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Dec. 3, 2012 9:30pm

While he is certainly no fan of conservative principles, Bob Beckel, co-host on Fox News’ “The Five” and the show’s outspoken liberal, is a huge fan of Christmas. In fact, every year for the past two decades he has decorated his home elaborately with Christmas lights and lawn ornaments to celebrate the holiday.

During Monday’s edition of “The Five,” Beckel not only showed viewers how much work he puts into his Christmas display, he also put his softer side on display and revealed that he partly does it to spread the Christmas joy among the children in his neighborhood.

“It’s a labor of love,” he said. “I don’t know how else to put it, because no sane human being would do all this work.”

He continued: “Every year I’m out here and I’m sitting here and I’m thinking should I really do this or not again ‘cause it’s so much work. And then some little kid comes up and says, ‘Mr. Beckel, are you going to put your lights out this year?’ And I say, ‘yeah, I’ll put ‘em out.’â€

In fact, Beckel even had a sign made for his yard that reads: “This display is for all the kids in Brookmont and the big kid who lives here.”

(H/T: Fox News Insider)

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  • spirited
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:44pm

    ….tis the season –Merry Christmas!!!

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  • FreedomWitness
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:43pm

    I know that it shows holiday spirit to put up Christmas lights, but doesn’t Beckel seem a little like THE GRINCH WHO PUT UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. He seems somewhat dour.

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  • GoodStuff
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:40pm

    Will Beckel have a giant “Merry F**kin’ Christmas” sign in his front yard…given his penchant for dropping the F-bomb on live TV.

    Grow up Beckel.

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    • Bert in NY
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 9:23am

      I thought the same thing, especially when he says he decorates his house for the kids in the neighborhood.

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    • RobbieTLHughie
      Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:57pm

      lol I’m sure you’ll be telling all your fellow Blazers to grow up, right? When they insult Bob Costice, the President, et all, correct?

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  • pt417
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:39pm

    Coal fired christmas lights!!!!!

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  • GoodStuff
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:36pm

    If you actually go out and hire someone to put Christmas lights on your house, you’ve lost touch with reality. Yes, that includes Glenn.

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    • sillyfreshness
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:41pm

      Wow, Bob lives very modestly. A very middle class house and drives a middle class SUV. I’m quite surprised. He doesn’t flaunt his fame. Seems very down to earth.

      However, the “chosen people” controlled Marxist Media and Hollywood have declared war on Christians and Christmas. Soon we will be talking about not having any semblance of Christmas on display…..along with gay marriage…..and amnesty for illegal aliens. Those are the talking points lately in the Juden controlled media. Soon Christmas will just be a thing of the pas

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    • FreedomWitness
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:45pm

      Yeah but Beckel is older than dirt and fatter than Santa Claus. He needs help from his ‘elves’ or he might fall of the roof and crush them all.

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    • Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:12am

      @Silly
      Do you make anti-semitic comments in all of your posts. Why do you feel the need to say the media is run by “the chosen people” in every post, even when the article has nothing to do with your illogical anti-semitic conspiracies…

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    • Copper Catfish
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 8:13am

      Any time you hire someone to do something for you, you are helping that person out financially.

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    • Catherine A.
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:17pm

      What’s wrong with getting help with your Christmas decorations, especially when it involves climbing up on top of the house, or when you have as many as Bob does? If you have health problems you SHOULD get help. No shame in that. Besides, he said he does it for the kids.

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  • nzkiwi
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:34pm

    I quite like Bob, although liking him usually requires stamina.

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  • ytrebil1
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:23pm

    What a tool…Hires people to help him decorate. Goes to the store to buy to buy more Chinese made crap. Yeah, we “blue collar folk” do that all the time. No problem paying for the extra amount on the electric bill either. Beckel is such a pretentious, arrogant POS. Can`t stand the guy. I heard that he is a “teacher” at a college. Thats scary…..he speaks like a 6th or 7th grader. Also, I think he`s about 1 round shy of a full magazine.

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    • sillyfreshness
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:39pm

      Wow, Bob lives very modestly. A very middle class house and drives a middle class SUV. I’m quite surprised. He doesn’t flaunt his fame. Seems very down to earth.

      However, the “chosen people” controlled Marxist Media and Hollywood have declared war on Christians and Christmas. Soon we will be talking about not having any semblance of Christmas on display…..along with gay marriage…..and amnesty for illegal aliens. Those are the talking points lately in the Juden controlled media. Soon Christmas will just be a thing of the past.

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    • hillbillyinny
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:23am

      @ sillyfreshness

      Repeat of ridiculous blatter.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 10:03am

      It’s all good. No one is requiring you to put up all those lights or to pay the electric bill for them. While the lights may be manufactured in China, the people at the hardware store are locals who are also working. And the contractor has to be local, also.

      As for him being a teacher at a local college, you may not like the way he speaks or his political positions, but at least he speaks clearly enough to be understood. Much would depend on what kind of course he was teaching. I wouldn’t expect it to be Philosophy 101 or Quantum Mechanics, but who knows.

