Geraldo Rivera Rants About Media Critics

Local6 ^ | 30 April, 2003

[Happy2BMe]

Geraldo Rivera Rants About Media Critics

Reporter Lashes Out At Networks On Web Site

Posted: 12:17 p.m. EDT April 30, 2003

Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera is still filled with "smoldering anger" from the way the media reported on him being asked to leave Iraq for drawing troop movements in the sand.

Rivera wrote on his Web site, roughpoint.tv, that the media stories were a "grotesque exaggeration."

He especially blames MSNBC, who he says conducted a "Get Geraldo" campaign. He seems to go after Joe Scarborough and Keith Olbermann, though he doesn't mention them by name.

He wrote that MSNBC used a "neo-Nazi ex-Congressman and a psycho ex-sportscaster as their hatchet men."

Rivera said his career is "far more distinguished" than theirs.

[Happy2BMe]

The media is about as camera-coveting as Hollywood (almost).

[Scothia]

Poor Geraldo. The world has moved on and he can hardly bear it.

[Pompah]

Rivera said his career is "Far more distinguished"than theirs.
That I'm sure would depend on what the meaning of "is" is.

[aardvark1]

Rivera wrote on his Web site, roughpoint.tv, that the media stories were a "grotesque exaggeration."

Doesn't this sound like a case of "what goes around comes around"?

[Timesink]

CAPTION THIS GERALDO!

"Oh, there was something in the air that night / the stars were bright, Geraldo!
They were shining there for you and me / for liberty, Geraldo!"

[joesnuffy]

How about his anti vietnam war stance and his anti vietnam veteran stance for thirty + years
Like a born-agin jane fonda hiding behind stretchmarked soccer moms
Geraldo tries to re-invent himself as a born agin hard gun toting blackleather jacketed gung ho wannabe hiding behind a generation of Airborne who dont remember him for what he really is...
wonderfull white winged egg laying has been

[Brian Mosely]

Here's the rant itself. He looks pissed...Jerry wrote it in all caps...

http://www.roughpoint.tv/v1/iraq2.php

[CyberAnt]

Poor nothing! He was wrong to do what he did, and he should just shut up about it!!

[Scothia]

Poor nothing! He was wrong to do what he did, and he should just shut up about it!!

Um, it's called "sarcasm".

[Political Junkie Too]

Rivera said his career is "far more distinguished" than theirs.

Did he mean to say "extinguished?"

-PJ

[CanadianBacon]

There he goes trying to open Al Capone's vault again.

[Seydlitz]

New flash, Geraldo: You suck.

[CyberAnt]

Well ... it didn't sound like sarcasm to me ... and I do believe placing [sarcasm] would have solved that problem. Just a thought !!

[mvpel]

Anyone have any screen shots or tape of his little sand drawings?

[cricket]

"Poor Geraldo. The world has moved on and he can hardly bear it."

. . .well, it is his name they are making 'mud' with.

No big fan of Geraldo, but do think he was held up unfairly in their attempts to draw a moral equivalency of the bad judgement he made and that of Arnett's anti-American, if not treasonouos reportage.

The Lib Media wanted Geraldo and Fox News to look as bad as Arnett and NBC.

. . .Geraldo made a mistake in judgement; Arnett appeared as a purposeful traitor.

[martin_fierro]

Rivera said his career is "far more distinguished" than theirs.

Yup.

Unlike Geraldo, they didn't have the distinction of injecting their own ass fat cells into their foreheads.