Fox News Fires ‘The Five’ Co-Host Bob Beckel Over Racist Comment

Variety ^ | 05/19/2017 | Brian Steinberg

[\/\/ayne]

I've always said and still say that Bob Beckel should be arrested for inventing the "Beckel Strategy" of harassing Electors during Presidential Elections.

He's the one who started it in the Bush election, then it grew a hundred times over for the Trump Election. It's one of those "Open Crimes" as I call them that we see so often. Beckel and the DNC illegally interfered with those elections far more than any Russian could ever do.

[GreenHornet]

I have mixed feelings about this. I’ve never been a fan of Bob Beckel, but I’d like to know what it is he supposedly said, and whether or not he was allowed to give his side of the story. He could have said “have a nice day”, and there are people out there who would portray it as racially insensitive. Then again, it’s nice to see a lefty treated in the same manner a conservative would be in this situation.

[Red Badger]

I am half Asian. I am not offended.................Someone at FOX is an Asian snowflake....................

[DoughtyOne]

If Variety felt the need to mention why Bechel was fired, they should have told us what he said.

As it is, he is tarnished, and in this day and age what he said may have been nothing of significance.

[SandRat]

Me too!

[Blue Highway]

I've always called him "The Blowfish" or "Blob Beckel"

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Which one’s Beckel...?

[lewislynn]

They need a well-spoken liberal on that show...

Only in your liberal mind.

[yoe]

Beckel did more than make an "insensitive remark to an African-American employee,” he insulted over and over again the POTUS and that office with apparent unmanageable anger...he not only insulted The Five but the viewers as well, even the liberals..."the nonsensitive remark to an African-American/American-African" smacks of political correctness....what ever, thankfully the ugly American Beckel is gone.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Only downside to firing Beckel is we get to see Jaun Williams whining all the time!

[Mouton]

My guess, just the low hanging fruit to make themselves seem fair and balanced.

[GOYAKLA]

Beckle and Juan can do remakes of Heckle and Jeckle. Beckle and Feckle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq7M7g9cl_8

[Mr. Lucky]

There’s more than one person in that picture?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

LOL!!! Yeah...the babe and the fat boy!

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

What precisely did Beckel say. Anything the black wants is preceded by charges of “racism” at which time a white folds like the proverbial deck of cards.

[Lisbon1940]

>> the snide little dweeb

Which one?

[Boomer]

Only downside to firing Beckel is we get to see Jaun Williams whining all the time!

Don't forget about Harf; the most easy to hate person on FNC but there are several close seconds.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Give Bob a break! His suspenders chocked off the oxygen to his brain...

[fella]

He may have said “Oh boy, am I tired.”

BOOM!

[Clearly Right]

Not sure about this time, but he's been fired several times in the past for uncontrolled outbursts which included verbal profanity (f-bombs), as well as non-verbal signals (such as this sign language he used to communicate something to Jesse Watters a few years ago).