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Bob Beckel Refuses To Participate In ‘Waste Of Time’ Segment On Kim Kardashian

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by Jon Bershad | 7:33 pm, January 5th, 2012

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There is one strongly held belief of Fox News’ Bob Beckel that I agree with and support wholeheartedly and it has nothing to do with his politics. It’s his belief that absolutely nothing to do with Kim Kardashian should ever be discussed on a channel with “News” in the title. Today on The Five, the group tried to do a segment on how some blah blah group tried to blah blah Kim Kardashian about blah blah blah blah whatever and Beckel had the integrity to give that crap the same amount of respect I am now.

“I’m not going to talk about this person!” Beckel declared. “It’s a waste of time.”

The cruel Five producers actually attempted to get Beckel to tease the whole segment, something he refused to do saying that talking about “that woman” would lead to him breaking a New Year’s resolution. I’m not sure what resolution he’s referring to but I’m going to take a wild guess that it has to do with some of his on-air language.

For those that are interested (and God bless you if you are), the actual story had something to do with some liberal group making an ad arguing that Kardashian should pay more in taxes. And, in addition to Beckel’s act of civil disobedience, it appeared that the other hosts as well had a hard time getting into their usual “rich people are good for America” arguments when the subject was Kardashian. At one point, Andrea Tantaros accidentally said “poor Kim,” and you could almost hear a genuine shudder go through the table. Later, Dana Perino tried her best to make the segment about the rich in general and not just that woman who infests all our magazine covers for some reason.

The best moment came when guest host Brian Kilmeade tried to point out that Kim Kardashian had made a lot of money in a short amount of time and Beckel retorted that “So did Lassie.” Perino mentioned that Kardashian and the famous dog “got their start in totally different ways” and their were a number of chuckles around the group as no one wanted to make the obvious joke.

Where’s Greg Gutfeld when you need him?

Watch the clip from Fox News below:

Andrea Tantaros, Bob Beckel, Brian Kilmeade, Dana Perino, fox news, greg gutfeld, Kim Kardashian, The Five

Anonymous

Good for Bob.
Anonymous

Yay Beckel!
Pablo

I think we can all hold hands and sing Kumbayah on this one. God bless you, Bob Beckel.
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Anonymous

Right on Brother!
Gloves Kearns Donahue

Bob is right.
Anonymous

And yet he participates in a roundtable with four wastes of skin every weeknight.
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i’ll do her.
Anonymous

Wow, we all finally reached an agreement. Quick, someone call someone a racist.
Anonymous

Bob doesn’t like talking about pop trash regardless, but I think this was more about not wanting to talk about how unfair it is for a rich person to pay $1,300,000 in taxes when her hair dresser has to pay $4,000. Gov Moonbeam wants Kalifornia to raise taxes by $7,000,000,000 next year not so he can maintain the budget or pay down its deficit but so he can spend that extra cash on new spending. Kalifornia is so generous, in fact its so generous its sending its business employers to other states because they can’t afford to operate here.
Anonymous

Fat slob Beckel is a wast of time & a waste of skin. Kim Kardashian is very beautiful and nice to look at.
Pablo

I think the skin used to contain a nasty little ball of hate like you is far more wasted than that invested in the likes of Dana Perino and Andrea Tantaros.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CKLNI7XBYC66QCZGZYJ67IUUZE John

carltonwest (see comment above) is an idiot.
Gloves Mick Donahue

That’s the nasty little dope “barabu” who was bounced the other day.
Anonymous

Good for Bob.
Anonymous

Thank you Bob Beckel!
Anonymous

I stumbled across a KArdashian episode while channel surfing last night. The brief 45 seconds that I sat on the channel whatching Kim, her two sisters, and their idiot little brother carry on, was enough to irritate me for the rest of the night,

Oh yea….and good job Bob….and shame on you Fox for running that crap. Let HLN cover shovel this…
Anonymous

The nice to look at part quickly evaporates as soon as she starts yammering
Anonymous

Well, Kim is indeed a waste.
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Because this site is named “Mediaite” one can assume that media is a specific area of expertise. Kim Kardashian “infests” all the magazine covers because she sells magazines — and the advertising that pays to get them produced, printed and mailed out. When she stops selling magazines — like Paris Hilton has — she will no longer be on the covers. What is so difficult to understand about this, Mediaite?
FormerlyLib

They were actually covering a dishonest ad that was trying to portray that KK did not pay enough in taxes. So they weren’t actually do a story on KK. But opinions about KK did come up and Bob was hilarious.