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Special Ops to Bob Beckel: Say It to My Face
Special Operations Speaks to Bob Beckel:
Say it to my face.
Yesterday, Fox News’ “The Five” ran a segment on the military members who are taking action against President Barack Obama and his administration for their deliberate, continuing national-security leaks that are endangering the lives of the military men and women who serve and protect the United States of America. In that segment, liberal smear artist Bob Beckel defended the Obama White House’s intentional release of highly sensitive and highly classified security information:
“The idea to suggest that the President of the United States would leak intelligence information, jeopardizing people in the field is close to treason,” Beckel said. “If I were them – I assume they are out of the military now – they ought to take their benefits and go home.”
As honorably discharged and retired veterans of the Special Operations communities of all the Armed Forces and their supporters, whose mission in forming Special Operations Speaks is to illuminate the failed operational security environment of the current presidential administration, we find Bob Beckel’s commentary slanderous, insulting and appalling.
Yes Bob, we are indeed “out” of military uniform, but as private citizens in civilian mufti, we are no less dedicated to protect, defend and preserve the Constitution of the United States than we were when we first swore to do so when we entered military service and then honorably served our nation. Bob, we are home and one of the “benefits” we enjoy, like you, is freedom of speech under the First Amendment of our sacred Constitution.
To essentially accuse retired Special Operators like ourselves – who dutifully and proudly committed our lives to our country’s service – of treason is to effectively spit upon those military men and women and their families who defended and often died to preserve Beckel’s liberty to say such a heinous thing in the first place. Beckel’s comments are not just overtly disrespectful; they are transparently disdainful of the sacrifices that the American military and their loved ones have made on his behalf.
Fox News, in its misguided attempt to be fair and balanced, has defaulted on its obligation to its audience by continuing to tolerate Beckel’s twisted and bloviated commentary. As such, we demand that Beckel be dismissed forthwith and apologize for his remarks.
Ham&Mothers
August 18th, 2012
Heard he was a nicer person when he was a drunk.
Hotlanta Mike
August 18th, 2012
So this upcoming Hollywood movie scheduled to be released prior to the election about the taking down of Osama doesn’t contain any sensitive information?
Billy Fuster
August 18th, 2012
I got news for you Bob–It IS treason.
Deb
August 18th, 2012
This is why I call him Bob Schmeckel – he’s a dickhead.
I understand Fox wants to be balanced (unlike ANY other news channel, and no, Joe Scarborough and David Brooks are NOT conservatives!) but giving a soapbox to people like Bob, Alan Colmes and Sally Kohn is capitulation to propaganda. I almost always disagree with Fox’s liberal commentators like Juan Williams, Tamara Holder, Mara Liasson, etc., but they are not in the league of these three hateful, lying, intolerant, bigoted, intellectually vapid cretins. It takes less than 3 minutes of Internet searching to discredit them.
Stop giving them credibility, Fox!
Mimsey
August 18th, 2012
Gone are the William F. Buckley days when one was treated to an expansive vocabulary, wit intertwined with intellect and thought provoking ideas and reasoning on any subject being discussed.
Fox puts windbags like Beckel, far left winger Combs and that black professor from Columbia and now Jackson’s daughter on the payroll and calls that fair and balanced. It’s more like boring and uninteresting.
Ty Coon
August 18th, 2012
I honestly don’t think Beckel believes the crap he says,he gets paid to say it. It’s all about ratings and pushing peoples buttons seems to get the most audience loyalty these days. I quite frankly can’t watch any news program anymore.
jeff
August 18th, 2012
TRESON IS WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS DONE FOR THE LAST 4 YEARS AND COWARDLY RINOS IN CONGRESS ARE TO SCARED TO IMPEACH THE IMPOSTER
Alxandro
August 18th, 2012
Which one is the real Beckel?
I tried looking for him on Twitter and there is a Bob with no tweets and a Robert G who can’t spell worth a flip.
Unneutral
August 18th, 2012
You can’t expect words of wisdom or thoughts of intellect from a gelatinous heap of feces that continuously emits vaporous eruptions of flatulence.
Tim
August 18th, 2012
Beckel is a true believing fellow traveller who would welcome Obama to sodomize him on national TV if he thought it would further the socialist cause.
He is a disgusting America-hating socialist.
StrangernFiction
August 18th, 2012
Fox News, fair and balanced between totalitarian Democrats and Vichy Republicans.
Corona
August 18th, 2012
Who is this gastropod?
Team America
August 18th, 2012
Thank you, Special Ops and all military for your service. I’m glad to see you challenge Fox and beckel. Above post was correct – he’s paid to be the “bad guy.”
sig94
August 18th, 2012
Typical lefty propagandist. Any one who speaks ill of your agenda must henceforth STFU. Only worthy enlightened elitists may address the great unwashed so they can be told what to think.
Heckle and Beckel – chattering crows that screech and howl so you can’t hear yourself think and then crap on everything you hold dear. You usually handle a crow infestation by shooting them.
StrangernFiction
August 18th, 2012
I honestly don’t think Beckel believes the crap he says
I’d go a step further and say most leftists at the top of the food chain don’t believe much of the BS they spout.
“It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”
Does Barry really believe more government is the answer, or is he an evil bastard that craves power and control over others?
I'm Your Huckleberry
August 18th, 2012
This, alone, is why I don’t watch much F&F’s bc of Beckel and his crap, Whorealdo, or alan combs, too.. there’s fair and balanced, and then there is …leaning so far over to the left, while kissing the left’s ass…
StrangernFiction
August 18th, 2012
There is showcasing leftist in(s)anity and confronting it (although I prefer ridicule), and there is legitimizing it.
