Posted on 01/09/2012 5:16:57 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Geraldo: You Shouldn't Become Parent Unless Licensed By Government By Jack Coleman Created 01/09/2012 - 7:55pm
Think your government has more than enough on its hands? Geraldo Rivera wants it to do so much more.
On his new WABC radio show Friday, Rivera cited an incident that day involving a Brooklyn mother suspected of killing her 3-year-old daughter, saying this (audio clips after page break) --
I swear to God, you talk about sickos, you talk about sickos. You should need to have a license to have a child. You should be vetted. I think I can't stand these stories. I've covered so many of these toddler-torture murders. It's just something that is unbelievable.
Minutes later, Rivera enthused over the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, followed by his criticism of the agency as destined to become a haven for patronage hacks (audio) --
You know, I like the idea of consumer protection, this new agency, for example, but I can just see what's going to happen. You're going to have all the secretaries that campaigned for Obama in this administration or Bush in the last administration or Romney or Obama or whoever it's going to be going forward, they're all going to get those coveted jobs, they're going to be assistant secretary to the secretary of the deputy of the this and that, and it's all going to be our tax money. It used to be, when I was a younger man, I used to think, you know, you know, let's throw money at this problem, let's fix this problem. And it's just when see the way government operates, government can do no right, almost.
Still like the idea of this new agency? How about licensing parents while we're at it?
Later on Friday, Rivera appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor" and got into an argument with Bill O'Reilly over Casey Anthony, as described by Brian Maloney at the Radio Equalizer (h/t for YouTube audio clip) --
Within a period of less than 12 hours the King of All Media Hackery jumped on Bill O'Reilly for being much too critical of (insert your own descriptive language here) Casey Anthony, but then told radio listeners he advocates government licensing and "vetting" of all prospective parents in America.
In Geraldo Bizarro World, it's give Casey the benefit of the doubt while real mothers and fathers are guilty until proven innocent. Could anything be nuttier?
Rivera passing himself off as a conservative comes to mind.
Lol @ Geraldo
FU Whore-AlDo!!!!!
In a rational world, this man wouldn’t have a platform.
And what do we do with all of the illegals who come here to have their anchor babies, Whoraldo? Give them “amensty” and “waivers”?
why does anyone give this attention seeking pompous arse the time of day.
The man is nothing but a big headed attention seeking old man who has lied so many times and been such a drama queen on his assignments.
If anyone watches his show or him then could you tell me please why because I just don’t see why anyone would give him 5 mins let alone an hour?
SLAVE OF THE GOVERNMENT
maybe he needs to preach that to his hispanic pals who live in poverty?
In Geraldo’s case, I’d buy it.
I’ve seen a fair amount of Freepers make similar off-handed comments that parents should be licensed, typically on threads about child abuse and neglect.
I assume for them it was an emotional initial reaction that they would retract if they took a minute to think about it.
But I think Geraldo would actually advocate this policy.
What a moronic statement.
It sounds racist to me.
More like 30s era Germany. Scratch a progressive lib and find a NAZI. Why should we expect anything more from Geraldo Jerry Rivers?
For a guy that’s been married five times he oughta stay away from this topic.
Geraldo`s parents would have never been able to get a parenting license.
No need to license, you just sterilize the undesirables, you know, it is not like we haven’t done it before. Progressives know what is best.
No need to license, you just sterilize the undesirables, you know, it is not like we haven’t done it before. Progressives know what is best.
Only the communist countries want to control everything in your life.
Evidently the leftist kooks want their lives controlled by the government.
They might get free stuff but they don’t realize they’ll have to pay the piper
in some way.
Why do the kooks think the government knows anything at all? Sheesh!
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