Alan Colmes Quotes

I've come to expect the jabs at Fox News - because, being a liberal, I get more than most.

I think there are some liberals who are extremely biased about Fox News and wish to shun it or wish to criticize any liberal who appears on Fox News. That, to me, is not a particularly liberal attitude.

Even if everything its detractors say about Fox were true, the most liberal of liberal attitudes would be that one would get credit for being in the lion's den.

Liberals watch MSNBC; conservatives watch Fox. They don't want to hear ten seconds of a liberal on Fox, and they don't want to hear ten seconds of a conservative on MSNBC.

MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.'

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

The media increase the political nastiness while distancing voters from those clashes. Citizens become spectators. ­Headline-­driven news emphasizes the extremes, the fights, the hysteria, the sensational. Political reporters, trying to appear objective by quoting two opposing sides to almost every story, mostly sharpen the differences, slighting any centrist position.

Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ, it's fake news.

I think that 'Fox News' is fair and balanced.

When liberals dismiss all Trump supporters as racists, this only fuels their anger.

We can't have Trump supporters only trust what comes out of conservative news media and vice versa.

I don't think that I would always be asked about my feelings about liberal bias in the media if there wasn't any liberal bias in the media. If it was a moot question, then we wouldn't always have the discussion.

For decades, the liberal media eviscerated the Religious Right and other conservatives for their own attacks against liberal social causes. Over time, the media labeled anyone who didn't agree with the Left's world view as intolerant.

When Barack Obama arrived in Washington, many in the media welcomed him with optimism as a historic figure focused on progressive change. But their overwhelmingly favorable treatment of him ultimately turned Americans who disagreed with Obama's policies away from traditional media sources they came to distrust.

Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.

Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.

It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.