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Occupy Wall Street's Great Unifier: Hating Geraldo Rivera
The Atlantic ^ | 10/24/11 | Adam Martin

Posted on 10/24/2011 10:59:48 AM PDT by presidio9

The news from Zuccotti Park over the last week and weekend has focused increasingly on the schisms and animosity within the group, but if there's one thing that keeps Occupy Wall Street protesters united better than just about anything else, it's their disdain for Geraldo Rivera. With the impending cold weather, the strain of sleeping rough, and the disagreements over how to manage the group's budget, tensions in Zuccotti Park are running high. There seems to be a rebellion brewing among the drumming group, and a prank on Sunday night where somebody told the Kitchen they'd been given an A grade by the city for sanitation (which they took seriously and cheered at first) did not go down well. "We are upset someone would play a joke with something so important to us," said Megan Hayes, a member of the food committee, via text. Then there was that guy who climbed the red thing, which organizers did not appreciate one bit. All in all, it was a pretty tough weekend at Occupy Wall Street. But then Geraldo Rivera came by, not to cover the protest but to host a segment on Baby Lisa, the infant missing in Missouri. As his appearances always do, that cameo got everybody in the park on the same page, with a crowd shouting him down and swearing at him, just like his last visit. It's a wonder the guy keeps coming back, but you've got to hand it to him for persistance.

Mediaite has the Fox News video, with Rivera and two experts talking about Baby Lisa on Sunday night. Skip to about 3:00 to hear the jeers pick up, and then watch the sea of middle fingers as the camera pans the crowd:

Occupiers chanted their "mic check" relay,

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlanticwire.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: foxnews; geraldorivera; grimreaper; occupywallstreet; ows
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Feel free to have warm thoughts towards Geraldo, Bob Beckel, and Juan Williams and others because they're "our liberals." Anybody who repeated the mantra that the Tea Party "had racist elements" because of a few signs among hundreds of thousands, and is now reluctant to draw the same conclusion from a few signs among the hundreds in Liberty Square/Zucotti Park is an out unmitigated hypocrite.
1 posted on 10/24/2011 10:59:51 AM PDT by presidio9
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To: presidio9

Finally, though, something the OWSers believe that I can get behind... hating (too strong a word, perhaps “despising”) Geraldo Rivera...


2 posted on 10/24/2011 11:05:07 AM PDT by PhilosopherStone1000
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To: presidio9

” Occupy Wall Street’s Great Unifier: Hating Geraldo Rivera “

The *Nation’s* Great Unifier: Hating Geraldo Rivera...

(That headline just cried out for ‘correction’...)


3 posted on 10/24/2011 11:06:03 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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Oh come on. Hating Geraldo Rivera is EASY! Those "Occupy" people are nothing special.

Why, I can hate Geraldo Rivera with one hand tied behind my back, standing on a balance beam, on one leg, while balancing a half-keg of beer on my head and reciting the Gettysburg Address... ...BACKWARDS.

In fact, hating Geraldo Rivera is SO easy, a CHILD can do it. My son isn't even ten years old yet and HE can already hate Geraldo Rivera with the passion of a thousand burning suns... THAT'S how easy it is.

4 posted on 10/24/2011 11:10:28 AM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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I am in total agreement with the slackers for the first time on this. Gerry is a phony and a real POS.

I hope he stays away from protesters with chairs. It never turns out well for him.

5 posted on 10/24/2011 11:10:46 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: presidio9
Fleabaggers give whore-aldo the 'down twinkles' !!!


6 posted on 10/24/2011 11:11:47 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: PhilosopherStone1000

If true then who possibly loves him besides him? This article makes hating him nearly universal.


7 posted on 10/24/2011 11:12:32 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: PhilosopherStone1000

Yeah, I am depressed to learn that I actually support OWS in this matter...


8 posted on 10/24/2011 11:13:07 AM PDT by AzSteven ("War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." Jean Dutourd)
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To: WayneS
Why, I can hate Geraldo Rivera with one hand tied behind my back, standing on a balance beam, on one leg, while balancing a half-keg of beer on my head and reciting the Gettysburg Address... ...BACKWARDS.

What a coincidence, I was doing the same thing the other day while I was hating Rivera. Great minds and all that;)

9 posted on 10/24/2011 11:16:47 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: AzSteven

Yeah, I am depressed to learn that I actually support OWS in this matter...

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Think of it as the exception that proves the rule.


10 posted on 10/24/2011 11:17:12 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Ps 122:6)
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To: presidio9

Occupy Wall Street is the 21st century version of Woodstock. Both were outgrowths of the Counter Culture Movement of the 1960s, the embodiment of which was not “Flower Children” but The Manson Family.


11 posted on 10/24/2011 11:19:43 AM PDT by Savage Beast (America's best hope is the Left's worst nightmare: Herman Cain!)
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To: WayneS

I hated Geraldo Rivera before it was a fashion statement!...


12 posted on 10/24/2011 11:20:18 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: presidio9

Adam Martin

13 posted on 10/24/2011 11:21:28 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: RJS1950

14 posted on 10/24/2011 11:21:34 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9
This guy stole my post from one of the "Marx in the Parks" threads over a week ago!

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hating Geraldo is one of the few ideas that could really unite the country.

12 posted on 10/10/2011 1:39:30 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)

16 posted on 10/24/2011 11:23:23 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: presidio9

More evidence of racism on the part of OWS. They obviously hate Hispanics.


17 posted on 10/24/2011 11:23:23 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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It is a matter of simple physics.

The Law of Equilibrium demands that in order to compensate for the enormous self-love, Jerry Rivers has for himself, the entire rest of the world must hate him.


18 posted on 10/24/2011 11:26:17 AM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: presidio9

Looks gay as hell!.....auditioning for the Village People?


19 posted on 10/24/2011 11:26:17 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: RJS1950

Maybe his mom still likes him...


20 posted on 10/24/2011 11:39:06 AM PDT by PhilosopherStone1000
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