Is this really interesting: Bob Beckel

Inspired by their popular USA Today column, conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel show politicians of both stripes how to get beyond partisanship, restore civility, and move our country forward.

For many years Democratic Party operative Bob Beckel was a regular feature on television, especially on CNN.

The Right seized the story spreading the false rumors that the crime was prostitution not extortion as was later rebuffed by the Court result, but not before the Right launched a major character assassination campaign against Beckel.”

Common Ground unmasks the hypocrisy of many of the issues, organizations, and individuals who created and deepened the partisan divide at the center of American politics, and makes a strategic case for why this bickering must stop.

Thomas and Beckel are a unique pair in today’s political climate—pundits from opposite sides who not only talk to each other but work together to find common ground on some of the most divisive issues facing us, from the war in Iraq to gay marriage to the Patriot Act.

YOU BECKEL AND DICK MORRIS AND BARACK OBAMA MAKE UP THE DEM.

He even appeared on Hannity & Colmes, featuring conservative commentator and author Sean Hannity, who treated Beckel with respect.

Our recollection was that Beckel was exposed in the liberal media for hiring a prostitute and then getting blackmailed to keep it quiet.

The old saying about people living in glass houses not throwing stones should apply here, except for the fact that Beckel’s glass house came down in pieces many months ago.

For years Beckel and Thomas contributed to the climate of polarization in Washington.

One target is House Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is labeled a “little man who plays bully and thug and is no more than a punk with a big mouth.”

A GREAT PICTURE TWO UGLY FAT DEMOCRAT LIARS UNDER A RACIST BLACK LIAR ON TOP.

In 2002, Colombian senator, anticorruption crusader, and presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by leftist guerrillas.

He worked with the police to arrest the group and prosecute them.

His own bio includes this astounding information: “A year ago Beckel was extorted by a criminal group.

He last made headlines after the 2000 presidential election, when it was alleged that he tried to persuade some members of the electoral college to vote for Democrats.

Now, he’s back with a website devoted to “the unrelenting pursuit and exposure of the right.”

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