Fox does the latter.
AbigailAdams
August 18th, 2012
Beckel and his ilk are the the necessary leitmotif of FNC. Without him and his cohort Fox would be the equivalent of the other cable and big 4 “news” providers. What’s a good movie without the Snidely Whiplashes to throw rotten tomatoes at? His use of base language is especially puzzling; Fox must like that he drops the F bomb once in a while, because they haven’t got rid of him because of it. And like the response to Joe Biden’s lunacy, Fox and the the people who work there are just as bad as Joe’s peeps who merely pat Bob on the head, shrug their shoulders and say, “Well, you know how Bob is.”
Mudbug
August 18th, 2012
FOX news is deep into “furry and nuanced” these days. OPSEC gave Bobba-The-Hut good advice: “Be very afraid, Bob.” Only thing Bobby fears is the waiter bringing an inferior Merlot to compliment his Crow Flambe. Nukin Futs, he is.
Maudie N Mandeville
August 18th, 2012
People must enjoy watching others argue and talk over one another which is Fox’s format, and Hannity radio.
Just think if you learned math and history that way in school.
? everything
August 18th, 2012
I personally like the 5′s format with the exception of the fat slob beckel, AMEN I say to those who are asking for his sacking, DO NOT REPLACE him with JUAN WILLIAMS. personally I could give a collective shit about “fair & balanced”, but about BALANCED, you know FACTUAL REPORTING, which the other four seem to do. imo the message gets lost with a screech freak amongst the mix.
Houston
August 18th, 2012
@?Everything
I can’t watch the five much. I’m with you on the fact the lefties can’t do anything but spew talking points. They don’t have verifiable facts. If they would stop being ANGRY and completely unbending there might actually be a real debate which could be worth something.
FWIW, Greg and Dana are the high points of the show. They seem to acknowledge both sides have faults and neither are perfect. Plus they are able to do it without always being ANGRY.
Why is it we are the ones who are portrayed as being full of rage and hate when we have red-faced eye bulging examples like Beckel which prove otherwise?
? everything
August 18th, 2012
@ Houston, agree with all you say but that Eric is one charitable guy, the black woman in I think it was Philly, serving hungry kids sandwiches, the city needs 1000 dollar fee for the PERMIT, Eric stated he would cover it, not fat ass beckel. but as you know we have been told that conservatives are not charitable…seems to me the two running for Pres have VASTLY DIFFERENT PERCENTAGES OF CHARITABLE DONATIONS, come to think about it….
I just think the five would be a much more informative show with FIVE CONSERVATIVES PERIOD!
Libra
August 18th, 2012
Beckel’s debating skills:
1. “Republicans do the same thing.”
2. “Aw, that was only one time.”
3. “I don’t listen to that guy.”
4. “Obama created 4 billion jobs last year.”
5. When all else fails, lie your ass off.
6. Look bored among people with higher intellect.”
mkultra
August 18th, 2012
@strangerthanfiction, re: ‘does beckel believe the crap he says’. There’s a great related article on PJMedia asking the same question about Debbie BowlingPin Schultz (Party Girl):
http://pjmedia.com/blog/wasserman-schultz-party-girl/
PATH
August 18th, 2012
I’ve said it before but, this Bob Beckel is the reason I stopped watching Fox. In fact, at that point I just stopped watching the TV completely.
Doc
August 18th, 2012
beckel is a fat obnoxious tub of liberals shit. That fuckin’ asshole can’t say shit about the MILITARY! In the 60′s when we were beating the bush in Vietnam, this pussy was a fucking cheerleader at a private college. I think ANY VETERAN that encounters this asshole should kick his ass just for using our oxygen!
Since it’s his favorite word I’ll say it again…FUCK YOU beckel!
I'm Pamela's Huckleberry
August 18th, 2012
You Tell em, Doc..
Sard
August 18th, 2012
Right on, Doc! I never did care for that windbag POS … no, he done stepped in it now … couldn’t happen to a nicer maggot.
Looks like the whole Fair & Balanced thang is wearin’ real thin and playin’ right into the left’s dialectic. I don’t watch TV anymore, either … got better things to do … like blog all day and read the awesome comments at iOTW! *snicker*
Nutjob
August 18th, 2012
Next time the protesting potsmoking left thinking drunk insults the military I wish 1 of the women on the show would square him up and kick him in the nuts.
bitterclinger
August 18th, 2012
Beck has reinvented television, and it’s for grown-ups. He says what he needs to say without P.C. or BS censors objecting to certain things.
The only reason the TV goes on is for Cavuto. As soon as he signs off, I immediately switch over to GBTV for the next hour and then it’s off for the day.
vetgal1970
August 18th, 2012
I understand and respect the attempt at balance, allowing people from all sides to express their opinion. What I don’t understand is allowing the Beckels of the left sit and continually hurl insults at our heads and spout nothing but talking points fresh out of their inbox. If I liked being called a grandma hating, child starving, stingy racist ‘teabagger’, I would be watching MSNBC and CNN. I won’t ask for him to be fired that is a tool of the progressives. I will however tell FOX they need to class it up. In a hurry.
Death_By_Farts
August 18th, 2012
Soon to be a youtube hit after the election:
“And now Bob Beckel’s reaction to the Romney/Ryan landslide victory.”
Trogloraptor
August 18th, 2012
Obama will get his dishonorable discharge about four years too late, but he will get it.
US Navy Corpseman
August 18th, 2012
Beckel has worn out the Welcome mat on FOX – I wonder if Eric ever regrets saving his life ( Eric performed Heimlich on choking Beckel).
Jerry Manderin
August 19th, 2012
Beckel’s brother should just beat the dull out of him.