Democrat Bob Beckel lost it last night on Hannity.
Here's video:
***LANGUAGE WARNING***
From WND:
Democrat strategist Bob Beckel dropped the F-bomb live on the “Hannity” program on Fox News Monday night.
“You say that Head Start is a failure, you don’t know what the f— you’re talking about,” Beckel barked as the show returned from a commercial break.
Beckel had apparently been arguing off-air with guests including tea-party activist Jennifer Stefano of Americans for Prosperity and radio host Neal Boortz on the show’s Great American Panel segment when the program suddenly came back to catch the obscenity live on the air.
“Whoa! Bleep!” exclaimed host Sean Hannity when the F-word was launched. “What are you doing?”
“Failure,” said Stefano.
“I just can’t stand right-wingers. They’ve just got their mouths running all the time,” Beckel explained.
When Hannity requested that Beckel apologize, Beckel responded, “I don’t apologize.”
“Yes you do. You just cursed on the air,” said Hannity.
“I’m not gonna apologize,” an adamant Beckel affirmed.
“All right, I apologize for you,” said Hannity, who finally was able to make Beckel understand the obscene comment had been broadcast live.
“I try to put signs up and help you,” Hannity told Beckel.
Beckel finally said, “I’m sorry about using that foul word, yes. But the intent about it is still there.”
...Beckel has since apologized on Twitter, explaining, “I apologize to anyone who heard me on Hannity. I honestly thought we were off air. I just may not be cut out for the tv business. Peace.”
While I don't buy Beckel's claim that he thought he was off the air, I disagree with calls for Beckel to be fired from his FOX News show, The Five.
A few years ago, April 2009, Shepard Smith dropped the F-bomb on FOX. He wasn't fired.
Video:
I love Smith's "Oops."
Beckel refused to apologize, for a while. That was a mistake on his part, worse than his language choice.
Still, I don't think Beckel's offense warrants being axed from the network, as long as he doesn't make it a habit.
Since Smith was cut slack, Beckel deserves the same.
2 comments:
But, imagine if a Republican had treated a Democrat woman that way. The Republican would have already been fired thanks to the ear-splitting bleating that would have come from the DNC and their acolytes.
That's true.
Dem Beckel was waging war on a conservative woman.
If a Republican had spoken that way to a liberal woman, the Dems would have had a fit. They'd be stuffing inboxes with fundraising emails.
Same old, same old.
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