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Geraldo Rivera: Rush Limbaugh 'Dean' of 'Nativist Reaction'
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Posted on 03/03/2008 11:19:14 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Geraldo Rivera: Rush Limbaugh 'Dean' of 'Nativist Reaction' Photo of Justin McCarthy. By Justin McCarthy | March 3, 2008 - 13:27 ET

According to Geraldo Rivera, Rush Limbaugh is "the dean of the academy" of a "nativist reaction" and "the most savage talk radio campaign every in history." Appearing on the March 3 edition of "The View," the Fox News correspondent promoted to his book, "His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S." Rivera also said McCain’s virtual lock of the Republican nomination is "a victory for the decency wing of the GOP." Rivera also claimed Mitt Romney "was such a nice guy" as governor of Massachusetts, but "suddenly became an anti-immigrant radical."

Geraldo also said he refuses to even shake CNN correspondent Lou Dobbs’ hand. The relevant transcript is below.

WALTERS: But when we have someone like John McCain, and, and others who say "look, let’s let the illegals work their way back, be identified, pay a fine," you know, have to have certain steps, it’s called "amnesty."

GERALDO RIVERA: I don’t think that that’s amnesty at all. And thank God John McCain is basically the Republican nominee because he is, his victory is a victory for the decency wing of the GOP. The other candidates, Mike Huckabee, a wonderful guy otherwise, he put the co-chairman of the Minutemen on his advisory committee.

HASSELBECK: And Mitt Romney.

RIVERA: And Mitt Romney, I mean, who was such a nice guy when he was mayor- governor of Massachusetts, suddenly became this anti-immigration radical. And the reason conservatives don’t have Mitt Romney to vote for is that the hispanics in Florida listen to his hateful rhetoric, and they said "forget about it. We don’t care that you come down here and drink café com leche and say ‘Cuba si,’ and ‘yankee no’ and all these other formulaic things. If you are slandering people that look like me and sound like me, we’re not going to vote for you." They voted for John McCain five to one. That’s why he’s out.

BEHAR: Wasn’t that to appeal to the base? And why would the base go along with something like that?

RIVERA: Well, you know, where, it stems from kind of a nativist reaction that started really at the grassroots and it’s driven by the most savage talk radio campaign ever in history.

BEHAR: Name names.

RIVERA: Well, I think that Rush Limbaugh is the dean of the academy. Lou Dobbs on CNN has been shameful in his hate mongering.

BEHAR: I heard you won’t shake his hand.

RIVERA: I would not shake his hand because this is a man who has done more damage to the cause of sensible comprehensive reform than anyone else with a microphone. And for him to be banded about as the next presidential candidate or an independent candidate. What? On the backs of these poor people, the most vulnerable? He’s scapegoating. He’s falsely blaming them for crime, for disease, for terror, for stealing jobs, and if you examine the studies, all of it is untrue.

—Justin McCarthy is a news analyst at Media Research Center.


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To: sourcery

“The American Indians found out what happens when you don’t control immigration.”

That right, Kemosabe!


41 posted on 03/03/2008 11:45:52 AM PST by Rock N Jones
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To: Sub-Driver
I AM a nativist, and I am proud to be one.

I AM a xenophobe, and I have good reason to be one.

Reason: 9/11/2001.

If you're a foreigner coming to this country who plans to be here for any length of time, ASSIMILATE or GET THE F*** OUT. Period.

42 posted on 03/03/2008 11:48:55 AM PST by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: Sub-Driver
This just in: Geraldo Rivera is delighted! Trouble for Rush.

The Ba'rackers have another "issue" that's not an issue! Curious George. Hallelujah!

Never heard of Curious George? Neither have I or Rush or millions of others. "Liars! Racists!" scream the Ba'rackers. Already Rush is catching it on air. Neighbors of Geraldo Rivera can hear yelling, "Hallelujah!"

A caller told Rush that her 12-year-old said that Senator Obama reminded her of Curious George, Rush issued a polite chuckle. All hell is breaking loose. Good.

Afterwards his staff told him what Curious George is.

