Geraldo Rivera: "I've seen a hell of a lot more combat than John Kerry."

[Starbucks Anarchist]

Rivera: ...To withdraw at a date certain. I've know John Kerry for over thirty five years. Unlike me-he is a combat veteran, so he gets some props, but in the last thirty five years, I've seen a hell of a lot more combat than John Kerry...

Clip at www.crooksandliars.com.

:puke:

[HereSince1628]

1. I think I watcher EVERY episode of that '60s series...

I might have seen more "Combat" than Geraldo.

[Hubert Flottz]

25. I never missed a show!

And I read every Sgt Fury comic book too, so I could probably be a GENERAL f??K up on FOX too if that's what it takes!

Geraldo got caught lying in Afghanistan...more at 11:00

[TheCowsCameHome]

32. Stand by. Your Congressional Medal of Honor is being processed

Very impressive record, sir!

[Hubert Flottz]

34. I salute your Fabolus Fantastic FOXworthy record also!

S-A-L-U-T-E...

I was there in my desert cammo undergarments(thong)on the OD Green velveteen couch, in front of my 54" Army surplus TV set, defending the free world and eating a victory pizza with the works, the day the neoNazis hit Geraldo in the face with the metal folding chair and broke his larger than life snout! WHAT A BATTLE! Yes, Geraldo should get the purple heart with oak leaves and diamonds for that horrible boo-boo he got on his snoz, on that historic but awful day.

Since then I think Geraldo has had a change of heart and joined forces with the neoNazi types.

[TheCowsCameHome]

43. Ahhhh, yes. Rivera's Charge at Couch Potato Hill.

He got the Poison Ivy Cluster, if memory serves me well................

[Jeffersons Ghost]

54. EXACTLY. HE'LL ALSO RALLY MORE SUPPORT THAN BIG JOHN...

because most Americans are like Rivera, all mouth and no action!

[oasis]

99. Google : Rivera ordered out of Iraq

Some kinda hero.:eyes:

[babylonsister]

46. Ah, the memories! I watched them, too! Our age is showing! nt

[Midlodemocrat]

51. Combined with Rat Patrol, I have seen way more Combat

than Geraldo.



Not including the little ant trap thingys.

[Jim Sagle]

72. And don't forget Garrison's Gorillas.

[LuckyLib]

92. Or Hogan's Heroes!

[Hubert Flottz]

102. I'm putting you in for the KP badge of courage and a road guard

ribbon with silver fig leaves and brass gonads.

They teach Rat Patrol at the War College I think.

I don't know if Geraldo has a war college degree or not, but I'm sure he's an expert, at all of that war stuff, like he is on every other subject known to mankind. Geraldo and Bildo know just about everything there is to know and Greta Von Cesspool knows the things they missed!

[Midlodemocrat]

104. *sniff* brass ones....and I'm female.

I'm a little verklempt I'm so touched.

[Hubert Flottz]

109. Now you can "sound off like you got a pair!"

That's more than the entire FOX network and CNN put together have!

EDIT...More than the entire republican party has!

[KyuzoGator]

2. He's seen a lot more empty vaults, too.

Didn't the Army throw him out of Iraq?

[Hugin]

4. Yeah, for disclosing their position on live TeeVee...

Why is that guy still on?

I add to a long list of worthless talking heads.

[JNelson6563]

24. haha The double whammy!

Empty vaults and booted outta the war zone. Yeah, he's a real winner! :rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. If only he locked himself in that vault.

[roguevalley]

60. let me pause halfway down this thread to laugh out loud. Funny,

funny thread. I remember all those shows and the ant trap thingys too. :)

[DrDan]

3. wasn't he caught about a year ago broadcasting miles from

where he reported - so he could be safe and secure but appear to be right in the action

[Supersedeas]

45. maybe, but he's seen a hell of a lot more fraudulent reporting though

coming right out of his mouth

[Philosoraptor]

5. "Seen" is the operative word here.

He's SEEN combat, never participated in it.

Good ol Geraldo, one of America's greatest comedians.

[displacedtexan]

6. Kerry didn't "see" combat with his makeup artist & producer at his side.

"Seeing" combat and going home when you want to isn't quite the
same thing, Geraldo.

