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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 programs original co-hosts.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beckel; beckelfired; fired; five; foxnews; racist; slur; thefive
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To: DFG
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.
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:06:06 AM PDT
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: DFG
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.
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I am half Asian. I am not offended.................Someone at FOX is an Asian snowflake....................
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:07:43 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
To: DFG
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.
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:07:53 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:08:35 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country.)
To: DFG
I've always called him "The Blowfish" or "Blob Beckel"
To: Snickering Hound
To: scottinoc
They need a well-spoken liberal on that show...
Only in your liberal mind.
To: DFG
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.
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:10:18 AM PDT
by
yoe
To: Envisioning
Only downside to firing Beckel is we get to see Jaun Williams whining all the time!
To: DoughtyOne
My guess, just the low hanging fruit to make themselves seem fair and balanced.
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:11:02 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
To: Envisioning
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:11:49 AM PDT
by
GOYAKLA
(" Winning not Whining"!)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
There’s more than one person in that picture?
To: Mr. Lucky
LOL!!! Yeah...the babe and the fat boy!
To: DFG
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.
To: Souled_Out
>> the snide little dweeb
Which one?
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:18:59 AM PDT
by
Lisbon1940
(No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
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.
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:19:27 AM PDT
by
Boomer
(Stupid is as stupid does and no one does stupid like the left.)
To: GOYAKLA
Give Bob a break! His suspenders chocked off the oxygen to his brain...
To: Red Badger
He may have said “Oh boy, am I tired.”
BOOM!
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:21:10 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: meyer
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).
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posted on
05/19/2017 9:21:40 AM PDT
by
Clearly Right
(#NeverWrong...except occasionally on days named for pagan deities...)
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