I wish he would quit. I can't take him any more seriously than I can take someone like Ashleigh Banfield seriously. Clownish people like them manage to diminish the impact of any story they try to cover. Geraldo has to be somewhere in his early to mid-50's, which just makes his false bravado and attempts to out-macho the Marines and Afghan fighters all the more laughable. He's an aging 1960's Leftist who is trying to rediscover the investigative reporter incarnation of his youth.
BTW, for the benefit of FReepers who didn't catch Ashleigh's version of how to prep for a stint doing war coverage in Pakistan and Afghanistan, she dyed her blonde hair black so she would fit in better "over there." Of course, her frosted blonde hair wasn't natural, either, but she must have thought blondes get up the TV news ladder faster than non-blondes. That is, until a nice little war came along to use as her personal career-enhancement backdrop.
"Clownish" is precisely the word for the Banfields and Riveras of the world. One of the reasons I don't call myself a journalist, despite being a newspaper reporter (award winning, for what it's worth), is the misuse of the term by blow-dried television celebrities who think donning khaki or dyeing their hair somehow effects a magical transformation into "serious journalism." They could don a big red rubber nose and floppy shoes, too, and they wouldn't be any more or less credible.
Lest anyone forget, Geraldo was a Jerry Springer-like talk show host several years ago, before he miraculously and instantaneously became a "broadcast journalist" the minute he was signed by ABC's news division.