Jeez!

[Totally Committed]

7. Where the f*ck does this FOX hard-on get off saying something like that???

Holy sh*t! Talk about delusional thinking. And, outright LYING HIS CHICKENHAWK A** OFF.

Geraldo, you really ARE an A**HOLE.

TC

[pecwae]

30. He's on Faux now?

How appropriate! It takes a certain 'something' to be part of the Faux team.

[ray of light]

8. Revera is a walking/talking self-abusing masochistic combat zone.

[Minnesota Libra]

9. Rivera said it right, he's seen combat, not participated in it. Rivera....

....wouldn't know the truth if it kicked that ugly mug of his right between the eyes.:banghead:

[saltpoint]

10. Rivera is a carnival barker. A non-journalist.

FOX probably pays him bonuses for every dozen on-air slurs on Democrats.

[Bad Penny]

11. This shitbird was the start of everything

that has become wrong with the media. When 'journalists' like this narcissistic jackass started to present themselves as the news the writing was on the wall for sincere journalism. But the stupid masses lapped it up, and still lap up sensationalism and trivia. We've got alot to answer for as an intelligent species

[Bunny]

75. OMG your sig pic!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[Bad Penny]

94. ...

:pals:

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Get real, Geraldo. The only fighting you've done is to stay employed

You candy-ass Faux whore.

[Mad_Dem_X]

33. LOL! He's pathetic

He's got a lot of nerve saying something like that.

[MaineDem]

13. How despicable!

What a piece of shit.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

14. What a phony

He also said,Like Korea,we will be in Iraq 50 years and Get used to it! What a Chickenhawk idiot.:crazy:

[blm]

15. Yeah - these GOPs are getting even more delusional - too many Ron Reagan

and John Wayne movies.

[RedStateShame]

16. Lord, yes.....

What's the Viet Cong when compared to White Supremacists with folding chairs, or Danny Bonaduce at a charity boxing event?

[dogday]

17. Geraldo's combat has been between the sheets... nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. Geraldo - 1, Meat - 0

[Ravenseye]

18. He's right. He's also seen more than our President

Or any WW2 or Korean combat vet on the republican side.

Heck he could say that about Bush Sr. who got shot down in WW2. So Pff.

What an idiot.

[sam sarrha]

19. somebody needs to slap that bitch....

[Brewman_Jax]

20. Sure he has

as a member of the Chickenhawk Brigade and the Fighting Keyboardists Division. Oh, and watching hours of History/All WWII channel. Until Geraldo produces his DD-214 form, he can STFU and ESAD. :eyes:

[NotGivingUp]

22. Take a hike, Geraldo!

[UTUSN]

23. Yeah, allegedly drugging & sexually socking Bette was exhausting n/t

[originalpckelly]

26. I think John Kerry needs to say something about this...

these false patriots have gone way to far.

[TheCowsCameHome]

28. Geraldo: "And I've got the camel dung in my moustache to prove it"

[Starbucks Anarchist]

29. That's not camel dung.

The shit flowing from his brain came out of his nose.

[WinkyDink]

31. ITA with Philosoraptor above:

"Seen" is the key word there.
Anyway, of course VietNam is a while ago, and therefore even a FEMALE reporter in a combat zone since then has, by definition, "seen" more combat than JK SINCE VietNam.

But what is Geraldo's point?? He STILL isn't a soldier!

[Azathoth]

35. Watching the extended edition of Saving Private Ryan doesn't count Geraldo

If memory serves, the one time Geraldo actually DID manage to get somewhere near a combat zone, the army threw him the fuck out of the country because he had a bad habit of broadcasting his unit's position on national TV.

[watercolors]

36. Yeah, in bed!

nt

[Sydnie]

37. He and Bill O'Lielly - camera combatants

"Seeing" combat in his case means from behind a camera with a great zoom lens. He's SUCH an asshole!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

38. I think he's referring to the fights he's had with his sixteen ex wives.

Or however many times he has been married now.

[roguevalley]

61. wasn't he married to Rita Cosby once?

[TheCowsCameHome]

64. Gaaaack. Once would certainly be enough..................

[LibertyLover]

39. It's sad

when people go off their medications and vocalize their delusions.

