My late father began wearing glasses in his teens (1930s), and became known to his pals as "Chink", because he wore those round style which made him look a bit like a Chinaman....so that term has been around a looooong time.
Posted on 07/13/2014 10:30:50 AM PDT by PoloSec
The Los Angeles Times reports that Fox News host Bob Beckel, who co-hosts The Five and has been associated with the Democratic Party for decades, is under fire from a Democratic state senator for making an allegedly racist comment about Chinese people.
Democratic state Sen. Ted Lieu of Torrance released a statement on Saturday calling for Fox to drop Beckel after Beckel said during a Thursday episode of The Five, "As usual, we bring them over here and teach a bunch of Chinamen--Chinese people--how to do computers and then they go back to China and hack into us.”
Beckel’s comment was in reference to a New York Times article about Chinese hackers, who breached the computer networks of a U.S. government agency that stores the personal information of everyone who works for the government.
Lieu noted that Beckel’s comment was the second time he had made ill-considered remarks about Chinese people; in 2013, Beckel said on The Five that one time he had gone swimming, and afterward his “eyes blew up" and "it made me look Oriental.”
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Lieu is running for Waxman’s House seat from Beverly Hills, W. LA, and Santa Monica. Must need some free air time or sumpin’.
If he was a liberal on msnbc and said it, no one would blink. It’s all about the fact that he’s on Fox and anything to bash Fox news.
Why is Chinaman worse than Chinese man? Because it has an old fashioned sound to it?
“I’m no Beckel fan, but this is ridiculous.”
Of course you are a Beckel fan (and maybe a commie :))
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Get the popcorn
My late father began wearing glasses in his teens (1930s), and became known to his pals as "Chink", because he wore those round style which made him look a bit like a Chinaman....so that term has been around a looooong time.
Teddy needs to get a life in lieu?
Knowing Beckle, who thinks he’s valuable as the token liberal, he might give a faux-pology, saying something snarky like, “Me so solly! Oops! I did it again!” and he would probably get away with it (this time). I’m pretty sure there have been a couple of times when Bob uttered the “F” word on the air. Still, there he sits, unbowed, unburdened by guilt.
LOL!
Beckel is a complete maroon sometimes, but I like him.
Heck with Ted Lieu. Beckel was right. China does take advantage of America, and he’s speaking up.
Enough racist posturing.
He is being Alinsky’d. They are using his democratic”virtue” of tolerance against him. He must be having doubts about the cause and they need him removed.
LOL!
“Lieu is running for Waxman’s House seat from Beverly Hills, W. LA, and Santa Monica.”
And to add a little more FUN to the 2014 elections — Sandra Fluke is running in Calif for Ted Lieu’s State Senator seat.
the reason they want beckel to resign is because he is demonstrating the idiocy of liberals and losing arguments for them all the time.
he is an embarrassment to them so he has to go
hehe
Exactly. This is stupid PC foolishness by the Church of the Perpetually Offended, and it is stupid PC foolishness regardless of whose goose is being cooked.
But, but Bob Beckel can’t be racially insensitive, he’s a liberal!
/sarc>
CC
I listened to a bit of The Five the other day. It was their third anniversary show, and they talked about best moments.
Beckel talked about how often he’s had to apologize on the show (and then apologized for recently calling Italians ‘greaseballs’, saying the word again) and then said “Hey, I am what I am.” I disagree with much of what he says, but that remark was a bit refreshing in a time when everyone and his brother falls over themselves apologizing for this or that in the big worldwide movement to homogenize thought and opinion into a bland, colorless borefest.
I’m not saying everyone should be hurling racial epithets, but the oversensitivity in this culture has created a powerful weapon in the hands of those who want to control the words of others. I’d like to see that weapon depowered.
Nothing’s wrong with “Chinaman” or “Chink” or “Gook” or “Slope” “Slant” or any other terms as long as I call you an ignorant mother f***er along with “Cracker” “Chalk” “Milkbone” “Slave F***er” or any other derogatory terms that spring to mind. OK..., Whitey...?
And, if Beckel is ousted, who do you think would replace him.
Your worst nightmare: Juan Williams.
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