Fox News Channel is parting ways — again — with Bob Beckel, the co-host of its primetime program, “The Five.”
“Bob Beckel was terminated today for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee,” the network said in a statement.
The dismissal opens — or perhaps closes — another chapter in an off-and-on relationship Beckel has had with the 21st Century Fox-owned cable-news outlet over the years. Beckel, a longtime political consultant as well as a former campaign manager for Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale, joined Fox News in 2000, and had a years-long tenure on “The Five” when it aired in the late afternoon. Indeed, he was one of the program’s original co-hosts.
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How did he last this long?
Where to start?
I don’t agree with Bob on most positions but I will miss his special brand of liberal stupidity.
Is this just a continuing effort to purge “angry white men” from Fox News?
“Racist” seems to be the new racial slur against whites for blacks. Honky, cracker, whitey, seem to have lost the expression of anger it once had. Now “racist” is has become the trump card in a one-card deck.
Poor Juan Williams, lacks the liberal community backing him ( NPR fired him ) but he still carries the liberal water pale in his rhetoric.
Fox is now subjecting itself to the same dumbing down inhierant with quotas.
Soaring ratings in the face of controversy? I think they have better shows replacing Kelly and O’Reilly.
No doubt the little Murdock’s purge will continue until Fox becomes CNN non-lite.
drillbeast, I agree! I don’t agree with Beckel on most positions, either, but his comments are more intelligent and less reflexively Pro-all things Commucrat than Juan Williams and other liberal commentators.
YET again we see blacks as being the most racist people around. They can call any white person cracker, honkey etc with IMPUENTCE but heaven help a white person who even dares use the phrase ‘black person’. WHEN THAT IS A CORRECT descriptor of what they are….
Bob’s not a minority? Isn’t Bob a Caucasian, heterosexual Irishman with legitimate children who was married to a biological female?? I’m a long-time, habitual Beckel basher myself, but by golly I always have a good, healthy, trashy gut laugh when he starts his silly liberal drivel, kinda like Juan. I’m a Florida Native, so that makes me a “Cracker” and I’m darn proud of it. So when an ignorant, liberal, racist bigot calls me “Cracker” my chest swells with pride. And Crackers around here come in all sizes, shapes and colors, too.
No one is more deserving of getting fired from Fox AGAIN. Beckel constantly deals in sexual innuendo and double entendre. I have been surprised that Kimberly Guilfoyle has not cold cocked the idiot for his groping, under the table contact.
And then there is his cursing, racism, snide sarcasm, and I haven’t even mentioned his inability to actually debate the points with out descending into a game of put-down particularly when unable to defend his points. Good riddance! I have found The Five unwatchable since he came back onboard.
Good riddance to that drug addict, Beckel!
Becker dealt in ad hominem attacks and could not argue policy. He was a snarling junkyard dog.
I always turned the channel when Bob Heckel started spouting off his left wing talking points and trying to talk over other guest. How did some dumb fat *** like Bob Heckel get hired in the first place? Get rid of Juan Williams next as he does nothing but repeat his failed idol and extreme racist Obama.
When he went ot CNN i never even noticed, as i didn’t really watch his dumb fat behind… I got enough of him when OTHER shows aired little clips of him…
Thank the powers that be! The Slug (hopefully) is gone for good! Not sure why they bothered to bring the moron back.
Beckel is a throwback to the days of politics being hammered out in cigar-smoke-filled rooms with female entertainment as an aperitif. I think he realizes that those days are numbered and he wants to go out in a ‘blaze of glory’ so he can check it off his bucket list. It’s no coincidence that his on-air demise occurs simultaneously with Roger Ailes actual demise.
The one good thing he did for me was raise my heartrate and breathing when things were beginning to become dull!
What was the “insensitive” remark? I disagree with Beckel’s opinions all the time but so he made an insensitive remark. That’s no reason to fire him unless it was a really hateful, nasty comment. People are entitled to their opinions; we do have free speech. PC run amok again.
Who knows. Maybe someone overhear him talknig about “HIS own fat ***” and thought that bob called THEM a fat ***, and cried that “he made an insensitive comment”..
These days almost ANYTHING a white conservative says, can be seen by SOMEONE on the left as insensitive..
Al Capone would have loved to have Bob Beckel as his defense lawyer.
Rupert Murdoch recently gave control of Fox News to his ultra liberal son James and his equally crazed liberal wife Katherine. They are the ones behind the firing of O’Reilly and now Sean Hannity. Others are going to be let go soon also. O’Reilly and Hannity are in talks with a Republican billionaire to start a new conservative network. Fox News will soon be indistinguishable from CNN and MSNBC. Its time for all Republican billionaires to get into the act. We need more than one network to counter the fake news agencies like the NY Times and CNN. MSNBC is so far behind they scarcely register in the ratings anymore, but they still have a little bit of influence.
WOa.. Hanity’s gone?? That’s news to me.
I was surprised when they brought the pea brain back. He was such an insignificant host. A blundering liberal idiot, with no mind of his own. The only time I liked seeing him, was when Mr Trump won the election. I think he took time off to cry about it…..
All lefties are sexist.
All lefties are racist.
All lefties are bigots.
All lefties are hypocrites when they project their flaws onto conservatives.
I’m honestly glad this liberal puke is gone for good. I thought he was gone once before – but he was just in drug rehab. He is an insult to humanity!
“The Five” has always been my favorite show. SO glad when Bob came back…it wasn’t the same without him. Those 5 people had a unique chemistry that worked well. So Bob said something that ruffled feathers….imagine that. THAT is his charm! And, “The Five” isn’t the same at 9pm. Who on earth is running things at FOX? A bunch of idiots, it would appear. BRING BACK BOB AND RESTORE THE SHOW TO 5 PM!!
Beckel, poster boy for left wing ignorance, is gone again.
Didn’t miss him the last time; wont miss him this time.
Fox News is now a mere shadow of what it once was and not worth the effort to tune it in every day.