Posted on 11/29/2017 5:12:44 PM PST by EdnaMode
As the world grapples with the recent revelations of Matt Lauer’s alleged inappropriate sexual behavior towards his colleagues and the button under his desk that turned his workspace from an office to a playground for sexual misconduct, many have Taken to Twitter to share their thoughts. This includes Geraldo Rivera:
@GeraldoRivera Sad about @MLauer great guy, highly skilled & empathetic w guests & a real gentleman to my family & me. News is a flirty business & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation. What about #GarrisonKeillor? 4:00 PM - Nov 29, 2017
Mercifully, Rivera appears not to know how to thread tweets, but if you click on that first tweet, you’ll see that his thoughts continue. Here’s another:
@GeraldoRivera #SexHarassment allegations should require: 1-made in a timely fashion-say w/n 5 yrs. 2-some contemporaneous corroboration, like witnesses, electronic or written communications. W $ settlements in multi-millions slight chance exists some victims are motivated by more than justice 4:18 PM - Nov 29, 2017
In 1991, Geraldo Rivera published a memoir called Exposing Myself, which, per the Washington Post’s review of the book, promised to reveal what “his public was dying to know about his alleged conquests of Bette Midler” and other luminaries. In the above clip—recently tweeted by reporter Kinsey Schofield— of Bette Midler talking about Rivera, though, her side of the story is different.
Per the Washington Post, here’s what Rivera had to say about his encounter with Midler: “We were in the bathroom, preparing for the interview, and at some point I put my hands on her breasts.” Consent, implied or otherwise, is murky in Rivera’s description, but what Midler tells a pink-suited Barbara Walters is much more distressing:
“One thing I do remember—and that was how I met Geraldo—and that was not funny,” Midler says. “Should I tell you?” When Walters responds with a steady “Why not?” Midler demurs, saying that she doesn’t want to “get in trouble,” but at Walter’s encouragement, she relays the following tale.
Geraldo and his producer came to do an interview with me, in the ‘70s, in the early ‘70s. This was when he was very hot. He and his producer left the crew in the other room, they pushed me into my bathroom, they pushed two poppers under my nose, and proceeded to grope me...I did not offer myself up on the altar of Geraldo Rivera. He was unseemly. Midler laughs it off, eventually saying that had she known Rivera was going to be a “slimy talk show host,” twenty years later, she “never would have let him in the room.”
“Fox needs to terminate Geraldo immediately. “
For being an asshole if for no other reason.
Two perverts in a pod.
The problem is the USA outlawed cheap quality prostitution in the early 20th century. This barbaric Neo Puritanisms era we are living under has its downside. If we had legal bordellos in the USA with controlled quality prostitution run by adults 90% of the male shenanigans would go away.
They covered the libs first to get them out of the way so they could give all their time closer to the election to the conservatives. By that time, their people will be an afterthought and will have been given way too much time being forgiven by the media.
rwood
Obviously geraldo thinks there should be a 5 year time limit.
“Geraldo, showing anyone your junk is not flirting. Or have I been doing the whole flirty thing wrong?”
The last time I remember real legitimate, red blooded flirting was....oh wait, I cant remember any.
The assaulted women come out now because President Trump is the first alpha male in my lifetime.
“The problem is the USA outlawed cheap quality prostitution in the early 20th century. This barbaric Neo Puritanisms era we are living under has its downside. If we had legal bordellos in the USA with controlled quality prostitution run by adults 90% of the male shenanigans would go away.”
Oh are you so right. All outlets are blocked by this wonderful culture of of ours.
I ask my wife if she wants to see my birdie.
Oh well, hope springs eternal.
I thought he had better taste than that.
Bette Midler groper ,,,, had to be a blind deaf horn dog!
This is getting entertaining now.
I think most rank and file plebeians don’t do it. We’d get in trouble. Also maybe we are a better class of people
Right now it’s hollywood, media, and politicians.
It’s like turning over a rock.
Narcissism X 1000.
Two scumbags can do whatever and it's of no consequence to the universe...
It is pretty funny to see the three types of people who have spent close to 100 years walking around telling everyone how superior they are to all of us unwashed, and now they are being displayed for what they really are.
“I wonder who it will be tomorrow? “
Something tells me it will be Shemperd Smith, and the story will involve barnyard animals and live boys.
Totally agree.
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