AUTHOR: Dave Sypniewski DATE: Thursday, September 08, 2005 ----- BODY: Look up "icon" in Webster's and you'll find this man, Geraldo Rivera with an asterisk after his name that at the bottom of the page says (*just kidding). OK, he is an "icon" because he fails at so many things...television shows, marriages, investigative reporting, and just reporting in general. After the infamous "Geraldo" show came to a close and chipping away at stones in an old Chicago freight tunnel came up empty...no bones of Al Capone's and no treasure chest full of bank notes, Geraldo took the 1920's era beer bottle he discovered, wiped the egg off his face and headed to ALL the cable news channels and has spent the last five years at FOX. Geraldo is an arrogant S.O.B. and doesn't understand why nobody in the business likes him. All you have to do is read what people have to say about him, including his four ex-wives. He just had a baby with #5! Anyone who remembers his talk show in the mid 1980's will remember how he tried to pull a fast one on everybody by showing up to a taping one day with a broken nose covered in medical tape. He told the audience that he had a run-in with a Klan member who whacked him with a chair. It wasn't so much that it was a lie as it was that Morton Downey Jr. claimed the same thing about a month before him. There were no witnesses. Nothing on camera. It was a fraud and everyone got hoodwinked. This all leads me up to what Geraldo did now. This was compiled from today's AP reports as well as Yahoo! Geraldo says this story is "absurd." As soon as Katrina hit New Orlean's, FOX put him on a plane to cover the story "Geraldo Style." That means, make a mountain out of a mole hill or SENSATIONALIZE every chance you get. Mind you, this was at the beginning of the storm and it was still your typical hurricane. So there he was by the water with his raincoat and wind blowing, hamming it up for the camera. When it was over and people began running for their lives, Geraldo's Live feed with FOX was shut down but a quick thinking Geraldo wasn'y going to let that stop him. He stood off to the side as reporters from all over dropped everything and ran to help pull survivors out of the water. He noticed a lady in a wheelchair struggling to get out of the mud and water and finally stuck out his arm as his cameraman taped. He then said to the cameraman that because of his quick reaction, the camera guy taped Geraldo's "bad side." He then asked the lady if he could "put her back in the mud" so they can do the "rescue" from another camera angle! She must have agreed because the "re-enactment" ended up on FOX. All the other reporters there were speechless. They shouldn't be...that's Geraldo for you. A real "Ace" reporter and the once again, "King of Bad Taste." If that really happened that way, God help him. THAT'S the way I see it today! -------- Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!: Forget Bill O'Reilly, it's "The Geraldo Factor" on FOXnews.

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Thursday, September 08, 2005

Forget Bill O'Reilly, it's "The Geraldo Factor" on FOXnews.

Look up "icon" in Webster's and you'll find this man, Geraldo Rivera with an asterisk after his name that at the bottom of the page says (*just kidding). OK, he is an "icon" because he fails at so many things...television shows, marriages, investigative reporting, and just reporting in general. After the infamous "Geraldo" show came to a close and chipping away at stones in an old Chicago freight tunnel came up empty...no bones of Al Capone's and no treasure chest full of bank notes, Geraldo took the 1920's era beer bottle he discovered, wiped the egg off his face and headed to ALL the cable news channels and has spent the last five years at FOX. Geraldo is an arrogant S.O.B. and doesn't understand why nobody in the business likes him. All you have to do is read what people have to say about him, including his four ex-wives. He just had a baby with #5! Anyone who remembers his talk show in the mid 1980's will remember how he tried to pull a fast one on everybody by showing up to a taping one day with a broken nose covered in medical tape. He told the audience that he had a run-in with a Klan member who whacked him with a chair. It wasn't so much that it was a lie as it was that Morton Downey Jr. claimed the same thing about a month before him. There were no witnesses. Nothing on camera. It was a fraud and everyone got hoodwinked. This all leads me up to what Geraldo did now. This was compiled from today's AP reports as well as Yahoo! Geraldo says this story is "absurd." As soon as Katrina hit New Orlean's, FOX put him on a plane to cover the story "Geraldo Style." That means, make a mountain out of a mole hill or SENSATIONALIZE every chance you get. Mind you, this was at the beginning of the storm and it was still your typical hurricane. So there he was by the water with his raincoat and wind blowing, hamming it up for the camera. When it was over and people began running for their lives, Geraldo's Live feed with FOX was shut down but a quick thinking Geraldo wasn'y going to let that stop him. He stood off to the side as reporters from all over dropped everything and ran to help pull survivors out of the water. He noticed a lady in a wheelchair struggling to get out of the mud and water and finally stuck out his arm as his cameraman taped. He then said to the cameraman that because of his quick reaction, the camera guy taped Geraldo's "bad side." He then asked the lady if he could "put her back in the mud" so they can do the "rescue" from another camera angle! She must have agreed because the "re-enactment" ended up on FOX. All the other reporters there were speechless. They shouldn't be...that's Geraldo for you. A real "Ace" reporter and the once again, "King of Bad Taste." If that really happened that way, God help him. THAT'S the way I see it today!

posted by Dave Sypniewski at Thursday, September 08, 2005

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