Brown like Geraldo, but not down with Geraldo
Here’s Geraldo Rivera on Fox and Friends this morning responding to my comments yesterday about his open-borders bullcrap (thanks to AllahPundit for the vid and heads-up):
Geraldo says he “cringes” whenever I’m on Fox. I’ll tell you exactly why. It’s not because of any principled objection he has to the arguments I’ve made in my books (which he hasn’t read), columns, blog posts, and tee-vee appearances. It’s because the mere existence of conservative-thinking minorities who reject his tired old brand of identity politics threatens his race/ethnic-card-playing schtick. He can no longer dismiss all immigration enforcement proponents as racists without looking like a fool or tool, because there are countless, vocal numbers of them like me who have skin as brown as his. He cringes because he knows I’m not alone. He cringes because I’ll call out his bullcrap to his face without feeling any need to soften the blow or suck up in a collegial manner. He’s a know-it-all who knows nothing about the deportation abyss–and he masks his fundamental ignorance with incoherent indignance.
Here is why he cringes: It isn’t just white people who are disgusted when he dismisses Jose Carranza’s illegal status as “irrelevant.” Listen to the father of Newark murder victim Dashon Harvey:
“This is one that slipped through the cracks. He’s an illegal alien,” said outraged dad James Harvey, whose son Dashon was murdered last Saturday, along with Terrance Aeriel and Iofemi Hightower.
While 28-year-old day laborer Jose Lachira Carranza was behind bars yesterday, prosecutors arrested a third suspect, who is 15 years old, in Morristown, and charged him with felony murder.
Another 15-year-old has also been charged.
Harvey said that Carranza, the alleged ringleader, “should never have been out in the first place.”
“He’s got child abuse charges. He’s got a weapon. It’s an outrage to the justice system and the community that he’s out.”
So, is Mr. Harvey guilty of “inflammatory” rhetoric, too?
In order to distract from the issue at hand–criminal alien violence and the systemic failures of the deportation system–Geraldo has been forced to ratchet up his cringe-inducing hysteria and accuse immigration enforcement proponents of causing an imaginary epidemic of violence by the “KKK” and “neo-Nazis.”
Yes, his response to critics who point out that illegal aliens of colors with mile-long rap sheets are getting away with 100 percent preventable crimes–including the execution-style murders of three young black students in Newark–is to sputter about the KKK.
Shark-jump much?
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Just got back from dinner ,and clicked onto Hot Air.Imagine my shock at seeing Silky whining about Ann.He must be trying to raise funds for another $1200.00 hair cut.
leepro,
You might have to email someone, I know when I email Spud at insidecablenews.com he will get back to me, if he knows the answer, he shares.
The last time I checked the Rivera vs Malkin blog, on insidecablenews.com the comments were all lined up on Michelle’s side, it is difficult for average people, to argue with common sense. I think you need a law degree to twist this issue into something more complicated then it is.
Laree
The thing of it is, if Glenn Beck talked trash this way about Lou Dobbs, how much longer would Beck still be employed by CNN? Tucker Carlson got booted off CNN for far less. Heck, even Laurence “Creepy Liar” O’Donnell got put on temporary sabbatical by MSNBC after the way he went off on John O’Neill.
Isn’t Geraldo worthy of the same treatment?
drillanwr,
No one else has said it so it seems someone should: if that was your artwork of Jerry Rivers, you did a solid, professional-league caricature of the man, which is quite an accomplishment, because it tends to be tough to do a caricature of a caricature.
In terms of the Fox line-up, one gets the vague impression that well-meaning suits in ivory towers (I’ve known many and they aren’t necessarily bad people even if you need binoculars to see the wet bar on the other side of the office) have decided that they are going to make the same mistake countless conservative candidates made when dealing with liberals: they are going to prove to liberals that they’re fair by putting more liberal voices on air. What they fail to understand besides the folly of alienating their core demographic is that liberals don’t care if you put more liberals on - once you’re a bad guy, you’re a bad guy to them forever. Logic, rational numbers - nothing matters to them except feelings, melodrama and the pursuit of some abstract, undefined manifestation of victory. Having Jerry Rivers around in his current incarnation - that of illegal alien murderer apologist, makes no more sense than having Mike B did to give this website “diversity”, with one caveat - Geraldo is so uttery and totally biased toward his ethnic brethren and prejudiced against anyone who questions that blind loyalty that he does a good job, being a recognizable name, of illustrating just how off-the-wall and irresponsible some people with power to sway millions can be.
Here is the new Fox lineup via the Conservative Cat programming department, all times eastern:
6PM: Britt’s show, badly needs updated CGI title graphics, but more in the current style, and less in the style of the programs which follow it, which are all beginning to look too similar to each other. A weekly segment on Fridays added: a single segment recapping the political world with Newt Gingrich and Jerry Brown - both quiet speakers who don’t interrupt each other, on opposite sides of the spectrum but not afraid to buck their party’s talking points. In other words, an intellectually honest political discussion (though Newt would clean Brown’s clock regularly, at least it would be a nice, civil cleaning)
7:00 PM Shep’s newscast just as it is. Not broken, don’t fix it.
