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Fox News presenter Bob Beckel is under fire after he called Bachelorette Andi Dorfman a 'slut' on live national television because she slept with a man and decided not to marry him.
Beckel, who is known for being offensive, was discussing the reality show on Fox News' 'The Five' chat show recently, after runner up Nick Viall revealed he and Dorfman had 'made love.'
While most would consider it a rather unimportant fact, Beckel piped up, decrying it an example of the downward spiral of American values.
'She's a slut!' he bellowed. 'I'm not kidding you!'
'When she sleeps with somebody else and doesn't tell the guy about it. This is what America has gone to.'
His sexist comment prompted laughter from the other men on the panel but one of his co-hosts thankfully hit back.
'Are you kidding me?' Andrea Tantaros snapped.
'Excuse me Bob. You probably sleep with a different woman every night.'
Viall told reporters he and Dorfman 'made love' after the show's finale on Monday night.
During the show, Dorfman accepted winner Josh Murray's proposal.
'It wasn't so much about the sex but the level of intimacy that night,' Viall told reporters during a conference call on Tuesday,
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2710821/Fox-News-Bob-Beckel-calls-Bachelorette-slut-sleeping-contestant-did-not-marry.html#ixzz38yikRurd
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(27,630 posts)MineralMan
(146,287 posts)Who's surprised that a moron said something moronic?
big_dog
(4,144 posts)n/t
Initech
(100,065 posts)Yelling at younger people not to have sex.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)I could say that Beckel is a fat-assed loser.
But of course, I won't say that.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Did he call the male anything? Probably not... which is indicative of a wider problem far too many idiots close their eyes to whilst instead, complaining about imaginary "frigid" women, or martyr themselves because they're "not allowed" to flirt with every woman that looks attractive to them. Idiots, the lot of 'em.