Fox News fires Bob Beckel for 'making an insensitive remark' to black employee

[spanone]

Fox News on Friday announced that it had fired "The Five" co-host Bob Beckel for a remark he made to an employee of color.

=============================

"Bob Beckel was terminated today for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee," a network spokesperson said in a short statement.

It wasn't immediately clear who would replace Beckel on "The Five" and Fox News did not provide details on the incident that led to his firing. Beckel was not immediately available for comment.

Douglas Wigdor and Jeanne Christensen, lawyers handling a growing racial discrimination lawsuit filed by current and former Fox employees, said in a joint statement that Beckel told one of their clients, a black IT worker, that he was leaving the office while the employee serviced his computer because the employee is black. When the IT worker filed a complaint, Beckel attempted to intimidate him to withdraw it, Wigdor and Christensen said.

"As with our other 22 clients, we intend on holding 21st Century Fox accountable for these actions and will be filing multiple other complaints in other matters next week," Wigdor and Christensen said.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/19/media/fox-news-fires-bob-beckel-insensitive-remark-black-employee/index.html

[Initech]

1. Stay classy, Fox News!

[spanone]

3. too late...from their lawyers..."As with our other 22 clients....."

holy shite

[uponit7771]

2. Racial insensitivity at FAUX News?! Who wouldah thunk it ? /sarcasm