Posted on 02/21/2022 7:08:51 PM PST by Carriage Hill
Democratic political operative and former Fox News host Bob Beckel has died at age 73, his longtime friend and fellow columnist Cal Thomas confirmed Monday evening. His cause of death was not specified. Beckel famously ran Walter Mondale’s failed 1984 presidential campaign and later became a Fox News political analyst, often serving as a token Democratic voice on the network’s panels. In 2011, he became the curmudgeonly co-host of the network’s midday talk show, The Five, until he was unceremoniously kicked to the curb following his recovery from back surgery, with Fox declaring in a statement that the show would not be held “hostage to one man’s personal issues.” He briefly served as a political analyst for CNN before returning to Fox News in January 2017, only to be fired once again a few months later after allegedly making racist remarks to a Black colleague. Beckel struggled with addiction for much of his life, as detailed in a 2015 memoir, I Should Be Dead: My Life Surviving Politics, TV, and Addiction.
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Thank you for the info. Poor Christine...
When he wasn't writing bad checks to hookers, etc, etc.
RIP Bob
Maybe 8 years ago Sean said that Bob Beckel was living in his house. In a separate apartment with separate entry/ This was when BB had been fired from Fox......iirc
I liked BB on the five all those years ago.
Right~! And God’s rain falls on the just and the unjust.
yes i do..... You were Bob’s biggest fan.
Why, because you disagree with his opinion?
He thinks that beckel was a fat lefty fake, I agree, you disagree and begin name calling.
You have a screen name 'cat' and call some one a pussy? Hmmmm.
A dismal little shit?
Name calling, OK, you're a dyslexic cunning runt.
I condemned no one.
You stated a lie as fact and I corrected the record. Nothing more, nothing less.
Your words read otherwise
“...I reserve to God’s judgement.”
As it should be.
When Bob paid a prostitute with a personal check it cleared.
LOL! Best chuckle in days. Thanks.
I don’t care what the guy calls me. The fact is that everyone knows that the Beckels of the world are on the side of CRUSHING the truckers, not of the truckers themselves. He was an enemy of liberty. It doesn’t matter to me that the guy may have been able to tell a good story while imbibing.
The world is a slightly better place….or at least a few hundred pounds lighter.
He suffered a brain hemorrhage and then cardiac arrrest.
I stated a fact, seriously, wtf are you talking about?
What in my post was not a fact?????
Perhaps your memory needs refreshing, my posing was as follows:
“He’d been clean and sober for decades”
Bullsh!t.....He was in rehab 2015 for pain killers.
He was a drunk, a druggy, and a liar.
That’s 3 strikes. Say “Hello” to Satan.
He went to rehab to get off of pain pills after a back surgery. He hadn’t had a drink. He got an RC for pain that got ahold of him
Of course I was; foe a FAT, BLOATED, DRUG ADDICTED, DRUNK, he was a hoot!
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