Alan Colmes Tells Bill O’Reilly: “Everything Is The ‘Far Left’ To You”

(By Matt Schneider, Mediaite) - Every Tuesday night on 'The O’Reilly Factor', political commentators Alan Colmes and Monica Crowley debate one another in an always entertaining “Barack and a Hard Place” segment. Given that the two are related (Colmes is married to Crowley’s sister) and both can play along with host Bill O’Reilly, this segment often seems like a fun family dinner where the participants don’t have to hold back and can say absolutely anything they want, because when the gloves come off, they all really like each other. How else to explain the fact that O’Reilly calling Colmes a “loon,” Colmes saying Crowley is “nuts,” O’Reilly telling Colmes “you and your crew are done” and other insults flying back and forth can all be exchanged with laughter throughout?