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The very last statement made by the male newscaster that assists Geraldo Rivera on the Geraldo at Large Show on FOXNews tonight [it ended at 10 p.m. EST] was: "The government is investigating 24 corporations who were manipulating the [stock] market in September!" I don't know anything more about this statement because only except sign-offs by guests happened after that. Wayne Rogers [Trapper John on M*A*S*H], a guest on the show, was even cut off in mid-sentence signing off.

Waching Geraldo hiding on FOX News Channel all this time to now spring forth as a clearly Obomba supporter is a bit disappointing....I enjoyed Geraldo, he was fun, once he came to FOX he seemed to have seen the light, but alas...He has shown his solid dem colors, 1st when he joined in the call to stop the Ayers stuff...that was the first flag for me.....But his fawning over Powell's endorsement, (just one black guy endorsing another black guy with no where near the experience needed to be president) that was the end for me.

Geraldo, "I'm going to be a star of youtube now!"

Is it really a hurricane, or even just a "tropical depression," unless a TV reporter in a hooded windbreaker is flopping around in the wind and rain like a landed flounder? Is it really a weather story at all unless the TV people can go outside in the storm and, while risking bodily injury, warn viewers that they shouldn't go outside in the storm and risk bodily injury? If so, Hurricane Gustav was a real storm: All of the cliches and hyper-theatrical tropes of TV hurricane coverage were at Category 5 yesterday.

New details have emerged in the case of missing Caylee Anthony - The family has now hired a 'psychic detective', Gale St. John, in hopes of finding Caylee. It's also been revealed that Casey Anthony, the mother of missing Caylee and a person of interest in her disappearance, stole gas cans from her father's garage shortly before her daughter went missing. Let's start with case facts (Scroll down for latest updates): The mother of a missing Florida toddler is a "person of interest" in a possible homicide. Casey was formerly charged with child neglect and other charges involving alleged lies...

Considerate liberals on The Huffington Post are outraged that Geraldo Rivera (and Fox News) broadcast long shots of the body of supermodel Ruslana Korshunova shortly after the nine-story fall to her death. Is Korshunova's death news? Of course — but it doesn't need to be so graphically illustrated. A sustained shot of Korshunova's face, her face pale in death, clearly visible in profile with what appears to be blood at the side of her mouth — that adds nothing to the story other than a horrific, shocking image to gawk at. HuffPo didn't embed the offending Geraldo video segment, but...

This Weekend: Geraldo and Team NEW TIME: Sat., June 28 and Sun., June 29 at 10 p.m. ET • Saturday: Geraldo 'At Large' Special Presentation: 'Iraq: Where Good News is No News'.

ON RIGHT NOW! "Including references to "Whitey". There has been a race for Clinton operatives to aquire this tape, but I believe this tape is already in the hands of a major network." This JUST aired minutes ago on "Geraldo"... Geraldo prefaced by saying that Roger Stone was the same person who first exposed Spitzer's relationship with hookers.

NEW YORK (December 12, 2001 6:15 a.m. EST) - From his position near Tora Bora, Afghanistan, Fox News Channel correspondent Geraldo Rivera seemed more agitated by a question about carrying a gun than by the mortar rounds that just exploded nearby. "I refuse to address that issue," said Rivera, speaking into a satellite phone. "It's been blown way out of proportion. It makes me sound like a tabloid talk show host goes to war. It's so unfair." Yet Rivera's decision to bring a gun into a war zone where eight journalists have been killed has raised questions about whether ...

We’ve reached the point of diminishing returns with this tool, have we not? These segments are paint-by-numbers by now: Nativists, talk radio, “people who look like me,” climate of fear, those poor folk who haven’t done anything wrong except violate U.S. immigration law repeatedly, etc etc. I’m giving you this just because it’s always noteworthy when Spitty expresses his disgust towards a border enforcer in physical terms. Dobbs gets off easy, with nothing but the foregone handshake. Others … aren’t so lucky. Savor the irony at the very end as Hasselbeck quotes him worrying about people wanting to assault him....

