Fox News 'troubled' by Geraldo Rivera's tweets about sexual harassment

[brooklynite]

Source: Entertainment Weekly

Fox News has distanced itself from Geraldo Rivera’s controversial tweets about sexual harassment Wednesday, in which the correspondent-at-large defended ousted Today anchor Matt Lauer and said that “News is a flirty business.”

The network said in a statement to EW, “Geraldo’s tweets do not reflect the views of Fox News or its management. We were troubled by his comments and are addressing them with him.”

Rivera, 74, currently serves as a roaming correspondent for Fox News Channel and first joined the network in 2001. On Wednesday afternoon, he weighed in on Lauer’s firing from NBC after a sexual misconduct review.

“Sad about @MLauer great guy, highly skilled & empathetic w guests & a real gentleman to my family & me,” Rivera tweeted. “News is a flirty business & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation.”

Read more: http://ew.com/tv/2017/11/29/fox-news-geraldo-rivera-sexual-harassment-tweets/

[sadiegirl]

1. His closet if full.

[Lunabell]

2. He's a serial harasser.

Another piggy man.

[dalton99a]

3. Pesky Sexual Harassment Laws Ruined Geraldo Rivera's Sex Life

https://jezebel.com/pesky-sexual-harassment-laws-ruined-geraldo-riveras-se-1548297552
Pesky Sexual Harassment Laws Ruined Geraldo Rivera's Sex Life
Kate Dries
3/20/14 6:15pm

A few weeks ago, Geraldo Rivera had a riveting conversation about his life with Will Cain of The Blaze. Part of that discussion included a breakdown of how on earth Rivera could have managed to sleep with 1,000 women, as he claimed he had in his 1991 autobiography.

"It's not particularly my magnetism or anything," Rivera told a curious Cain, who still wanted to have "the mechanics" of having sexual intercourse with that many women explained to him. (Get your priorities straight Will and you'll figure it out!) Instead, Rivera said that the lack of "workplace protections" in the 1970s and 80s meant that he was able to have a very active social life. "Now if you look at an intern with cross-eyes you go to jail, I mean get fired. Office affairs are monitored...[then] it was the SNL after party everyday," he told Cain, adding:

"It was almost like sex was free! You have no HR – no human resources – no workplace rules against it, lots of money, relative youthfulness, a young staff, surrounded by sycophants and enablers, people smoking joints openly in their office..."

Etc etc etc TLDR life was great! Rivera left the world hanging about whether Bette Midler was great in bed, refusing to answer Cain's very cool "how was she" question due to Midler's decidedly negative reaction at hearing that she had been publicly included on his list of conquests. For the curious, that list also includes, Liza Minnelli and Chris Evert.

[OnDoutside]

9. There's no way someone like him hasn't got and passed on STDs.

[Sophiegirl]

11. Ive always found him to be disgusting

My creep radar is pretty finely tuned having been molested for 10 years as a child which eventually led to rape and then harassed as an adult in my workplace.

Just Yuck! He just might be one of the next to be “exposed!” Pun intended!

[Grassy Knoll]

4. Fox News "Troubled" By Geraldo???

..But Not By Dead Roger Ailes
..Bill O'Reilly
..Eric Boling?

Laughable.. .Bullshit!!!!

[ToxMarz]

5. Raise your hand if Geraldo has ever touched you in a flirty 'news' way

[marble falls]

6. When Fox wants to turn a back on you, you got to know you done wrong. Why is courting at work...

OK with Rivera? Sounds like he is confessing to something, doesn't it?

[Binkie The Clown]

7. I thought he was a sleeze ball the first time I saw him decades ago. nt

[Rollo]

8. Show me on the doll where he flirt you...

[Skittles]

10. OMG what kind of predator is HE

[obamanut2012]

12. He drugged and groped Bette Midler in 1991

So.... he is a big one.

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. So Fox is "troubled" by Geraldo's tweets

But they are perfectly fine with a child molester as a Senator?

[BlueIdaho]

14. Birds of a feather... nt.

[MineralMan]

15. Yeah, well Geraldo should have kept his mustachioed trap shut, I think.

This may backfire on him in a big way! People in glass houses, etc...