Just as the American hostages were being seized by the Iranian government in 1979, Alan Colmes began doing talk radio. One of his first radio exploits was to call the American embassy in Tehran. Shortly after his dialogue with a student named "Z" the U.S. state department banned all calls to Iran.

This type of sharp-sightedness got Alan noticed. After a string of successful radio shows on legendary talk stations such as WABC, WNBC and WMCA in New York, Colmes gained a reputation... More >