Living in Bizarro World: Spit-covered double standards
You’ve probably noticed the new “Notable Quotable” feature on my blog. I think it’s important not to let Geraldo Rivera’s hate speech disappear down the rabbit hole. I am not surprised that he’s gotten away with it. I am not surprised by the almost universal refusal in the MSM to condemn his disgusting threat. Nor will I be surprised when we get cowardly explanations that he didn’t really mean it. Apologists will play the Wonkette card. It was just a joke. Blah, blah, blah.
Nor am I surprised by the drooling pile-on by the Left. If you tolerate a bully, you beget more bullying. Last night, it was MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann frothing at the mouth–citing Geraldo approvingly as he handed out a “Worst Person in the World” award to…me. Really:
Now, can you imagine the uproar if any other female journalist/commentator had been on the receiving end of Geraldo’s rhetorical spittle? This wasn’t an off-the-record comment at a cocktail party or a private remark in a green room. It was on-the-record smear to a Boston Globe reporter.
And the message over the past week has been: This smear/attack/threat is acceptable.
Another little anecdote that reveals what a Bizarro World we live in: To ensure that Geraldo’s spit slam didn’t go quietly into the night, I bought a few ads through Google Adsense and Quigo. I believe in holding people accountable for their words. If you Google “Geraldo Rivera,” you may spot the ad in the sponsored links:
The ad also appeared on the FoxNews.com website…
…until I received an e-mail this morning from ad company Quigo notifying me that the ad had been pulled and my account revoked:
Unfortunately, we had to disable your ad due to offensive content. If you have another ad copy that you would like to use, we would be more than happy to switch it out. Until that time, however, your account will be blocked.
Rich. Just rich.
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DON’T let that ass get to you. One possible way to diffuse his vendetta and turn it against him is to ridicule him repeatedly, persistently and cleverly–make of him the joke that he is. That’s what was done to Rosie and it will work even better on a man with an ego the size of Geraldos. Go girl!!!!
As much as I like Ann Coulter’s views on a lot of subjects – I truly dislike her ‘manner of communication’ many times.
MM is much more capable of getting her point across without using some of the colorful conversation that Ann does.
I agree that MM should have more media support against this type of attack, both from GR & KO, but it should come from Fox News execs and hosts.
I love Mark Levin as well ( not in any Minneapolis Mens Room type of way, just agree with him a lot ), but he also can be a bit abrasive.
Better to take the high road, as Michelle always does.
According to Amazon.com,
Olbermann’s bookThe book that bears Olbermann’s name is#23,032, while “Culture Warrior” is #3,383 (It’s that 2-for-$25 sale!). Barnes & Noble seems to have given up even trying to find a ranking for the dud OlbyTome; O’Reilly’s book is #1,784 there, and is one of the top five books of 2006 per Publishers Weekly.yea, well I hope Bill confronts the coward. In fact I just now reminded him of his obligations.
DesertLover, yes! I forgot about Laura.
I agree that Michelle SHOULD take the high road, but sometimes the potholes just get to you.
She can certainly defend herself.
Coulter may be abrasive but she’s honest and takes NO CRAP from any man.
(just like me! haha! I am scary!!!!)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…… Keith Olbermann (D) is the Rosie O’Donnell of MSNBC!
The Great One!
FNC is lucky that KO is a short bus denizen. How embarrassing would it have been to have had KO condemn Mr. Rivera’s statement and FNC’s failure to address it?
It seems obvious that someone at foxnews.com marked the ad as offensive. I suspect that it was probably a low level employee doing his or her job to protect the brand, but it serves to reinforce further the belief that FNC management has no concern for its employee or values another employee to a greater degree. In the end, one must decide if career prospects and financial concerns outweigh workplace dissatisfaction forcing toleration of one’s treatment by management.
If you would like to bring this matter to a conclusion quickly, I would suggest getting an order of protection in NYC. Fox management would have to acknowledge your concerns and take some sort of action, though the results may not be that for which you had hoped.
