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Bob Beckel was born on November 15, 1948 in New York City, New York. Bob is known as an American political analyst and pundit, and he was also a former political operative.

Early Life

Bob is the older <a href="/biography/bob-beckel">brother</a> of the actor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Beckel">Graham Beckel</a>. His parents were Ellen Gilliland Beckel and Cambridge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Beckel">Graham Beckel</a>. His father, Cambridge was the author of "Workshops for the World: The United Nations Family of Agencies".

Bob’s childhood was spent in Lyme, Connecticut. He graduated from Wagner College in Staten Island, NY and was a graduate school professor at George Washington University, Washington D.C. where he taught presidential politics.

While in college, he was a <a href="/biography/bob-beckel">member</a> of the football team. Besides that, he also worked in the presidential campaign of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy</a>.

After his college graduation in 1971, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines.

Political Career

He got involved in politics while in his twenties during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy">Robert Kennedy</a>’s presidential campaign. After serving for the Peace Corps and tasting success from leading his own consulting firm, he joined the US State Department in 1977.

He joined <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale">Walter Mondale</a>’s 1984 presidential campaign as the manager and successfully supervised their activities. He was the one responsible for wrapping the slogan ‘Where’s the Beef?’ around <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hart">Gary Hart</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale">Mondale</a>’s opponent.

He was also responsible for managing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Blinken">Alan Blinken</a>’s campaign for the Senate seat in 2002, but he could not prove his worth as he was dismissed due to charges of extortion by a prostitute.

Media Career

Bob Beckel is well versed in political commentary and created a first of sorts by being the sole liberal political forecaster on the conservative Fox News channel. He was the <a href="/biography/bob-beckel">co-anchor</a> of the popular Fox show, ‘The Five’. He was <a href="/biography/bob-beckel">one</a> of the five individuals who would dissect the sensational news of the day. However, he was unpleasantly kicked out by Fox News in 2015. But fortunately for him and what some might a call a heavenly compensation, within a period of only four months after he was fired, he was offered a new job with CNN, which he agreed and signed on straight away. There was a lot of comments that CNN move’s attempt to sign Bob to their network was not shocking at all.

His release from Fox News was due to his long absence, which lasted for months and was due to a back surgery that he was recovering from. Fox News even announced that they could not put the show on hold just because one of the hosts had some personal issues. Some people said that was harsh, but Fox News didn’t care and the claimed that business is business.

When Bob was asked about what the network said about him, he simply replied by explaining how they signed a separation agreement, which prevented the network from saying anything bad or inappropriate about him after leaving. The media was confused because Fox had just slammed him so Bob sarcastically added that one of Fox editors must have missed the memo. He politely added that he was assured by <a href="/biography/roger-ailes">Roger Ailes</a>, the <a href="/biography/roger-ailes">chairman</a> of Fox News that he would never say anything bad about him. What is even more unfortunate is that sadly after his back recovery, he had to go through rehab from an addiction to pain medications that he developed from his back pain.

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He co-anchored the debate oriented political talk show ‘Crossfire Sunday’ along with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Snow">Tony Snow</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Cheney">Lynne Cheney</a>. This used to be featured on Sundays. On CBS, the programs he appeared on were CBS News and Good Morning America. He was also featured as a guest on Meet the Press, Face the Nation and Nightline. Mutual Radio’s Buchanan & Company hired him as their co-host.

On January 16, 2017, Fox News brought Bob back as a co-host of The Five. Their ill will against each other had died down and Fox News valued his input. Unfortunately, the return would only last 5 months as Bob was fired again for making racist remarks towards another employee at Fox News.

A man without a network, Bob decided to create his own platform. He started his own podcast, "Beckel's Bob Cast." on February 19, 2018.

Writing Career

The popular book, ‘Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That is Destroying America’ was co-authored by Bog along with his long time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Thomas">friend</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Thomas">Cal Thomas</a>. He was a weekly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Thomas">columnist</a> for USA Today, his column was called ‘Common Ground’. The column was co written with his friend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Thomas">Cal</a> who was his political opposite. Great discussions were had in the column because they were written in the style of point and counterpoint. Bob’s liberal views and Cal’s conservative ones on various policy matters try to find a common ground in the column.

In his book "I should be dead", Bob described his life, how he was a raging drunk, how he thought that he ought to be dead by now, and how he came so close to death so many times. He goes on to explain that he has even been shot and went through car accidents. And even after all these scary incidents, somehow he miraculously stayed alive.

Personal Life

Bob Beckel is known for his various controversial comments and as a recovering alcoholic but he has tried to slow down in his later years. He has been very open in public about his past addictions to drugs and alcohol, he once admitted on broadcast TV that he was an addict, "I'm a recovering <a href="/biography/bob-beckel">addict</a> and cocaine was my drug of choice."

He got married to Leland Ingham in 1992 and the couple has two children together. However, he got a divorce from her in 2002. Their relationship only lasted a decade because his wife couldn’t handle all the turmoil he brought into their lives from his work.

Bob Beckel is the <a href="/biography/bob-beckel">owner</a> of ‘<a href="/biography/bob-beckel">Beckel Cowan</a>’ which is a political a lobbying firm. He also proved his acting skills by appearing in the eighth season of the premier show ‘24’ as himself.

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