[Puglover]

40. Bette Midler once

said the greatest shame of her life was that she slept with Rivera. As to this latest....just, :rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

41. Did you know he was married to Kurt Vonnegut's daughter?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Vonnegut

[Javaman]

42. Jerry Rivers needs to control that massive ego. Capones vault anyone? nt

[rman]

44. "seen" versus "been in" - same difference

[grace0418]

47. This from the guy who restaged a Katrina victim's rescue so he could

get it on film and look like a hero. Yeah, it's easy to "see" combat when you're standing safely out of harm's way and using camera angles to make yourself look good.

[Lerkfish]

50. whoa...never heard of that. what are you referring to?

would love any dirt on geraldo.

[grace0418]

58. I read about it here, I think. Geraldo actually did rescue a woman from

the floodwaters, but then realized that it wasn't being filmed. So he asked her to go back and be "re-rescued" while the cameras were rolling. I'll see if I can find anything about it.

[Lerkfish]

65. LOL! that's amazing.

would he ask a shooting victim to be re-shot?

[TheCowsCameHome]

67. Maybe Geraldo could get Harry Whittington to go hunting with Cheney again

[Dulcinea]

83. OMG! hahahahaha!!

would he ask a shooting victim to be re-shot? :rofl:

[marmar]

48. The rantings of a disgraced and desperate alleged "journalist."

Does it get any more pathetic than Geraldo?

[doc mercer]

49. Geraldo

He did watch "Saving Private Ryan"

[Lars39]

52. We need to find Jon Stewart's video of Geraldo drawing in the sand

giving his embedded location away. I've looked but can't find it.

[Mabus]

53. Better would be Colbert's take on it

including the Geraldo's poopalanche on Mount Tidy Whitey

[Lars39]

57. Sounds like I missed a good episode. :^)

[Mabus]

59. It was a segment on the Daily Show

during the period when Geraldo and Aaron Brown were going at it. Here's a mention of it I found on the web: "The only time Rocca laughed at the PowerPoint presentation was during a clip featuring Colbert. During his impersonation of Geraldo Rivera, who was accused of embellishing about his whereabouts during the war by a rival network’s anchor, Colbert coined a new term: poopalanche." http://www.angelfire.com/ia/natbot/MoRocca.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

68. He was actually grooming his cat's litterbox when that was taken.

[kittenpants]

80. Yeah, I thought he was banned from combat zones after that whole

giving away the locations of the troops.

[jeebie]

81. clip

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BLsI9JTAk1s&search=geraldo%20colbert

[Hubert Flottz]

55. Everyone on FOX has been fighting...

For air, because their noses have all been up Bush's Cheney!

[Ganja Ninja]

56. I think Bushco has found a new strategy.

Have their paid shills take turns saying something silly and outrageous every day in order to distract people form the bad news streaming out of Iraq. Today it's Geraldo, yesterday it was Hannity, tomorrow it'll be some other asshat. Fight desperation with stupidity.

[LibertyorDeath]

66. You got it !

[LostinVA]

62. I've seen a helluva alot more Vietnam combat than you Vietnam vets on DU

OR John Kerry. I LOVED "China Beach," and have seen every episode about 20 times. See???

[roguevalley]

63. here are some links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_2003_invasion_of_Iraq

March 31, 2003

* US troops kill 7 civilians including women and children in a car whose driver refuses to stop at a checkpoint. According to one account the driver ignored several warning shots, as well as gunfire into the vehicle's engine. According to another account, no warning shots were fired.
* Journalist Peter Arnett is fired by NBC after giving an interview to Iraqi television, which some considered as unfairly critical of the Bush administration's war on Iraq. Later in the day, Arnett is hired by a British tabloid, the Daily Mirror.
* The Pentagon orders embedded FOX News reporter Geraldo Rivera from its troops and demands him to leave Iraq after accusing him of reporting United States troop positions.


http://movies.crooksandliars.com/TOF-Geraldo-Kerr.mov

[LostinVA]

70. What are the links in reference to?

Just wondering... since I was being sarcastic re: Geraldo's comments, and the links don't seem to match my comment about him and "China Beach"...

