The Five’s Beckel ‘Infuriated’ By Dr. Carson’s ‘Racist White Liberal’ Comments: ‘You Are Not That Important’
Tuesday afternoon, Fox News’ The Five took on Dr. Ben Carson‘s controversial interview with conservative radio host Mark Levin, in which Carson called his “white liberal” detractors “the most racist people there are.” Those words in particular got under host Bob Beckel‘s skin and he let Carson know just how “infuriating” he found them.
Recalling his “liberal” father, who he said was arrested 57 times during the Civil Rights Movement, Beckel attacked Carson for minimizing the left’s fight for racial equality. “For Dr. Carson to make that kind of statement shows he doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” he said. “It’s an attack on the very heart of what many liberals believe in. He is the last person that I’m going to take that from.”
Beckel also argued that conservative media, such as Fox News and talk radio, have been giving Dr. Carson too much credit. “You are not that important,” Beckel said to Carson. And while some members of the GOP are building him up as a potential presidential candidate for 2016, Beckel said, “I can guarantee that most liberals I know don’t lose a second of sleep over what Ben Carson says or thinks.”
The other hosts mostly defended Carson, though Dana Perino did note that he has “burned through so much of his credibility” by appearing so often on cable news and talk radio. She argued that if he is interested in running in 2016, he would be better off laying low for a while.
Beckel, however, got the last word on the subject, concluding that “I really don’t think Dr. Ben Carson deserves this much air time.”
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