Geraldo Rivera and Juan Hernandez, two of the most flagrant supporters of illegal immigration and amnesty in the media, have both announced their support for McCain. The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) also known as the Council of the (Hispanic) Race has announced their positive feelings for McCain while labeling any group or personality opposed to amnesty as an ally of the KKK. Even Ruben Navarrette, a CNN columnist who constantly rants in support of illegal immigration, while slinging mud at anyone who stands up for immigration enforcement, loves John McCain. Every illegal immigration supporter is signalling they want...

This morning on Fox and Friends, Geraldo Rivera said the the "Decency" wing of the Republican Party endorsed McCain. He also went on to say that he had a job for Mitt Romney. He said Mitt would make a good "Baseball Commissioner." He went on to say because he never took a stand on the steroid use this would qualify him for that job. This is a slap in the face to Mitt and the conservative movement.

For those who remember when Geraldo Rivera did actual investigative journalism, his excellent work would often get marred by his shameless self-promotion. On more than one occasion, he would interject in his reports that his life was actually in danger while investigating mostly mundane controversies. Hillary Clinton seems to have discovered her inner Geraldo in claiming that she handled all of the dangerous diplomatic missions in the Clinton administration: Ever since Barack Obama suggested Hillary Clinton's eight years as first lady were a glorified tea party a few days back, she's looked for an opening to strike back. On Saturday...

Who do you think is right? From 11:30 pm lastnight the media has been reporting the capture of Tora Bora while Geraldo has been stating that the fighters in the area clame to have just started doing work on figureing out what area to target. He has been wrong in the past but considering that he is on the frontlines while the rest of the media is reporting at their desks in NYC and D.C. who are we to believe?

One cardinal rule of journalism warns that reporters themselves must not become the focus of the story. Apparently nobody told Fox News Channel's new star Geraldo Rivera, who has lately turned the hottest cable news network's Afghan battlefield coverage into something resembling "Geraldo Goes to War." Suddenly, whatever U.S. troops may be doing at any given moment seems secondary to Mr. Rivera's latest adventure, with one report after another documenting his predicament du jour. Just days after his arrival Rivera set tongues wagging with his boast that he's packing a pistol for self defense - the only memorable item ...

More than a week after Geraldo Rivera said he'd spit on Michelle Malkin if he ever saw her, the controversial Fox News anchor issued an apology on last night's "O'Reilly Factor.""I just, you're so filled with emotion," Rivera said referring to the incident. "Someone calls you a liar and a fool, you want to strike back at them. It was an unguarded moment.""I totally apologize, that's not me, I don't spit. I'm not a spitter," he said.Transcript and video below the fold. Hat tip: Allahpundit. Here's the transcript: BILL O'REILLY: Now, Michelle Malkin and you got into a little bit...

Saturday night, Geraldo had his hands full as anarchists and 9/11 truthers attempted to disrupt the airing of Geraldo at Large

A group of 9/11 conspiracy theorist launched a live TV onslaught during Geraldo Rivera's Saturday night program.

Did anyone happen to see the Live Shots of Geraldo this evening? There were enough 911 Truthers positioning signs onto screen very strategically! Geraldo lost his cool a few times, and, his outdoor guests were distracted, too. There must be a massive demonstration given the anniversary Tuesday. Is there a lot of security down there... anybody got any good NYC Police Scanner Links ???

The Boston Globe has a fawning Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous-ish profile of Fox News Channel’s Geraldo Rivera. In between musing about his favorite pair of soft Uggs (”I’ve worn these in Tora Bora and Somalia,” he says, admiring the suede slip-ons with the sheepskin lining. “They’re so comfortable. I love them.”), his “36-foot Hinckley powerboat,” and his massive estates (including “Seagate, the spectacular, 10-bedroom estate he bought several years ago with his fourth wife” and another “Kennedy-esque compound” with his current wife), he spews this: Rivera, who as a fledgling lawyer in the ’70s counseled the Puerto Rican...

Geraldo now on Laura's show. Elvira might come up?

Well, we wouldn’t want to make Geraldo Rivera cry. But the fact is, he didn’t really address the situation. He once again smeared Michelle by bringing up militias, the KKK and neo-Nazis, to whom Michelle has no links and has never had any links (to whom Geraldo has attempted to link Michelle before), rather than just answer the question of whether deportable criminal aliens ought to be deported. And he brought up In Defense of Internment, mischaracterized it as “extolling” Roosevelt’s internment, rather than answer the question at hand. That’s called changing the subject. And he said he “cringes” nearly...

