Bob Beckel

Did you ever watch ‘The Five’ on Fox and think the music played as they break for a commercial and return after, is better then the blathering rhetoric?

One overweight liberal bloviating Bob Beckel faces off with four Fox conservatives, making Beckel a buffoonery of political commentary.

‘ The Five’, which should be called more accurately  ‘The ‘Revolving 11′ , although only five appear nightly, was initially billed by Fox as a temporary replacement for Glenn Beck as a talk show featuring a rotating panel of opinionated people.

It went from a professorial chalk board lecture on what we didn’t learn from history with commentary, often anti Obama, but  with impeccable  research, to an entertainment venue of political opinioni nousis.  It was George Soros that did in the Beck show by spreading around enough money to block advertisers from airing commercials on the show.

Thus Fox News exchanged an informative show, which had more viewers in that time slot than any other TV program, for revenue.  It demonstrated the power Soros weal’s within the Obama administration and elsewhere to silence opponents to a liberal agenda.

And so Beckel, who appears as a more regular liberal to beat up upon is, ‘love-ling’ ; attacked for his views by the four conservatives with good humor.

The characters appearing on ‘The Five’ are: Greg Gutfeld, who hosts an overnight talk show for Fox; Juan Williams, who is a regular contributor on Fox shows; Dana Perino, a former White House Press Secretary in the Bush administration; Andrew Napolitano, the host of a libertarian talk show on Fox Business Network; Geraldo Rivera, Andrea Tantaros, Eric Bolling, Monica Crowley, Bob Beckel and Kimberly Guilfoyle.

Beckel along with Bolling and Gutfeld seem to be mainstays while they alternate with attractive female ‘Foxes’ and they put the one with the most attractive legs sitting at the unattractive oval set, sitting to the viewers left.  Those filling that slot are Andrea Tantaros, a former Miss Leigh and Kimberly Guilfoyle an attorney.

Beckel berates himself daily for being divorced, a former alcoholic, a druggie, one that has slept in a dumpster, ‘at least once’, a college football player that couldn’t make it in the NF, and worked in the Carter administration as a political consultant.

The subject matter is timely and the intercourse of rapid conversation appears to be typical of what takes place at most family Thanksgiving dinners, subject to talk-overs and interruption.

And so, Fox has exchanged a professorially delivery of historical perspective and controversial commentary for the entertainment of a Thanksgiving dinner, all because of a tyrant with the origin of Germany, operating on the US political scene.

However, there may be a saving grace; Fox said it was a ‘temporary replacement’, in the meantime I will enjoy the ‘Foxies’ , music, and the banter of a Thanksgiving dinner.