Fox News’ Bob Beckel Makes Shocking Comments About Rape on College Campuses
During a discussion about concealed carry laws on college campuses, “The Five” co-host Bob Beckel questioned whether women really need to carry firearms for self-defense because “when was the last time you heard about a rape on campus?”
Beckel said if you allow students to carry guns on campus, there is a greater chance for shootings.
“If you eliminate the opportunity for anyone to have a gun at all, you’re telling the bad guys, there’s an area that no one is carrying a gun,” co-host Eric Bolling said.
That’s when Beckel asked: “When was the last time you heard about a rape on campus?”
“What are you talking about, it’s rampant,” Bolling shot back.
Co-host Dana Perino pointed out that date rape is a particularly big problem for women in college.
“Date rape, yeah that’s one thing…but you gonna take a gun out and shoot your date?” Beckel asked.
“Maybe you should,” co-host Greg Gutfeld remarked.
Co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle was more definitive. She said “If your date is a rapist, you shoot them.” Watch the segment via Fox News below:
UPDATE:
Beckel has apologized for the remarks. Via Politico:
“It’s a horrible, horrendous issue. Simply put, rape is rape. Whether it’s date rape or it’s somebody coming in off the campus trying to rape somebody else. I very strongly feel that way,” Beckel said on Fox’s ‘The Five.’ “So, I just want to straighten the record out on that. I simply was trying to make — there was not a distinction to make here. It simply was that date rape is rape, and that is, by any other definition, rape is rape.”
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:08pmOnce again, Beckel opens mouth, and removes all doubt…
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colascguy
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:15pmSouth Carolina Student was raped on her way back to the dorm from the library last night. I think she may just disagree with this piece of work.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:18pmThe last coherant thing that came out of Beckel’s mouth was wrapped in a condom.
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Cavallo
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:23pmBecause he believes that it isn’t rape when liberals and leftists and democrat voters rape and sexually assault women… therefore there are very few real rapes at universities.
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aproudinfidel
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:24pmYou have to ass/u/me that this jackass doesn’t have any daughters.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:25pm@colascguy
This is not the rapist you are looking for (hand wave)
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Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:29pmWhen I went to college there about 7 rapes in and around the college in about 1 year.
It was a concern of mine at the time and still is.
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BryanB
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:31pmThats Liberal Progressives for ya.
They will say their for Equal Rights for women, but when it comes right down to it their not.
Liberal Progressives hate the idea of a women being able to protect herself, after all it’s up to the government to protect them………….
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redfish52
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:38pmBob…Bob…Bob…..you are still stuck back in that age of free love when every college student went at it like hamsters….whole new world now fat boy….get with the program..
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UNALIEN
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:52pmIt’s officially a Democrat war on women
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Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:09pmDarmok
I don’t know but Bob seems to be straight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Beckel
This controversy has made it to his wiki page. How long it stays there is another matter.
Former cocaine addict previously extorted by a prostitute who teaches graduate classes but has only earned a bachelors.
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AvengerK
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:20pmAnd the marxstream media remains silent……
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000degrees
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:23pmShall not be infringed…….bob…..
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hcerrito134
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:35pmThis Beckel, fatty guy is a moron, just this month was a rape here in USF.Shut your mouth.
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OldSurfRat
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:41pmTell me Bob does not look like Eric Cartman.
Especially in “crackbaby basketball”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CrackBabyAthleticAssociation2011.png
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damnedifwedont
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:52pmHE is the biggest reason I quit watching FOX. I cannot STAND the BS that he spews!
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dwilco77
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:54pmHe is perfectly representative of a Liberal’s way of thinking. Whatever they want to say, whether it fits reality or not, by saying it makes it true.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:56pm@Walkabout
I just says “A Prostitute” not what gender, and who knows, they could be talking about a Democrat Congressman, because they do sell their butts to the highest bidder.