Anyone see Gearldo spewing this morning against Michelle Malkin and the "War on Immigration"? He almost had a fit live over what he sees as her hate speech. Essentially said ANYONE with this kind of viewpoint is pushing the agenda of Neo-Nazis and the KKK. What utter crap. I don't ever watch or listen to him - hate when he jumps into my field of view.

Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 Subject: comments on: population transfer and "American against American" From: Yours truly To: Michelle Malkin Dear Ms. Malkin, I watched your ‘debate’ with G. Rivera Thursday evening (June 14, 2007) on the O’Reilley Factor. You were very good about staying on message. However, you missed two killer openings GR gave you. When he was really getting into his diatribe he said, “… This is about the huge Hispanic presence amongst the illegal aliens and within that community the huge Mexican presence. It is about the exceptionalism of the Mexican presence here. And what she is...

Geraldo Rivera: "Suddenly, because wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion lost steam with the Extreme Right they have now seized on this (border security) as a way to appeal to energize the base." Video at link

Could a hole in the ground be the clue to solving a 40-year-old bank robbery? Some people in Central Utah believe it is. It looks like the hole is a tunnel, used by the robbers to get inside the bank. It happened, in the 1960s, in the Central Utah town of Monroe. It's been a long time since the robbery, so there are a lot of stories, rumors and legends around town, so it is hard to separate fact from fiction. What is certain is that the robbery was never solved, and now this discovery may finally answer at least...

Appearing on Good Morning America today, Geraldo Rivera claimed that illegal aliens in the United States are "law abiding." Is he right? In a debate moderated by GMA co-host Diane Sawyer that began today at about 7:15 am EDT, Geraldo faced off against Glenn Beck. Rivera made a case for letting the estimated 12 million illegal aliens remain in the country. GERALDO RIVERA: We have 12 million people who are gainfully employed; the vast majority of them are. I submit to you that these people are a vital part of the American economy. That they are doing jobs that essentially...

I just saw Geraldo on The O'Reilly Factor refer to the 2nd Amendment as "loathsome". Please contact Fox News and demand that they not employ anyone who considers the Bill Of Rights as "loathsome".

They were both screaming at the top of their lungs while pointing fingers right in each other's face. Geraldo then threatened to take Bill outside to "do something" to him. Quite entertaining. The topic: illegal immigration. Specifically, the third-time offending illegal alien who killed two young girls recently in Virginia Beach while driving drunk. (Virginia Beach is a sanctuary city). O'Reilly said the problem is the existence of sanctuary cities and and our lax immigration policies in general; Geraldo maintained the problem is solely one of drunk driving. ....and then the fireworks began. It'll be repeated in about 2 1/2...

Geraldo 'Delighted' GOP Got 'Their Butts Kicked!' Posted by Geoffrey Dickens on November 9, 2006 - 17:12. Fox News' Geraldo Rivera cheered the Democrats' victory last night as he railed against the "anti-immigration" GOP, called Rush Limbaugh, "snot-nosed," and campaigned for a minimum wage increase. On the syndicated Geraldo At Large, Rivera said of Republicans who opposed illegal immigration, "I am delighted to say that they got their butts kicked!" Rivera then mocked Limbaugh as he declared Claire McCaskill "was propelled to victory when snot-nosed Rush Limbaugh made fun of Parkinson patient Michael J. Fox's symptoms." Rivera also implored the...

On tonight's edition of The OReilly Factor on the FNC, Rivera stated that he believed the "kamikaze" style attacks took "courage" to carry out.OReilly immediately disagreed with the ignorant and disgraceful sentiment spewed by Rivers.

On the August 28th edition of Fox New's syndicated Geraldo At Large, Geraldo Rivera advocated for an illegal immigrant single-mother trying to fight deportation with the help of a Chicago church. The piece cast illegal immigration foes as almost heartless as Rivera asked Pat Buchanan: "Isn't it impossible almost, not to be sympathetic to this mom and her son?" and "Pat isn't it a kind of bait and switch? We lure the illegals here with the promise of work and now we're telling them, either leave or be arrested?" Rivera noted the deportation stems from a 2002 arrest of her...