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    • Catherine A.
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:19pm

      It isn’t being “a tool” to get help. Maybe he has back problems. Maybe his wife laid down the law (the way my mother did with my dad). Lighten up.

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  • Fitzzz
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:23pm

    If I lived in that neighborhood, I would not want my son going anywhere close to Beckel’s house
    Any old guy who is trying to lure children with bright lights and candy canes, needs to be watched
    Does anyone else see a strong resemblance between him and that Gacey guy ?

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  • sparky239
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:22pm

    you go BOB the kids just love the display of joy and love …As a big kid I too love the lights …

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    • SendTheMeteors
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:47pm

      Actually liberalism is a tight fit with Christianity. Liberals support tolerance of others, support and love of the poor and less fortunate and other values that Christ taught. Liberals believe that we, as a country are all in this together.

      What’s weird to me is that evangelical Christians subscribe to the views of the atheist Ayn Rand who held selfishness and greed as the highest value. I don’t see anywhere in the Bible that wealth should be shifted to the wealthiest to make them ever more and more wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

      “Deut. 15:7. If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers, in any of the towns of the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand to your poor brother; but you shall freely open your hand to him, and generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.”

      I know evangelical Christians say that’s an individual choice (whether or not to go to hell), but I like the idea of our entire country following the law of God. I think we should be a Christian nation and, as a nation, follow the laws of God. We are a Christian nation are we not?

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    • hillbillyinny
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:29am

      @ SendTheMeteors

      We are a “Christian nation” ONLY if you believe in corporal salvation.

      Early Americans knew and understood their faith. Today many to most have given up a personal relationship with God, and/or wouldn’t understand what salvation means, the debt paid or the power of actually FOLLOWING CHRIST–the true definition of being a Christian!

      Being a member of a religion or “being Baptized” but apostate does not a Christian make. . .

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    • Kerrain
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 10:49am

      @Sendthem

      Liberalism is not a tight fit with Christianity.

      “Liberals support tolerance of others, support and love of the poor and less fortunate and other values that Christ taught. Liberals believe that we, as a country are all in this together.”

      Christ taught love the sinner not the sin. As for Tolerance I have yet to see a liberal (Progressive) tolerate someone who does not agree with them. Living in Utah I saw all the tolerance that the liberals gave to Mia Love.

      Christ did not tolerate sin. Look at the money lenders in the Temple. He did not show tolerance there. He forgave sins he did not tolerate them. He also instructed “Go and Sin no more”

      “I don’t see anywhere in the Bible that wealth should be shifted to the wealthiest to make them ever more and more wealthy at the expense of everyone else.”

      Really? Have you read the parable of the talents? To one is give 1 talent to another 5 to another 10? At the end the 5 and 10 had doubled the amount and the one had done nothing with his. So God takes the one away from the man and gives it to the 10. (Also in case you are not aware of it talents referred to Money not Talents ie singing writing etc.)

      “Deut. 15:7. If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers, in any of the towns of the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart”

      Help the poor do not pay someone else to do it. (IE no taxes so the Government can do it for you.)

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    • sierraviews
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:25pm

      Send, You bring up good points. However, the bible also says that “If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.” Also, it is clear in the first lines of Acts 5 that giving should be an act of the heart, not an act of compulsion.

      As I consider the role of Christianity in public policy, I keep coming back to this idea: If Christ wanted to overhaul government, and if in fact he was God, he could have defeated Caesar and brought in a whole new world order. But he didn’t. He wants hearts. The point of Christian giving, I think, is firstly to bring forth the humility and humanity of the giver; to alleviate the suffering of the recipient is the bonus.

      So, yes, if we all acting like Christians as you suggest, there would be no welfare system at all. We would just all be taking care of one another. But like most Christian precepts, the sacrifice is way too hard. (it is for me) So the problem is that as a Christian nation, we have the sensibilities to care for one another, but without the personal commitment we have no way to achieve those goals accept through government enforcement. So where do we go from here?

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  • Taxpayer550
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:15pm

    Kudos to Bob Beckel! We probably disagree on most things political, but spreading joy is part of what Christmas is all about.

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  • Mikeramseyjr
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:11pm

    I like Bob. I still think He is not a Liberal, He just plays one on TV.

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  • neverending
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:11pm

    Nope – still can’t stand him! Sorry Bobbie!

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  • OlefromMN
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:08pm

    “Guess Which Liberal Fox News Co-Host Goes All Out During the Holidays With Elaborate Christmas Light Display”

    I would hope all of them.

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  • DadRocked
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:06pm

    Before even reading the article, my mind raced and I thought that the answer was Alan Combes.

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  • grayling646
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:03pm

    If I were 12 yrs old again and had an opportunity to ask him a question I’d ask, “Mr. Beckel are you ever gonna stop being a shlthead?”.

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  • RepubliCorp
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:55pm

    Hitler did good things, now and then’

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:01pm

      Watch it CORP. The “Liberty Movement” will jump all over that comment and think you’re part of them with all that Hitler did good things talk. You know how they feel about Hilter killing Jews…

      I get your drift though… lol.

