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Liberal Bob Beckel Compares MSNBC-Fox News Rivalry to “A Kindergartner Playing Baseball Against the Yankees”
On The Five yesterday the panel discussed President Obama’s comments last week at the University of Maryland where he talked about the right-left media divide.
It turns out that Beckel isn’t a typical liberal as he doesn’t read the New York Times or watch MSNBC.
Beckel: President Obama said the media, blames the media for the divide going around the country. He said liberals only read the New York Times, conservatives only watch Fox. Mr . President I know you , I love you, I support you but I don’t read the New York Times. I’m a liberal and I’m on Fox. So I’m not the right guy to… I’m not sure that’s exactly right. I haven’t done a lot of polling here. There’s a lot of people who are Democrats that watch Fox.
This is akin to heresy for Beckel. Not only does he not read one of the nation’s leading daily newspapers or watch the leading liberal cable news network, he admitted that there are Democrats who actually watch Fox which doesn’t exactly jibe with president’s characterization of the conservative-liberal divide.
After some discussion of what Obama said about the media , Beckel then expressed his opinion about MSNBC competing against Fox:
“First of all, the President also ought to know, when he talks about that, I don’t know of six people that watch MSNBC. I don’t want to pick on a rival but they’re not a rival. They’re like a kindergartner playing baseball against the Yankees.”
That was probably an oversimplification of the differences between MSNBC and Fox but Beckel deserves credit for not trying to sugar coat the fact that MSNBC isn’t even in the same league when it comes to competing with Fox.
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5 Comments for Liberal Bob Beckel Compares MSNBC-Fox News Rivalry to “A Kindergartner Playing Baseball Against the Yankees”
I support people with handicaps or disabilities like most everyone else. But this Mr. Beckel is not doing the less fortunate or himself any good by appearing on TV like this. Is he a relative of someone in the crew? I was watching The Five or Big Five or something like that on Fox and felt a bit sorry for the individual. He never makes any sense (I’ve seen him before on shows) and looks …well.., kinda silly when he puts his head in his hands and makes his lips kinda flutter like a little kid when he’s pouting. Other than that the show was fairly interesting. Is he a comedienne or just someone’s friend who owns the show or something??
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To: a fellow patriot, Bob Beckel is an Liberal political commentator and an analyst on the Fox News Channel. He is the brother of actor Graham Beckel, who is exactly the opposite of Bob. Grahm Beckel starred in the Any Rand movie, “Atlas Shrugged” Part 1 (recently released on DVD).
He worked for Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1968. Early in his career, he joined the U.S. Department of State and became the youngest Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Carter administration. Beckel was the campaign manager for Walter Mondale’s 1984 presidential campaign. He became known as the man who wrapped the Wendy’s slogan “Where’s the Beef?” around Mondale’s opponent Gary Hart effectively.
Beckel managed Alan Blinken’s 2002 Senate campaign until he was dismissed after being targeted for extortion by a prostitute.
He was co-host of Crossfire Sunday on CNN alongside Tony Snow and later Lynne Cheney, and went on to Fox News Channel as a political analyst and commentator, regularly appearing on such shows as Hannity & Colmes (later Hannity), America’s Newsroom and Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld.
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We all know that M.S.N.B.C.is a propaganda arm of Obama and the Democratic party.Obama and the Democratic party tell Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric what the party line is and he tells M.S.N.B.C.what to say and They repeat it over and over and over forever.General Electric saved about 14 billion dollars in taxes this year and will use this money for Obama and the Democratic party candidates in the 2012 campaign.M.S.N.B.C.IS HATEFUL AND DISGRACEFUL.