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Popular, famous, and highly-influential Latino stars, and superstars including Bad Bunny, Luis Fonsi, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin, are lashing out at Donald Trump after his six-hour Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday served up racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic rhetoric. A New York Times headline described it as "Trump's racist rally."
The most-noted racist remarks came from a comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, in an attack calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean,” and saying, "these Latinos, they love making babies, too, just know that. They do, they do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country,” before talking about Black people carving watermelons.
The Trump campaign waited several hours before issuing a statement saying, “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.” It was unclear why other racist remarks made throughout the event, including by Hinchcliffe, were not addressed by the campaign.
"Battleground Pennsylvania," NBC News reports, "where polling margins show a razor-thin race between Trump and Harris, is home to thethird-largest Puerto Rican diaspora in the country. Last month, the former president invitedPuerto Rican artist Anuel AA onstage at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to publicly throw his support behind the Republican ticket."
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Variety reports, "Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin were among the notable industry figures who boosted Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Sunday after a speaker at Donald Trump‘s political rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden called Puerto Rico 'a floating island of garbage.'"
"Bad Bunny, one of the world’s biggest music superstar[s] with more than 45 million Instagram followers, boosted Harris’ campaign video targeting voters in Puerto Rico and noting what a contentious relationship that Trump had with the island during his tenure in the White House. Lopez posted Harris campaign material targeted at Puerto Rico as well as the same video pitch that Bad Bunny boosted."
"Singer-actor Ricky Martin, with 18.6 million Instagram followers, did the same thing on his Instagram Stories feed, adding the comment 'I remember' on the Harris video. He also included a clip of Hinchcliffe’s 'garbage' comment."
Variety continued, reporting, "Luis Fonsi, the Puerto Rican singer who had a worldwide smash in 2017 with 'Despacito,' also reposted the Harris video and added a comment."
“We are not OK with this constant hate. It’s been abundantly clear that these people have no respect for us and yet they want our vote,” Fonsi wrote. “I purposely wrote this in English cause yes we’re American too.”
Political strategist, CNN commentator, and co-host of ABC's "The View," Ana Navarro, has two million followers on the social media platform X and is a highly-influential Republican.
"Today, @KamalaHarris released policy proposals to help Puerto Rico. On the other hand at the Trump rally, this is going on," she wrote, pointing to a clip of Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage."
"But nah. They’re not piece of s--- racists who treat Puerto Ricans as second-class US citizens. It’s just our imagination. Puerto Ricans, pay attention!"
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She also noted posted a screenshot of Bad Bunny's post, in which he shared Vice President Harris's proposal for Puerto Rico with his 45 million followers.
And, pointing to Hinchcliffe's racist remarks about Latinos making babies, Navarro wrote:
"Latinos, defend our community’s dignity.
Show some self-respect.
A vote against racism is a vote for @KamalaHarris."
Monday morning on "The View," co-host Sunny Hostin, who is Puerto Rican, served up a monologue strongly criticizing Donald Trump.
"This Puerto Rican has something to say about the island that I love, where my family is from," Hostin began. "Puerto Rico is 'trash'? We are Americans, Donald Trump. Americans. We voluntarily serve disproportionately high in the military, while you have bone spurs."
"And we vote."
"Pennsylvania is home to almost half a million Puerto Ricans. North Carolina, 115,000. Georgia, 100,000. Arizona, 64,000. Wisconsin, 61,000. Michigan, 43,000. Nevada, 27,000. We vote Donald Trump."
"Trash?"
"And by the way, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Bad Bunny, Luis Fonsi, and Mark Anthony have over 345 million followers on Instagram. I think you only have 26 million, since you care so much about size. And we don't like what was said about Puerto Rico. And we know how to take the trash out Donald Trump. Trash that has been collecting since 2016. And that's you, Donald Trump. And finally, my fellow Puerto Ricans, trash collection day is November 5th, 2024. Don't forget it."
Former Fox News political commentator Geraldo Rivera let loose Sunday night:
"'A floating island of garbage…?' Referring to Puerto Rico??? 'Poisoning the blood of our nation…?' We have 'murder in our genes….?' Fuck these racists. Latino men of good will, have pride in yourselves and your ancestors. A vote for Trump is a vote against self-respect."
Monday morning he added: "Latino men, for the love of your parents and children, for your pride and your honor tell this little gringo s--- to go f--- himself."
See the video and social media posts above or at this link.
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The right wing freakout is in full force after Fox News announced Vice President Kamala Harris will sit down for an interview with then network’s chief political anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania.