Gayle – that’s a classic. I’m stealing it.
Here for the record are the ratings for the 8pm hour in August.
FNC (O’Reilly): 2,096,000
CNN (Various): 727,000
MSNBC (Countdown): 638,000
And in oh-so-coveted “demo”?
FNC (O’Reilly): 420,000
CNN (Various): 242,000
MSNBC (Countdown): 218,000
Hey Keith, can you say obliterated???
Source
Add MKH, and we have the makings of some great viewing…
gayle … you’re scaring me … lol …
I know I speak for many when I say I can hardly wait to see GR get “Malkined”
he has definitely earned it …
Worst person in the world? So now decency, common sense and respect for the law gets you branded the worst person in the world? That must be a badge of honor. Bizarro World indeed! Although, to his credit, Bizarro Superman actually thought he was doing good…helping people. He didn’t knowingly get things backwards. The same cannot be said for the little O.
Also, “Smoked”? “Vivisected”? Geraldo is not capable of doing either to anyone…certainly no one as formidable as Michelle. It’s reassuring to see that chivalry is alive and well among the posters here, but my money would be on Michelle if Jerry had the nerve and bad luck to approach her.
Stillwaiting:
The sad part is Keith O DOES think he’s doing good. He thinks he’s right. He thinks that the majority of Americans who believe we should enforce our current immigration laws and tighten our borders are the backwards ones.
Truly Bizarro.
So… this is how liberals show their tolerance.
Don’t sweat it. My mother always told me, “Worry when they stop talking about you.”
I would have said “I mean ‘unhinged’ in the most positive sense of the word.”
How about keeping it ‘fresh’?
“Geraldo Rivera: Off the hook!”
First: I love you Michelle – you are the best!
Second: Geraldine-O has his coming.
Third: The ONLY reason Olby-dork mad her the WPITW (a badge of honor IMHO) is to have his name and pathetic program lined up with some heavy hitters (Michelle Malkin and Michelle Malkin). It is no secret Michelle can roast that lame duck G-boy any day on any subject. There is going to be more press and O-dork needs something for a show that might pique some interest. This thing with G-boy is hot and O-dork knows it. Now, attack the beautiful Michelle and throw some gas on the fire and O-dork thinks his ratings will go up and he will get more than 12 viewers. He is as pathetic as G-puke.
Forth: The best revenge is living well so, how about some Wii tennis with the munchkins? That will show ‘em!
They also say that if you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will eventually float by…
So load up the gear, a portable generator, and go play down by the river.
Am I missing something or are the trolls on this sight strangly quiet?
How could the trolls possibly defend Geraldo on this? Besides, judging from the comments on this site, if they have any brains at all, (notice I am giving them the benefit of the doubt) they would realize silence is golden when you know you’ll get clobbered if you defend the wishful spitter.
On-My-Soap-Box:
No – you’re not missing anything. You’re right – there’s a strange absence of trollisms today….
Maybe they’re all blogging on their liberal websites about:
GOP Debate
Fred Thompson
Petraeus Report
Fawning over Olbermann at MSNBC.com
Registering at Geraldo’s website
I notice that our two prominent ‘progressive’ thinkers, Dark Knight and Sausage, haven’t even bothered to weigh in on this thread…
Maybe they secretly admit that this assault on our host is beyond defensible.
jrlingreenbay
haven’t seen DK at all but sausage is posting on some of the other threads here … but is not posting the usual types of things we have come to expect …
shhhh, you might wake the snausage up.
You whooooo, lgm…..
I’ll say this for you, Michelle: if it’s true that you can judge a person by the company he or she keeps, then you make all the right enemies.
That Geraldo Rivera is a self-absorbed boor who never was able to distinguish himself from the story he was supposedly covering? No surprise there.
And a pseudo-intellectual thug like Olbermann rushing in to dogpile on top of Rivera’s boorishness? That’s to be expected.
