No, not Larry King. That old liberal fart will be irrelevant soon when he turns room temperature. I am talking about the former sleaze of daytime television who has now brought his garbage to CNBC on Rivera Live. None other than Geraldo Rivera.
Geraldo proudly announces every night who much he loves Clinton and how he will defend him to the end. Actually, he doesn't have to tell us. Every night, he packs his panel either four to two or worse with Clinton defenders. Every night, he starts with some information he claims is from "his White House" sources. Now, thinking people should now know that anything from the White House is nothing but lies, but Geraldo spouts them as facts.
On September 8, 1998, the panel included his favorite spinner in the form of Allan Dershowitz, the lawyer who proudly got O.J. off. Allan and the other Clintonites went on to trash every President we ever had. Of course, the basic idea was to make us think that, once again, "everyone does it." They also went on to say that noone should ever look up to any President and that public morality and private morality should be weighed separately.
As soon as Geraldo finishes trashing all our values, he then attacks anyone who has criticized Clinton. One method is just sophomoric attempts to call names. He called Dan Burton a "watermelon shooting adultrist scum bag." He has made similar crude remarks about Linda Tripp and, of course, Ken Starr gets trashed constantly.
Another method is just make up stuff about people. Read what appeared in the Weekly Standard.
Shortly after retiring representative
Paul McHale of Pennsylvania became
the first congressional Democrat
to call for the president's resignation,
CNBC hack Geraldo Rivera
"got a call from my source very close to
President Clinton who reminded
me that there was a controversy about Rep.
McHale's candor in terms
of the medals he won in the armed forces of the
United States." This "controversy,"
it soon turned out, was imaginary. So
the next day, Rivera invented
a new one, citing the Navy Times to
substantiate a charge that
McHale had once exaggerated his military duties
in Operation Desert Storm.
This, too, proved false; Navy Times has never
reported any such thing.
But Rivera was undeterred, waving before the
cameras old copies of the
Allentown Morning Call which "attested," he
alleged, to a genuine past
"dispute" over the congressman's war record.
That paper has since editorially
condemned Rivera as "dishonest."
Rivera Live is one most offensive
shows on television. If you can stomach American values being trashed,
American Presidents being trashed, and any lie Geraldo can come up with
to save Bill, take a peek. I will try to update this page with more examples.
I say 'try' because watching this crap is hard. Unless, its gets
worse for 'their boy' and tears start flowing. In the meanwhile,
let's go ahead and crown Rivera as truly the king of cable sleaze.