It will be the Democratic presidential nominee’s first official Fox News interview, after entering the race in July, less than three months ago.
“While Trump became the first major presidential nominee to back out of the traditional pre-election ’60 Minutes’ interview, Kamala Harris has agreed to sit down with Fox News for an interview this week,” noted Zeteo News’ Justin Baragona.
“Harris has upped her media appearances recently, having sat down with Stephen Colbert, 60 Minutes‘ Bill Whitaker and Howard Stern, among other personalities,” Deadline reports. “But she’s also been urged by some supportersto make an appearance on Fox News, populated by voices on the right, even though Baier is on the network’s news side. With an average of 2.3 million viewers, Special Report has ranked among the most watched cable news programs.”
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Trump recently did pull out of a previously agreed-to interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” and has refused to do any more debates with Harris after losing the first one on ABC News. Before that debate Trump had suggested a condition of him participating in the ABC debate would be Harris had to agree to two others, which she did. Next week she will appear in a CNN town hall, which originally was to be a debate until Trump pulled out.
“As of today, it has been **one month** since Trump’s been interviewed by a mainstream media outlet,” noted Harris campaign spokesperson Ian Sams, “as he has backed out of 60 Minutes and refuses to debate again.”
“Meanwhile Harris is willing to even go on Fox,” he added.
During the 2024 campaign Trump has done virtually no interviews with mainstream media outlets, avoiding The New York Times, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and MSNBC. He did sit down with NBC News’s “Meet the Press” for Kristen Welker’s first interview as the show’s new moderator last year in September.
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The Nation’s John Nichols commented that Trump is “running scared.”
Trump supporters “swarmed all over Fox’s Bret Baier today like he was a Capitol Police Officer on J6 after he posted on Twitter that he will be interviewing Kamala Harris this Wednesday,” MeidasTouch News reports. “Baier received 2,200 comments on his tweet announcing the interview in just the first hour after he posted it.”
“Most of the MAGA comments to Baier follow a consistent theme – that they lost all faith in Baier after his tough interview embarrassed Trump last year, and that they expect him to go into this interview with guns blazing to win back their favor. They also mentioned some of the previous Harris interview conspiracies – that her earrings were airpods where she was getting the answers, that she was given the questions ahead of time, that Baier and Fox called the 2020 election too early for Biden, etc.,” MeidasTouch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski reported.
Journalist Mike Rothschild, who has written books on right wing conspiracy theories, observed: “This is smart from the VP. She has nothing to lose by appearing on the news arm of Fox News (as opposed to the screeching infotainment arm) and if she breaks through to a fraction of their viewership, it’s worth it. It’s almost like the Harris campaign knows what it’s doing.”
The news Harris will appear on Fox News comes on the heels of one of that outlet’s former top hosts, Geraldo Rivera, denouncing Donald Trump and endorsing the Vice President’s run for President.
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Geraldo Rivera, 80, Joins NewsNation's Correspondent Team Months After His Sudden Fox News Departure
Rivera, who left Fox News after two decades in June, has made several guest appearances on NewsNation in recent months as the budding network expands its news programming
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Published on February 14, 2024
Geraldo Rivera will join NewsNation as a correspondent-at-large, less than a year after his dramatic departure from Fox News.
In an announcement, NewsNation said Rivera, 80, will join the team "effective immediately" and will "appear across the network’s daytime and primetime programming." Rivera's first appearance as a correspondent will happen Wednesday on CUOMO, which airs at 8 p.m. ET.
“Geraldo is a legendary journalist whose talent and experience is unrivaled in the industry,” Michael Corn, president of news at NewsNation, said in the statement. “We look forward to him joining the network and providing our viewers with his one-of-a-kind analysis.”
Geraldo Rivera Leaves Fox News After 23 Years: 'I Got Fired from *The Five* So I Quit'
Geraldo Rivera visits the Dan Abrams show at SiriusXM studios in November 2018.
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Rivera has spent 50 years working in television, and previously served as senior correspondent and co-host of the roundtable program The Five at Fox News. The five-person panel talk show features four conservative voices and one rotating liberal personality — which was often Rivera, who rotated along with Jessica Tarlov and Harold Ford Jr. — and hosted with regular conservative voices Jesse Watters, Dana Perino, Jeanine Pirro and Greg Gutfeld.
Rivera, who joined Fox News in 2001, announced he was leaving the network last June.