You’ve known all along, I suspect, that the Left reserves a special venom for two classes of people:
1. Reformed leftists who dare speak the truth (e.g., David Horowitz); and
2. Members of designated “victim” groups who refuse to be corralled onto the plantation of self-pity, resentment and dependence (e.g., You).
It may seem, in our steadily coarsening culture where losing the argument on the merits is viewed by more and more people as a green light to resort to ad hominem assaults, like an uphill battle for you.
Just remember that you have, and will always have, your supporters. You will never meet us. But we are here. We watch. We listen. We remember. We count on you to be strong in the face of the thugs – for your voice is heard by many, where ours is not.
All we ask for in return is that if your sense of conviction flags; if somehow your family and your friends don’t provide you with all the support you need to keep fightng the good fight — remember us.
There are more of us than you may know.
Yeah, I forgot about lgm, and now Rusty’s woke up and starte posting on the child-molestation thread in favor of gay-rights/gay-marriage …
Hmmmmmm…it’s Thursday…do Liberals go out on Wednesday nights and sleep in til 2:00 pm?
As long as you write the truth about illegal aliens MM, people will hate you. Please keep up the good fight.
I just sent an email to Quigo. Wanted to let them know I was disappointed with them and asked who was offended? Michelle? Nope, it’s her ad. Geraldo? If he didn’t want it printed he shouldn’t have said it in an interview.
What amuses me is that the 14th amendment already gives them equal rights.
Their problem is that they want special rights. The difference is huge, and largely lost on them.
I’d consider it a badge of honor to have Oberdork label me the WPITW; as for G Boy I still want him horse whipped.
Other people who have made Olby’s list, most of them multiple times, include Glenn Beck, O’Reilly, Hannity, and I think he even included Sister Teresa once.
His favorite members of the list are anybody on tv or radio opposite his time slot. He does it to get a reverse mention in the hopes of boosting his ratings. It is a cheap ploy and one that is getting old.
As far as Geraldo, broadcast his words far and wide but let him stand indicted by his own words and don’t engage in any sort of back and forth. Don’t give him the privilege of thinking he is worthy enough to be mentioned in the same breath as Michelle.
/Just my 2¢
All them sicko’s can kiss my a__.
Well said, Regulus.
Unfortunately, this is only the latest example of media hounds (insert whatever expletive you deem appropriate) and their relentless quest to silence anyone that disagrees with them. If FOX fails to address GR’s threat and ignores a threat was made by one of their own employees, they’ll lose whatever audiance support they’ve acquired these past years. This is not a free speech issue. Had GR made such a threat against Oprah or Rosie you can bet he’d be out there dropping to his knees asking forgiveness and pleading mercy. FOX would see to it, or he’d be fired. It matters not it was not said on the FOX set. There must be something in GR’s contract about public behavior?
Wonder if Michelle’s husband could make a public comment to the tantrum pitch a hissy fit GR on the airwaves.
Something like this:
“Hey little man, how about spitting in MY face. How dare you threaten my wife on national TV. You are a public disgrace. To threaten a woman period is beyond low. There’s no lower depths except the pits of hell for the likes of you. So, bring it on.”
Gayle, if he did that, I would owe the man a beer…
Gayle – just to clarify – the threat was not done on tv, it was done in a newspaper interview.
I’m sure it was done not realizing that it would reach the amount of eyes and ears that it has. Most likely, he was playing his ‘machismo’ up for the reporter as he steered his yacht into the harbor.
swj719AWG; How about a keg?!
Wonder what her husband had to say about this……inquiring minds wanna know, Michelle!
jrlingreenbay ; I stand corrected!
Even though it was for a publication it made its way into the media.
Doesn’t most everything?
Somehow, I have a feeling that Mr. Malkin had a hard time saying anything. Michelle was probably going off pretty well on her own.
( I have the same problem at home when my wife get’s dissed at the office )
HAH!
