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Geraldo Rivera Blasts Rep. Roy’s ‘Sexual Pleasure’ Over Stranded SW Air Passengers

Posted by Brian -5pc on October 14, 2021 · Flag

Geraldo Rivera got into it with cohost Jesse Watters after he blamed the federal COVID vaccine requirements as the cause of the recent Southwest Airlines snafus – and neither cohost said a word about the even stricter vaccine policy at Fox News.

Watters' comments before Rivera spoke are not in the video below. But you can see in the transcript that Watters said, “The Southwest CEO actually admitted that [the vaccine mandate is] something that they’re dealing with. He doesn’t even want to do the vax mandates. He told CNBC, he’s doing it because of the Biden administration mandate.”

Watters forgot to mention that Southwest CEO Gary Kelly also told CNBC that the vaccine mandates had “zero” to do with the delays.

After giving a shoutout to a pilot who refused to get vaccinated because, Watters said, “many of these vaccines, they include fetal tissue from the unborn” (which is false), Watters went on to support Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent ban on vaccine mandates. Watters called federal vaccine mandates “not right” - without a peep of complaint about the more-stringent vaccine policy at Fox News.

Watters added, “Eventually you’re going to lose 10% of the workforce across the board on all union jobs, and that’s not returning to normal.” He didn’t mention if there were any widespread resignations at Fox because of its vaccine policy.

Cohost Rivera made a theatrical defense of mandates. But he, too, said not a word about the situation at Fox.

“I absolutely disagree with Jesse’s tone and his anger,” Rivera began.

Predictably, that got a rise from Watters: “My tone? You take issue with my tone?”

“I believe that mandates exist for a reason,” Rivera continued. “The Supreme Court, in a 1905 decision, made very clear, unless this court reverses over a century of precedent, the federal government has the constitutional right to impose a mandate.”

Watters, who has no legal credentials, then insisted that Rivera (a law school graduate) “misread the law.”

“I misread nothing,” Rivera shot back, to another round of insistences otherwise from Watters.

Rivera moved on to rip Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) for having tweeted that a crowd of stranded Southwest passengers “makes me happier than I can possibly articulate.”

This makes me happier than I can possibly articulate. Eat it, @SouthwestAir. https://t.co/kXdGIuXJoi

— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) October 11, 2021

RIVERA: This guy is an ideological lunatic. He said when he looked at the crowd of people who could not get on their Southwest flights because they were cancelled and so forth, "This makes me happier than I can possibly articulate. Eat it, Southwest Airlines." This is a guy getting almost sexual pleasure from the chaos and the destruction -- 

WATTERS: He's not getting sexual pleasure, Geraldo. You're sick! 

RIVERA: -- the chaos and the disruption -- 

WATTERS: To make this this sexual, you're a sick man. 

RIVERA: Congressman Roy, I challenge you. What did you mean when you said "eat it" to Southwest Airlines when you saw those people suffering?

Watters, who seems to care more about attacking vaccine mandates than the plight of stranded passengers, said condescendingly, “Okay, Geraldo,” to end the discussion.

You can watch it below, from the October 12, 2021 The Five.

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— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) October 12, 2021

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Anonymous commented 2021-10-16 14:22:24 -0400 · Flag
Watters has come a long way since his start on Fox as O’Reilly’s on-set fluffer!
Bemused commented 2021-10-16 01:27:30 -0400 · Flag
The feeling’s mutual, John McKee.

Spot on, truman. It’s the context that counts and Geraldo wouldn’t sound half as smart with mental averages, let alone mental giants.
John McKee commented 2021-10-15 13:11:27 -0400 · Flag
Bemused, I love you.
truman commented 2021-10-15 11:14:59 -0400 · Flag
Reminds me of the old adage that if you want to look taller, hang around with short people.
Whorealdo sounds like a frigging genius when he verbally engages mental midgets like Butt Boy Jesse.
Bemused commented 2021-10-15 04:55:57 -0400 · Flag
I await the day when the hosts on Fox(not)News get their just rewards. Their continuing influence on the faithful is an insult to the intelligence that their deity reportedly gave to them.

I’ve really had it with the anti-vaxx people who are listening to these idiots and who – by doing so – are placing both themselves and others at risk of suffering, even death.
Yesterday, a group of us walked out of a restaurant where the manager said he wouldn’t be complying with the law calling for verification of clients’ vaccination papers. And a couple of us made an awful lot of noise about it. Others who hadn’t yet placed an order got up and followed us.

The “Green Pass” confirming our vaccination status is required, as of today, to enter a workplace, eat inside at a restaurant or go to a concert etc. It is a QR code that can be verified in 10 seconds using an app that anybody can install on a cellphone. I’m useless when it comes to apps but even I managed to do it.

A sop to the anti-vaxx folks allows them to use testing instead of the vaccine but their passes are valid only for 48 hours; meaning they will have to undergo two nasal swabs per week at a cost of €30.00. I hope the government sticks to its guns and refuses to cover that cost because these people are silly, selfish fools who need to wake up and act like adults.

As I said, I’m fed up to the gills with these idiots.
Bemused commented 2021-10-15 04:35:06 -0400 · Flag
A broken traditional clock gives the correct time twice a day. That’s Geraldo. I wait ten minutes before deciding whether whatever he said is grounded in conviction or motivated by a pay check for not being that other guy.
scooter commented 2021-10-14 16:21:06 -0400 · Flag
Geraldo is an idiot who occasionally says something approaching the right thing. I hate when I find myself agreeing with him because he so detestable. But he’s light years better than Watters who is just vapid and disgusting, willing to say anything for ratings. Someday he’ll get his just rewards.
John McKee commented 2021-10-14 13:39:36 -0400 · Flag
Fluffy lightweight that he is, I find Geraldo enormously frustrating in that he so often says ALMOST the right thing. Sorry, Mr Rivera, you’re still more part of the problem than the solution.








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