Alan Colmes Dies At 66

Alan Colmes, a former radio star who for 12 years served as the liberal sparring partner for co-host Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes show, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 66. No cause of death was specified. In a statement, Hannity described his former partner as “one of life’s most decent, kind and wonderful people you’d ever want to meet.” He added, “When Alan and I started Hannity & Colmes, there wasn’t a day that went by where we didn’t say we were the two most fortunate men in all of television.”

Despite their political differences, Hannity said the two men “forged a deep friendship” over the years. “Alan, in the midst of great sickness and illness, showed the single greatest amount of courage I’ve ever seen,” he said.

According to The New York Times, Colmes also ran the Liberaland blog, contributed to AOL News and wrote several books, including Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right and Right Is Wrong in 2003 and 2012’s Thank the Liberals for Saving America. Colmes is survived by his wife Jocelyn Crowley, a professor of public policy at Rutgers University. In a statement, the Colmes family said, “He was a great guy, brilliant, hysterical, and moral. He was fiercely loyal, and the only thing he loved more than his work was his life with Jocelyn.”