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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...

Geraldo just went off on some NY Times reporter that said he pushed a serviceman to get a picture or something to that effect. Geraldo called him a g-d liar and went off on the NY Times being a liberal rag, also said he would smack the guy if he ever saw him. Must say it was quite humorous coming from the Clinton loving Geraldo.

I just returned from the long weekend and was amazed at what I had missed in just a couple of days-the SC opening being tops of course. I only had a chance to see any kind of news just once last weekend, and as luck would have it, I caught a segment with Geraldo wandering the street of New Orleans with a tear in his eye. That was bad enough but I damn near fell off my chair when Geraldo got all wound up and told the infobabe that the current effort in New Orleans was the greatest humanitarian air...

Geraldo is broadcasting from the Convention Center and show our Helos coming in a la the Berlin Airlift, picking

Via Mr. DawnTreader: Watching Foxnews coverage tonight (9/02) was a blend of hope mixed with some incredibly angry reporters. The story of what is taking place in Houston is inspiring. Juxtapose that with Geraldo and Shep coming unglued and angry. A truly bizarre night.

Did I really just hear Geraldo refer to New Orleans, as The Big Hard? Or is it just my imagination?

Following a discussion of the Natalee Holloway disappearance in Aruba, Fox News host Gerald Rivera told his colleague Bill O'Reilly he is certain child molesters are born that way and cannot be effectively treated or cured. "I think that – I believe that child molesters – and I want to be very clear that I'm not saying it's like homosexuality," said Rivera Thursday night. "It's absolutely different. It's a totally different situation. But I believe that, like homosexuals, child molesters are born not made. They are not cured. You don't cure someone from being gay. It's insulting to gay people...

Then, we turn to the mystery in Idaho that has cops searching for a cold-blooded killer. Eight-year-old Shasta Groene, (search) who was kidnapped from the home where her mother and two others were killed, has been released from a hospital and is back at home with her dad. We’ll get an update on her condition from Steve Groene, who is still holding out hope that his missing son, Dylan, will be found alive. And former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman gives us an inside look at rapist Joseph Duncan's (search) role in the mystery as he unravels this twisted tale. Plus,...

Geraldo Rivera Gets Promotion and More Loot From Fox 1:02 PM EST Douglas Maher All Headline News Reporter New York,NY (AHN)- Fox News has decided keep their do-boy Geraldo Rivera and give him a promotion while they are at it. The man who can be seen reporting in one 24-hour period in East Asia and the next in Omaha,Nebraska inked another deal for 4 years to stay with the number one cable news network and threw an estimated $3.5 million his way to fill his pockets. Geraldo has been wearing multiple hats since joining the network. Covering the wars in...

Did anyone else see Geraldo interrupt Rosie in the middle of a rant just a moment ago? Can't find a transcript, though.

"HANOI" Jane Fonda has at least one admirer of her Vietnam War-era antics. Rosie O'Donnell ranted to Fox News Channel's Geraldo Rivera in a taped interview that will air tonight: "All I know is that when I was a kid and the Vietnam War was on and Jane Fonda was the only person standing up and saying what every kid that was 9 years old like I was knew — war is wrong and we shouldn't go over and kill people . . . You know [President Bush] invaded a sovereign nation [Iraq] in defiance of the U.N. He is...

BAGHDAD — After the US military insisted that Fox News remove former talk show host, Geraldo Rivera, from the battlefield for giving away US troop locations and movements, Geraldo has landed a job with the Al Jazeerah news agency. "Talk about an overreaction by the Pentagon," said Geraldo. "All I did was draw a map in the sand and compromise the lives of the members of the 101st Airborne, the brave 'Screaming Eagles' made famous by Steven Spielberg in Band of Brothers. Now if I'd been a reporter in Normandy, I could have helped the Germans and made the invasion...

Michael Jackson (search) told FOX News' Geraldo Rivera that he had become a target for prosecutors because he was a well-known figure and he said that news reports about him were "fiction." "The bigger the star, the bigger the target. I'm not trying to say I'm the super-duper star, I'm not saying that," Jackson said in the interview, which was taped two weeks ago. "I'm saying the fact that people come at celebrities, we're targets. But truth always prevails. I believe in that." The interview with Jackson aired Saturday at 10 p.m. ET on the FOX News Channel on "At...

