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I like Geraldo. He's colorful, outrageous, passionate, and opinionated. And once upon a time he was an important journalist who broke important stories. He's a fresh breeze at Fox News. I prefer him in fact, to Shep Smith, who is a bit pompous.

both shep and geraldo are pompous boobs.

Can't agree...Geraldo and Shep are both pompous. Geraldo though is worse. He can't let go. Always tries to upstage someone else. Don't like his ethics.

Years ago I commuted with Geraldo on a Ferry from Wall St to the Jersey shore. He was a pleasant enough of a guy as I recall. I also remember c couple of times seeing him get on the boat still wearing his stage makeup. That was amusing.

This is an anecdote I feel is worth sharing here. One Friday afternoon the Ferry was just getting ready to pull away from Pier 11 at the foot of Wall Street. There was a bunch of us on the back deck of the boat having a beer and a cigarette when we saw Geraldo running down the Pier after the boat. We all started yelling to the deck hand casting off the lines to "LEAVE HIM, LEAVE HIM". Of course the deckhand and captain of the boat waited for Geraldo to get to the boat. When He saw the boat was going to wait he looked back towards South St and waived on a limo. A few seconds later the stretch limo pulled up to the bottom of the gangway to the ferry. By now the guys on the back of the ferry were booing and hissing because the ferry crew was showing obvious favor to Geraldo. We got to eat some humble pie when Gerlado opened the door to the Limo to help that guy he got out of Willowbrook a few years earlier. This was the young man with cerebral palsy who was locked up in the horrible mental hospital known as Willowbrook. Geraldo's expose on the place help shut it down.
It was quite touching to see Geraldo help this severely handicapped man down the gang plank and onto the boat. It would certainly appear that he and Gerlado had become friends over the years and this guy was coming down to spend the weekend with Geraldo at his home on the Navesink River. I recall very well how the guys on the back of the boat (including myself) felt bad for yelling at the ferry crew to leave Gerlado on the dock when we saw who was with him.