A liberal is needed to counterbalance 4 conservatives. It might just as well be Bob, because he´s more of a character than say, Alan Colmes. I would welcome Joe Trippe in that spot, but Bob´s curmudgeon nature plays well against the others.

Don´t you know, Roger Ailes ´gut´ told him to fire Glenn Beck and hire Bob Beckel.

I can´t tell whether I am watching FOX or CNN most of the time.

Who cares? He´s an idiot. Everything he knows isn´t so.

Beckel may have been partially correct. What gets reported on surveys of college females as rape/sexual assault, is too often consensual until the morning after, when she sobers up and realizes she is naked in bed with a stranger. (I know- a female who is intoxicated cannot give legal consent to sexual intercouse, but the lad can be charged with rape/sexual assault if he is intoxicated as well, but...)
In addition to the above, the American Association of University Women publishes surveys of coeds, and the definition of sexual asault is really broad (no pun intended) including the touching of a breast or thigh.
So one should take the survey results with a grain of salt.
Other than this issue, Beckel is a fool, and says more stupid things than the Rev sharpton..

Beckel is an obnoxious bore, so the only time I have to suffer his presence is before I get to the skip forward on the dvr to watch red eye. They (gutfeld) call the end seat usually reserved for the leggy women the "leg chair".

The other members of The Five panel pet, paw and make over him so as not to tick him off. He´s in tight with them, apparently. I find him to be a foul-mouth, nasty old boor who´s lucky to even have a job.

QUESTION: So what exactly is the Fox News Channel´s Bobby "B´s" "claim to fame."?

ANSWER: He managed the greatest Electoral College landslide rout in the history of The Republic...The "Fritz" Mondale catastrophic disaster of 1984.

Fox has captured most of the conservatives, so they have been moving to the left to get no-info voters and libs. In the process they are loosing some of their base of conservatives.

I´ve pretty much given up on them. I watch O´Reilly for intertainment value only, its hillarious to watch him dance around and try to be independent and non-judgemental.

I can´t stand watching The Five because of Beckel. He´s just plain nasty. Fortunately our local news is on at 50.

Sorry, make that 5 PM.

He is a big socialist blowhard who looks like the kind of guy who beats his kids without mercy for even the smallest infraction. He defends the most dishonorable behavior from libs while condemning the most honorable conservatives. He wears his drug and alcohol abuse, and his using of women, as a badge of honor, and is the singular reason I quit watching The Five after just a few episodes.
Other than that he seems ok.

I quit watching Hannity until Colmes was removed from the set, and I won´t watch The Five again until Beckel is removed. He is nasty, arrogant and clueless — and a waste of time.

Oh...well...I thought Blob Beckel was on to give the panel of The Five more sex appeal.

Me too, #14.

Beckel even gets on O´Reilly, but adds nothing. But though I tune in, I won´t forgive O´Reilly from dismissing Obama as merely a politician doing his thing to get reelected, instead of being a traitor to this nation.

I also don´t care for Mr Beckel´s appearances on Fox -- or anywhere else. During the extended period when state election officials were counting chads to determine whether Bush or Gore had received more votes in Florida, Beckel was contacting Bush electors all over the country and trying to persuade them to cast their electoral college votes for Gore who had supposedly received more votes nation-wide than Bush. (Just like the Florida Supreme Court, Beckel wanted to change the rules after the election to get the result he and they preferred.)

Thank God Bush won that election. Having Gore as president after 9-11 would have been a catastrophe.

Beckel is a schmeckel.

This is why I quit watching FNC. They keep having libtards on there. So, I switched to $10 a month to watch GBTV theBlaze. I quit watch Hannity because he doesn´t go after the GOP like he does with the Democrats. I´ve had enough.

Full disclsure - I do watch The Five. Bob adds absolutely nothing ever to the hour. In addition he daily exemplifies what those of us on the right think of those on the left. He is rude, usually incoherent, demeans women, speaks in cliches rather than facts or valuable opinions, foul mouthed, and rarely makes a coherent point because he spends his time attempting to make nasty comments about people he disagrees with. He is a BAD FIT for that program. I would think the left would demand that Fox hire a better representative for their view for that hour. That they don´t probably means that Bob is a revered representative of the left.

Fox´s answer to Downton Abbey: a daily soap opera full of sound and fury and hair and legs and chest bubbles and suspenders and dunlops... signifying nothing.

He is such an obvious boor - and an obviously Liberal boor - that he makes Conservatives look even better.

Echo chambers achieve nothing.

In my opinion, the women on The Five (Dana, Andrea, Kimberly) are not only attractive but three of the most articulate commentators on Fox. They do their homework, express reasoned opinions and have good senses of humor. (I do wish their skirts were a little longer and heels a little shorter.

Eric is extremely bright, Greg is smart and a hoot (most of the time). But, What About Bob? Half the time he´s not even aware of the topic being discussed then mumbles an inanity to try to keep up. All in all, I like The Five.

Hanity protects him and gave him the platform to spew his poison!

He´s the reason I don´t watch FOX!

He also calls himself a ´Christian´ which is unbelievable ............. since illogical because he spouses unchristian views on private property, border security-illegal aliens, gay marriage, abortion and course the Constitution.

Beckel the lying, nasty bung hole, along with Juan Williams, Kirsten Powers, and the other libs showing up all over FOX on a "more and more" basis makes obnoxious look like a compliment. He has his head so far up BO´s tail he has to be blind by now. We´re nearly finished with FOX entirely. Been turning off more and more and for the most part only turn it on for Brett Baier. And if Juan or one of the other Beckel type libs is on the panel, it´s hit the remote time. No one at FOX seems to be listening...or caring.

In all fairness to Beckel, he clarified his position re "date rape"on the "Five" last night. He stated that rape is rape whether it is called date rape or anything else.
He says enough stupid things there is no need to hammer him on the rape issue.

Poor old Bob Beckle seems to be an apologist of sorts for the 1960/70´s immorality gang of rapidly aging lefty/lib/hippies....He just can´t give up on those, ´good old psychadyllic(sp?) days.´ mmm mmm mmm

As a recovering alcoholic Beckel reveals a truly mean nature in his personality. I´m sure he was a very nasty argumentative drunk in his day. He says he´s sober now but in his daily comments he shows a demeaning and abusive streak. As far as Kirsten Powers goes, while she drives me crazy with some of her comments, she is not a died in the wool progressive. Yes, she is a liberal but I have seen her criticize Obama and Democratic policy on Fox´s Special Report and she seems to try to maintain some semblance of objectivity. As for Joe Trippi he is a gentleman. Yes a Dem for sure but with manners. He would be a perfect replacement for Beckel. I do not know how Beckel keeps his job on The Five.

Everybody ought to have a clown.