This is so simple. The header on the ad should read:
GERALDO RIVERA: SEE WHAT THE FUSS IS ALL ABOUT.
Then the site will get traffic from both pro and con Rivera people, and there certainly is a fuss, so it isn’t false advertising.
Remember the adage about wrestling with a pig, “you both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
TaiCHiWawa – that’s funny!
Seriously, we all have friends, co-workers, relatives and associates where you kick thoughts about. So as not to make it appear that MM is touting this, go to her referenced sources, pull the link and send it to your address book. There are a lot of blind people that have to be hit over the head with a story, from the source, to make it valid. If nothing else, you can show the hypocrisy of GR and his ratings will suffer. Since he’s on FOX in a timeslot that very little else is going on many people will watch simply to fill the void. He’s got to be exposed for what he says, does, and threatens.
And by the way it did make it to TV on Olberwanks “Worst Segment”
Michelle,
If KO thinks your the worst person, you have indeed proven yourself. KO only attacks people who are smarter and more powerful, then he preceives himself to be.
This is the same KO that stated, I spoke up, to Abrams and Capus and insisted that Imus be Fired…because remember according to KO, Imus dissed women, in context by using hip hop lingo, in schtick and Bernie quoted from a Spike Lee movie, attempting Humor. Geraldo threatened to Spit on You, and he called you names Vile…So which is it KO, do you uphold and revere women or don’t you? You all don’t know how many times, I have come across the hip hop ocracy at MSNBC.
I am seriously worried about the folks (especially the men) at Fox, if this type of thing happened where I worked there would be a long line of folks wanting to (explain) a few things to this hateful piece of garbage.
OK folks, a terrible wrong has been committed against our host. What should we do (as a group)? As it stands now, and as I understand it, Geraldo has stated that he would assault Michelle, Fox management remains silent, Michelle takes out ads to make her point, the ad stays up at Google but is taken down at FNC’s website.
I think we need direct our ire at FNC. I’m a firm believer that doodoo rolls downhill so I am going to try and contact Mr. K. Rupert Murdoch by email… what say you?
I think Michelle should get her own show on FOX … a Sunday night time slot should be opening up soon …
I still think we should drop turkeys on his estate from a helicopter. ala’ “WKRP” but water ballons filled with Kool-Aid would work also.
#149 general company…
Several of us have already done that.
This just goes to prove that it has never really been about equality or fairness.
Maybe we will all wake up.
Michele,
Keep up the outstanding work! You are the only thing to come out of NJ that makes me proud to come from that state too!
I am looking forward to the day that Michelle and Geraldo both appear on Fox together (with a moderator, of course) and Michelle sweetly turns to Geraldo and says “I was just curious if you intend to spit on me on international television or if you are going to wait to attack me in the parking lot?” Of course, she will come prepared with a screen shot of Geraldo’s vicious statement.
Then, as Geraldo is defending himself, Michelle will ask “Did you also want to spit on all these people, too, who would have wished to be here, but they were all killed in a single week by illegal aliens?”
Then, they will show a yearbook-type picture of 25 people who died at the hands of an illegal. (According to Congressman Steve King, it is about 12 per week who are murdered and another 13 per week who are killed by illegal drunk drivers.) If you choose a week that is a couple months past, surely there will be enough info to determine who has been a victim of an illegal alien during a specific week, although you may need blogger input.
Better yet, bring full size cut-outs of each victim – what a visual – you and 25 victims (who, we remind Geraldo, will never hug, laugh, or breath again) standing there waiting for Geraldo to spit on all of them. Show everyone what a fool he is.
I wish that I could be present when he attempts such an act. He damn sure would be spitting through a broken jaw.
Geraldo has to hide that he is not very bright and that he is not very masculine.
Threaten Michelle just because she is smarter than he is… what a geek.
He is another affirmative action casualty. He got promoted into a league that is above his ability.
