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Geraldo Rivera Likens Fox News/Trump Feud To ‘A Bar Fight Between Brothers’

Posted by Ellen -7835.60pc on January 27, 2016 · Flag

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Geraldo Rivera all but admitted that presidential candidate, Donald Trump, and Fox News are part of one big Republican family.

In a Hannity discussion about Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Fox News presidential debate tomorrow, host Sean Hannity expressed disappointment and dismay. He said he’s given Trump “fair time,” just as “every other candidate got.” Actually, Trump has gotten way more airtime than any other candidate, both on Hannity and just about every other Fox News show except The Kelly File, Special Report and Fox News Sunday. In short, Media Matters crunched the numbers and came up with nearly $30 million in free Fox airtime given to Trump.

“Why would he expect that he gets to pick and choose who the moderators in a debate format are gonna be?” Hannity asked.

Well, maybe because Trump got National Review booted from a CNN debate after it aired its “Against Trump” issue. And the CNN partnership came about after the RNC dumped NBC for being too biased. Not only did Hannity not object to that "picking and choosing" of moderators that worked against NBC, he wanted himself as a replacement.

Also, as Rivera pointed out, Trump got the New Hampshire Union Leader removed from a debate, too.

But “fair and balanced” Rivera is still full of love for the wayward candidate.

RIVERA: Donald Trump, as much as I love him, has no authority or right or privilege to dictate to us who we assign to a certain story. He has absolutely gone beyond the pale. I totally get that.

But I also think that this is a lose/lose. This is an awful development. I wish it never happened. This is like a bar fight between brothers.

Watch the Fox/GOP family in crisis below, from the January 26 Hannity.

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Joseph West commented 2016-01-28 01:54:03 -0500 · Flag
Actually, I tend to think of this little spat to be more like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW0mK81UTG8

Not quite as entertaining but with about as much staging and choreography.
Imad Basayev commented 2016-01-27 23:03:19 -0500 · Flag
How dense are these fools. Trump’s stated repeatedly the press release is the main reason he’s pissed off.
mj - the same one commented 2016-01-27 18:01:11 -0500 · Flag
Geraldo Rivera Likens Fox News/Trump Feud To ‘A Bar Fight Between Brothers’

Yep — two brothers named Cain and Abel . . .

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John McKee commented 2016-01-27 17:09:29 -0500 · Flag
The whole farce is getting more absurd by the day. Trump is everything the civilised world rightly or wrongly hates about America, all neatly bundled up in one loathsome package. A business cheat, a bully, a trophy wife collector, the very personification of vanity, and someone who has managed to increase the fortune he inherited by way, way less than the cumulative increase of the stock market.

It is beyond this boy just why your bought-and-paid-for press has been so remiss in examining the creature’s past, his ruthless and barely legal ‘deals’ and the whole panoply of quotes that would have his moronic mass of followers baying for his blood if only they knew.
R L commented 2016-01-27 13:26:39 -0500 · Flag
more like a mud fight between adolescents
doors17 commented 2016-01-27 13:21:01 -0500 · Flag
Whatever he decides to go or not will not be surprising. He’s already won by making this all about him.

We liberals and conservatives can disagree, fight the good fight, but this act of his has reached levels of insanity we’ve never seen before. And it’s not just Fox, but CNN and MSNBC are also equally guilty of allowing him all the free airtime he wants.

If he doesn’t go then I’m sure he’ll be watching the ratings very closely and hoping for the lowest so he can do his version of an end zone dance in celebration. Then he can dominate the news on Friday and throughout the weekend commenting his reaction about the debate and the media will go for it like a mouse to cheese.
truman commented 2016-01-27 13:17:37 -0500 · Flag
Fux Noise and the GOPiggies are just one big happy incestuous family. Like the Diddling Duggars.
Eyes On Fox commented 2016-01-27 11:44:12 -0500 · Flag
Designated Fox News ‘lib’ Geraldo is a registered Republican who pondered a GOP Senate run in New York. So what’s not for him to love in fellow New Yorker Trump?
El 84 commented 2016-01-27 11:27:07 -0500 · Flag
But Seriously Folks
Look up Megyn’s actual history, and see what someone like Eric Alterman has to say about her. Good journalism has zilch to do with foxy Fox hires.
I harp on critical thinking/reason/logic & the fallacies on other progressive sites, and I will hit it here: Fallacies are the fundamental(ist haha) tool of Fox spinners. I look at statements and plug the reason thing in and take them apart. (My B.A. is Radio/TV – hard/objective news, big liberal arts education before switching after junior year to communications, and I write. Bill Moyers, Ron Powers, etc. were the subjects and heroes, not the bullshit you see to the nth degree on the networks.) Logic takes Fox apart every time, whether Bildo, Hannity, Tantrumoros, whoever. I pretty much don’t get serious on NewsHounds, but this is the bottom line. Fox is a propaganda vehicle. There is such a thing as logical conclusion, and it defeats illogical (faulty) conclusion.
As to Geraldo, he is a celebrity narcissist, not a journalist. I remember him from day one. That he is on Fox now speaks for itself.
El 84
El 84 commented 2016-01-27 11:13:01 -0500 · Flag
Gerry Riviera is so sensational. What a guy.
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El 84 lo dice.
Eyes On Fox commented 2016-01-27 11:01:52 -0500 · Flag
Sitting in a doctor’s office surrounded by elderly patients. Half the room was discussing Trump not attending the debate over Megyn Kelly. They all sided with Trump and 3 of the 4 surprisingly (or not) were women. 👍








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