We got word two days ago that Geraldo At Large has finally, mercifully, been cancelled. The show went on the air late last year, after Fox News chief Roger Ailes helped convince Rupert Murdoch's son Lachlan to quit and took over his role leading the Fox stations. Despite the conflict of interest, Ailes' first action was to kill the newly-revived A Current Affair, in part because the growing show competed with and beat his Fox News team, and because Geraldo had a fat contract and nowhere to go. At Large was a slapped together affair that never had an executive...

Geraldo Rivera arrived at the Fox News Channel last week. What a welcome he got. Fox's tough-talking host, Bill O'Reilly, machine-gunned him on his talk show on Thursday night, informing him that the network's audience, perhaps the most conservative in television news, was not happy about his arrival. Mr. Rivera's vocal support of Bill Clinton during the impeachment hearings had tarnished him in their eyes, Mr. O'Reilly said. Then, after asking Mr. Rivera to explain his "emotional defense" of the former president, Mr. O'Reilly blurted out: "It hurt you. It hurt you. Your ratings went down after that." Ultimately, Mr. ...

The majority of America was not the only ones who took CNBC host Geraldo Rivera less than seriously. Hs own network colleagues wanted little to do with him. That revelation comes from a good source: Rivera himself. Newsday reported on Monday that when NBC execs gave Geraldo a raise and upped his status with promises of network specials just a few years back, they "were ambivalent about their newly empowered star." Though Geraldo salivated for a regular spot on NBC's Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, "he would get no role on 'Nightly News' (as he'd hoped) while the prime time ...

Geraldo at Large debuts on Fox network last night and covers: - Sex offenders missing after Hurricane Katrina - Horowitz Murder - During program there is a news update break

Geraldo's New Daily TV Show Debuts Monday By DAVID BAUDER EDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) - Geraldo Rivera is returning to daily syndicated television, but not to the world of flying chairs, broken noses and transvestite makeovers. His news program "Geraldo at Large" debuts Monday, and the star attraction describes it as an action-oriented half-hour similar to the weekend program he was doing at Fox News Channel. The return to the limelight happened unexpectedly for Rivera, 61, who had resigned himself to finishing out a colorful career in the relatively low-profile weekend Fox gig. A year ago, he said he turned down...

In another twist in the high-profile killing of Pamela Vitale, Walnut Creek police arrested the brother of sensational TV talk show host and reporter Geraldo Rivera early Wednesday on suspicion of driving under the influence. Craig Rivera, 51, the younger brother of the controversial television personality, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving at 1:26 a.m. in the 2000 block of Mt. Diablo Boulevard just before the entrance to the Highway 24 on-ramp, police said. Craig Rivera, a veteran correspondent for "Inside Edition," arrived in town Monday evening to help produce his brother's newest show, "Geraldo At Large" A producer...

NEW YORKJust days after it ran an editors' note--under pressure from outside and within--that sort of admitted it had erred in a blast at Fox News' Gerald Rivera during the Katrina tragedy, The New York Times finally ran a full correction on Sunday, on its editorial page, for a miscue by columnist Paul Krugman, while announcing a new policy on errors on that page. As the paper noted, Krugman had three times previously admitted getting wrong part of his Aug. 19 column about media recounts of the 2000 Bush-Gore race, but critics kept pointing out that he still hadn't gotten...

ONE of the real tests of journalistic integrity is being fair to someone who might be best described by a four-letter word. The New York Times flunked such a test in rejecting a demand by Geraldo Rivera of Fox News for correction of a sentence about him in a column by the paper's chief television critic. The underlying issue arose from the penultimate paragraph of Alessandra Stanley's TV Watch column on Sept. 5 about the coverage of Hurricane Katrina: "Some reporters helped stranded victims because no police officers or rescue workers were around. (Fox's Geraldo Rivera did his rivals one...