I wonder if Bill has dumped Geraldo. Tonight he mentioned the start of Dhue Points on Thursday next week. If I remember correctly, didn’t Geraldo do Thursdays on O’Reilly? If Bill did dump Geraldo because of the hate speech against Michelle, do you think he will mention it or just let Geraldo be gone with no comment?
This is intolerable and outrageous.
I thank God every day that we have courageous people like you Michelle, who wrangle with idiots like Geraldo everyday and bring their true characters to light. The mainstream media sure isn’t up to the task.
You truly are an inspiration to me.
Katieanne Post 159,
I wondered exactly the same thing. As I recall, didn’t Thursday used to have a segment called “Thursdays with Geraldo?”
No Gerry Rivers tonight and instead we get Due every Thursday starting next week. (this, I feel, is a mistake, by the way. Dhue seems nice but doesn’t strike me as a deep thinker. Besides, with the motion sickness girl, or whatever the hell she is, the internet police babe, Sunny Hostin and Megan Kelly, Kirsten, Michelle, et al, it’s beginning to look like Atlantic City the night before the Miss America pagent. My wife is starting to percieve the show as appearing superficially sexist – and I can’t disagree with the perception. They need Candy Crowly in there for a little culture shock if she’s still around…. I had the opportunity to meet her once, by the way, and we had a nice little chat, and Fox should pick her up because she was very nice and seemed, um, like she might not be adverse to looking around)
Since she’s already on board and considering the situation with Geraldo, real justice, of course, would be “Thursdays with Michelle Malkin”, but we live in an imperfect world, alas.
Mr. Conservative Cat – at least the women Bill has on the show really take him on. There has been some big arguments and none of them hold back. I don’t know what I think about your wife’s views. I’m going to have to think about it. I haven’t felt the same way at this point.
If Geraldo isn’t on The Factor tomorrow, I think he got the boot. If so, that’s great and shows his kind of hate won’t be tolerated. I wonder if Geraldo’s show on the weekend will disappear too, if not now, in the near future. I can’t imagine FOX allowing that kind of behavior.
Even a bad picture of Michelle is really not that bad a picture.
Michelle, no offense meant, because you can stand on your own merit, but a man that uses a quote from another man (especially one lacking credibility like “here’s their coordinates” Geraldo) to demean a woman clearly lacks the cojones to stand on his own.
I speak for nobody else but myself when I say that Olbermann’s words are those of a guy that won’t last long in the “playground” of free-thinking ideas.
Zero pathos Olbermann! Knuckle up and speak the truth if you believe it’s on your side (which it clearly isn’t if you have to rely on Geraldo). Grow up.
Bizarro world indeed.
LOL! Go Michelle!! This is exactly why people love you! You don’t take anything sitting down. I just love the appearance of that Google ad right on top of the page! Absolutely brilliant!
On September 6th, 2007 at 11:41 pm, katieanne said:
Oh, there’s no question that the women who opposed O’Rielly’s views make their feelings known, and that’s one of the great things about Fox. yes, the main commentators like Bill and Brit Hume absolutely lean somewhat right, but unlike CNN, MSNBC and the networks, they put on very LOUD dissenting voices. It’s the inherent advantage conservatives have over liberals: our side can put the two side-by-side with confidence because we’ll do anything from simply win on the merits to watch the liberal make a fool of him/her self as only someone from the moons of Jupiter can do. The poor liberals are stuck – they have no recourse but to silence our voices, even when it comes not just to answers, but questions as well, as is evidenced by the Democrat candidates cowardice to debate on Fox.
As for the superficial apperance of sexism, I understand it. Yes, pretty people are desireable on television. As someone in the biz I know that’s rule one. But Bill’s show is getting flooded with young, attractive-to-beautiful women, and the fact is that you have to mix it up a bit to have a credible cast: a few more like Linda Chavez – attractive but moving into middle age – maybe someone with less looks but huge huge, charisma (Michelle has it when she appears relaxed). Part is beauty, but also age. Although ethnicity helps. there’s Michelle, and putting Harris Falkner on prime time for the news blurbs was casting genius, because she’s a perfect break from the majority of the Fox contributors.
