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.”
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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.
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.
Yes, quite observant.
Watch it, Trump married nearly half his age as do many of these folks that get tired of old women. :)
I once heard Jerry claim to be a Republican ... LOL ...
That guy resembles Jerry with that mustache.
I hope like hell Newsmax doesn’t hire him.
“I hope it’s not my last adventure.”
Have you seen the wreckage of the Titanic yet Jerry?
Money
Well they still have the ditz Jessica Tarlov and the dullard Juan Williams to carry the liberal urine.
And don’t forget his gas guzzling yacht. But he’s worried about the environment, don’t you know. Like all limousine liberals.
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.
Drama I have no time for.
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
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.
-PJ
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.
Dan Bongino almost came to blows with the schmuck.
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