Geraldo Rivera, senior correspondent for Fox News, told a group of Hispanic journalists vigilantes had created "hysteria along the borders" and advised his colleagues not to "let your newsroom push you around on the issue of immigration." "Bust them on their hypocrisy," Rivera said at the annual awards gala of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in Washington last week, according to a report by the Robert C. Maynard Institute of Journalism Education. Rivera, who served as honorary gala chairman of the event, announced from the hotel stage that he was donating $80,000 to NAHJ and $20,000 to Unity: Journalists...

Los Angeles Times' media critic Tim Rutten has long had a somewhat troubled relationship with reality (for just a few examples, see here, here, and here). He also has never been shy about letting his liberal political views get in the way of doing what he actually should be doing: Analyzing the media in a fair and objective way.However, his liberal slams on conservative media reached a new low in his weekly column, "It's hard to feel bad for Geraldo" (Sat. Sept. 17, 2005) (reg. req'd), which begins as follows (emphasis mine): "IT would be comforting to believe that Geraldo...

IT would be comforting to believe that Geraldo Rivera is inexplicable. Sadly, when we consider Rupert Murdoch's ceaseless schemes for global domination and the venal blood lust that pulses through Fox News, Geraldo is easy to explain — which makes him simply inexcusable. Seeing him descend bright-eyed and sweaty on wretched New Orleans, as he did in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, was like watching a vulture on crystal meth. The word that came to mind was not "reporting," but "feeding." The only rational reaction was: Dear God! Haven't these people suffered enough? But, as he always has, Geraldo continues to push...

Kurtz Backs Geraldo in 'NYT' Dispute By E&P Staff Published: September 12, 2005 12:07 PM ET NEW YORK It seemed like a minor, one-day story at the time -- amid the tragedy of the hurricane catastrophe -- but is The New York Times, which is normally pretty quick to run a correction or clarification, making it much more than that by stonewalling? On Monday, Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post defended Geraldo Rivera in his campaign to gain an apology from the Times for accusing him of showboating during his Katrina coverage last week. The Chicago Tribune also covered the...

Any body listening to this drivel besides me. Two idiots talking to each other and over each other. Jerry is so upset that Sean keeps pointing out that the locals didn't let the Red Cross or Salvation in.

Geraldo Rivera might sue The New York Times Posted Sep 7, 2005, 9:44 AM ET by Bob SassoneFiled under: Talent, News, CableA lot of people are beginning to say that the whole "Geraldo rescues woman" story wasn't what it seems. One of them is Alessandra Stanley at The New York Times. She reports that Rivera "nudged" an Air Force worker out of the way so he could be shown on camera helping a woman in a wheelchair. But Rivera went on The O'Reilly Factor and showed videotape that proved that's not what happened. The NYT has not issued a retraction,...

Geraldo Rivera arrives in a Fox News truck. An elderly woman with blond hair grips his elbow. She's wearing thick dark glasses and a pink shirt. He carries her small white dog in his arms. He's wearing thigh-high waders unzipped to below his knees. We shake hands. "Her relative called one of our stations," Geraldo tells me, explaining how that call went to another station, and then another, and finally to him. The woman had been stranded in her home for six days. Geraldo picked up the woman and her dog and brought them here. The woman looks frail on...

Geraldo Rivera appeared on The O’Reilly Factor this evening to discuss a false story printed by The New York Times. Television journalist, Alessandra Stanley wrote the following snippet that is hidden at the bottom her the article: Some reporters helped stranded victims because no police officers or rescue workers were around. (Fox’s Geraldo Rivera did his rivals one better: yesterday, he nudged an Air Force rescue worker out of the way so his camera crew could tape him as he helped lift an older woman in a wheelchair to safety.) News reports alerted the world, and, it seems, an inattentive...

Whoraldo basically excused Mayor Nagin's non action when specifically called on the "2000 buses" question from Hannity. He than said "We need to come together" when he was losing the argument...

Today, Monday Sept. 5th, we were just listening to the Tony Snow show on tape delay here on KCOL 600am in northern Colorado (Tony's show follows Sean's three hour program) and he was interviewing Geraldo Rivera live from somewhere in Louisiana. Geraldo mentioned a phrase to describe how a number of the victims of this tragedy died that I had never heard before. He said... "People are being forgotten to death" I completely agree! A significant number of elderly folks in the poor neighborhoods in the city limits of New Orleans who honestly could not help themselves died alone and...