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USNVET66-70
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 7:17pmThat is why we NRA punks don’t watch bobby.
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Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 7:33pmDarmok
You have a good point.
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Balpit
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 8:11pmApparently, the only time these people care about women is when it comes to abortions.
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Jim in Houston
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 8:46pmNo one has ever acussed Beckel of playing with a full deck. All that booze and drugs killed both his brain cells.
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187rakkisan
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:11pmBeckel must be brain dead already
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RabidPatriot
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:20pmThe fact that Beckel is a fool is not news. Fox is foolish for giving him airtime. He makes that program unwatchable.
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flrick
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:42pmI watched “The Five” one time, when it first started. My first thought about beckel was they should call the show “The Five and three quarters”.
I thought, good thing I got this widescreen TV. He just fits. Then he spoke and I slapped the TV.
I haven’t watched that show since, and I won’t.
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ModerationIsBest
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:03pmApparently it’s impossible for talking heads and politicians to not talk about rape.
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KyleD
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:14pmI’d actually agree with Bob here. Guns are used to attack people at a distance, in a date situation you’re already in close proximity where it’s easy to disarm someone, especially a woman, and in a date rape situation you might have been drugged. A taser would work much better.
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Wolfgang the Gray
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:49pmBeckel is the reason I don’t watch The Five. If I want to listen to life that support the left at all costs, I’ll watch an Obama speech.
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Maji
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:58amThe man needs a stick and a roller skate for that gut!
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mauijonny
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 3:57amAll of you people who won’t watch or listen to anything because it offends your senses: Get real – these jerks are everywhere and you need to know what they think. I just left the teapartycommunist -oops, sorry – teapartycommunity.com website because they were so intolerant of ANY challenge. Bottom line: Don’t ban Blob B – he’s a valuable source of info and this is America – we don’t do that kinda $hit with talk – as long as he doesn’t walk the talk… After all, you’re all GB fans, and this is exactly what happened to him and none of us liked it and I’m spending $120 friggin’ bucks a year to try to make sure it doesn’t happen again AND, I can’t really afford it. So, STFU and LET PEOPLE SPEAK. Otherwise, you’re no better than George Soreass, 0, and the “progressives,” and you really don’t get the gift our Founder’s left us.
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CobraBill
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 4:05amI wonder how many girls he raped when out on a date.
On the factor he mentioned the folks who fought in WWII and said “greatest generation, give me a break”
He is some slime ball pos.
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GETLIFE
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 5:20amBut remember, in real life they all get along really well together. This is just politics. Hannity says so too. Bob is one of his best buddies….
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KURT1010
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 5:54amMaybe he needs to spend some time in prison and be punked out to a gang and feel what its like to e raped. What a NUT case !
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jens63
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 7:23am…as a reminder we encourage all women to practice their self defense urination and assault vomiting. Remember, only you can use humiliating, self soiling to protect yourself….(borrowed from fb)
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ProudAuthoritarianFollower
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 8:00amas if Ayers didnt tell him what to say…
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kadster01
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 8:36amGive a fool enough rope….
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cosette
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 8:48am@ Balpit…. and votes….
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Pickles327
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 8:55amAcolascguy AMEN !!!
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naughtycal
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 8:56amWhy hasn’t Fox dropped this do*ches contract….everytime he opens his mouth crap like this comes outs. I don’t watch Fox anymore because of this guy and Juan the smiling liar williams
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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 9:45amCome on FOX, the show would be much better if it was “The Four”
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Silvertruth
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:49amWhat I find interesting is that he openly said he bases his opinons on perception. Essentially, if he doesn’t regularly see a news story about it, he thinks it doesn’t exist.
This is the first blatant admission by a ‘major journalist’ that they are allowing themselves to influence themselves and not even countering it. Talk about drinking your own Kool-Aid. Jim Jones step aside, almost the entire US Media is going to join you shortly…
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Yeah_Buddy
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:06amIts not just on campus, people should be able to defend themselves everywhere…period.
