Geraldo still reporting

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[Conservababe]

Geraldo is still reporting and with the 101st.

[Nexus]

WTF!

CNN.com has a link link on their homepage titled:
Military expels Fox's Rivera from Iraq

Yet it links to a story titled:
Confusion surrounds Rivera's expulsion from Iraq (complete with a quote from Lt. Cmdr. Charles Owens backtracking on what he said earlier)

They really have it out for Geraldo... I smell a lawsuit!

[Freedom Addict]

With all respect to any fellow freepers, Geraldo did not do our troops a service by broadcasting their location for all the world to see.

The story on Geraldo being thrown out has been run by several sources now, and even though the liberal media is to be regarded suspiciously, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

In this case we have a spokesman for the defense department making the statements:

"If you were to ask me on whether or not he had reported on things that were of tactical value and compromised operational security, I would have to say yes. In the eyes of the commander on the ground, he did," Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman told Reuters.

"Fox has talked to us and they have indicated to us that they are going to remove him from the areas of operation," added Whitman.

So in this case it's not Geraldo and Fox against NBC, or CNN, or ET, or AFP, it's Geraldo and Fox against the defense department.

I'll take the word of the defense department that is charged with looking out for the well being of our greatest national treasure: the men and women who fight to defend our freedom.

Last word from ET is that Geraldo is now in Kuwait City, having been removed from Iraq at the request of DOD. I hope Fox will do the honorable thing and remove him from the story entirely. We are at war, and we can't have any reporters, however well intentioned (though I'm not sure if Geraldo is well intentioned or just satisfying his ego by attaching himself to our troops) jeapordizing our troops' safety or the effectiveness of our war effort.

[Howlin]

You couldn't be more wrong.

Brit Hume himself said it's being "investigatged."

Geraldo is still with the troops.

~~"Fox has talked to us and they have indicated to us that they are going to remove him from the areas of operation," added Whitman.
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Nobody at Fox has said anything close to that.

[BooBoo1000]

Nothing he does would suprise me, I watched him dig into Al Capon's secret vault on time. Nothing but two old whiskey bottles and one guy with egg on his face..

[Freedom Addict]

I'm not going to take the word of any news media over the DOD.

What Fox told DOD and what they are reporting publicly are evidently contradictory. Perhaps there is an internal communications issue at Fox.

But I'll take a quote from a named source at DOD any day.

What Geraldo did was unconscionable. I've been very pleased at the attention reporters have paid to not revealing the location of our troops, and Geraldo crossed a line when he did so.

He put our troops in possible danger, the commander on the ground said so, and he should not be given the opportunity to do so again. The lives of our troops and the success of their mission are far more important than preserving the credibility or ego of any reporter or media, whether that reporter or media are liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Scientologist or whatever.

[areafiftyone]

Welcome to Free Republic. I guess I felt bad for Geraldo because he tried too hard. His heart is in the right place but he made a big mistake and now will have to face the consequences of his stupidity.

[Freedom Addict]

Thanks for the welcome!

I've read a LOT at Free Republic for a while now. It's an island of sanity in a turbulent sea of liberal strife.

Especially for someone stuck here in ultra-lib Hawaii. OK, maybe not STUCK here. But I'd really prefer that we continue the revolution begun by our new Republican Governor and turn the state around.

I know what you mean. However well intentioned Geraldo may be (assuming that his recent conversion was genuine!) his tragic flaw is his ego. That's what caused him to do his little sand painitng act, IMHO.

Entertainemnt Online (not the best source, but usually accurate on which entertainers are where) is reporting that Geraldo is now in Kuwait.

I hope that Geraldo has also absorbed the personal responsibility and maturity that come with a true conversion to conservatism, and will accept responsibility for doing anything that might endanger our troops.

How could the family of any serviceman (or woman!) ever watch any news again if their loved one was a casualty as a result of information revealed on the air?

[Contra]

Geraldo looks kinda like those Iraqis, doesn't he? Sort of like a young Saddam Hussein?

[Willie Green]

With all respect to any fellow freepers, Geraldo did not do our troops a service by broadcasting their location for all the world to see.

Saddam has been pounded so hard that he's in absolutely no position to take advantage of whatever paltry information Geraldo may have divulged with that goofy little sand-map. The Iraqis would learn more from the dozens of retired generals and military analysts that all the networks have using sophisticated computer graphics to explain what's happening.

This Geraldo flap is just the left-wing media hyperventilating and trying to divert attention away from Arnett. They're also seeking retribution for the snub treatment Helen Thomas deservedly received.

The heck with 'em. Give Geraldo a pass and let the more sinister lefties squawk.

[jporcus]

I agree, give him a pass. And I say this as someone who used to ABSOLUTELY HATE Geraldo (during the OJ mess). But the man was out there in Afghanistan and now in Iraq, supporting our troops, and risking taking bullets. He DID make a bad mistake by giving coordinates. Fortunately, nothing bad has come of it. Give him a break (but with zero tolerance for anything else), he's done a lot for us.

[MileHi]

April fools, peedrow.

[Coleus]

Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[Howlin]

This Geraldo flap is just the left-wing media hyperventilating and trying to divert attention away from Arnett. They're also seeking retribution for the snub treatment Helen Thomas deservedly received.

Absolutely. And I am surprised at some of the people who are "aiding and abetting" this.

[Willie Green]

And I am surprised at some of the people who are "aiding and abetting" this.

I'm surprised at a couple, but there are many others that I've long suspected of being lefty trolls. No sense naming names to precipitate that kind of foodfight, but it doesn't surprise me to see them calling for Geraldo's head.

[Gumption]

You make good points.

[Gumption]

You make good points too.

[Howlin]

Okay, I'll ask you then, since you seem to know what the DOD does.

If they want him gone, why isn't he? It's been over 24 hours.

Is he refusing to leave?

[laz17]

Nobody hated Geraldo more than I did during the Klintoon era. However, I believe 9/11 made him see the light, and I believe his support for the war and our troops is genuine. Is it impossible to believe that someone can experience a life-shattering event that forces him to change his ways? St. Paul, one of Christ's biggest detractors, certainly did a 180. So did David Horowitz.

That being said, I can understand if Geraldo got carried away in his enthusiasm and carelessly revealed something he shouldn't have. But I CANNOT understand how he would be allowed to do it twice. If he went over the line the first time he drew that map in the sand, you can rest assured he wouldn't have been allowed to do it again. And yet he did it again. This says, at least to me, that he was deliberately providing disinformation.

MSNBC is obviously using this situation to distract from Arnett's treason, as well as to get back at Fox for putting the spotlight on Arnett. But consider this: the folks at the Pentagon were FUMING about Arnett. Is it possible that the Pentagon would deliberately lie to MSNBC and tell them Geraldo was being kicked out, just to make MSNBC run with the story and totally discredit themselves? I think so. Revenge is a dish best served cold.

[Conservababe]

You signed up today just to tell us this, deah?

[swheats]

How did CNN and MSNBC and Reuters get the info before FOX made any moves?