But this “young, beautiful girl thing on the Factor, while pretty is appreciated (to illustrate that I have no problems with it, I’ll say that my wife is gorgeous – never a time goes by when someone new in our lives doesn’t whisper to me that she’s beautiful) but sameness on television gets stale – even when it’s beautiful sameness. And now Geraldo, despicable guy that he is, is gone, and in comes another blonde beauty.
I get sick of hearing about diversity in society, but in casting for television it’s an absolute necessity. O’Reilly has a formula, but it needs to feel relaxed, and this gorgeous young girl thing feels forced, and that’s just dull.
Mr_Conservative_Cat:
Ummm…gibberish much?
Mr. Conservative Cat – Exactly…conservatives encourage debate, liberals loathe it. They only want to hear voices that agree with them. FOX will continue to do well as long as they do as they are now.
FOX News has always had comments made about them regarding the good looking women they hire. Like it or not, it seems to be the way of most of television. Even our local tv is the same. I haven’t gotten to the point where it annoys me because of the great variety of guests that appear on the FOX News shows. When it gets to the point where beauty outweighs substance on FOX, then it will be different. Right now, all those ladies are highly intelligent and hold their own.
Pennity,
Depends on what you like to hear.
Katieanne,
Good point about the substance outwieghing the superficial appearance. Match point to you.
what’s surprising to me is a Black Panther (someone you’d expect that kind of language from) calls Michelle a whore and the outrage at Fox is right out there, let a colleague at Fox threaten Michelle with assault and what?
Wheres Fox on this? The moon?
Is Geraldo such a media God that he can hatefully spit his way over people he works with?
Geraldo was on O’Reilly tonight. No mention of Michelle, but Geraldo did say this:
“Iraq is within spitting distance of the suez canal.”
And then:
“I urinated in Bin Laden’s house in Bora Bora.”
Does this guy have a fetish or what? It would be funny to think so, but the way he slightly paused on the word spit suggests to me that this whole thing is very much on his mind. Let’s keep the pressure up until this guy eats the humble pie which is just glowing on the cover of his personal menu.
I was very upset with Bill that he didn’t call Geraldo on his appalling hate speech towards Michelle. Disgusting. I wrote to Bill that I am boycotting all Geraldo segments on The Factor and any segment where Geraldo appears on all of FOX News until Geraldo apologizes to Michelle. We have to fight for what is right. Geraldo cannot get away with this.
Anyone care to join me?
Mr. Conservative Cat #170
Thanks.
Katieanne,
Anyone who boycotts Geraldo Rivers, I mean Gerry Rivera – oh, you know what i mean – will miss the apology when it does eventually come. However, I think you’re being principled here, and so yeah, I’ll do it too, and let them know. We might only be a couple of whisps of air whistling dimly in a hurricane, but better not be heard as that than have our tiny rating numbers be heard as unintentionally supporting a windbag like Geraldo Rivera.
Sure, I’ll do it. Turning off the TV for five minutes will be fun – I can catch up on my reading.
Michelle, I guess I’m the 2nd worst person in the world, because I think you’re right on with what you say.
I have no problem with G-man having his present job at Fox. You see, our side isn’t afraid of letting you hear all sides of the story; the left, the supposedly open side, is the side which wants to censor opinions they disagree with.
Jimbo,
If I may respectfully disagree:
1. Geraldo doesn’t put his political bias on the line the way O’Reilly and others do.
But much more to the issue:
2. Geraldo is entitled to his opinion. But saying he would spit on another co-worker because he so strongly disagrees with her opinion is not – hopefully – common practice at Fox and so it should not be treated as such. No offense, but I think you may have missed the point on all this.
Shrugging this off would be a mistake, IMO, because an unchallenged lie too quickly becomes the truth, as is evidenced of how quickly Obermonster jumped opportunistically on the story.
