Posted on 04/17/2012 5:38:04 AM PDT by Zakeet
Edited on 04/17/2012 7:56:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Bob Beckel didn’t realize when the commercial break ended during tonight’s final segment of Hannity, caught in a heated off-camera argument with fellow panelist Jennifer Stefano. Off-air debates, we learned, are granted a much more colorful range of vocabulary than on-air debates, and as the cameras started rolling, the first words on national television were, “You don’t know what the f*** you’re talking about.”
In a blooper that is as hilarious as it increasingly becomes painful, it slowly dawns on Beckel what actually happened, as Hannity insists he apologize and Beckel, after saying he won’t several times, finally realizes the cameras are actually rolling. When he finally figured it out, he told Hannity to “run your show better,” then covered his head in shame and refused to speak, other than to say “I’m going to be fired.”
Hannity explained the situation– the two were in a heated debate while he and Tea Party activist Neal Boortz played catch with the famed Hannity show football. Beckel didn’t look over at the producer giving a five-second warning and inadvertently went off on-screen. When he finally realized what happened, Beckel was beyond contrite, instead saying he was going to get fired and refusing to speak for the rest of the segment. Both Stefano and Boortz tried to comfort him– Stefano trying to continue the policy debate but noting that she took exception with the “personal” nature of debate sometimes, Boortz adding, “if they try to fire you, we’ll defend you.”
The perils of live TV: you can say something so inappropriate and refuse to believe you did for so long, that the unbelievable moment in which you realize what happened makes everyone come out looking more endearing.
Note: A clip of the incident is imbedded in the article.
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Agreed, Beckel is a total jerk with zero class. That’s why FoxNews will keep him right where they want him as they know that liberals must be cringing at his beefy unpleasant persona on the air.
Juan Williams is a gentleman in comparison and shows that one can disagree without being disagreeable.
Watch for Beckel to blame the “vast rightwing conspiracy” for his on-air indiscretion. Never mind he hurls the F-bomb at everybody when he thinks he’s off camera. Probably uses it when ordering from the menu in restaurants.
What a disgusting creep.
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Yeah classy.
Whenever that puke is on Hannity’s radio or tv show, I change the channel.
You listening Hannity?
Both Sean Hannity and Mark Levin have said many times what a good friend Bob Beckel is. I like both Sean and Mark and can’t for the life of me understand what possible redeeming qualities they see in the man.
The only thing that I see what I look at Beckel is the $300 personal check that he wrote to a hooker that he found on the internet.
Beckel is a foul individual with a foul mouth. That word came out of his mouth because it is part of his daily vernacular. I have a zero tolerance for cussing, especially in a public setting.
All I’m telling you is what Neal Boortz said, and he was one of the three people on the show with Hannity. Neal said that Beckel was civil to Stefano, but that she was a total jerk toward Beckel and hounded him the entire time, especially during breaks. For the record, Boortz agrees with Stefano on the issues, but was disgusted by her rudeness toward Beckel. Sounds like a familiar case of the girl thinking she needs to “bully” the boys in order to be taken seriously.
oh, and Sean...take that football and stuff it.
I am not cutting Beckel any slack on this one.
Listen, his job is to get in the trenches on political topics—it is his profession.
I could see if it was you or me—we don’t do this every day for a living—but he does.
So what if Stefano got under his skin—like that has never happened to Beckel before on a show?
All Beckel does is present Dem talking points, whether germane or not to the discussion. All he does is act contrarian, just to be a general pain in the @ss.
But not to worry.
Becekel was just on America’s Newsroom with Martha MacCallum and Andrea Tantaros at 9:16 am.
No on-air apology, back to work, like nothing happened.
Right down the rabbit hole.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Dean Wormer: Fat arrogant and stupid (rat supporter) is no way to go thru life. His only claim to fame is running Mondale presidential run and we know how that turned out.
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“All Beckel does is present Dem talking points, whether germane or not to the discussion.”
I agree - he provides no original insight whatsoever.
No No! Please tune in tonight. He's going to exhaustively cover Constitutional Legitimacy and the forged Selective Service App, The Deal Behind the Illinois Bar Status, and in a grand slam finale, cover the Border Problem.
I wouldn't miss that show for the world!
Hannity does have a brain. It is a life-support system for his hair. Secrets of The Hannity Hair Care System: Film at 11!
Liberalism really *is* an infantile mental disorder.
Not quite as funny (sad) as when Bob tried using what he thought was the past tense of “Tweet” while on “The Five”.
Remove a couple of “e”s and replace them with an “a”.
They were still laughing when they came back from a commercial break.
This is almost not news. Since when have progressives not been a vulgar and unsophisticated lot?
In the mid 90s he was fired from either cnn or msnbc because he paid a hooker $1,500 with a check that he had stolen from his {soon to become ex} wife's checkbook.
Fat bob beckel, is a loudmouth, a "recovering" alcoholic and druggy, a far left communist, a vicious evil man, and has no business being on FOX.
He must have pictures of Roger Ailes with a chicken or some other animal because he should have been fired long ago.
He was just on Fox this AM...
I guess lib, union goon, failure, alcoholic/druggie losers get a pass on saying the eff word on air....
the rest of the world gets fired.
He was just on Fox this AM...
I guess lib, union goon, failure, alcoholic/druggie losers get a pass on saying the eff word on air....
the rest of the world gets fired.
If you want to hang Beckel, go ahead. I would probably agree with you if I hadn't heard Bootz's first hand account this morning. But I'll defer to Neal on this one.
What could Stefano possibly say to him that would set him off like that?
They were talking about Head Start.
The man is at work. In a stuodio. Familiar territory.
It was uncalled for, unprofessional, and Boortz, in my opinion, needs to call a spade a spade, not make excuses for boorish behavior.
And as for talking points, Beckel remains stuck on stupid.
His core beliefs are still Dem talking points.
At the risk of being labeled a chauvinist, I would add - “to a woman”? Just inexcusable.
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