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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: Oldeconomybuyer

Too little, too late.


81 posted on 06/21/2023 2:56:33 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: V_TWIN

I agree, although calling her snotty is too nice!


82 posted on 06/21/2023 3:01:45 PM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: Psalm 130)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Leaving because no one wants to listen to his nonsense


83 posted on 06/21/2023 3:02:56 PM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: Reno89519

I agree!


84 posted on 06/21/2023 3:03:09 PM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: Psalm 130)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Jerry Rivers......

Retire..and hunt for dead Mobsters

85 posted on 06/21/2023 3:09:01 PM PDT by Osage Orange
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I turned Fox (and my TV) off the day they hired Whorealdo. I think it was 2001. Other than turning on a football game for my son to watch at Thanksgiving, the TV hasn’t been on since.


86 posted on 06/21/2023 3:20:47 PM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s harder and harder to defend the indefensible.


87 posted on 06/21/2023 3:24:47 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: KevinB

Are you sure it still works?

Was it an early digital set?

Analog broadcasting for the older sets stopped in 2009.


88 posted on 06/21/2023 3:27:11 PM PDT by x
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To: x
Are you sure it still works?

Yes. I only have over-the-air so I had to get a converter box so my son could watch his football games at Thanksgiving. Otherwise, I couldn't get the boy to come. :-)

89 posted on 06/21/2023 3:29:07 PM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: MinorityRepublican

LOL!!
I’m sure South Park must have had a field day with Geraldo.


90 posted on 06/21/2023 3:48:24 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: GaltAdonis

Read another article saying he was canceled...he didn’t “quit”


91 posted on 06/21/2023 3:49:59 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: JonPreston

So, you were in the room? Were they speaking in Russian? Otherwise you’d need an English:Orc google translate.


92 posted on 06/21/2023 3:50:40 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good Riddance, POS!


93 posted on 06/21/2023 3:54:40 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Jessica is ANOTHER LYING POS!


94 posted on 06/21/2023 3:55:57 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: lee martell

BINGO!! Greg gets his well deserved DIGS in and then he LAUGHS a STUPID LAUGH to take the sting out of it.....LEAVE THE STING IN!


95 posted on 06/21/2023 3:58:46 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: suekas

Harold Ford is a LIBERAL LIAR! redundant, I know....and Jessica is a Third Class B*TCH!


96 posted on 06/21/2023 4:00:53 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Anyone with a lick of common sense knows Jerry Rivers is a human tick on the body of MSM. He wouldn’t leave a burning building if there was a camera on his egotistical self. But it’s cute you bought his story. Dopey, but 😊 cute.


97 posted on 06/21/2023 4:49:51 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: BBB333

Oh no! I let the secret out!!

😁🤣😜


98 posted on 06/21/2023 5:29:01 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: TokarevM57

If I recall correctly he called himself Jerry Rivers back about 1968/69 in LA when he was the weather boy on I think it was channel 5.

When the LaRaza thing got big in LA in the early 70’s is when he switched to GERRALDO RIVERAA.

In other words he WHOREALDOED himself for better placement on TV.


99 posted on 06/21/2023 10:16:19 PM PDT by 5th MEB
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To: IrishBrigade
let’s only have people on the Five who all espouse identical opinions...

I can tolerate opposing opinions, just not the idiots who espouse them.

Harold Ford is tolerable.......

100 posted on 06/22/2023 2:23:33 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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