Red, White & Liberal: How Left is Right and Right is Wrong
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book by Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel
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commentator Alan Colmes
Alan Colmes
Alan Samuel Colmes is an American radio/television host, liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel, and blogger. He is the host of The Alan Colmes Show, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show distributed by Fox News Radio that also airs throughout the United States on Fox News Talk...
, the liberal
Liberalism
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half of the network's Hannity & Colmes
Hannity & Colmes
Hannity & Colmes was a live television show on Fox News Channel in the United States, hosted by Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, who respectively presented a conservative and liberal perspective. The series premiered on October 6, 1996, and the final episode aired on January 9, 2009. It was the...
show.
Released in 2003, Red, White & Liberal tackles issues such as civil rights
Civil rights
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, the war on terror
War on Terror
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, and the perceived liberal media bias
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. Moreover, Colmes asserts that Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
was America's greatest president, that O. J. Simpson
O. J. Simpson
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was innocent, and that Jesus
Jesus
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was a liberal. Interspersed throughout are actual emails from Hannity & Colmes viewers, reprinted verbatim.
The book was prominently advertised on the website of Alan Colmes' conservative counterpart, Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity is an American radio and television host, author, and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks. Hannity also hosts a cable news show, Hannity,...
.