Did Bob Beckel Say The F-Word On Fox News’ The Five?

It seemed like kind of a sleepy news day today. So sleepy that Bob Beckel spent the entire last segment on Fox News’ The Five playing video poker on his cell phone. Even when the show was covering a story about a Department of Homeland Security video that featured all white actors playing the terrorists (a perfect Fox News story if I ever heard one), only guest host Monica Crowley seemed to have the energy to muster up the expected outrage. However, there may have been one notable part of that segment as Beckel seems to have accidentally dropped the F-bomb.

The comment came as Beckel defended Juan Williams’ infamous “Muslims on a plane” comments in a similar way to how he did at the time Williams made them. It seems though that Beckel’s zeal to defend the guy who shares his “lone liberal” seat on The Five may have gotten the better of him. We honestly didn’t hear it the first time (we were focussing on the disturbing moment right after when Crowley said she was “hot for” Beckel) but, after getting a second listen, it definitely seems like that’s what he said.

What do you all think? Watch the clip from Fox News below:

(h/t courtesy of Johnny Dollar’s Place)

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