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I watched Fox for a while late last night and was afraid to turn it off, lest I miss a live shot of Geraldo the Fraud either being blown away into the storm or impaled by a 2 X 4.

Eventually I had to turn it off though. I was a little nervous about which force would prevail - the winds of Hurricane Ike, or Geraldo’s massive ego.

Right before the show he was broadcasting ended (about 11:50 pm PT...though he was still going to do the live stuff in other shows it sounded like) in the middle of the eye, he was talking about the palm tree.

He basically said that he didn’t think he could have gotten through it without the palm tree and he was sort of patting/leaning against it affectionately.

If you have ever heard the kids song many learn in Sunday school growing up, “Zaccheus was a wee little man” all I could think was replacing Geraldo’s name, and crazy for wee, climbing up a palm tree instead of sycamore, and for the hurricane he wanted to see instead of the Lord. LOL

Honestly, it was a classic Geraldo moment. Someone posted a picture of him, I’ll see if I can find it...but I’m sure there will be youtube eventually! It was great!

John Scott was the in studio co-anchor and he had this flat affect almost while interacting with Geraldo and would blandly say he was going to read Geraldo some email questions, and in the corner you’d see Geraldo flapping around in his “trusty tree” (as John later said!)

At one point his blackberry got washed away, as well.

There’s a gazillion sites talking about him and the palm tree (and some just using Geraldo and tree in general instead of saying it was a palm) but I still can’t find video for you. I’ll keep trying!