Bob Beckel, a former Democratic Party operative who later in life became a Fox News host — until he was fired in 2017 after being accused of racist comments — died Monday from undisclosed causes, Fox News said Monday. He was 73.
“My friend and spiritual brother, Bob Beckel, has passed into the presence of the Lord he loved. We did so many things together and I hope we modeled what two people of different political persuasions can be like when they love one another,” columnist Cal Thomas wrote about Beckel on Facebook Monday. “For ten years we wrote the ‘Common Ground’ column for USA Today and a book by that title.