Robert Beckel
Robert G. "Bob" Beckel (born November 15, 1948 in New York City ) is an American political commentator, official and television presenter. He was best known as campaign manager for Democratic candidate Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential election .
Life and activity
After attending school, Beckel was trained at Wagner College , which he left in 1970 with a bachelor's degree. He then belonged to the Peace Corps from 1971 to 1972 , for which he worked in the Philippines . From 1972 to 1975 he worked as a political adviser ( political consultant ). He then served as director of the office of the National Committee for an Effective Congress in Washington, DC from 1975 to 1977
In Jimmy Carter's administration , Beckel was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations in the State Department from 1977 to 1978 and then Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Liaison for the House from 1978 to 1980 ; H. The President's Clerk in charge of maintaining White House relations with the House of Representatives.
After the Carter's defeat in the 1980 presidential election , Beckel founded Bob Beckel and Associates , which he ran from 1980 to 1982.
In 1983 and 1984, Beckel was the manager of former Vice President Walter Mondale's campaign team when he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. After Mondale was able to prevail in the internal party primaries against his competitors - in particular Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson - and was chosen as the official presidential candidate, Beckel became the manager of the ultimately unsuccessful Democratic presidential campaign. Mondale lost significantly to Republican incumbent Ronald Reagan .
From 1985 to 1989 Beckel was a partner in the political consulting firm National Strategies and Marketing Group . From 1990 he was an analyst and commentator for the CBS news program CBS This Morning . From 1990 to 1992 Beckel host of the show was Off the Record for Fox Television .
Beckel has been working full-time as a political commentator and analyst for the cable news broadcaster Fox News, which belongs to Rupert Murdoch's media empire, since 2002 . In the first years of his work for Fox he was regularly seen on the political analysis program The Political Grapevine , as well as in the opinion show of radio talker Sean Hannity as a participant in so-called panel discussions (small discussion groups in which opposing views according to the principle of point- counterpoint). Since 2011 he has been one of the regular presenters of the five rotating panel discussion program The Five . The concept of this program is that a panel of five people will discuss and discuss current issues. In alternation with Juan Williams, Beckel is usually the only exponent of “left” views.
His brother is the actor Graham Beckel . Beckel is a (self-confessed) former alcoholic .
Criticism of activity for Fox News
While the station Fox and the majority of its moderators and commentators are characterized by a strongly conservative tendency in the spirit of the Republican Party , Beckel embodies the left or liberal counterpart in the programs in which he appears . Numerous critics have repeatedly criticized that Beckel primarily plays the role of an appointed whipping boy who has the task of losing every discussion with his right-wing opponents, making the views and arguments of the left / liberals / democrats inconclusive and ineffective for the audience to work so that these would be influenced in favor of right-wing / conservative / republican views and proposed solutions to the problem just discussed.
This is promoted, for example, by the fact that Beckel is usually confronted with several right-wing discussants with almost identical views, so that he is numerically in the minority in the discussions, which means that the left-wing views are less likely to be heard than the left-wing views with almost the same proportion of speeches from all participants right positions, and the views he represents appear as eccentric outsider opinion.
Furthermore, Beckel's external appearance is also often cited: While the republican positions in the discussion rounds are mostly of "shirt-sleeved", chummy-youthful-looking men, like Eric Bolling or Sean Hannity , or of good-looking and confident looking younger women like Andrea Tanteros or Dana Perino be represented, Beckel is compared to them as a significantly older and very overweight man who also otherwise looks badly and is conspicuously “sweaty” in scene.
In sum, this optical distribution of roles should, according to the reading of the critics of Fox News, create a fixed associative amalgamation in the subconscious of the audience: While the republican viewpoints are associated with vital, sovereign and attractive people, the democratic ones with Identified “broken”, tired and a little dingy looking people. This influencing mechanism comes into play most clearly in the program The Five , in which the sluggish-exhausted-looking Beckel is the only leftist juxtaposed with four dashing, research-attractive rightists.
Controversial statements
Beckel caused a national stir with comments on various political issues. In December 2010 he said of Julian Assange on Eric Bolling's program Cashin 'In (on the Fox Business Network): "This guy's a traitor, he is treasonable and he has every law in the United States I'm against the death penalty so there's only one way to do it: shoot the son of a bitch illegally ( "This guy's a traitor, he's treasonous, and he has broken every law of the United States. And I'm not for the death penalty, so [...] there's only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a bitch. " )
On April 16, 2012, Beckel appeared on Sean Hannity's show Hannity with Jennifer Stefano and Neal Boortz . After Stefano noticed that the Head Start Program , which wants to help poor children, wasn't working, Beckel replied: "You fucking have no idea what you're talking about" (“You don't know what the fuck you're talking about! ”). Beckel later apologized for his choice of words.
In April 2013, in response to the attack on the Boston Marathon , he proposed that students from Islamic countries no longer be allowed into the country. He later apologized for it.
In August 2012, he expressed disrespect for Jews in Israel who raised funds for Mitt Romney's campaign. You are a nameless bunch of diamond dealers ”
In November 2012 Beckel commented live on Fox News on the subject of nudists: "They were probably banged by a gang when they were children ( gang-bang ), I don't know!" (“Probably gang-banged, I don't know!”)
In February 2013, Beckel claimed that the truth was that there had been no rape on campus.
literature
- Harold Relyea: The Executive Office of the President. A Historical, Biographical, and Bibliographical Guide , 1997, p. 470.
Individual evidence
- ^ Fox News: Bob Beckel Biography . Retrieved September 18, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/fox-news-bob-beckel-calls_n_793467.html
- ↑ Fox News' Bob Beckel Calls For 'Ilegally' Killing Assange: 'A Dead Man Can't Leak Stuff' from The Huffington Post
- ^ Fox News' Bob Beckel Drops F-Bomb On Air The Huffington Post. April 17, 2012.
- ↑ Beckel: 'Right winger' doesn't 'know what the f * ck' she's talking about The Raw Story. April 17, 2012.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ General Staff: Fox News Host: Romney's Israel Fundraiser Held with "Bunch of Diamond Merchants" | Jewish & Israel News . General journal . August 8, 2012. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
- ^ Bob Beckel, Fox News Host, Concludes San Francisco Nudists 'Were Gang Banged, Probably' (VIDEO) . Huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2012. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
- ↑ Bob Beckel: Rape On College Campuses Doesn't Really Happen . Huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beckel, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beckel, Robert G .; Beckel, Bob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American political commentator and television presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |