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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I was told to not speak ill of the dead.
good riddance
another nasty Lib bites the dust
next?
Kimberly Guilfoyle has become rather hard to watch...
Bob Beckel, in Prologue from: I Should Be Dead
I think of him as the sad clown.
RIP.
At least now he knows just how big a fool he was down here. Everything else about him I reserve to God’s judgement.
He was a drunk and bully
Too many of these ‘good’ people show their true colors when the situation calls for them to be a—holes. Beckel was no exception. It’s only proper to show respect for the dead so let the ‘respectful’ ones on our side say good things. I won’t ‘pass’ on it. He was like the rest of them.
He’s gone to the Big Massage Parlor down below.
we need to start remembering that those we might disagree with can also be good descent men. The vitrail of the left is easy to catch and humanity is easy to lose when every take you have is based on politics.... RIP Bob Beckel
I think he was sober for quite a long time.
No comment.
Good and decent man??? He was paying a hooker $300 an hour, to come to his house when he wife and kid were gone for the day. He paid her by check which helped the cops track the hooker and her boyfriend down when they tried to extort $50,000 from him. He was a drunk and a creep. His wife divorced him over it.
ROFL!!!
Well, one comment. I remember a Fox segment about 4 or 5 years ago where he was on a rant on using electric vehicles, carbon neutral yadda yadda yadda, and the other guest quietly said “You know those are coal powered”. Beckel paused, mumbled, and quit talking on the subject.
Well said.
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I can accept that.
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I have a friend who knows him very well. Prayers for his friends and family.
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