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txannie
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:06pmThis guy is a real tool….discusting neutered worm.
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gyro
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:30pmthis
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lani59
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 6:56amBob is just thinking that IF they do get raped, there’s always Planned Parenthood to abort the fetus, so what’s the problem?
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JohnofOregon
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:28am@lani,
Absolutely correct. It doesn’t matter if your leading democrat rapist niel goldschmidt or have the last name Kennedy. The abuse of kids and women are part of life and planned parent hood destroys the evidence.
These are sick people and democrat women always seem to think like they have battered spouse syndrome
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servant100
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:05pmI have watched Bob B. for over 4 years now. He is the consumate chicago style union thug in a nice suit made, of course by Omar the tentmaker… This is yet another in a long line of ignorant, racist, female demeaning comments that this boobie consistently says and gets away with. What is so very very entertaining is that this ultra liberal says this biased manure…and always gets away with it.
REALLY BOBBBIE…no RAPES on Campus… I am a professor on a College Campus..who reads his local and campus newspapers that are full of the very rape(s) that Bobbie blythely states don’t occur. Just the latest example of the inane and ignorant commentary by this union thug/democratic apparachit…
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searching for the Truth
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:54pmDang Bob ! An Apparachit – that’s gotta be bad.
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Dano.50
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:04pmWhy is this just about rape?
Probably far more women are mugged, so shouldn’t just any violence against women should be included?
The problem with crooks is, since if they’re willing to break the law in the first place you have no idea where one will draw the line.
It’s the same with their breaking into your home. How are you supposed to know if they’re there for just robbery, or are they there to rape and/or murder?
What are you supposed to do? Ask them and expect an “honest” answer?
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willkauffman
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:11pmBeckal is an ass
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Fat Hubie
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:18pmIt is about liberal men telling you what you “need”? The Internet is full of them today.
Get a shotgun!
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Just_Us2
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:02pmIf women carried guns and shot the men who date raped them, Beckel would be dead…which is why is against it. Beckel was a regular on the date rape scene with a steady supply of date rape drugs.
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ghostsouls
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:28pm“Just_Us2
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:02pm
If women carried guns and shot the men who date raped them, Beckel would be dead…which is why is against it. Beckel was a regular on the date rape scene with a steady supply of date rape drugs.”
Your source of proof? I hate this liberal ideology just as much as the next guy, but you can’t stoop to their level and make allegations, without proof…. Please link your sources…… Don’t know if what you said is true or not, just would like the proof of your allegations.
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13th Imam
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:05pmIt’s not the evidence it’s the seriousness of the charge.
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DougHuffman
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:00pm2.7 per 1000 Campus Rape Statistics http://www.campusrape.org/?cat=13
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, even a journalist’s anecdotes. Wotta maroon
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Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:57pmI bookmarked it. It is one of my concerns. College bureaucrats are like the Boy Scouts and the Catholic Church. They have no of their strength, but the prefer that stats not be collected or reported about campus crime. It is not something they want have prospectives students and their parent s know.
Recent laws have started to put a stop to it.
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Kupo
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 2:46amKeep in mind that a man can be charged with rape if he sleeps with a woman who is under the influence of alcohol, even if he is drunk too! Also keep in mind that college campuses use a system with much lower standards to determine whether or not a “rape” has been committed. Most require nothing more than a preponderance of the evidence which is nowhere near what would be required in a criminal case. Basically, if the possibility of a rape having occurred can be deduced with the accuracy of a coin flip then that’s considered a rape and the guy is expelled.
