Posted on 02/21/2022 8:44:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Bob Beckel, a Democratic strategist and former co-host of "The Five," has died at age 73.
Beckel first joined Fox News in 2000 as a contributor providing political analysis and rejoined the network in 2011 as one of the original hosts of "The Five."
Columnist Cal Thomas posted on Facebook about Beckel's death.
When "The Five" premiered in July 2011, it was only supposed to have a five-week run to temporarily fill the timeslot. Instead, the show stuck around and has become one of the highest-rated shows in all cable news.
Beckel was there during the inception of "The Five" with Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld, who still co-host the long-running program.
In 2015, he briefly joined CNN but later returned to "The Five" to continue his role as the show’s outspoken liberal. Fox News severed ties with Beckel in 2017.
Sean Hannity paid tribute to his "dear friend" Monday night, saying "he and I got along great" despite their politics, saying he "had a key to my house" and that Hannity's own children would call him "Uncle Bob."
"He was always full of joy, happiness, light, sunshine. He loved God and Jesus and we miss him already. God bless you, God speed, Bob Beckel," Hannity said.
Laura Ingraham called Beckel an "old-time liberal who you could fight with… but we always had a laugh afterward."
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there’s going to be alot of leftover hair dye on the shelves now.
He was the type of old school democrat who you could get along with back when America was still America. With his passing there aren’t too many more like him.
He was the type of old school democrat who you could get along with back when America was still America. With his passing there aren’t too many more like him.
He never managed a Dem campaign he didn’t lose. In that negative sense, he made a contribution to the betterment of the nation.
Don’t care...one less.
He was the picture of bad health and even worse ideas.
He may have been 73 on the outside, but he was at least 83 on the inside.
The PROBLEM with the Washington-NYC axis is everyone is friends. It would be better if they weren’t, couldn’t stand either place and went home to “the real world” every weekend.
‘I first heard of him with the Mondale campaign against Reagan. He could be nice one minute and a complete jerk the next. The last few times I saw him on TV he was well lit. In the spirit of Hubert Humphrey, I wish him RIP.”
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I always though of him as a blow hard in training.
Bob Beckel, RIP. I will always remember him for bouncing a check... that he paid to a hooker. So he had his issues who doesn’t?!
Yep, it was a $1,500.00 check, drawn from his wife's account.
Fat Bob was so stoned he didn't even remember doing it until his EX-wife booted him out.
He was a fat, obnoxious demonRAT prick, and all of this slobbering over him makes me want to puke and is just another reason that I'm cured from watching most of FNC.
I don't know about the condition of his soul, but he deserves at least a 100 million years in Purgatory...let the cooking and fat searing begin.
RIP, he always did seem like a sweet person, unlike so many.
Not me.
Hey NY Dago, you been missing a long time and when you come back, you either step on your crank or are trying to be funny and I can't figure out which.
Either way, it's good to see that you are back.
I will always remember Beckel as the point man for the Gore/DNC attempt to get faithless electors to switch in 2000. This was one of the side skirmishes of the great Florida fiasco. I have never thought Beckel was behind this. He was just the Algore minion who was sent out to do the dirty work.
No offense, but I thought he dies a couple of years ago. Is this recent?
Hey, thats too bad!
What do you call a dead ass hole?
Bob Beckel
Bob “The Liar” Beckel. There wasn’t a crime the democrats committed that he wouldn’t support with lies.
Good riddance, a**h***.
1 Beckel = 2 illegal aliens.
Or they are just little more than actors playing a part.
He was an old time Liberal like my Dad.
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