Why I'm No Longer Going to Watch The Five on Fox News

My favorite television program for several years has been The Five on Fox News Network. Nobody in my family will bother me on weekdays at 5:00 pm because they know I'll be glued to my TV. And honestly, I'm not a big TV guy--I generally can do without it, but I enjoy the humor of Greg Gutfeld, the intelligence of Dana Perino (not to say Gutfeld isn't brilliant in his own way), as well as Andrea Tantaros, Kimberley Guilfoyle, and the rest of the regular staff. But I can no longer tolerate Bob Beckel.

Beckel is a foul-mouth liberal whose greatest source of pride seems to me to be the fact that his father marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. fifty years ago. I disagree with most of Beckel's politics, and that's to be expected because he's a liberal, but I will not tolerate him calling white people in Texas, who are in favor of voter ID, "Crackers." He has gone over the line again, and I've decided to use my time more wisely at 5:00 pm.

I am not a person who looks to have people removed from their livelihood. People need to work (except for Obama's Food Stamp Forces) and provide for their family. But I don't have to support them and I refuse to do this in Beckel's case. 

I generally find Fox News to be, as they claim, "fair and balanced." It seems, however, that the fairness they espouse is not reciprocated by most media on the left, and I think it's time conservatives stop accepting this imbalance. I say shut off the microphones on both sides once they've had their time to speak, and allow the other side to respond--that's fair and balanced. 

But Beckel--he needs to be disciplined for his foul mouth. As for me, I'm done with Beckeling.

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Bob Beckel Bites it Big

Bob Beckel irks me. I understand and agree with the concept of fair and balanced reporting in the media, and to be quite honest, it seems that Fox News is the only mainstream media that actually practices fairness. The GOP debate, with that leftist Brian "Even My Chin Leans to the Left Williams," was a libtard farce that the GOP had no business engaging in. MSNBC is not a news agency and Brian Williams is not a journalist. 

But Big Bob Beckel? He's an idiot--an arrogant idiot. To hear him defend Obama's disassociation of our alliance with Israel is totally disgusting. To hear him speak of Obama's performance as if he has no responsibility for the debt, the unemployment, the discontent in this country, is just too much to stomach anymore.


I will continue to watch Fox News--but I will not watch The Five until they replace Beckel with someone who is less arrogant and who actually knows what he is talking about. The next thing I would expect this blowhard to say is that Solyndra is Bush's fault because the financial assistance proposal was given to Bush-but the liberals always fail to mention that the proposal was roundly refused support--they knew way back then that it was a bad investment and "not ready for prime time."


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