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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Insufferable behavior will have that effect...
Don’t watch Fox anymore so I don’t care. I am amused that he is offended when the other four are probably more offended by him.
Yeah Geraldo, it must be really taxing on you to always be wrong about literally everything.
Don’t let the door hit you on your ads as you leave.
No one quits media, acting or the pop music circuit at 65 any more.
At least h is an 80 year old who realizes his time has come and gone.
I remember when people retired at 68.
Geraldo takes it personally?
What the heck?
Isn’t his job, to sit there and espouse the liberal view of whatever is being discussed?
Or is he saying, he gets his feelings hurt? But he’s supposed to be a professional “journalist / commentator”, whatever his official professional status is???
Is he saying shame on anyone who hurts the feelings of a liberal????
He’s still got time to find out The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults
This will really free him up
Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Don’t watch Fox any longer could care less what the hell they do over there, they removed EVERY person I enjoyed, Lou Dobbs, Trish Regan, Dan Bongino, Tucker Carlson I am now enjoying ALL OF THEM elsewhere SCREW FOX!!
I hope The Five remembers to jiggle the handle after this turd flushes.
Advised to quit, probably.
The IQ of the show just doubled.................
Maybe we can pitch in and get him a ticket for a Titanic submarine ride.
He and Gutfeld would constantly spar.
Oh, you beat me to it. This thread demands an Al Capone retort, lol.
He’s a Flaming Azz’hole.
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