[roguevalley]

76. one is the story now and the other is wikipedia on china beach thingo

[KansDem]

69. Well, he did have his nose broken in 1988 by a flying chair...

From Wikipedia:

In 1987 he began hosting a daytime talk show, Geraldo, which was oriented toward controversial guests and theatricality - one of the early shows was titled "Men in Lace Panties and the Women Who Love Them". His nose was broken in a well-publicized brawl that occurred on a 1988 show between Neo-nazi skinheads and black and Jewish activists, which sparked Newsweek's characterization of his show as "Trash TV".



So I guesss he has seen some combat. As far as more than Kerry? I don't really think so...

[Lasher]

71. Maybe Geraldo was in the same foxhole with Junior and O'Reilly

"I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war." George W. Bush, January, 2002 Bush avoided the Vietnam war by arranging an assignment in the Texas Air National Guard. He never saw combat.

"I'll tell you what. I've been in combat. I've seen it, I've been close to it... and if my unit is danger, and I've got a captured guy, and the guy knows where the enemy is, and I'm looking him in the eye, the guy better tell me. That's all I'm gonna tell you. The guy better tell me. If it's life or death, he's going first." Bill O'Reilly, Jan. 18, 2005 O'Reilly served in the military.

[Lasher]

86. Oops, I can't edit this now

I just noticed, I should have said, "O'Reilly never served in the military."

Edit: Hey, I'm not getting paid to do this. :dunce:

[Lerkfish]

89. nor did GW actually see combat.

[Hubert Flottz]

108. I think Bildo or Geraldo would blow the hell outta somebody ...

if that somebody, had about a quarter to pay them with afterward. They believe in "don't ask don't tell" when it comes to the truth about bushco.

They BASH war veterans and praise chicken hearted AWOLS and draft dodgers? They love cowards and they sh*t on the people who had the guts to serve the country. How can people TRUST anyone that stupid?

[LittleClarkie]

73. Seen, as in looked at, as in spectated. O'Reilly says the same

They like saying it that way because it makes them sound like hardened vets. But I could probably get some binoculars and "see" combat too.

Even Gore was in more danger, and he was a journalist. He put himself in harm's way. I bet neither Rivera or O'Really did that. In fact, Rivera was a hinderance, revealing troop positions. They kicked him out of the country and he wouldn't leave, the moron.

[DinahMoeHum]

74. The Ego Has Landed.

:evilgrin:

[tabasco]

77. These cowardly republican wannabes make me puke.

Not a day in uniform between O'Reilly and Rivera but they pretend to be war heroes.

HOW PATHETIC ! :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Robb]

78. John Kerry response:

"Geraldo who?" :shrug:

[devilgrrl]

79. What's he insinuating?

And what was the point of making the comment.

I wish he'd get fragged.

[spanone]

82. This man (Rivera) is so irrelevent. He's a side-show barker. Who cares?

[Beelzebud]

84. Watch Natural Born Killers, and pay attention to Wayne Gayle

Oliver Stone says in the DVD commentary that fictional news man Wayne Gayle is based on Geraldo Rivera.

It makes the movie so much more enjoyable when you look at the character in that context. :D

[PATRICK]

85. Forgotten and forgiven

our intrepid journalist was yanked onto the carpet when he idiotically broadcast actual battlemaps DURING the dicey days of the invasion. What combat he has seen only the enemy appreciated he was there.

Besides that idiot traitor moment, our seasoned warrior pundit, had some episodes of blink and duck, cut and run that were less heatedly publicized. Unlike O'Reilly, he had to crawl on his belly to get back to his fake prominence, crying senselessly at Katrina, and overall shifting self-destructedly with the rear end winds of Rove power while retaining his integrity as someone who will do anything to get public attention. If there is an SS graveyard of honor I am sure their must be a Fox cemetery somewhere for this veteran of self promotion. And some Bush descendant will kneel on it and lay roses.

Easier to envision that than this nut ever losing his job like any other real person would over the gaffes and lies in his empty career.

