Fox “liberal:” No more Muslim or Chinese immigrants for a while

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:30:00 +0000

In the pantheon of dumb responses to the Boston Marathon bombing, this just might take the cake. Bob Beckel, the token liberal and politically incorrect comic relief on Fox News' "The Five" roundtable show, said today that we should stop allowing Muslim students to come to the United States for a little while, at least until we can deal with all the ones who are here now:

“I think we really have to consider, given the fact so many people hate us, that we're going to have to cut off Muslim students coming to this country for some period of time so that we can absorb what we've got and look at what we've got and decide whether some of the people here should be going, be sent home or sent to prison."

Later, Beckel took a moment to clarify and backpedal a bit "before I get complaints." Instead, he added Chinese students to the list of personas non grata, because, he said, they will just end up hacking us:

Fox’s Bob Beckel makes a lame rape apology

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:55:00 +0000

Watching a bunch of Fox News commentators discuss rape is like watching Jonah Lehrer talk about journalistic ethics. It's vaguely amusing, but it's ultimately just going to make you angry and depressed. Such was the case earlier this week, on "The Five," when the network's token liberal-who-gives-liberals-a-bad-name Bob Beckel made the world's worst argument against concealed weapons — and then followed it up Thursday with a weak non-apology for a comment he made about rape.

It was a conversation about guns that sparked Beckel to travel the road of absurd logic. He started off well enough, addressing the "carry laws around a lot of states" and the issue of guns on college campuses. "If you do that," he said, "it seems to me the chances of people getting killed …" After his colleagues jumped into the fray on the subject of women and self-defense, Beckel lobbed back, "When was the last time you heard about a rape on campus?" His remark earned a hearty round of "WHAAAAAA?" from the panel, and pleas that campus rape is "rampant." Beckel took his mighty rhetorical shovel and dug himself in deeper. "Rampant?" he sniffed, incredulously. "Date rape, yeah, that's one thing," he said, "but are you going to take a gun out and shoot your date?"

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Fox “liberal:” No more Muslim or Chinese immigrants for a while

Fox’s Bob Beckel makes a lame rape apology