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Fox News Fires ‘The Five’ Co-Host Bob Beckel Over Racist Comment
Variety ^
| 05/19/2017
| Brian Steinberg
Posted on 05/19/2017 8:54:54 AM PDT by DFG
Fox News Channel is parting ways – again – with Bob Beckel, the co-host of its primetime program, “The Five.”
“Bob Beckel was terminated today for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee,” the network said in a statement.
The dismissal opens – or perhaps closes – another chapter in an off-and-on relationship Beckel has had with the 21st Century Fox-owned cable-news outlet over the years. Beckel, a longtime political consultant as well as a former campaign manager for Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale, joined Fox News in 2000, and had a years-long tenure on “The Five” when it aired in the late afternoon. Indeed, he was one of the program’s original co-hosts.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beckel; beckelfired; fired; five; foxnews; racist; slur; thefive
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posted on
05/19/2017 8:54:55 AM PDT
by
DFG
To: DFG
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posted on
05/19/2017 8:55:45 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
To: DFG
Liberals can’t be racist.
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posted on
05/19/2017 8:55:54 AM PDT
by
caver
(Trump: Home of the Winner)
To: DFG
Good , but still not enough for me to start watching most of FOX’s news coverage. Get rid of drama queen Shep Smith, Gerlado, M, McCain.
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posted on
05/19/2017 8:56:57 AM PDT
by
manc
( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
To: DFG
Is a democrat saying racist things really news?
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posted on
05/19/2017 8:56:57 AM PDT
by
Arcy
(When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, people groan.)
To: DFG
I miss the ‘sticks and stones’ days...
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posted on
05/19/2017 8:57:07 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
To: DFG
To: DFG
Did he tell her she looked nice? Did she feel “plantational”
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posted on
05/19/2017 8:57:57 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
To: DFG
Hmm. Now this is interesting. This is a quicker “fire” offense than even sexual harassment. A sign of a counter attack perhaps?
To: DFG
Fox must be desperate to have brought him back.. and now this.. For shame.
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posted on
05/19/2017 8:58:12 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
To: Uncle Miltie
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posted on
05/19/2017 8:58:19 AM PDT
by
manc
( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
To: caver
He also called Betsy DeVos a “dumb broad”, but that was ok because she’s a conservative. His sell-by date has long since passed. They need a well-spoken liberal on that show, not this dry drunk fool.
To: DFG
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posted on
05/19/2017 8:58:44 AM PDT
by
JayAr36
(The so-called democratic party has morphed into the Despicable Party. Anti-American to the core.)
To: DFG
To: DFG
What was Bob Beckel’s insensitive remark to an African-American employee? “Get off your lazy ass and do your job”? Something like that?
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posted on
05/19/2017 8:59:03 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
To: who knows what evil?
To: DFG
ROFLMAO!!! I can only laugh at the stupidity of this news network...(and I can’t stand Beckle)
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posted on
05/19/2017 8:59:52 AM PDT
by
HarleyLady27
( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
To: DFG
So what, exactly, did he say?
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:00:25 AM PDT
by
meyer
(The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
To: DFG
Because is an insufferable moron, and a piece of human waste.
I’m still not going to watch The Five. That show is just awful.
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:00:40 AM PDT
by
chris37
(Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
To: Jim 0216
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:00:50 AM PDT
by
Az Joe
(Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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