Geraldo Is Offering To Quit

Washington Post | 12-24-01 | Self

[Temple Owl]

Ooops! I forgot the warning about printing anything from the Washington Post en toto and submitted a good portion of a column by Howard Kurtz, a staff writer. My sincere apologies. Anyway, it was not posted so I thank the alert person who caught it.

Basically, Kurtz wrote that Geraldo Rivera is offering to resign from Fox New if a panel of experts rules that he did anything "unethical" in Afghanistan.

[meenie]

Geraldo could right the situation by actually participating in a fiendly fire incident. I am sure there are several fire controllers that would be willing to send in his coordinates.

[jos65]

Yahoo!!!!!!

[bulldog905]

There is a job opening as head football coach at Notre Dame, if Geraldo quits/gets fired.

All he would have to do is re-invent himself as Gerry O'Rivera, and lie about his football accomplishments.

Not much of a stretch for Jerry Rivers.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

As I recall Geraldo also offered $10,000 to "anyone" who could site a case wherein lying under oath about sex in a civil case had been prosecuted in the past ten years. When a lawyer sited a case wherein a VA female psychiatrist had been prosecuted for just that by Clinton's justice department Geraldo promptly paid up. No, no, wait that was in a parallel universe. In this universe Geraldo welshed and ABC had to pay off on his challenge.

I guarantee you that no panel will be satisfactory to Geraldo if it finds he lied.

[JSteff]

Did you mean?
quit (kwit) vt. quit or sometimes quit'ted, quitting [ME quiten < OFr quiter < ML quittus, quietus, free: see QUIET] 1 to free (oneself) of 2 to discharge (a debt or obligation); repay 3 to stop having, using, or doing (something); give up

[Wolfstar]

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.

[Roman33]

What I do not understand is if Geraldo really did lie, why does he have to quit? Why hasn't FOX already fired him???

[putupon]

quit? whorealdo should have never been hired to begin with, but at least fired immediately after he was found out to have made the "honest mistake" of lying about his location when reporting on the friendly fire incident and had to pay his own transportation fees back to the US. anybody else on any other job would be fired for lying; FOX loses credibility every time they put this lying bag of $*%$ on the air. quitting shouldn't even be an issue. let gerry get a job working for the klintons, they always have openings for proffesional bootlicking liars.

[Judith Anne]

Geraldo offered to quit?

Okay. ;-D

[PoisedWoman]

Nothing new, sweetie. Geraldo "quites" all the time. He's quite idiotic, quite assinine, quite ugly, quite the apologist for the Clintoons, quite a pain in the fisteris. Never bland, however, he truly is always quite.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What do an "honest mistake" and a "deliberate mistake" have in common?
"Mistake".
He should quit or be canned.

[exmoor]

Geraldo Is Offering To Quite..why because Saturday Nite Live didn't want to renew his contract.

[babylonian]

"Geraldo Is Offering To Quite"

Are you a WWF fan?

[poet]

According to a radio report I heard, the "mistake" he mistook actually happened on AFTER he reported the incident.!!!!
I agree that he should never have been hired and I have not watched fox since and let them know they lost me as a viewer when I first heard of his hiring.

[Real Cynic No More]

Geraldo did not make a mistake in his statements; he said exactly what he intended to say. The mistake Geraldo made was in his thinking that nobody would know the difference. He has made his career by over-exaggeration, hyperbole, half-truths, false accusations, and outright lies, just like his report from Tora Bora. The astute watcher greets all he says with great skepticism.

[Doctor Stochastic]

I had hoped the headline read: Geraldo Is Offering to Quiet

[mountaineer]

"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.

[chainsaw]

Which side of his mouth was Rivers talking out of when he said he would quit. I'll believe it when I see it.

[Tall_Texan]

LOL! "Quite" accurate!