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Walkabout
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:00amKupo
Point taken. Something to consider
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bcrogan
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:59pmYou know I used to like Bob Beckel because he cursed on the air, was a little wacky and unpredictable, but now I cant think about how utterly moronic and brain dead he is. University / College campuses are RAMPANT with rape, both violent, and date / drunken rape. Its true that over 48% of rape accusations on college are actually false allegations against innocent guys, but still, there are an enormous amount of rapes at universities, most of which go unreported. This is just another example of the absolute disgusting brain dead mindset of the left wing. This is as bad as that religious wacko running for office last term saying women don’t get pregnant during rape, that the body has a way of naturally shutting that down. What the hell is wrong with our political discourse and thought these days. Where did all of the logical, intelligent critical thinkers go? This is worse than Spaceballs, I truly am surrounded by ********! WTF?
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DagneyT
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:59pmBob Beckel’s only redeeming quality is hid unerring ability to show how liberalism is a mental disease. It doesn’t necessarily run in families. His brother is normal, a.k.a. a conservative.
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RollyBones
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:59pmThis jackass doen’t know that colleges keep that info as secret as possible and sometimes pay victims to keep quiet so the reputation of the College or University will not be besmerched? He has his head rammed squarely up his rectum!
Rolly
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ffubrac7
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:28pmSo true. Lets not talk about all the college coeds living on and off campus that have been abducted and murdered or just plain disappeared.
You hear the libs talk about more gun control and if it would save just one child its worth it. What if that one life of a young woman could have been saved had she been allowed to carry and use that gun when she was attacked. Another benefit would have been taking another POS off the street so he could never hurt anyone else.
Bob is a complete moron!!!!
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ProudCapitalist
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:58pmBeckel is on The Five for comic relief, the way Colmes was on the Hannity and Colmes show. You need these idiots to show how ridiculous the Marxist-Utopians are. Beckel must have fried whatever brains he had (if he had any) using the drugs he so proudly brags about.
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DEFCON4
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:10pmHe certainly is the ‘liberal definition’ of “Better Living Through Chemistry”.
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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:58pmUnbelievable…liberals never cease to amaze me….
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moreteaplease
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:57pmBob “Boob” Beckel has no issues with showing that he HAS issues. When is the left just going to admit that they have no valid reasons for banning guns from law abiding citizens and stop coming up with short bus reasons for it?
I have lived near O.D.U all of my life and over the last couple of years, robberies and assaults on or near campus have spiked.
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EQUALIZER
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:56pmA fat blowhard without brains, just what Fox needs.
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CWPrequired
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:55pmDon’t know Bob, when was the last time you showed up on campus. It’s about the only way your fat….
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Nuclear Bumpkin
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:54pmLAST WEEK: The vast majority of rapes go unreported! It’s a much bigger problem than you think!
THIS WEEK: When’s the last time you’ve heard of a rape on campus?
Stay classy, left.
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WillG
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:53pmWhat an idiot.
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countryfirst
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 5:34amAnd conservatives have a so called war on women, at least we allow them to be armed to make it a fair fight.
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Xaser
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:52pm“Bob Beckel on guns: When was the last time you heard about a rape on campus?”
“Daniel Harold Rolling (October 25, 2006), also known as The Gainesville Ripper, was an American serial killer who murdered five students in Gainesville, Florida. Rolling later confessed to raping several of his victims.”
This Bob Beckel moron needs to do some research before opening his ********.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:52pmSounds like ol’ Bob got a bit rapey in his college days. Seems pretty damned arrogant and sure of himself when talking about women getting raped and what are they going to do, those weak little waifs, defend themselves against the superior rapists?
Yep, just a we bit too much rape-iness in his tone if you ask me.
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Walkabout
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 6:10pmLook at his wiki page. He has paid for sex in the past.
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YOURSENSEI
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 8:00pmMr or Ms GHOSTOFJEFFERSON,
This is what you must know:
If he did, it was God’s will.
It is so.
