FoxNews Host Fired for Calling Employee a "stupid ni**er" - Drain the swamp!
 

What a bunch of scumbags at FoxNews :disgust

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Fox News fires Bob Beckel for 'making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee' - May. 19, 2017

Fox News on Friday announced that it had fired "The Five" co-host Bob Beckel for a remark he made to an employee of color.
"Bob Beckel was terminated today for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee," a network spokesperson said in a short statement.

It wasn't immediately clear who would replace Beckel on "The Five" and Fox News did not provide details on the incident that led to his firing. Beckel was not immediately available for comment.

Douglas Wigdor and Jeanne Christensen, lawyers handling a growing racial discrimination lawsuit filed by current and former Fox employees, said in a joint statement that Beckel told one of their clients, a black IT worker, that he was leaving the office while the employee serviced his computer because the employee is black. When the IT worker filed a complaint, Beckel attempted to intimidate him to withdraw it, Wigdor and Christensen said.

"As with our other 22 clients, we intend on holding 21st Century Fox accountable for these actions and will be filing multiple other complaints in other matters next week," Wigdor and Christensen said.

In response, a Fox News spokesperson said in a statement that the network "made the decision to terminate Mr. Beckel after a prompt and thorough investigation."

"No one tried to persuade Mr. Wigdor's client to withdraw his complaint," the Fox News spokesperson said.

This is not the first time Beckel, who was also a contributor at CNN for a brief period beginning in late 2015, has parted ways with Fox News. Beckel previously left Fox News in 2015 after undergoing back surgery.

Bill Shine, who was at the time Fox News' executive vice president of programming, said at the time that the network refused to be held "hostage" to his "personal issues."
"He took tremendous advantage of our generosity, empathy and goodwill and we simply came to the end of the road with him," Shine said in a statement then.

Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of Fox News, unexpectedly announced Beckel's return to Fox News earlier this year, saying he was "missed by many fans of 'The Five.'"
Fox News recently moved "The Five" to the 9 p.m. hour as part of a broader shakeup of its programming following the cancellation of "The O'Reilly Factor" in the wake of a scandal surrounding its host Bill O'Reilly and settlements made with five women who had accused him of sexual harassment or verbal abuse.

Yeah, the "SCUMBAG" .... being super liberal Democrat on the show was fired for racially insensitive remarks.

Very ironic.

Not surprising.

Of course, you had no clue who he was anyway when you posted it.... you just saw "fox news" + "racially insensitive" + "fired" and ran with it believing it fit your personal "they're bad", "we're good" narrative.

Anyone - ANYONE - involved in cable news in 2017 is BAD. Right wing, left wing, liberal, conservative, it matters not.

They are ALL part of the propaganda machinery and the 'labels' they wear are like the uniforms the Harlem Globetrotters and the Washington Generals wore. In other words, meaningless.

LOL!!!!

This guy was the biggest liberal on Fox News since Alan Combs.

Bob Beckel, Democratic Party.

Wow! You guys are really hardwired brainwashed what's wrong with you?

Nobody mentioned politics!

This is about the scumbags at FoxNews :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

You Trump alt-righters are really hurting now, I understand. Don't worry, it will be over soon, in a year or so.

Someone should be fired for calling him "employee of color" and "African-American employee" he is an American.

Bladewire :1orglaugh

Another Foxnews employee fired for racisn

Sounds just like your fellow conservative chumpanzees on this board.
Hmm I don't see this reply to their shit!!!
Hypocrite

Hahaha

Liberal Democrat does the wrong thing
FoxNews does the right thing

I understand that it stings a bit

Emily Austen fired for racism.

Lots of racism at FoxNews evidently.

Dumbass did you actually read the real article at NBC or CBS or CNN? Or just read something on snopes and go with it LOL. He didn't call anyone any names at all as you put in the title, he just said I can't be in the room with "him". That's it. The guy filed a complaint and they fired him, problem solved. At least get the news right since that is what you post here daily.

FoxNews does the right thing after how many decades of doing the wrong things!
That's like complimenting Bill Cosby for not druging the one chick he had lunch with last week

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Wow. You really don't like the idea of dissenting opinions that don't match your own do you?

How has Fox News been "doing the wrong things" for "decades". lol

The intolerance is amazing to me among people who are so brainwashed by the mainstream media's lies.

what amazes me is that you expect people to be tolerant of the intolerant and call them brainwashed when they aren't.
The people at fox have a history sexual harassment and covering it up as well as other workplace problems. But keep being brain washed yourself

You got us Robbie, finally, you got us! We are intolerant of racism. Guilty as charged :thumbsup

I believe that would be O'Reilly and Ailes who were both accused of that.

Doesn't mean you indict hundreds of hard working people at Fox News over the actions of 2 very rich old men.
I would say that if either of us had tens of millions of dollars and were in our 70's and were surrounded by hot looking babes, we would take our shot too. And probably get accused of "harassment" as well and lose our jobs.

To say that Fox News has been doing bad things for decades is a pretty broad and wrong-headed statement to make.

I'm sure that more guys than Roger Ailes tried to fuck Gretchen Carlson at the workplace. But she wasn't going to sue the janitor or the camera guy. :)
She was going to sue the guy with tens of millions of dollars.

Show us a 5 year period, since the beginning of the network in 1996, where FoxNews hasn't fired someone, or they resigned, for sexual harrasment or racism.

yep Decades..

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/...n-t-be-stopped

Congrats on your 777th post!

And it being against FoxNews inequality is just awesome! :thumbsup

Just reminding you that your thread title is 100% false

Seems fox news is more accurate and more honest than you are.

Thanks man, I love you too... seriously 🤘👄💦🍆✌️:thumbsup

Nit pick all you want about decade or years.

Fact is nothing was done until big name females started coming out with sexual harassment claims and sponsors started taking notice.

They settled with Bill O'Reilly's accusers because he was making money for them, it's only when sponsors started pulling ads did they do something. But he got a nice payout to leave

True! Excellent point :thumbsup

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There's no logic to it. They want you do be tolerant of racism, xenophobia and hate for LGBT , not gonna happen :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

That's not moral.Well deserved

No, but that does sound exactly like the religion of pieces tho! :helpme

:2 cents:

And Christianity and Republicans yep

Fascinating. Sexual harassment claims. Now racial discrimination/racist acts claims.

There are cameras in the workplace at Fox, and in a previous suit of bill oreilys the woman recorded his creepy phone calls to her and his talk about liking dildos. O'Reilly Falafel Suit Turns Five | The Smoking Gun