Alan Colmes vs. the Harlem Globetrotters

Yesterday while reading random news stories online, I clicked on a news story documenting the announcement by Alan Colmes that he would be leaving Hannity & Colmes, the political discussion program on Fox News where he has served as Sean Hannity's liberal punching bag for the past twelve years.
Can you blame the guy? He's the Washington Generals of political debate. The Washington Generals are the poor schmucks who play the Harlem Globetrotters every night. And every night they lose in grand fashion while they get depantsed at the free throw line and have balls bounced across their foreheads. Crowds watch the Globetrotters miraculously stage dribbling exhibitions through the legs of patsy Generals players who are in too much of a need of an easy paycheck to object. Still, losing every night while a roaring audience cheers you looking like a buffoon has to get old eventually.

Maybe it finally got old for Colmes. I swear, he makes Sean Hannity look like a regular Meadowlark Lemon. As Colmes haplessly sits back in interviews and misses easy jabs that even Larry King wouldn't miss, Sean Hannity puts on a regular trick shot exhibition. Hannity and his conservative cronies bounce verbal shots off Colmes' dumb noggin as he looks on in a daze. Heck, that show is about as fair and balanced as the Generals 13,000-odd game losing streak since 1971.

Good riddance, Colmes. Have fun in the graveyard of weekend Fox News programming. Who knows how long you'll last? Who the hell would want to see the Washington Generals display their incompetence without a Globetrotter like Curly Neal throwing bounce passes at their nuts? I know I wouldn't!