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Geraldo: ABC Fired Me for $200 Donation, Why Not the Same for Stephanopoulos?
Mediaite ^ | 3-15-2015 | Matt Wilstein

Posted on 05/15/2015 10:27:37 AM PDT by tcrlaf

Geraldo Rivera sees a double standard at work in ABC News’ decision to stand by George Stephanopoulos after the network’s chief anchor apologized for failing to publicly disclose $75,000 in donations to the Clinton Foundation over the last three years. In a Facebook post Friday morning, Rivera claimed he was fired by ABC News in 1985 for making a $200 political donation and wondered why Stephanopoulos isn’t getting the same treatment.

“In 1985, after fifteen great years, I was fired by ABC News,” Rivera wrote. “The official reason for my firing was a non-disclosed $200 donation to a family friend running in a non-partisan mayoral campaign in New Bedford Massachusetts.”

He went on to say that the “real reason” he was fired was a dispute with network head Roone Arldege over a spiked 20/20 story involving Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys.

“The point is ABC treated my undisclosed $200 donation harshly because the network wanted me out for that unrelated reason,” Rivera continued. “Now ABC is bending over backward to minimize and forgive George Stephanopoulos’ $75,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation because he is central to the network’s recent success.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abc; clinon; clinton; clintonfoundation; georgesnuffleupagus; georgestephanopoulos; geraldorivera; hypocrisy; jerryrivers; kennedys; marilynmonroe; media; msm; roonearldege; stephanopoulos; whorealdo
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We all know that ethics require that Stephi be fired, but we all know that "Ethics" no longer has a place in the U.S. Mainstream Media.
1 posted on 05/15/2015 10:27:38 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

Amazing, something Gerald is saying that I can agree with.


2 posted on 05/15/2015 10:28:48 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: tcrlaf

I didn’t know ABC was still on the air. Seriously.


3 posted on 05/15/2015 10:31:27 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: tcrlaf

Because you’re a dweeb Geraldo ....


4 posted on 05/15/2015 10:31:59 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: tcrlaf

Why not indeed!


5 posted on 05/15/2015 10:32:59 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: GreyFriar

“In a Facebook post Friday morning, Rivera claimed he was fired by ABC News in 1985 for making a $200 political donation and wondered why Stephanopoulos isn’t getting the same treatment.”

Didn’t PMSNBC suspend Schultz for taking money from unions that he was representing? But they didn’t suspend Sharpton.

Stephie will leave for the Clinton campaign once they are 100% sure she is bulletproof.


6 posted on 05/15/2015 10:33:13 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liawatha, because we need to beat a real commie, not a criminal posing as one.)
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To: SkyDancer

Video Montage:
Stephi defends Hillary, bashes “Clinton Cash” book, while never disclosing his own Clinton “donations”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypwEjMoIIKc


7 posted on 05/15/2015 10:33:52 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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/src on/Jerry you made a political donation. Georgie gave to a charitable foundation that is doing remarkable non-political work around the world./src off/


8 posted on 05/15/2015 10:34:22 AM PDT by C19fan
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Too biased for ABC? I’m sure Fox will find a spot for Steph as they angle for strange new respect.


9 posted on 05/15/2015 10:34:45 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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Georgie gave to a charitable foundation that is doing remarkable non-political work around the world.

LOL. "Remarkable" was key.

10 posted on 05/15/2015 10:35:34 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: tcrlaf

Guess you haven’t kissed enough a$$ in your career Jerry.


11 posted on 05/15/2015 10:35:38 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: GreyFriar

Anytime heraldo is f $#@! I am happy.


12 posted on 05/15/2015 10:37:34 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: tcrlaf

Welcome to our world.

13 posted on 05/15/2015 10:37:50 AM PDT by McGruff (What did Hillary know and when did she know it?)
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To: tcrlaf

Well Jerry that was then and this is now, like you ABC has become much more progressive in their liberal communist ideology.


14 posted on 05/15/2015 10:38:10 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: tcrlaf

Hey Jerry (Channeling George Carlin) - It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.


15 posted on 05/15/2015 10:38:22 AM PDT by Polynikes (What would Walt Kowalski do. In the meantime "GET OFF MY LAWN")
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To: tcrlaf

That was ABC’s excuse. No doubt they were embarrassed having Gerry on staff. FOX should dump his butt too.


16 posted on 05/15/2015 10:38:52 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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Gee, just think if Gerbrawldo wasn’t fired from ABC back then, TV might have been so much the lesser without his talk show that featured Satanism and the big fight with the skinheads and neo Nazis.


17 posted on 05/15/2015 10:40:00 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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I guess it sucks to be on the short-end of a double-standard?

-PJ

18 posted on 05/15/2015 10:41:24 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: tcrlaf

Whorelando made a donation

Stephi was laundering money

not the same


19 posted on 05/15/2015 10:41:28 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: tcrlaf

‘Cause you’re not cool, and your wife’s not cool either. Too bad, Jerry.


20 posted on 05/15/2015 10:42:14 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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