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Sean Hannity replacing Alan Colmes with Sean Hannity
by Danny Gallagher, posted Dec 15th 2008 9:29AM
Once again I'm forced to ask the question, what the hell is going on here? Have we entered the bizarro world? Is up now down? Has black become white? Did police arrest PGA golfer John Daly for shooting himself in the leg with an unlicensed handgun in a crowded hip-hop club, and the NRA award Plaxico Burres their Humanitarian of the Year award? Fox News has announced their replacement for the outgoing Alan Colmes, the liberal ying to Sean Hannity's conservative yang on their self-titled debate show: it's Sean Hannity.
He's doing the show all by himself, so finally he has someone worthy of debating him. Stephen Colbert's "Formidable Opponent" will never be funny again.
The new show will feature just Hannity talking about the day's issues following The O'Reilly Factor. It will also be renamed to Hannity (you the know the guys who came up with the title for The Half Hour News Hour weren't consulted on that title brainstorm session).
Why fly solo? They couldn't find someone who was up to the task. FNC's Senior VP of Programming Bill Shine told The Hollywood Reporter, "In the end, we couldn't replace Alan and the chemistry those two had." In other words, they couldn't find a left-wing commentator who was willing to get paid to sit quietly for an hour while the people at the big table talked.
But just because there is only one name in the show's title doesn't mean the other side won't get their say/chance to have their microphone turned off. The show will also feature "the Great American Panel" that will have a conservative, a liberal and an "X-factor guest" such as a comedian, a commentator or "someone like 'Joe the Plumber'" such as Bob the Builder, Jake the Creepy Carnival Ride Operator or Rod the Pipe Fitter.
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