Posted on 07/28/2015 6:46:55 PM PDT by markomalley
On Tuesday’s edition of The Five on the Fox News Channel (FNC), liberal panelist Geraldo Rivera defended Planned Parenthood in wake of the video scandal concerning body parts from aborted babies, fretting that it “might put an end to the harvesting of what would be garbage” that “may” help contribute to a “cure for cancer” or “heart disease.”
Moments after co-host Greg Gutfeld opened the segment with a commentary on the disturbing scandal, Rivera wondered to co-host Eric Bolling if he “fear[ed]...that the scandal, the justifiable scandal over the callousness of the people portrayed in this video might put an end to the harvesting of what would be garbage, they would throw it away and there may be the cure for cancer in there.”
(video at link)
While trying to add that “[m]aybe there is the cure for heart disease in that fetal resource,” his fellow co-hosts groaned and swiftly rebuked him for his comments.
Bolling argued that “there is no question that” Planned Parenthood was “trying to profit” from the sale of aborted body parts and stated that “if you watch these videos, there’s a profit motive” at work.
Rivera attempted to respond by emphasizing that “you can't destroy the hopes of humanity for the cure of these horrible diseases because of the revulsion” shown in the video, but his co-hosts were not convinced with co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle shooting back: “That doesn't justify the criminal conduct in these on the part of Planned Parenthood.”
Visibly frustrated, Gutfeld sarcastically asked Rivera (who gave no response): “What if we found that it was a nutrit – that a fetus nutritionally was fantastic? Do we now have it for breakfast?”
Towards the end of the segment, Rivera dragged Republicans and the 2016 election into the debate: “If the Republican insists on making this the issue, this along with immigration, Republicans will lose.”
Gutfeld immediately pushed back by arguing that they could “win” instead as the horrifying conduct of Planned Parenthood officials in the videos “makes the Gosnell ordeal look like Candyland.”
After Guilfoyle offered her final comments being that “[t]here’s a special place in hell for people that don't think” the three videos are “disgusting,” Rivera declared that “[t]hinking it's disgusting is different than thinking it's illegal.”
The relevant portions of the transcript from FNC’s The Five on July 28 can be found below.
FNC’s The Five
July 28, 2015
5:34 p.m. Eastern
GERALDO RIVERA: Don't you fear, Eric, that the scandal, the justifiable scandal over the callousness of the people portrayed in this video might put an end to the harvesting of what would be garbage, they would throw it away and there may be the cure for cancer in there. Maybe there is the cure for heart disease in that fetal resource.
ERIC BOLLING: Geraldo, there is no question that they were trying to profit. I will tell you unequivocally, if you watch these videos, there’s a profit motive and there’s the difference.
RIVERA: But my point is that you can't destroy the hopes of humanity for the cure of these horrible diseases because of the revulsion that –
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE: That doesn't justify the criminal conduct in these on the part of Planned Parenthood
GREG GUTFELD: You can use that argument for anything. What if we found that it was a nutrit – that a fetus nutritionally was fantastic? Do we now have it for breakfast?
(....)
GUILFOYLE: And isn't there – when you think about it, that's a built-in incentive for Planned Parenthood, right? The more abortions, the more fetuses that they have that are discarded, they can turn over quote unquote for biomedical research. Why isn't there a serious call to arms to be able to investigate criminal conduct you are not allowed to sell fetal body parts. That's where the investigation should be and as Eric said, these videos are horrendous. Horrendous.
RIVERA: But you were a prosecutor in California. You know it is a two-party consent state and these videos were illegally taken.
GUILFOYLE: And I'm telling you they don't have the legal expectation of privacy. Bring the case to the courts and see how it turns out. You’re like chin chin with the wine and talking about body parts? Petri dishes with little baby's eyes and feet and hands?
RIVERA: If the Republican insists on making this the issue, this along with immigration, Republicans will lose.
GUTFELD: Or win. This makes the Gosnell ordeal look like candy land.
GUILFOYLE: And I sat through all that testimony and the evidence and the pictures. So, like, wake up and have a conscience. There's a special place in hell for people that don't think this is disgusting.
GUTFELD: On that note, we've got to move ahead.
RIVERA: Thinking it's disgusting is different than thinking it's illegal.
And who can say that one of those aborted babies wouldn't grow-up and discover a cure for cancer?
Now that they've been destroyed, we'll never know...will we Whorealdo?
Is Geraldo ready to start giving up body parts? ==
His best contribution would be a do-nut shaped muscular appendage.
It is the largest and most developed ever exhibited.
What is it with FNC anyway?
Found in the trash behind an abortuary. Seems these little ones didn't make the cut! If this image disturbs or sickens you – GOOD!! It's long past time – 55 million dead later – to take an up close look at this holocaust! (Photobucket pulled this photo once before and I’m sure they will do so again.)
Start with that insipid grinning mouth!
Rivera has damaged FoxNew’s image for a long time.
It’s amazing he is still on.
I’ve had Shingles and it really hurts.I would get the vaccine for Shingles but a line of cells from aborted fetuses was used in its making. Would somebody correct me otherwise. I’d rather suffer from a re- occurrence than take the vaccine.
We’re not beyond belief ..”just” the pale.....Were here to Help
Were Planned Abomination!
I can’t watch “The Five” if Jerry is on. I can sort of tolerate Juan’s deliberate cement-headed stupidity, but Jerry’s macho-man leftism makes me gag. He really needs a good kick in the ‘nads.
I read here on FR the other day about the link to many medical problems associated with vaccines that are specifically derived from fetal tissue. Aside from the obvious moral problem with it, it’s also bad science.
I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with that. :( I hear it’s super painful. I admire you for your convictions. God bless you.
Planned Infanticide.
There we have it..no need to mince words or even try to be humorous about this mess.
Planned Infanticide. it is!!
Sorry Geraldo.... There will never be a cure for your brain rot.
Whorealdo,
If we haven’t found the cure for cancer in fetal body parts after four decades and tens of millions of abortions and selling the body parts thereof, then perhaps this is a dead end. Just a thought, you soulless ghoul.
“there may be the cure for cancer in there.”
If the baby had been allowed to live, he/she could have cured cancer as well...
It’s like a game with these heinous monsters.
He may as well get up to speed and donate...his brain now...before it shrivels any further
it may be some hideous virus....
its the right thing Jerry...you could save others from certain stupidity
Good move.
I went into the military after high school and never bought a television until January of 1990. Got rid of it in March of 1995.
The negatives outweigh the positives and I have always been both a reader and an outdoorsman. Books are fine out in the sunshine.
Typical stupid liberals with their stupid logic: “There may be a cure for cancer there”. MAY. MAY.
Is that all it takes to commit crimes?
Okay, I’ll go this far: I think shooting Jerry Rivers and carving him up MAY get us a cure to cancer. Am I now not obligated to hunt him down and kill him?
What a bunch of right-brained thinking.
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