Posted on 08/17/2007 11:18:51 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
Well, we wouldn’t want to make Geraldo Rivera cry. But the fact is, he didn’t really address the situation. He once again smeared Michelle by bringing up militias, the KKK and neo-Nazis, to whom Michelle has no links and has never had any links (to whom Geraldo has attempted to link Michelle before), rather than just answer the question of whether deportable criminal aliens ought to be deported. And he brought up In Defense of Internment, mischaracterized it as “extolling” Roosevelt’s internment, rather than answer the question at hand. That’s called changing the subject. And he said he “cringes” nearly every time he sees Michelle on Fox. Well ain’t that a shame.
We have 100% preventable crimes and we have a government that’s supposed to enforce the laws that would lead to those preventions. What would Geraldo do about them? We still don’t know. We do know than when confronted with facts, Geraldo either distracts with emotion, or attacks his critics with smears and innuendo. When he isn’t actually lying on national TV. So today’s performance is just a reversion to the usual form.
I’m just surprised he didn’t bring up John Lennon. Because, you know, he was an illegal alien too.
xit question for Geraldo: Was LBJ’s “war on poverty” an actual, violent war on poor people? Or are you just once again trying to smear an opponent who has beaten you on the facts time and time again?
Update (AP): MM responds:
Geraldo says he “cringes” whenever I’m on Fox. I’ll tell you exactly why. It’s not because of any principled objection he has to the arguments I’ve made in my books (which he hasn’t read), columns, blog posts, and tee-vee appearances. It’s because the mere existence of conservative-thinking minorities who reject his tired old brand of identity politics threatens his race/ethnic-card-playing schtick. He can no longer dismiss all immigration enforcement proponents as racists without looking like a fool or tool, because there are countless, vocal numbers of them like me who have skin as brown as his. He cringes because he knows I’m not alone. He cringes because I’ll call out his bullcrap to his face without feeling any need to soften the blow or suck up in a collegial manner. He’s a know-it-all who knows nothing about the deportation abyss–and he masks his fundamental ignorance with incoherent indignance.
LOL! They’re just a couple of pictures of her off the internet, not framed photos or real photos. I’ve also got pictures of relatives and friends there as well!
I work around a lot of “liberals” and she drives them crazy. Of course, the main reason I have her pictures there is that she’s adorable!
Geraldo cringes bec he is being exposed for his own brand of racism.
Well if it bothers the liberals around you then it’s obviously the right thing to do . . .
Michelle has class.
Geraldo is a dirty trash can full of poop.
“I’ll never understand how Fox has Geraldo on the network.”
They need to be “fair and balanced” - that requires at least one total moron on staff. That’s where Whoraldo come in.
I was tempted, but he was protected by a group of schoolchildren next to him (it was the Jersey City Puerto Rican Day Parade).
Geraldo was just interviewing that priest friend of Elvira, he was saying that “the Minutemen, the Klansmen” were following them. I turned the channel.
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