illusion of fairness to make his points seem more valid.. it's propaganda... I've never listened to Colmes so I couldn't tell you.
I should say.. his show is only balanced for about 5-10 out of every 30 minutes... it's an illusion.
P.S. He's a lot better than Limbaugh though.
2007-03-29 08:49:05 · answer #4 · answered by pip 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
hannity is the lead guy on the show. hannity looks like a tv guy while colmes is a very unattractive nerdy lookin guy. hannity is STRONG willed, uncompromising, stone cold conservative while colmes is just an empty suite who basically apologizes for liberals. this show is just another example of foxnews right wing bias. i like the show though because its pretty entertaining even though it does not even approach real journalism.
2007-03-29 08:54:42 · answer #5 · answered by souperhandsome 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I see both sides do the same thing. No disrespect to you, my Conservative Friend. But both sides doesn't wanna see the other sides View. By looking at it? it may give creedence to them being wrong. And that is just not exceptable. But we need to all look at what is wrong with this Nation. And fix it, before others come in and fix it THEIR WAY!!
2007-03-29 08:50:52 · answer #6 · answered by Nunya Bidniss 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They have fascinating guests on their shoe, but then everyone starts arguing at once, making it difficult to catch anything meaningful. They have their moments, but I prefer to watch actual dialog rather than snide remarks and spiteful rhetoric. Oh, and I'm not a liberal.
2007-03-29 08:53:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Colmes is a prop; a caricature of a liberal, not a real one. He's played to be an idiot fromwhat I've seen. Hannity just is an idiot, he either never took journalism or failed it badly.
2007-03-29 08:49:25 · answer #8 · answered by guy o 5 · 5⤊ 3⤋
They do have equal time. I would say that most of the liberals do not watch it but form an opinion from what they read on the left wing blogs (because it is a Fox News program). You know the old saying-monkey see, monkey do.Fact of the matter, ALL THE FOX NEWS PROGRAMS THAT I HAVE WATCHED, ARE FAIR AND BALANCED, regardless of what the ostriches on the left wing say about them.
2007-03-29 08:52:34 · answer #9 · answered by just the facts 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Because they are afraid if they don't criticize everything on Fox News, they might actually see truth in what we are telling them that it's a unbiased news station.
2007-03-29 09:03:37 · answer #10 · answered by Mikira 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