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:30am

      Especially in der fuhrerbunker in April 1945. The best thing he ever did.

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  • lel2007
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:55pm

    Well merry Xmas Bob. I hope Santa brings you all you want.

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  • Ducky657
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:50pm

    Since the opposite of love is apathy I nothing him! His brother is a great guy so we have to assume Bob was dropped on his head–repeatedly!

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  • Tulsatime
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:49pm

    …”And his heart grew five sizes that day”.

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    • neiman1
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 11:20pm

      An enlarged heart is usually fatal.

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    • DMENTED
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:24am

      The sooner, the better. He’s a ‘fan’ of Christmas? He’s a fat liberal stinking foul-mouthed athiest swine, and those are his good points. Oh, I forgot drunkard. Sorry. I don’t care how ‘modest’ he lives. What he represents is an abomination in The Sight of The Lord. I’ll bet he’s ‘x-mas lights’ strung around and on a cheap plastic Crucifix in his Godless home. When his time finally comes, he’ll beg and wail like the little girl that he is. When he faces Jesus and His Father, there’ll be no mercy shown to him.

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    • SidneyDave
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 11:04am

      So is a shrinking brain. Merry Christmas NEIMAN1.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:48pm

    He said his electric bill last year hit around $4,000.

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  • liltexasgal
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:47pm

    I haven’t watched the 5:00 Fox news slot since Beck left. In fact, I rarely ever watch Fox news anymore. Everything I need is on DISH channel 212, The Blaze.

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    • pugczar
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 11:41pm

      Me either! I tried watching ‘the Five’ but I cannot stand Bob. Sometimes you can’t even understand him he slurs his words so bad, like he’s drunk. Come to think of it maybe the slurring is a good thing because every stupid thing he says, that I do understand, infuriates me. I am surprised he goes to this much trouble at Christmas. Good on him, but he’s still a huge irritation.

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  • Wisdom7
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:46pm

    I’ve seen a lot of houses with lights up early this year. I remember as a kid myself it was always neat to drive around with the folks and look at all the lights.

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:59pm

      Neighbor across the street took a header onto the driveway last Friday .. going to be okay but geez they have poles that will put those lights up people. I have a large Nativity in my yard … lit with solar lights .. not because it is “green” but because it is EASY and looks great.

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:13pm

      I live in Florida .. just put the top down on the convertible today .. my little chihuahua and I love to go out at night and drive the neighborhood looking at all the lights .. we put Christmas music in the CD player and off we go.

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    • DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 11:12pm

      @catb
      I used to do that in TX with cider
      Not anymore.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:45pm

    Too bad he hasn’t gotten THE MESSAGE OF CHRISTMAS, isn’t it?

    So many frightened, lonely and sad people live the same lie.

    We are either pregnant or we are not.

    Either JESUS LIVES IN US or we do not allow HIM in.

    All the pretty lights in the world cannot and will not fill that emptiness that awakens you in the middle of the night.

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    • liltexasgal
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:48pm

      Amen and Amen!

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    • THXll38
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:23pm

      Jesus was not born on Christmas. It is a pagan holiday.

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    • Catherine A.
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:26pm

      Christmas (Christ Mass) is not and never has been a pagan holiday. That is an anti-Catholic myth. That it was established as a competition and later replacement of a pagan festival does not make it pagan. One of the responsibilities of Christians has always been to share the Good News (the Gospel), and one of the ways we have always done that is through renewal. We take what has been abused and clean it up. Some of the earliest churches began as pagan temples. We took them over and re-dedicated them to God. Nothing wrong with that.

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:43pm

    Why would anyone want to try and humanize Bob Beckel…??

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    • adimeroll
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:57pm

      Do you think he really believes all the bs he preaches ? He is a paid democratic mouth piece that spouts the party line……..I hope….

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 10:13pm

      I dunno… he’s done and said some really stoooopid things in his life. The only thing I liked about him was he thought Julian Assange ‘ought have been shot or something to that effect.

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  • tommyb12
    Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:40pm

    I still hate him.

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    • Bert in NY
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:45pm

      Maybe he could drop the F bomb for the children in the neighborhood as well. Merry ******* Christmas

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    • COFemale
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:47pm

      Hate is a strong word, but he is not a favorite of mine either. He does have outrageous views and says outrageous things. He is the only one I can’t stand on The Five.

      However, he does decorate for Christmas and that is more we can say about many Liberals.

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    • Mr.-FreeMarket
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 10:06am

      Outrageous displays compensate for the lack of actual compassion and Christian charity that should be part of our daily lives. They say “look at me; see how much I care!!!!”

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    • SidneyDave
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 11:08am

      How christian of you.

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    • RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 12:19pm

      Go to hell, sidney dave. That’s Christian. We believe in hell.

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    • yourfriend
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 7:08pm

      Yep, still an a-hole!

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    • sooguy
      Posted on December 4, 2012 at 7:36pm

      Like him or “hate” him, if you choose. He is THE Liberal that contributes to more causes than most here. One of the few, who puts “His money where his mouth is”!!!

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