Bob Beckel Wrestles With the Past Tense of 'Tweet' - Loses Badly
What's the past tense of tweet?
Well, apparently if you're Bob Beckel it's a word that Bill Maher likes to use when describing women that are more successful than he'll ever be.
Beckel left the cast and crew of The Five in near tears when he let loose a phrase he certainly didn't mean to, in discussing the matter of Pat Buchanan and his suspension from MSNBC. When comparing the Buchanan situation to another recent suspension - Roland Martin at CNN - Beckel offered this analysis:
"The black dude got suspended from CNN for saying something on Tweeter or twitter, whatever he calls it, twats, twits.... I'm sorry".
Never mind the fact that had the man sitting directly to his left, Eric Bolling, ever started a sentence with the words 'The Black Dude', liberals would have immediately called for his firing. Beckel will slide on that, no doubt.
That reality aside, the crew tried their best to save the segment, but Beckel couldn't quite recover.
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⇒ I was cracking up, too
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 1:00pm.
If ever there was a time to keep it on air rather than cut to commercial, this was it.
I was laffing my butt off all through the Goldline commercial.
⇒ Speaking of which . . .
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 1:08pm.
Why won't FOX turn the tables on the chicken corporations who cower in fear of advertising on FOX?
I suggest opening with a parody of the Clint Eastwood ad for FIAT Motors. "It's half mine in America" with an Obama look-alike doing the narrative.
Lol it was an honest mistake
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 1:08pm.
It happens to people on NBC all the time. Warning offensive accidental language.
Poor Beckel.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 1:16pm.
He's just a teenaged high school boy in a man's world.
I try to watch The Five because I enjoy most of the hosts, especially the ones with legs made for a Hanes ad, but Beckel makes it tough.
The man is a moron. He should have stayed a drunk and a druggie instead of becoming an "alcoholic." At least he could use that as an excuse!
Beckel is a fat moron with a
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 1:30pm.
Beckel is a fat moron with a crappy hair-dye job to boot...............and what is his resume??? He worked for Dukaikas or something??? Big friggin' WOW!!! And if he is ostenibly 'off' booze or drugs, he MUST be on something, because the guy is like some kind of manic/depressive cartoon character at times. I don't watch Fox too much anymore, although I 99% of the time NEVER watch any other 'news' sources. I don't know about you, but I can turn on the local news here - and switch channels during the newshour to any of the 3 or 4 stations, and they are ALL reporting the SAME news at the SAME time!!! I still haven't been able to figure that one out...........
Actually, my TV broke a couple days after the Super Bowl, and I haven't watched it since. I know it will cost me the same to buy a new, modern TV as to have it fixed - since it's a few years old, but I haven't had the time or the extra money to go shopping for a TV. And basically, I just watch some sports, some music, some news, and some military/history/discovery types of channels. There's nothing else on TV that interests me, actually - and especially on those 'normal' alphabet stations.
Ditto watching news
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 3:20pm.
I can hardly take Fox News anymore, but am sure not going to watch any other network. I have a tough time with our local channel because it's CBS, but I watch it until I see Barry coming on screen and then change the channel.
As to Beckel, I've spent a lot of time in AA meetings and seen many guys like him who aren't drinking, but they aren't happy either. I had an old timer tell me early on to either work through my problems or go back to the bottle. Beckel seems to spend more time missing the old days than looking to better ones ahead. But then, being a liberal at his age, why would you think it could ever get better?
Thanks for your insight, Tug.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 5:27pm.
"either work through my problems or go back to the bottle"
I have several friends that I can use that one on. They remind me of the old country song line, "You ain't much fun since I stopped drinking." Only difference is, THEY ain't much fun since THEY stopped drinking!
Talk about a depressed bunch of anal retentive Shiite heads. I will definitely tell them to work through their problems or go back to drinking. They are real downers sober.
Ya know,
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 10:32pm.
Ya know, bubba..................when I was reading Tug's post, you're the FIRST person who popped into my mind!!! Imagine that!!
And then - there you are - rectalfying my intuition!!! Hahahahaha!!!