*The real question behind this new case of foot-in-mouth disease regarding the Trayvon Martin story is not why Geraldo Rivera made his asinine statements. It’s really why anyone would choose to listen to him in the first place.
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Geraldo Rivera is a walking and (unfortunately) talking joke of a journalist. It’s a shame, because at one point, he actually made an impact – check out his groundbreaking and horrifying 1972 reports on a Staten Island facility for the mentally retarded if you’re still unsure. Then he went and visited Al Calpone’s vaults. After that, it’s been a long, shameful decline into the worst excesses of trash, tabloid journalism, punctuated by brief, mustachioed bits of controversy; everyone seems to have forgotten his massive screw-up during the Gulf War, where he inadvertently gave away positions of American soldiers (notably lampooned by Stephen Colbert here). He’s less of a journalist and more of a sideshow act now, clinging to the fringes of cable news and popping off these “shocking” comments, grasping for attention and pandering to the lowest common denominators in viewership.
Yet, he keeps falling upwards – still broadcast into the homes of viewers on a regular basis, still having an opportunity to peddle his thoughts to the public.It’s one of the real shameful things in modern American culture – the mouthpieces of hate and ignorance continue to have a pulpit even after they’ve spouted off these idiotic statements. It’s been almost a month since Rush Limbaugh’s vile attacks on a Georgetown law student – but he still remains on the radio, broadcasting every day.
Rivera has issued his apologies and he’s taken a very public (and a very deserved) brow-beating. However, the odds are that some news organization will take another chance on him, and he’ll be back on the air, and another one of his idiotic statements will filter back into the public consciousness. Such is the way of life in an American news landscape dominated by the 24-hour networks – and we’re all the worse for it.
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To say he’s a racist is just silly. If you look at his history of work it truly makes it clear that he’s very compassionate when it comes to the treatment of minorities. He made a mistake and apologized, no need to put together another “march”.
Geraldo’s decline started after the OJ verdict.
He, like most none-black “journalists” couldn’t and wouldn’t accept it.
As someone said, he lost his journalistic objectivity.
But then Piers Morgan said that Toure is not a real journalist, like him, because Toure believes Zimmerman killed Martin, based on the facts so far.
In Piers opinion, Toure has already declared Zimmerman guilty. But what this dumb white man doesn’t seem to understand, is that is exactly what a prosecutor does. A presumption of guilt, leading to a trial. Not the same as declaring someone guilty.
But whitey wants to have it both ways. They want to call Geraldo a journalist, but not Toure.
Once Geraldo started working for Fox, not only his decline as a journalist started, but also his decline into racism.
That should be
“Toure believes Zimmerman murdered Martin.”
Dude, did you see the exchange between the two? I was flipping channels and assumed that they were joking but both were dead damn serious. I was like dayuuuuuuum…just hurling insults on national tv. WOW!
Geraldo makes millions being on Fox. Fox news is the highest rates news channel. But wait, Piers is on CNN which doesn’t do well in the news ratings and you also discredited him as well. Your logic is so flawed that I refuse to acknowledge you, again.
Rush Limbaugh makes millions as well…not sure what point you’re making
OK, so your logic is based on how much a person makes and where does their network ranks in the ratings?
Don’t really matter to me. Bigots come in various guises and from various sources.
Piers Morgan says that Toure has a biased one sided view because he believes that Zimmerman murdered Martin. He (Piers) does not, and that makes him a journalist and Toure something else.
Sounds to me like a white man trying to put a black man in his place because he doesn’t agree with him. I don’t care if he works for CNN, Fox or MSNBC.
Journalists have been giving their opinion on current events based on facts for years. That doesn’t necessarily make them biased. It depends on what information they have at their disposal. Any reasonable person can see with the preponderance of evidence and attempts at a cover up, that Martin was murdered and someone with connections is trying to get away with it. Everything they say is contradicted by the evidence.
Rivera, on the other hand, was a respected journalist at one point, but he now works for Fox, a tabloid racist outfit, where the journalistic code of ethics is not given any serious consideration.
Anybody who has any doubt in that need to look at their coverage of the Trayvon Martin murder.
Why do they persist in making those unreasonable flimsy arguments for the killer, while engaging in a smear campaign of the victim?
What could Rivera be implying by saying that black kids should share the responsibility for being killed if they wear hooded garments, when that has always been appropriate attire for the weather at that time of the year.
Who does he think black people are? Second class citizens who shouldn’t be entitled to the same rights and benefits afforded to everyone else?! And if they try to exercise their rights, then the consequence is death?
And just for the record, Fox is the number one rated network, only because they have a monopoly on the coverage which caters to bigots/conservatives/Republicans or whatever they want to call themselves.
On the other hand, CNN, MSNBC and Current TV have to share the rest of the audience between themselves.
Ohh, so that’s what happened. Piers called out Toure first…I was like WTF is goign on here!
To get a clear picture of what happen I would say Google the exchange.
Well, Toure called him out first for bringing on the murderer’s brother to continue the campaign of lies and misinformation, without adequately challenging him.
Toure also pointed out that the killer and his brother haven’t even spoken for years, according to the killer’s attorney. Now Morgan’s response was that he spoke with Oliver and Zimmerman’s father who confirmed that there was no estrangement.
You believe that?! We talking about that black dude that they were using. The same one who was proven to not really know anything about Zimmerman. He’s accusing Toure of being incorrect about the estrangement and his sources were this dude and Zimmerman’s father. The same mofos that’s been on TV and hiding in the dark spinning these tall tales.
So he’s now trying to question Toure’s credentials as a journalist by saying that Toure already believes that the killer murdered Trayvon.
Like there is not more than enough evidence to come to that conclusion.
But you know how whitey hates to be corrected by a black man.
This Morgan is a piece of work. They have him on there like anyone supposed to be impressed with his English accent, when in fact he doesn’t even have the basic qualifications to be a journalist.
Reds, you nailed it about Geraldo and his lowering in the eyes of many ‘former’ fans. Most closet racist expose themselves sooner or later. Geraldo is trying to become relevant once again but once we turn our backs there’s no returning.