The relativistic beaming model is adopted to discuss quantitatively the observational differences between radio-selected BL Lac objects (RBLs) and X-ray-selected BL Lac objects (XBLs), and between BL Lac objects and fiat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs). The main results are the following: (1) In the Doppler cor-rected color-color (αin ro-αin ox -αox) diagram, XBLs and FSRQs occupy separated regions,while RBLs bridge the gap between them. These properties suggest that similar in- trinsic physical processes operate in all the objects under a range of intrinsic physical conditions. (2) Our results are consistent with the results of Sambruna, Maraschi and Urry (1996) from other methods. We show the αxox introduced by Sambruna to be a good index for describing the energy distribution because it represents the intrinsic energy distribution and includes the Doppler correction. (3) The Doppler effect of relativistic beaming is the main mechanism, and the physical differences (such as magnetic fields, electron energies) are also important complementary fac-tors for understanding the relation between XBLs and RBLs;