I think Michelle is in serious trouble of being cast as a villian the way so many other conservative commentators have. It seemed that the left didn’t have a handle on how to bring down an attractive ethnic woman, but Gerldo – former Gerry Rivers the quasi-caucasian, by touting his newly embraced Hispanic ethnicity, has opened the door, even though Michelle has never been hateful IMO and his remarks about spitting on her more vile than anything I have heard Michelle say or write.
No, this time we can’t stand back. MM is a powerful voice, and we can’t let her reputation go the mainstream way of Rush, Newt and every other intelligent, effective conservative voice horribly unfairly vilified by the left-wing media killing machine.
No, this time we have Geraldo’s spitting comment on which to hang Mr. River’s reputation and that of anyone who supports his views on Michelle. And we need to keep the pressure up. Two words of warning: remember Bob Dole. In other words, no more Mr. Nice Guy. That’s just how it’s got to be.
Now get out there and start objecting!!!!
Hey, didn’t Geraldo Rivers promise to one of these readers that he’d make an apology? What’s up with that?
Hold his feet to the fire!
Mr. Conservative Cat – I figure that if pigs fly and Geraldo actually does apologize to Michelle, it will be all over the place and I will see the video. Until then, no more Geraldo for me. While he was certainly rational and rather subdued on O’Reilly last night, I’ve had enough.
I’m a premium member for Bill O’Reilly and there are lots of MM fans (including myself) over there protesting Bill’s lack of confrontation of Geraldo about the spitting. We will have to keep the heat up on this issue.
I think we should start an email campaign to Bill O asking him to take Geraldo to task for his outrageous behavior. To start things off, here’s what I sent Mr. O’Reilly:
Jim C
Thinking Right
Great letter Jim C. I’ve already emailed him. I notice FOX News has kept silent too when they usually make comments on hate speech. I wonder if they have all decided not to broach the subject at all. If so, how cowardly and so disappointing from FOX News.
I didn’t catch all the info about this new thing called Dhue Points starting next Thursday, but aren’t we supposed to be emailing her and she will put tough questions to Bill for him to respond to? This would certainly be a great issue if Bill hasn’t dealt with the subject by then.
If geraldo wants to know what hate speech is like, he should check out Memphis politics and see who the real victims are.
As a gentleman, I would defend the women in my life from the likes of geraldo and any female who happens to be on the recieving end of geraldo assualt.
I’ve already e-mailed Fox but am not sure if Geraldo has his own personal website. Another member here posted gis e-mail addy but the post appears to have been removed, which I suppose is a proper thing for this site to do under the circumstances.
It’s great that people are e-mailing Mr. O about this. His silence is deafening, but not surprising since he appears to buddy up when Geraldo is on.
I hope Fox knows what they’re doing. People should remember conservatives are principled. Most have turned on Bush over his immigration stance (or lack of same). They’ll (we’ll) do it again to Fox over this, too. I hope Fox thinks Rivera is worth it.
As for Dhue, she’s on Rivera’s show, so I doubt she’ll bring it up. However, any letters to her might say something like “as a woman, how would you feel about Geraldo Rivera announcing to the world that he’d spit on you for, essemtially, simply disagreeing with him? Be honest.” That might put the pressure all around.
Geraldo is just a posturing idiot. I just wish he would go off somewhere and find a safe to open, or get on his boat and sail away into the sunset.
After his despicable performance at VA Tech on April 16th, And now threatening MM, I will never watch anything he is on again. Period. Unless Al-Qaeda puts out a tape with him held hostage and beheads him. Now that would be compelling TV.
jrlingreenbay:
You’re right, little O does think he’s right…but Bizarro Superman was much more articulate.
Very amusing, and nice that Keith thought of you (seriously, you wouldn’t want him to think of you in any other way, would you?).
Even more amusing is that many people today believe that Keith Olbermann is actually a journalist.