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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oh no!!!! very sad!
Thanks for posting.
No comment.
Hated his Politics but a good and decent man....
I never forgot how he tried to threaten electors in the 2000 election - it started a whole trend. Now Republican electors get thousands of threats every election.
Probably effects of long term drinking.
What a tool!
didn’t know about his personal baggage. we are all in need of God’s grace.
He was a filthy creep who knew how to put on a good face to fool the gullible, .....Sean.
Good ol Bob. I had not thought of him in a year or more.
He was a grouch, but I like him most the time.
He made a perfect foil for people like Geraldo or Juan or
Ms S.E. Cupp.
73 is kinda young these days. Maybe he already had health issues.
Apparently, he had many addictions all thru life. I barely remember him from many, many years ago.
RIP.
Perhaps, but at least you knew where he stood.....Have a little compassion. As stated, I hated his politics but at least he wasn’t a Psaki or a dick.
Amen.
Didn’t agree with Bob on a single issue I can recall but I liked the guy.....no BS polish.
Another leftist dead.
BTW, Sean, meet Lindsey Graham, Lindsey, meet Sean.
Not sad at all. Beckel was a pig.
Isn’t he the one who went all-out decorating and lighting up his house for Christmas?
RIP.
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