Beckel, being a hard-core dimocrat, knows everything there is to know about being anti-American.

Well, I´m going to agree with Beckle for once and agree that CBS´s behavior and set up for this reality show is unconscionable! Moreover I believe it a testament to our schools nowadays that are putting United States in a very negative light regarding his Vietnam war and most everything else for that matter. Thusly these young folks really have no clue as to the insult that they´re bringing to 800,000+ American men and women veterans that fought in the Vietnam war against communism..

I saw this and was totally gobsmacked by it. There may be hope for Beckel yet.

Don´t fall for it. It´s a trap. A broken clock is still right twice a day.

Beckel saw a slender path to redemption and squeezed through it.

He´ll be back to his same old stuff in a little more than an hour.

Normally, I either hit the mute button when Beckel comes on or fast forward the DVR, but this time I listened.

This one time I agreed with him.

AND, boy, was he livid!! Love ´gobsmacked,´ ArtieC. May I steal it? Also agree, Emerson, Bob is still Bob.

So, beckel has limits? Who knew?

I admit I was completely disgusted at the choice of locations. It was a mistake to film there and give any kind of credence to that ´memorial´.

A huge mistake.

I generally have nothing but contempt for Bob Beckel, but this time I agree with him.

I enjoy the Amazing Race but was disgusted by this segment and with the party boys singing about how great socialism is - I would have walked out if I had been over there listening to the crap.

All they needed was Hanoi Fonda sitting on a gun ...

Vietnam veterns still getting smacked around and stomped on by the ANTI American press and drive by shows.
I have stopped watching all reality shows they don´t have a clue to what reality is... The first clue is.. It isn´t a game period.
and yes I spent time there in 1970 - 1973

Just like a broken clock, except the clock is right twice a day while Bob is a "bit outside".

The mid-terms are a potential mine field for the Democrats, as they attempt to pull off a historic gun grab as well as increase their choke hold on government, along with all their other day to day screw-America efforts.

Beckel´s cackle is nothing more than an attempt to counter-balance the reality of their position with a little useless grandstanding for the rubes: "Yes, I was anti VN war, but I wasn´t really pro Ho Chi Min."

That perfectly sums up the Dem argument.

Beckel cares about American military lives like BO cares about balancing the budget. I wonder how much spitting Beckel did back in the day when the Dems were "greeting" returning VN vets.

´Scuse me while I yawn luxuriantly through this micro-news.

He still says he was against the Vietnam War. What about the Communists slaughtering untold numbers [yet again!] when our effort was undercut here at home and our ability to finish the job rendered impossible -- by you and other Leftists, Bob? BTW -- if we hadn´t tried to stop the takeover of SVN, that slaughter would have started sooner, and maybe gone further.

Beckel is still a Lefty, and still a repellant person. Is that too redundant?

#3: Well, many conservatives thought [hoped?] a light had come on for Juan Williams, too. Like Williams, Beckel will likely remain a staunch Leftist, with all the negatives that come with it.

I agree with Bickel. I was very disturbed by this episode of the show. It was filled with propaganda about what a great place N. Vietnam is -- the contestants even had to listen over and over to a performance praising the country and praising socialism. The shot-down B-52 made me sick. The contestants were praising the stores and "a street that looked just like Times Square". They showed zero recognition of what happened there and there was no acknowledgement of the brave Americans who died there. Shame on CBS.

I was shocked at being forced to listen the Veitnam/communism/socialism is great song, but the topper was the racers going to site of crashed B52. Not one racer showed any respect! I am suprised the racers didn´t have to sit behind the anti aircraft guns which hanoi jane sat in! CBS and those producers are real scum, real scum!

Bob Beckel is a reformed Alcoholic, a Christian, a giving and moral man. I disagree with most of what he says about politics, but let us not disparage a good decent man. And most of us could only wish to be as smart and as successful.

So Beckel is now a patriotic American....who would have guessed!! An ex-addict, alcoholic with several ex-wives who is obviously food-obsessed.......so tell me about his redeeming qualities... Fox needs him to show others what the other side really looks like and how screwed up they really are.

#19: Your post is very kind to Beckel.

He holds more than one political position that "a good decent man" cannot. He has, as we know, has spoken and behaved as "a good decent man" never could on the TV set. I have seen evidence of lots more instances on "The Five," and he´s been called on them by the other cast members, Tantaros and Guilfoyle especially. Beckel is as far from being a gentleman as the North Pole is from the South Pole. Sorry.

I will always forgive what I can. And I will always know God allows for differences of opinion.

I agree with #19. All I know of Beckel is his spots on Hannity´s radio show, and I find him to be a sort of lovable lug type person. Who cares if he´s a gentleman! I thought it took all kinds. The people who are projecting some type of canned charade for political benefit are wrong. I may not agree with him politically, but the man does have a heart and is for real. I´m glad my world isn´t divided into- all conservatives "good" and all libs "bad". Because life doesn´t always quite conform to that format.

People like Beckel and others should have read NVA General Giap.

The producers are amazed. It was John Kerry´s suggestion.

I am happy Vietnam is no longer a war torn country. When I see current day movies made in Vietnam I feel good for them.

I´ve been to that museum. Two things stood out: Vietnamese won´t go there. The only people who do are German package tourists and other eurotrash. Two, the admission was payable only in dollars, Vietnamese currency was not accepted. Says a lot about who really won the war.

And while I am at it, yes, this was the place to go see photos of Jane Fonda dancing around on the cannon.