Thread: Geraldo is such as ass

Geraldo Blames Lou Dobbs for Anti-Hispanic Sentiment in U.S.

Geraldo Rivera on Thursday lambasted Lou Dobbs for the outspoken CNN host's views concerning illegal immigration.

Speaking at a luncheon sponsored by El Diario La Prensa NY, Rivera disgracefully said, "Lou Dobbs is almost single-handedly responsible for creating, for being the architect of the young-Latino-as-scapegoat for everything that ails this country."

Rivera also told the audience that he had spoken to his boss, and was assured Dobbs was not coming to Fox

One of the aspects of our reality in the United States now is the defamatory tone of the immigration debate and how that immigration debate has slandered an entire race of people. It has been reckless beyond imagining, it has been reckless in a way that is beyond precedent.

Wait a minute. Beyond precedent? Does Rivera have no recollection of slavery in America or the Holocaust in Germany? But I digress:

Lou Dobbs, a man who was an accomplished journalist, and who left to go and start his own venture in the digital media, having to do with space, I believe, and then came back to CNN, and nobody was watching his program. He discovered that one of the way to get people to watch was to make of the image of a young Latino trying to get into this country a profoundly negative icon. Lou Dobbs is almost single-handedly responsible for creating, for being the architect of the young-Latino-as-scapegoat for everything that ails this country. [...]

It has been one of the most frustrating experiences of my professional life to watch as a good portion of the American people began to listen and believe that immigrants were responsible for crime in this country, responsible for bringing terror to this country, responsible for stealing jobs, responsible for effecting in a very negative way the American way of life. [...]

It is something that we absolutely said, "No mas" during the election of 2008...It's why Obama is elected now. He is the first, I maintain, Latino president. He's the first brown president. Why? He could be, and he looks Puerto Rican. And the, and the, the point is he would not be president but for the Latino vote and the Latino vote was for the first time in my lifetime an expression of a community understanding its responsibilities, getting up, going to the polling place, and saying, "No mas."

Wow! Geraldo thinks Latinos got Obama elected. Unfortunately, the numbers dictate otherwise.

After all, Obama beat McCain by 8.5 million votes, but he "only" got about 4 million more Latino votes. By contrast, Obama got almost 15 million more African-American votes than McCain.

As such, claiming Latinos got Obama elected is absurd. But once again, I digress:

No more of these lies, no more of this slander, no more of this stereotyping. I can tell you proudly, when this man [Dobbs] was widely rumored to be coming to my network, I called my boss couple of weeks ago, and he said it's absolutely untrue. Lou Dobbs is not coming to Fox News. He belongs at CNN if they can justify his presence there that's their problem.

Wow!

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-shepp ... -sentiment

It is something that we absolutely said, "No mas" during the election of 2008...It's why Obama is elected now. He is the first, I maintain, Latino president. He's the first brown president. Why? He could be, and he looks Puerto Rican. And the, and the, the point is he would not be president but for the Latino vote and the Latino vote was for the first time in my lifetime an expression of a community understanding its responsibilities, getting up, going to the polling place, and saying, "No mas."

He "looks puerto rican", he's "brown", hmmm racist much?
So "latinos" voted for him because of his color and that's why he won? LOL! Ahh Jerry, Jerry..I didn't think your head could go any deeper up your a$$, guess I was wrong.

Tell me Jerry, if Obama won the election because of the "latino" vote, and latinos have so much power to sway a national election. Why has amnesty failed time and time again?

Geraldo is an idiot.

One of the aspects of our reality in the United States now is the defamatory tone of the immigration debate and how that immigration debate has slandered an entire race of people. It has been reckless beyond imagining, it has been reckless in a way that is beyond precedent.

Latino or Hispanic or whatever they call themselves IS NOT A RACE! It is a mixture of races that share a common language--PERIOD!

He's the first brown president. Why? He could be, and he looks Puerto Rican.

And what does that have to do with anything.
This article is probably one of the most screwed-up messes I have read as 90 percent of the time, I don't know if anything is a direct quote from Geraldo (must use quote marks to point that out), or if this is just the author's political opinion.
As for slavery and the holocost in Germany, what does that have to do with the distinguished "RACE" of Latinos? And what a cheap trick to use "...but I digress." And I surmise that you are in agreement with all this, Mr. Sheppard, as it is very hard to distinguish between your opinion and what Geraldo said.

I find it really hard to believe that Geraldo has a larger audience than Lou Dobbs. Why would Fox allow him to determine programming?

Originally Posted by USAFVeteran

Speaking at a luncheon sponsored by El Diario La Prensa NY, Rivera disgracefully said, "Lou Dobbs is almost single-handedly responsible for creating, for being the architect of the young-Latino-as-scapegoat for everything that ails this country."

If it's alright with you, I'll vounteer to be the architect of the old-Latino-reporter-as-scapegoat for everything that ails cable news... :P

It has been one of the most frustrating experiences of my professional life to watch as a good portion of the American people began to listen and believe that immigrants were responsible for crime in this country, responsible for bringing terror to this country, responsible for stealing jobs, responsible for effecting in a very negative way the American way of life. [...]

Uh, hey dumb@$$, unless you have been sleeping or in suspended animation, you must have just ignored the huge wave of crime wrought by hispanic gangs and thugs and undesirables from south of the border. Drugs? Nahh, those must just grow in our backyards. Stealing jobs...no way! They just happened to wander into our country by accident, forge or steal identities and get paid under the table by crooked bosses who reaped the benefits while Americans lost their jobs.

Geraldo (makes me gag just to say the name) Rivera is an ambulance chasing, apology making, bottom dwelling scum sucker who leeches off the networks because as an attorney no one could stomach his stench long enough to say "case dismissed". Makes me wonder why Fox News puts up with him.

Geraldo Rivera fell about 500 points on a scale of 1-to-10 when he decided to draw US troops movements in Iraq in the sand for his cameras. That alone put Geraldo as a publicity-seeking hound, IMO.
He is more capable of sensationalism than news.
The problem is that today's so-called news is subtly or flagranty delivering divisive opinions along with a statement of facts. And I hate to see the country divided more in the backdrop of ethnicity.

Go Dobbs GO , Now we are on the right track when people on the other side are frustrated, HA ha LOL GO DOBBS GO

Better add John Stossell to the ass list.


Dobbs Slams Stossell: ‘What a Self-Important Ass’
http://www.breitbart.tv/dobbs-slams-sto ... rtant-ass/