Fox News announced on Friday it has terminated Bob Beckel, co-host of “The Five.” The network released this statement to Variety: “Bob Beckel was terminated today for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee.” Beckel’s comment has not yet been made public, but TheWrap is reporting that Fox News’ human resources department learned of the incident on Tuesday evening. After a “thorough” 48-hour investigation, network officials determined Beckel had to go immediately, an unnamed source told TheWrap. The comments reportedly happened off the air, but Beckel has a long history of making offensive on-air statements since coming to Fox News in 2000. In July, 2014, he used the racial slur “Chinamen” on live TV, which caused his co-workers to gasp. In January of the same year, Beckel told viewers all Nigerians are scam artists and that Iranians threaten to feed their children to dogs. Read more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...ee2e4b094cdba539d1f?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
