Mr. Wigdor said that Mr. Beckel had tried to persuade his client to withdraw the complaint during
a meeting with Fox News’s new executive vice president for human resources, Kevin Lord.
Fox News Fires Prime-Time Regular for Racially Insensitive Remark -
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMMAY 19, 2017
Another of Fox News’s prime-time personalities has been accused of wrongdoing
and is leaving, the latest setback in a season of tumult for the cable network.
Bob Beckel, a host of the 9 p.m. talk show “The Five,” was fired on Friday
because of an insensitive remark he made to an African-American employee, Fox News said.
Mr. Wigdor also represents 11 Fox News employees in a class-action racial discrimination suit against the network.
The lawyer, Douglas H. Wigdor, said on Friday that his client had been trying to service Mr. Beckel’s computer when Mr. Beckel stood up abruptly
and walked out of his office, explaining that he was leaving because the employee was black.
The network said that Mr. Lord responded to the employee’s complaint within seven minutes of receiving it, and
that Mr. Beckel apologized to the employee on Friday, shortly after learning of his dismissal.
