Current Events > Racist Fox News host Bob Beckel dead at 73

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Bob Beckel, a former Democratic Party operative who later in life became a Fox News host until he was fired in 2017 after being accused of racist comments died Monday from undisclosed causes, Fox News said Monday. He was 73.
My friend and spiritual brother, Bob Beckel, has passed into the presence of the Lord he loved. We did so many things together and I hope we modeled what two people of different political persuasions can be like when they love one another, columnist Cal Thomas wrote about Beckel on Facebook Monday. For ten years we wrote the Common Ground column for USA Today and a book by that title. The name of his ironically titled autobiography is I Should Be Dead. It is a highly readable book about a difficult life that was dramatically changed in the last 15 years. I will see you soon Bob. You are loved.
In the 2000s, Beckel started appearing on Fox News as a political analyst and in 2011 joined the network formally as co-host of The Five. He was let go from the show in June, 2015 after entering rehab for painkiller addiction following back surgery.
We tried to work with Bob for months, but we couldnt hold The Five hostage to one mans personal issues, Fox News executive Bill Shine said in a blunt statement at that time. He took tremendous advantage of our generosity, empathy and goodwill and we simply came to the end of the road with him.
Later in 2015 Beckel moved over to CNN, but he returned to co-host The Five in January, 2017. However, in May of 2017 he was fired again after being accused of making racist comments to a co-worker.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bob-beckel-ex-democratic-party-044148832.html

Hell gained another demon

May 19, 2017

Fox News gave The Five co-host Bob Beckel the boot Friday for making a racist remark to a black IT worker.
The embattled network, which has been dealing with a swirling sex harassment scandal and is still reeling from the death Thursday of founder Roger Ailes, gave only a bare bones explanation for why it was parting with the 68-year-old pundit.
Attorney Douglas Wigdor, who is representing the IT worker and nearly two dozen other Fox News employees who have sued the network for racial discrimination, said Beckel couldn't handle having a black man fix his computer.
Mr. Beckel stormed out of his office when our client, a black IT employee came to service his computer, telling our client that he was leaving his office because he is black, Wigdor said in a statement. To make matters worse, after our client lodged a complaint about Mr. Beckel's racist behavior, Mr. Beckel, in front of Chief Human Resource Officer Kevin Lord, attempted to intimidate our client and persuade him to withdraw his complaint.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bob-beckel-fired-fox-news-five-after-racist-remark-n762191

Sure sounds like he was a swell guy.

I think the smartest thing to do here is to hold my tongue.

Foxnews died with Charles Krauthammer anyway.

all I can say is sometimes things happen to people

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speak no ill of the dead
but fuck that guy every second he was alive

sounds like he was a real asshole.

rip bozo

I remember that guy. He was kind of like Alan Colmes where he'd come on and be the token liberal, but he was really bad at it.

You could have just said Fox News host. The racist part is assumed.

Oh no.