[indypaul]

87. SEEIN' AIN'T DOIN' n/t

[donco6]

88. Well, if THIS counts as combat:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/journalists/geraldo-rivera/&h=237&w=200&sz=22&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=nzlXDNcgCoMWlM:&tbnh=104&tbnw=87&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgeraldo%2Brivera%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGAPB,GAPB:2005-09,GAPB:en%26sa%3DN

In November of 1988, the Geraldo daytime talk show achieved its highest ratings ever in over thirteen million homes. Young Hate Mongers featured John Metzger of the Aryan Youth Movement, and Robert Heick of the National Front (both white), Roy Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality (black), rabbi A. Bruce Goldman (Jewish), and a New Jersey couple who claimed they'd been attacked and terrorized by skinheads. Sitting in the audience was an army of neo-Nazi skinheads representing National Resistance.

Metzger complained about "kikes" and called Innis an "uncle Tom." Innis walked over to Metzger, and placed his hands around the boy's neck. Pandemonium broke out in the studio, and within seconds Rivera was suffering from a broken nose - an injury inflicted by a chair was smashed across his face by Metzger's bodyguard.

Throughout the program, young white supremacists were taunted and goaded, being called "a bunch of young clowns." Rivera warned them not to push him too hard. Calling his guests "hate mongers," and using cockroach metaphors was Rivera's rhetorical strategy, and it certainly resulted in a brawl. Geraldo stood back and watched the violence ensue, until a chair flew across the room and collided with his face. Geraldo stepped into the ring and fought back well, throwing some terrific punches.



Geraldo, you stud.

[Lerkfish]

90. My favorite Geraldo joke:

NASA was going to send up a journalist into space. They sat down and made a list of probably candidates. Their favorite choice was Geraldo Rivera, because they wanted to test the effects of weightlessness on weightlessness.

[ncteechur]

91. If that is the case then he has seen a

FUCKING hell of a lot more than....

GW Bush
Bill O'Liely
KKKarl Rove
Dick Cheney
Andy Card
Condi Rice
Donald Rumsfeld
Wolfowitz
Bill Frist
Rush Limpballs
Etc. etc.

COMBINED!!

[tjwash]

93. Geraldo needs to tattoo this on his ass...

[defiant1]

95. I have seen Platoon 76 times....

and Full Metal Jacket 58 times. By my calculations, I've seen more combat than both of those guys.

:sarcasm:

d1

[Rex]

96. Not only saw combat, but gave away ally troop formations

on live TV! Sadly, this kinda thing landed him a better gig as a journalist. Traitorous acts get you promotions in the BFEEs Department of Propaganda. Just ask Ollie North.

[ronnykmarshall]

97. Blow it your ass Rivera.

What an arogant pile of shit.

[oasis]

98. Geraldo was ordered out of the combat zone for giving up a U.S. tactical

position over the airwaves.

Nice going Commando Rivera.:patriot:

[Dees]

100. I've done some checking..I don't see where

Geraldo served in the armed forces. How many fire fights were you in Geraldo as a "journalist"? Being able to run back to your air conditioned hotel room at the end of the day is not the same as a day in the boonies. You're as phony as ever you Republican corporate media whore.

[Deja Q]

101. True. He keeps getting punched in the nose by neo-nazis on his talk show.

:eyes:

[erpowers]

103. Rivera is an ASS

Rivera is just a stupidass. He has proven time and time again that he is just completely stupid and clueless. Unlike Rivera Kerry actually fought in a war, risk his life, and got injuried in that war. I just pointed out that it was sad crap when people who never joined the military can call military veterans traitors. This is beginning to get ridiculous with all these Republicans and other claiming to be better and braver than the men and women who fought in the military.

[pooja]

105. He was Oberman's Worser of the night

[Generator]

106. This thread gave me the laugh I needed

SEE this is why I have a soft spot for Geraldo. He's so full of himself. I dunno-everyone has one rightwing nutter they love, Geraldo is my man. So full of the beany beans.

[mcscajun]

107. "...so he gets some props..."

:wtf:

Where does this asshole get the cojones to think he's worthy to give anything to Kerry that Kerry needs?

He can stick his "props" up his ego-filled ass.

Geraldo's day came and went a long time back. He just never noticed, 'cause he's ego-powered.

[demdiva]

110. What a jackass ... this guy is ridiculous!

I hardly ever call people names, but this is way out of line!