A spokesperson for Fox News shared a statement at the time, saying, “We reached an amicable conclusion with Geraldo over the past few weeks and look forward to celebrating him tomorrow on Fox & Friends which will be his last appearance on the network.”
At the time of his exit, the veteran journalist initially suggested that he left The Five at his own will, but later said that he was “fired” fromThe Fiveand decided to quit the network altogether.
"I had a very toxic relationship with another of the cast members,” Rivera said during an appearance on ABC’s The Viewin July.
Rivera notably had a number of on-air clashes with Gutfeld, in particular. In one segment, Rivera told Gutfeld to “stop pointing at me” when they argued over electric vehicles, per the Associated Press. In another, Rivera called Gutfeld “an arrogant punk” during a discussion about abortion.
In his final segment on the network, Rivera grew emotional as he said he had "such affection for the people in this building."
"I really, I feel very emotional and deeply moved," he added, after a montage of his work on Fox was shown to audiences. "I will always remember this morning. It is something that I didn’t expect, this celebration is beyond the beyond."
Geraldo Rivera Celebrates 80th Birthday Days After Sudden Fox News Departure: 'A Lot to Celebrate'
Prior to his time Fox, Rivera worked at ABC News where he served as an original anchor of Good Morning America and as an original senior investigative reporter on 20/20. Previously, he hosted a self-titled syndicated talk show, The Geraldo Rivera Show, from 1987 to 1998.
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Longtime television personality Geraldo Riverasaid former President Trumpmade him “dump him,” in reference to their falling out in late 2020 after Rivera said he would not support the former president’s election fraud theories.
“I feel awful that he made me dump him,” Rivera said in an interview with The New York Times.
Rivera detailed his last interactions with Trump, which took place just 10 days after the 2020 election. Rivera claimed he received a call from the former president asking if he had heard of Dominion Voting Systems, a voting machine company Trump alleged helped overturn the 2020 presidential election result in President Biden’s favor.
Rivera claimed Trump asked him to look into the election allegations and call him back. After hearing from sources who said Dominion was not involved in election interference, Rivera said he called Trump back Nov. 16 to share his findings, but Trump did not take the call and the two have not spoken since.
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Fox News mainstay Geraldo Rivera has parted ways with the network as staffing shake-ups at the conservative institution continue.
Rivera first shared word of his departure from the channel on Thursday, posting a video on Twitter showing him on a boat off the coast of Long Island while saying that he had been dismissed from a panel show which Fox airs weekdays at 5pm ET.
“I’ve been fired from The Five, and as a result of that I quit Fox,” Rivera said in the video.
When asked for comment on Rivera’s remarks, a Fox spokesperson provided a statement which said that the network had “reached an amicable conclusion with Geraldo over the past few weeks”. The statement, written on Thursday, added that Rivera’s appearance on the Friday morning edition of the Fox & Friends show would be his last appearance on the channel. Rivera notably joined the show a few months after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
Rivera, 79, was magnanimous when he appeared on Fox & Friends for his farewell segment on Friday, saying: “I’m deeply touched – I’m honored.
“I love Fox, I love the people at Fox, I always will,” Rivera said. “I’ll never let anyone separate us, but I am beyond grateful for this. This is so deeply affecting. I love you for it – thank you.”
Fox has not said that Rivera’s departure was at all related to the $787.5m settlement that the Rupert Murdoch-owned channel reached with Dominion Voting Systems in April to end a defamation suit over the broadcast of Donald Trump’s lies about voter fraud when he lost his 2020 presidential re-election campaign. But it is among a handful of changes at the network since the settlement was announced.
The most notable of those was the firing of host Tucker Carlson within days of the settlement. Fox has maintained that Carlson’s dismissal was unrelated to the settlement, and it has replaced him with Jesse Watters. The network’s ex-star has not commented.
Meanwhile, Carlson’s former managing editor Alexander McCaskill resigned in mid-June after a banner headline which he was thought to be behind described Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator” during a broadcast.
The banner – or chyron – also said that the president had “his political rival arrested”, referring to a federal indictment filed against Trump which charged him with improperly storing government secrets at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
McCaskill had also been accused of having “habitually belittled female employees” – among other things – in a lawsuit brought by the ex-Fox talent booker Abby Grossberg which accused the channel, its owners, and its workers, including Carlson, of fostering an abusive workplace environment.
Rivera embarked on his career in broadcast journalism in 1970. He hosted a daytime talkshow for 11 years beginning in 1987. And, among other gigs, he was a CNBC news host from 1994 to 2001 before joining Fox, where he worked as a war correspondent, weekend anchor and host of the Cops: All Access series.