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DIR
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 5:02amGive Bob a bit of slack, not a whole lot just a little. By day he’s a liberal activist fox news commentator and loud mouth liberal horse’s a$$, by night he’s a mild mannered coed drag queen. He’s looking to get sexually assaulted by young virile sweaty drunk college mens. Women carrying guns would make his chances even crappier, well probably not, but that’s his thinking. In reality, who’d be stupid enough to try to assault the equivelant of 4 or 5 ugly gals, by volumn, that all look like him? Maybe some super lib doofus, like Wango, but so far no takers. To Bob that’s the norm.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 8:55amOh, poor poor addled Sensei, still unaware that I’m not a conservative. Oh well, it does keep me amused when you demonstrate the inability to comprehend basic facts and differences even after you’ve been repeatedly corrected. It kind of turns around your implied superiority on you and casts you as a fool who hears no voice but his or her own.
But please understand, I’m perfectly fine with that. Do deep up the good work, sally forth and all that. :)
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capnjack
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:51pmBeckel has got to be the single most ignorant Liberal out there. He never has the correct information and when confronted backs off. This however is nothing compared to his dribbling and dropping of food all over his shirt. A disgusting individual would be hard to find.
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Lavrenti Beria
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:54pmThe disgusting individuals are rather easy to find. I merely look at Soetoro and among his friends. Beckel being one of them.
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christhefanatic
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 8:34pmI don’t know, Cap, there is an awful lot of stiff competition out there. The Blaze should run a poll…”The dumbest or most mentally ill nationally known leftest”. I’m thinking Al Sharpton…Chris Mathews?
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Jim in Houston
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 8:55pmNah, he has plenty of company among dimocRats and libaturds.
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Antares2000
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:50pmI think they keep Bob around because he’s predictable at keeping to the liberal view. I am not a woman, but I think the act of rape is a violation of the worst kind, that should be met with the most force an other-wise would be victim can bring to bear on the perp. How any guy can disrespect any woman like that is beyond my understanding, for they are not men at that point, but animals.
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perry1980
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:50pmWell we had about half a dozen in Dallas last year at 1 school
How many colleges are there? You do the math mor0n
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john koenig
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:07pmAt Ohio State, there were 32 reported rapes in 2008. That was just on campus. And that was just the number reported. I imagine the true number is well over 100.
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Kupo
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 2:47amAnd I wonder just how many of those reported rapes were legit.
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JonSigMan
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:49pmCo-host Kimberly Guilfoyle was more definitive. She said “If your date is a rapist, you shoot them.”
That’s what you call reacting to a situation, swiftly, and surely. They rape you, you shoot them. Period. Couldn’t agree more. What more could you ask for?
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YtownSports
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:02pmDangerous. Burden of proof is on potential rape victim. It might work DURING a rape, but it might be hard to justify in court. If the shooting occurs AFTER a rape, it might be argued that there was no imminent threat to the rape victim’s life. A felony assault charge or even something like attempted murder might be lodged against the rape victim. If the “rapist” dies, then the victim could be looking at anything from manslaughter to murder…unless there’s a very sympathetic jury.
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firman
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:49pmBeckel is a pompous a$$. He could care less about the constitution. It doesn’t follow his liberal mindset. I guess he’d rather women get raped than a rapist get shot. I can’t listen to him. Such a lying hypocrite.
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PATTY HENRY
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:49pmBECKEL is a certified IDIOT who is a LIBERAL PUPPET. HE would call a black pot white or the sky green if they told him to. He uses NO LOGIC, has -0- respect for the truth and is the reason I refuse to watch THE FIVE. I don’t mind hearing another POV, if there is truth attached…he has never known the truth, evidently. I hope a bunch of “just normal” Americans get elected this next election and all of these ROVE-TYPE/McCain speak/Piglosi/Reid Traitor/freaks get shown the door. Hit the ROAD JACK…..
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YtownSports
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:49pmToo many colleges actively downplay or even cover-up rapes which occur on campus. I know that from people who work or have worked at colleges.
However, a more effective deterent to rape might be a taser. It’s also less likely to lead to felony charges and/or serious legal ramifications for the potential rape victim.
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