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Bob Beckel Returns to Cable News on CNN After Fox Exit
Newsmax ^ | August 31,2015 | Clyde Hughes

Posted on 08/31/2015 2:09:41 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Liberal pundit Bob Beckel, a former co-host of "The Five" on Fox News, returned to cable television on CNN last week.

In June, Fox News released Beckel after what Politico described as a controversial stint on "The Five" where, among other things, he took contrary positions, was caught flipping off another co-host and pushed ending student visas for students from Muslim countries after the Boston Marathon bombing.

"The Five" had been rated No. 1 on basic cable at 5 p.m. for June, and its ratings for the 25-54 age demographic was up eight percent since Feb. 16, noted Politico, but Beckel had entered rehab therapy in April, reportedly for an addiction to prescription pain medication, and his last appearance on the show was Feb. 16.

"The topic was, of course, (Donald) Trump … whom CNN could find any one of 856 contributors and/or guests in the New York area to opine about," wrote Joe Concha of Mediaite. "But Beckel got the call – or more likely – he pitched CNN on giving him a few at-bats. … Beckel wants to show he's clean, sober and ready to work again."

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To: buckalfa
He'll probably do better on CNN because he was expected to defend every liberal peculiarity on FoxNews and that is just not possible for anyone to do without looking stupid.
21 posted on 08/31/2015 2:24:18 PM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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To: Hojczyk

It serves him…and them…right.


22 posted on 08/31/2015 2:25:30 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Hojczyk

Good place for him. No one will watch him there.


23 posted on 08/31/2015 2:26:27 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: donna

Yeah - Juan looks as dump and dirt defending liberalism sometimes.


24 posted on 08/31/2015 2:27:28 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Hojczyk
Best put him and his potty-mouth on a 5 sec delay.

Probably has it in his contact to bash Trump, Cruz and the T.E.A. Party daily.

25 posted on 08/31/2015 2:28:32 PM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: winner3000

>>Wow. I didn’t know Bob was decent on any issue. And this is part of why Fox terminated him?

Beckel is an old-school Democrat and not the typical mindless Progressive shill that we have today. He had to go because he represented a little bit of common sense on the Democrat side and that didn’t play into the GOP vs Democrat meme that they use to convince us that those two are the only choice.


26 posted on 08/31/2015 2:29:36 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

I think he is a jerk.


27 posted on 08/31/2015 2:30:21 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Hojczyk

“but Beckel had entered rehab therapy in April, reportedly for an addiction to prescription pain medication..”

They gonna hammer him like they tried to do to Rush?


28 posted on 08/31/2015 2:31:26 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Hojczyk

Whatever one thinks about Bob, he is the only liberal who truly understands the malevolence of Islam. I rather watched him on Fox than Juan Williams.


29 posted on 08/31/2015 2:33:01 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: buckalfa

He was more tolerable on The Five than Geraldo or Juan.


30 posted on 08/31/2015 2:33:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Hojczyk

He’ll feel at home there.


31 posted on 08/31/2015 2:33:43 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Hojczyk

Can’t this moron find a job somewhere?


32 posted on 08/31/2015 2:35:12 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Do it anyway so we can all have a big laugh.


33 posted on 08/31/2015 2:35:52 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Hojczyk

Bring back Beckel to The Five!!!! Juan and Whorealdo are UNWATCHABLE!!!! The Liberal of the day sucks up HALF of the talk!!! YUK!


34 posted on 08/31/2015 2:36:25 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: hadaclueonce

I must be in the minority. I like him. Loathe his politics. Like him.
It takes a lot to offend me-Beckel never did. Not sure if that says more about him or me.


35 posted on 08/31/2015 2:37:20 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: 353FMG

Christopher Hitchens was good for that as well.


36 posted on 08/31/2015 2:38:01 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Jimmy Valentine
"Beckel is a Jack Kennedy Democrat."

Good observation. I often wonder what old George McGovern would have thought of the Obamas, Clintons, and their ilk. George would have likely passed as a GOPe in this day and time.

37 posted on 08/31/2015 2:38:11 PM PDT by buckalfa (I am feeling much better now.)
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To: buckalfa

You’re correct.
Of course that assumes he wouldn’t “evolve”.

Even Caliph Baraq was opposed to gay marriage up to 2012.


38 posted on 08/31/2015 2:40:20 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: buckalfa

My grandfather was a well-connected Democrat. He had left me a book containing the Wit and Wisdom of Adelai Stevenson.

Stevenson was considered quite progressive and a “pink” at the time. But sitting here reading that book decades later he comes across sounding like a typical middle-of-the-road Republican today.

THAT is how far left the spectrum has shifted.


39 posted on 08/31/2015 2:40:21 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Timber Rattler
I thought that he left Fox because of a drug addiction problem. Now CNN is picking him up?

I think Fox has shown great patience with its talent. They took back Greg Jarrett after his rehab. I believe in second chances for people with this kind of problem.

40 posted on 08/31/2015 2:40:29 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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