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Former Fox News Host Bob Beckel Dies at 73.
Daily Beast ^ | 2.21.2022 | Andrew Kirell

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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To: carriage_hill

I was told to not speak ill of the dead.


61 posted on 02/21/2022 7:56:43 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: carriage_hill

good riddance

another nasty Lib bites the dust

next?


62 posted on 02/21/2022 7:57:19 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: AnthonySoprano
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63 posted on 02/21/2022 7:57:53 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: Blue Highway

Kimberly Guilfoyle has become rather hard to watch...


64 posted on 02/21/2022 7:58:09 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: carriage_hill
Only in America can a guy manage a presidential candidate to a forty-nine-state rout, then go on to be paid very well to dispense political advice on TV and in lecture halls. What a country!

Bob Beckel, in Prologue from: I Should Be Dead

I think of him as the sad clown.

RIP.

65 posted on 02/21/2022 7:58:35 PM PST by x (Every politician, every human being, has done something that offends us. )
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To: carriage_hill

At least now he knows just how big a fool he was down here. Everything else about him I reserve to God’s judgement.


66 posted on 02/21/2022 7:58:50 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: theyreallthesame

He was a drunk and bully


67 posted on 02/21/2022 8:00:10 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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To: AnthonySoprano

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.


68 posted on 02/21/2022 8:00:36 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: carriage_hill

He’s gone to the Big Massage Parlor down below.


69 posted on 02/21/2022 8:01:11 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: theyreallthesame

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


70 posted on 02/21/2022 8:02:32 PM PST by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: Zathras

I think he was sober for quite a long time.


71 posted on 02/21/2022 8:03:45 PM PST by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: carriage_hill

No comment.


72 posted on 02/21/2022 8:05:42 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: theyreallthesame
"Hated his Politics but a good and decent man...."

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.

73 posted on 02/21/2022 8:06:31 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: dfwgator
"Ted Kennedy's been clean and sober for years too now. "

ROFL!!!

74 posted on 02/21/2022 8:08:36 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: carriage_hill

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.


75 posted on 02/21/2022 8:09:21 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Well said.


76 posted on 02/21/2022 8:14:05 PM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: All
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Fox used him to get a lot shtt on the air that no one would claim on the record.

He just wanted another hit.



77 posted on 02/21/2022 8:15:07 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: mass55th

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LOL

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78 posted on 02/21/2022 8:15:48 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: DIRTYSECRET


I can accept that.

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79 posted on 02/21/2022 8:16:43 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: carriage_hill

I have a friend who knows him very well. Prayers for his friends and family.


80 posted on 02/21/2022 8:21:25 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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