8:00 PM: O’Reilly Factor - drop the embarrasingly ridiculous body language segment (”well, his brow was wrinkled and the sides of hios mouth turned down, and that tells me that he wasn’t happy” - no kidding), and ease up on the beautiful women a bit. Everyone likes a pretty face, but it’s beginning to look like he’s broadcasting from the Playboy Mansion, and that hurts the serious news aspects of his show.
9:00 H&C. Honestly, there should be something like a boxing ring bell every time one person interrupts another. No longer my cup of tea but the show is what it is, and it’s tough to improve it without replacing it because the flaws of the show are built irrevocably into the construction. Beginning to look anemic, I doubt it will last another 4 years, but this programming list won’t replace it just yet.
10:00 PM Michelle Malkin Now. No, Kirsten Powers should not be her version of Colms - Michelle handles the show on her own quite well enough. Nightly segments include immigration and political hypocracy, but we already know that. Greta get’s Geraldo’s sat spot and he moves on to monthly hour specials where he can feel important while taking up less time on the stage. Or perhaps Greta could do something in the late morning to mid-afternoon, where her middle to slightly left, female perspective and sensationalistic ambulance-chasing story topics would play very well with the daytime TV crowd. She’s good at what she does, but playing at the wrong hour. The Cat predicts that putting her up against the View would yield extremely surprising ratings numbers as counter-programming: same topics only presented in a format opposite of the View for people who like the subjects but hate the View, and will continue to hate the show now that Whoopie “Rosie Light” Goldberg is on board.
2:00 AM: Red Eye goes away. Nice people, meaningless show which would have played well in 1985, but the too-loose, ultra aren’t-we-stupid shtick is just plain old now. Interesting, creative general concept, terrible execution.
Weekend: Half-Hour News Hour is halfway there. A couple of extra writers with a fresher style and a budget increase of 10 - 20 percent (alot I know but the cheapness is evident)puts this one solidly on the map and drives liberals insane.
Want a Fox lineup that’ll bring you back to the TV? That, generally speaking, would be my initial response.
When I watch Kirsten on the Factor, she looks like she just got called to the Principal’s office. I mean yes, please sit up straight but she doesn’t look comfortable.
Is it me or have the Democrats on Fox News, look like they all woke up last week. I wondered if they didn’t get a memo from either Fox News or the DNC. I know Alan Colmes, was on vacation, his fill ins seemed I don’t know the right word “Alert” and leaning forward. Even Greta!
“Jerry Rivers”!
Bear 1909 &
Because two people who commit the same crime will, or can, be released on bail. One is an illegal immigrant and one is not. You and I would not release the illegal immigrant, (we hold, prosecute and deport upon release) yet it is the judicial system that allows it. Who is at fault?
Agreed. When an illegal immigrant enters our court system, it is up to the court system to properly deal with the situation. And, that means holding for prosecution, or deportation.
Listen, there have been born and bred American citizens who have been released on bail that have gone on to commit further crimes. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.
One more time, it is the court system that screwed this up. The court system doesn’t take holding illegal immigrants seriously because the Federal Government only gives it a wink and nod.
How much would you set bail for a mass murderer? Would you release a mass murderer on their own recognizance? If the court does it, then who is at fault if the mass murderer goes own to kill some more?
If that man had been deported in 1993, or caught at the border before he got in in the first place, those people would be alive today. Period. Immigration enforcement would have saved them from a murderer who shouldn’t have ever been in America, or at the least deported out of here 15 years ago.
Now that he’s done what he’s done, I hope he gets to meet an American icon, Ol’ Sparky. I’ll even let him have my copy of Ride the Lightning!
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Also, Geraldo is a human approximation of a jacka$$.
MM-3
GR-0
What Geraldo Rivera means to me is an instantaneous channel change. The man is a joke to everyone but the brain trust at Fox News.
Fox has been sliding downhill for some time now. The “Hannity & Colmes Show” turned into the “Allen Colmes Hour” several months ago. And Hannity’s not exactly a genius when he does show up on his own program.
Both Glenn Beck (CNN) and H&C had a feature on Don Imus and immediately opened with interviews with Al Sharpton. WTF? I immediately changed channels. If the “conservative” shows insist on validating and promoting nitwits and con artists like Rivera and Sharpton I’m going to insist on no longer watching their programs.
I used to hear alot of jokes about the Lone Ranger and Tonto.
The punch-line was always Tonto saying to the Lone Ranger “Where do you get this ‘we-sh*t’ pale-face?”
Michelle is darker than Fonzie.
I think she should refer to him as
“pale-face”.
It’s just a thought.
Go Michelle Go