guest post by mikl-em
In one of those unexpected Jon Stewart-y kinda twists, The Daily Show brought out 80’s pop duo Daryl Hall and John Oates to sing a farewell to Alan Colmes, one of Fox News’ few non-conservative voices, who is leaving the show Hannity & Colmes at the end of the year.
Colmes is often criticized for being a weak liberal straw man and thus actually perpetuating the Fox News channel’s generally conservative perspective–see “The false balance of Hannity & Colmes“. Sean Hannity himself recently talked about life without Colmes. Here is a 2003 PBS interview of Hannity & Colmes.
Meanwhile, Hall & Oates have a collaboration coming out with the band Chromeo any day now. Daryl Hall in particular has been busy and high profile (relatively to the last decade at least) with his Live From Daryl’s House site and podcast–which includes an episode with Chromeo.
Given the season, I’ve gotta close with the classic Hall & Oates holiday video for Jingle Bell Rock from 1983, they really nail a great schmaltz-y mood in this one…
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Darn it, the video can only be played from within the USA, *sigh*