Geraldo was on FOX a few minutes ago obliviously embarrassing himself as usual. After making his tabloid journalism / sensationalist-style comments on the latest murder in the news, he was asked by the host what topics he planned to cover on his show tonight. Using the best phony sad-faced look that he could muster, he said he would be discussing Iraq and how "Rumsfeld might have to go".

Last night, 3 Freepers from the NYC area met with Ann Coulter after her appearance on the Geraldo show, as advertised here on FR. And a good short time was had by all! Pictures to follow below.

Below is a copy of an Email that I sent Geraldo at FOX News tonight. Geraldo has been criticle of the Swiftboat Vets without facts to support his critisism. This is unfair to the Swifties. Geraldo interviewed Bill Clinton on his show tonight, and Clinton stated that "all the records prove that Kerry is telling the truth. The Swifties have not proven, and the records show that Kerry earned his medals". Geraldo accepted Clinton's untrue statements as fact without rebuttle. Below is my Email.

Did you here it? I did, clear as a bell.

Geraldo is interviewing Chalabi live right now- his rant is "they're out to get me for no reason"

"They have a saying in the news business," Geraldo Rivera related this week. "Reporters don't report buildings that don't burn." And with that introduction, he told a TV audience about the story that is being systematically denied to our entire nation: the success story of post-Saddam Iraq. Are we losing some soldiers each week? Yes. Is there some frustration in the public about electricity and water service? Yes. Are some Saddam Hussein loyalists throughout the land, making trouble? Yes. Has this opened a window for some terrorist mischief? Yes. But that's ALL we hear. No wonder the country is in...

Geraldo is in Afghanistan interviewing our brave hereos. Right now Geraldo is profiling a man nicknamed Khan..Gengis Khan. Because his last name is Khan. He's leading his troops from the front. Geraldo brought up the recent odds. 83 Taleban were killed. But..we lost one marine. Geraldo said "Those are pretty good odds. 83 to 1." Khan responded clearly emotional. "You know. I've got a son going into the navy. I would have gladly laid my life down for this young soldier." Then..he looked up at Geraldo with a resolve so contagious... "We're gonna kill some more Taleban. Thats all I've...

I just watched Geraldo during a segment of "Fox and Friends". He held up lead slugs he claimed that were fired into his vehicle as a result of being ambushed in Iraq by a Saddam loyalist armed with an AK. Problem One: One of the slugs appeared to have very shiny copper jacket. I have never seen a foreign manufactured AK 47 round that didn't have a STEEL jacket. Problem Two: Geraldo claimed that his assailent only had one magazine. He knew that because he stopped the vehicle, got out, and berated the shooter. There is video of this incident,...

ARMED AND DANGEROUS Our least favorite war actor, Geraldo, was shot at in Iraq Saturday. His two-vehicle convoy was approaching the gate of a military forward operating base near Mosul, when a sniper opened fire, striking Geraldo's driver Hussein Ali in the left shoulder. Said Geraldo, to the camera, moments after the attack: "Ladies and gentlemen, we've just been attacked, we've just been sniped, we've been hit, we've been hit."

Put on Fox, if you can stand Geraldo.

No info on their website.......heard this about 11:00 est. More of his theatrics?

Interesting, isn't it? The buildings that AREN'T burning in Iraq. "They have a saying in the news business," Geraldo Rivera related this week. "Reporters don't report buildings that don't burn." And with that introduction, he told a TV audience about the story that is being systematically denied to our entire nation: the success story of post-Saddam Iraq. Are we losing some soldiers each week? Yes. Is there some frustration in the public about electricity and waterservice? Yes. Are some Saddam Hussein loyalists throughout the land, making trouble? Yes. Has this opened a window for some terrorist mischief? Yes. But that's...

The coverage this weekend of the President's Nascar trip has been the worst coverage I've seen on Fox in a long long time. Greg Jarrett keeps asking each correspondent if they "know anything" about Nascar. James Rosen responded by comparing Nascar to Water Polo. Jarrett then turned to Catherine Herridge and asked her if she knew anything about Nascar. "Its not my speciality." She snidely remarked back to him. "Well the President isn't there to watch a bunch of cars run around in a circle." Jarrett remarked. "He's obviously trying to get the Nascar Dads vote." Jarrett continually made references...