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Television veteran Geraldo Rivera says he’s quitting Fox News’ political combat show ‘The Five’
The Associated Press ^ | June 21, 2023 | By DAVID BAUDER

Posted on 06/21/2023 12:52:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

NEW YORK (AP) — Geraldo Rivera has quit as one of the lonely liberal voices on Fox News’ popular political combat show “The Five,” saying Wednesday that “a growing tension that goes beyond editorial differences” made it no longer worth it to him.

The last scheduled appearance on “The Five” for the television veteran, whose 80th birthday is on July 4, is next week.

“It has been a rocky ride but it has also been an exhilarating adventure that spanned quite a few years,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday. “I hope it’s not my last adventure.”

Rivera said that it was his choice to leave “The Five,” but that Fox management “didn’t race after me to say, ‘Geraldo, please come back.’” There was no immediate comment from Fox.

“I’m 80 years old,” he said. “I don’t want the friction. ‘The Five’ is too intimate a place and it gets too personal.”

He said his relationship with his colleagues on “The Five” is “a reflection of what the country is going through. ... It’s not an easy job if you take it as personally as I do.”

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: geraldo; jerry; thefive
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To: 1Old Pro

Fox News should be careful, placing too many of it’s eggs into Greg Gutfeld’s figurative basket.
A little Greg goes a long way. Too much Greg on camera quickly becomes annoying and irritating.

If the network needs a card carrying liberal to intellectually spar with Gutfeld, Geraldo is now overly predictable and thus replaceable.
There should be no shortage of Lib talkers out there, of either sex.


41 posted on 06/21/2023 1:17:00 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: V_TWIN

Ah, yes, that’s her name. She should have been first to go. The liberals they’ve had are horrific: Tarlov, Brasile, Williams, etc. At least Harold Ford Jr. is intelligent and not an apparent idealogue. He’ll last.


42 posted on 06/21/2023 1:17:14 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Donald Tantrum? No Thank You. We Can Do Better! I am a Veteran Supporting Veteran DeSantis.)
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To: lee martell
A little Greg goes a long way

Yes, quite observant.

43 posted on 06/21/2023 1:18:20 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Watch it, Trump married nearly half his age as do many of these folks that get tired of old women. :)


44 posted on 06/21/2023 1:18:59 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Donald Tantrum? No Thank You. We Can Do Better! I am a Veteran Supporting Veteran DeSantis.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I once heard Jerry claim to be a Republican ... LOL ...


45 posted on 06/21/2023 1:18:59 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

46 posted on 06/21/2023 1:19:24 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: Yo-Yo

That guy resembles Jerry with that mustache.


47 posted on 06/21/2023 1:20:33 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I hope like hell Newsmax doesn’t hire him.


48 posted on 06/21/2023 1:21:08 PM PDT by Rappini (Hope means coming in second.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“I hope it’s not my last adventure.”

Have you seen the wreckage of the Titanic yet Jerry?


49 posted on 06/21/2023 1:22:24 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Reno89519
Watch it, Trump married nearly half his age as do many of these folks that get tired of old women. :)

Money

50 posted on 06/21/2023 1:22:52 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SaveFerris
Things like 'load-bearing supports' are overrated in places like
big media bizarro-world - and much of the rest of society as well, in fact...
51 posted on 06/21/2023 1:23:43 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Well they still have the ditz Jessica Tarlov and the dullard Juan Williams to carry the liberal urine.


52 posted on 06/21/2023 1:24:36 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: 1Old Pro

And don’t forget his gas guzzling yacht. But he’s worried about the environment, don’t you know. Like all limousine liberals.


53 posted on 06/21/2023 1:25:09 PM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I like Harold Ford as the left’s voice, on the five. Geraldo pretend to be a Republican, so he can trash them. Just like Anna Navarro on the view.


54 posted on 06/21/2023 1:25:11 PM PDT by suekas
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Drama I have no time for.


55 posted on 06/21/2023 1:25:45 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: 1Old Pro

Gutfeld was always very good at showing riviera’s hypocrisy.....occasionally getting riviera to unwittingly admit to it.......for example riviera always virtue signaling green energy, Gutfeld never missed an opportunity to point out
riviera drives a Bentley and purchased mini coopers for both his daughters. THAT made rivers furious......it was hilarious.

he’s a dumbass Jim


56 posted on 06/21/2023 1:26:07 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, FOX can make it up to him, and fire the rest of the hosts on the Five,and keep Geraldo as the lead host, with 4 other liberals as replacements for the fired ones.

FOX has been firing the conservatives on the network, so why not the Five’s conservatives. We’ve come to expect that from FOX.


57 posted on 06/21/2023 1:26:34 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Rivera must mean Gutfeld. Gutfeld got Juan Williams removed for the same reason.

-PJ

58 posted on 06/21/2023 1:26:46 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: CaptainK
And don’t forget his gas guzzling yacht. But he’s worried about the environment, don’t you know.

Yep, he came thru the old Erie Canal system a few years ago to get his boat back to Ohio. Local newspapers thought that was grand.

59 posted on 06/21/2023 1:26:49 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Dan Bongino almost came to blows with the schmuck.


60 posted on 06/21/2023 1:26:59 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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