hipsterdufus

Get the popcorn, this is going to be fun to watch.

"Al Capone's vault" & the man famous for giving away troop positions in the field Geraldo Rivera and Mr. Falafel take the Mel Gibson debacle as a chance to slam Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Keith Olbermann.

Can't wait for the rebuttals!

http://mediamatters.org/items/200608030005
(includes video clip)

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Doremus Jessup

Man, Bill O'reilly is a bitch. I'd prefer to use another word, but there're rules and such.

Anybody seen Colbert at the White House Press Club Dinner?
O'Reilly and Rivera wish they could've been born with just one of his balls.

Caine

Umm... Geraldo talking **** about comedians?

I don't get it.. they are ****ING COMEDIANS!

It is thier job to make people laugh!

He just needs to stop whining because nobody watches him anymore, they are too busy watching funny **** from Stewart and Colbert.

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I voted for Bob Barr.

Deegan

They are dumb a$$e$, I fail to see the error in this entire piece?

Picaro

This is certainly true.

And, Mel Gibson's opinions also mean absolutely nothing in the scheme of things; he's just a frigging actor. It's a sign of just how pathetic so-called 'news' networks are in their drive for '24 hour news' that they have to fill up so much time on this; yet another good reason to toss the TV out of your house.

tryreading

" Rivera also asserted that Comedy Central hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert "make a living putting on video of old ladies slipping on ice and people laughing" and that they "exist in a small little place where they count for nothing."



What does Geraldo count for? He is a sensationalist who will say or do anything to stay on TV-

Rivera sketched a map in the sand to show his viewers his location and what the next military objectives were going to be. Never mind that Iraqi military commanders watch the same news sources for reliable reports from the field.

Of course the Pentagon was furious with Rivera about this open violation of the embedded journalist rules. The very fact that Rivera showed such disregard for the safety of the soldiers by openly disclosing information on camera that could help the enemy defense is beyond understanding. Mr. Rivera claims that he did not knowingly do anything or disclose anything that he believed he was not allowed. However, a veteran sensationalist journalist of Rivera’s status, with over twenty years of experience, would have known that such actions could put coalition troops in danger by Iraqi forces.

The Pentagon ordered Rivera out of Iraq and took away his pass as an embedded reporter. Rivera is trying to play it all down, stating that no friction exists between himself and the military, stating it was his own decision to remove himself from the front lines back to Kuwait.

Reckless acts and open collaboration by veteran journalists such as Rivera and Arnett create real danger to troops facing real bullets. It is one thing to face the enemy in front that is shooting back. It is quite another to face the enemy behind, busy giving battlefield information during live feeds or happily appearing on enemy television to give negative information and feedback to comfort the enemy at the expense of the audience they are there to report for.

http://www.americandaily.com/article/3961



Always cover up a lie with a lie. Then cover up with 'the fog of war.' Geraldo lying about saying the Lord's prayer:

On December 6, Rivera reported that he had choked up after reciting the Lord's prayer over the "hallowed ground" in Afghanistan where, as he said, "friendly fire took so many of our—our men and the mujahadeen yesterday." In an article in the Baltimore Sun on December 15, David Folkenflik wrote that Rivera's report was a misrepresentation.

Rivera admitted that he had been several hundred miles from where three Americans had been the victims of friendly fire near Kandahar on December 5. He told the Sun that he had been misled by "the fog of war" and had confused that incident with another friendly fire incident that killed several mujahadeen and other men in fatigues in the mountains where Rivera was dodging bullets and crawling into caves. According to the Sun, the Pentagon said the Tora Bora incident occurred on Dec. 9, three days after Rivera's report was aired. Rivera then claimed he had been confused. He claimed to have seen some of our Afghan allies in Tora Bora killed by a U.S. bomb the same day.

http://www.aim.org/aim_report/A492_0_4_0_C/

tryreading

Right, his opinion means nothing. Sure is fun to see a hypocrite expose himself, though.

PeteEU

Was Zapping around when I landed on this.. snorted my cola.. it was soo funny. No one can take O'Reilly or the Fox News channel seriously gezz.

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Geraldo calling someone a lowlife is hilarious. This coming from a man who did a show for ratings that had some of the lowest lowlives in our country.

And O'Reilly is upset because he didn't like it when he was in the spotlight and everyone heard about his talking dirty to a female co-worker (he's married) and telling her all the cool things he was going to do in the shower with her with a loofah sponge in some exotic place. He empathizes with the Gibster.

Having said that, I think the media exploits issues like this because it gets ratings. It's what their viewers want to see. Personally, I don't care anymore about Mel Gibson. I don't care to see his drunken pictures nor hear about his apologies. Boring.

hipsterdufus

I think Geraldo is referring to the clip of TDS showing HIM slipping and sliding while covering one of the hurricanes.