BTW, in the 1960s the Tenth Amendment was racist, now the First Amendment is racist -- whether you knew what Curious George is or not.

The Obamabatty are massing troops to call every talk show in the Nation. The MSM are on orgasmic alert.... developing.

43 posted on 03/03/2008 11:49:14 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I have never understood why FNC keeps this guy around.


44 posted on 03/03/2008 11:54:04 AM PST by Uncle Hal
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To: Sub-Driver
Jerry Rivers is a multicultural Marxist. He makes a lot of wild statements and rhetoric concerning the “positive” attributes of illegal immigration, but never states the authority for those wild assertions.
45 posted on 03/03/2008 11:54:35 AM PST by MBB1984
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


46 posted on 03/03/2008 12:09:14 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: Sub-Driver

I was listening to a talk radio program(O’Reilly) and I heard a clip about him whining about the plight of the palistinians.
Shut him off and never listeded to him ever again.
I have him on permenant ban.
If he is on FOX, I turn the channel.
Him and colmes.


47 posted on 03/03/2008 12:10:48 PM PST by Larebil (My name is liberal backwards, since they backwards thinking)
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To: Uncle Hal
“I have never understood why FNC keeps this guy around.”

It is what they call Affirmative action, AKA, Give a job to the incompetent.

48 posted on 03/03/2008 12:15:37 PM PST by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: Sub-Driver
And thank God John McCain is basically the Republican nominee because he is, his victory is a victory for the decency wing of the GOP.

I guess that makes FR the indecency wing of the GOP. ;)

49 posted on 03/03/2008 12:22:13 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: Sub-Driver
Geraldo is such a hypocrite. He is none too bright and so he comes up with all kinds of stupidity. I usually switch channels when he appears. He is also a nasty male chauvinist. I recall him wanting to spit into Michelle Malking’s face. That was crude and vicious and went beyond name calling to a threat. Maybe he is jealous that she is smarter than he.
50 posted on 03/03/2008 12:24:11 PM PST by Dante3
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Geraldo, what’s your address? I’ll be right over to set up a new residency in one of your spare bedrooms. Oh, yeah, you will need to adjust your food and utility budget to accomdate me. Oh, yeah, I party late every night and I will not change my lifestyle to fit your household.


51 posted on 03/03/2008 12:24:20 PM PST by CSM (Kakistocracy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Geraldo Rivera is the Dean of television Dumbasses.

Been back to Al Capone’s vaults lately Geraldo, you Aztlan cheering schmuck?


52 posted on 03/03/2008 12:24:20 PM PST by DesScorp
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
Nose model for Band aids, it’s the only job this jerk is qualified for. The slide (Plummet) at Fox news started when they stooped down far enough to pick up this tu##, if it weren’t for the total ineptitude of MSNBC and CNN Fox would and should be having their backsides handed to them.
53 posted on 03/03/2008 12:27:10 PM PST by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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To: Sub-Driver

A mind is such a terrible thing to waste...on someone like Geraldo!


54 posted on 03/03/2008 12:36:05 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: Sub-Driver
I always get him mixed up with Father Guido Sarducchi. LOL
55 posted on 03/03/2008 12:45:05 PM PST by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
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To: Sub-Driver

Gerald-O needs to get a grip...no one is anti-immigrant...we’re anti-ILLEGAL immigrant you idiot!


56 posted on 03/03/2008 12:47:48 PM PST by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing-----Edmund Burke)
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To: Sub-Driver

Whorealdo = Beaner


57 posted on 03/03/2008 12:50:27 PM PST by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: Sub-Driver
I just googled “Curious George” on the images, down a couple of rows of pictures are pictures of Curious George, and some chimps and apes and George Bush. Seems it is alright for the left to say these things about our presicent. Someone that knows how should get that picture over here.
58 posted on 03/03/2008 12:53:58 PM PST by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
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To: TeddyCon

should have had a boating accident by now. That pant load has the easiest job on Earth!


59 posted on 03/03/2008 12:58:45 PM PST by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: Sub-Driver

Geraldo Rivera - Mother of prostituting newspersonalities.


60 posted on 03/03/2008 1:06:39 PM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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