Generally known to have a flair for controversy and self-promotion, Rivera stood out in recent years for his outspoken criticism of Israel over its attacks on Gaza and other Palestinian targets. With his participation, The Five would often outperform Fox’s other prime-time shows in terms of ratings.
In some quarters, one of the most memorable episodes of Rivera’s run at Fox saw the US military boot him out of Iraq in 2003 for broadcasting details about American troop movements there.
Two years before that, in an on-air flub he blamed on “the fog of war”, he claimed to have been at the scene when three American military members had been slain by friendly fire in Afghanistan before the Baltimore Sun later established that he had been more than 300 miles away.
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For all he has done and said that offended, insulted and hurt folks who didn’t deserve it, there is one unforgivable thing that disqualifies Donald Trump from again serving as our president. He has forced, coaxed, manipulated and intimidated tens of millions to bec
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Feb 8, 2019 — Geraldo Rivera of Fox News clashed with a co-host of “Fox & Friends” on Friday during a discussion of a new congressional resolution in ...
Geraldo Rivera of Fox News clashed with a co-host of “Fox & Friends” on Friday during a discussion of a new congressional resolution in support of the Green New Deal.
The resolution, introduced Thursday by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey(D-Mass.), calls for steps such as upgrading infrastructure and transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030.
Rivera, a correspondent-at-large for Fox News, called the deal “aspirational” and “idealistic.”}:
“You aspire for total control?” co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Rivera. “You aspire to support the people that don’t work?”
“No, you aspire to get rid of pollution, Brian,” Rivera replied. “You aspire to get rid of traffic. You aspire to make the world environmentally a place where it is sustainable.”
“There is evidence that something has to change to keep those temperatures from continuing to go up,” he added.
In addition to Thursday’s introduction of the resolution, Speaker Nancy Pelosi(D-Calif.) appointed several Democrats to sit on a new climate change panel. Ocasio-Cortez was not one of the committee members.
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[### Geraldo Smacks Down Fox & Friends on Climate Change
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Jun 2, 2017 — Geraldo Rivera sparred with the Fox and Friends anchors on Friday over President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Accords.
Geraldo Rivera sparred with the Fox and Friends anchors on Friday over President Donald Trump‘s decision to pull out of the Paris Accords.
“What is this deal for?,” Rivera asked. Pete Hegseth replied, “American sovereignty.”
The veteran journalist followed up by asking, “At what cost?” Hegseth replied, “Our country.”
Rivera shot back, “Do you want your kid to live in a gas mask?!” The conservative guest host kept up his line of argument.
“I don’t want an international bureaucrat in Brussels telling me what regulations I have to have in Pennsylvania,” Hegseth said.
Rivera retorted, “I don’t want to have to swim when I go to the deli. I want the world to be as — at least as clean as it is now for my children — at least as maintainable, sustainable.”
The correspondent ended his thought by likening Mr. Trump’s withdrawal from the climate change agreement to the U.S. not entering the League of Nations in the 1920s.
Earlier in the segment, the Fox News journalist reacted to Ainsley Earhart‘s interview of Vice President Mike Pence.
“I like him very much. I don’t agree with many of his ideas, obviously,” Rivera said. “He’s a hardcore, traditional conservative. But he’s got the President’s back, and I appreciate that. He’s a traditional politician, in the sense he knows how government works. And that’s all good.”
The TV personality continued with his first condemnation of the President’s decision: “In terms of climate change, particularly…I am absolutely appalled by this decision. I think it’s unnecessary — a self-inflicted wound on the President — because I love the President. I like the Vice President. I love the President. I want him to succeed. And I think that this is terrible”
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For the second time this week, Fox News host "Judge" Jeanine Pirro defended hate speech. The first instance occurred on Tuesday night's edition of The Five, when Pirro declared that antisemitic remarks made by disgraced rapper Kanye West and Holocaust-denying white supremacist Nick Fuentes were "repugnant by another standard."
Pirro's reasoning was that free speech is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. While that is true, the First Amendment does not shield a person from the consequences of what they say – a lesson that West has learned the hard way.
Nevertheless, Pirro made it clear that she believes that hatemongers like West and Fuentes should be allowed to post their vitriol on Twitter – a view shared by the platform's owner Elon Musk, who earlier this week lifted the site's long-standing ban on COVID-19 misinformation.
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Then, on Thursday evening, Pirro doubled down on her stance.
"So what do you think about free speech, and Elon Musk, and Twitter – wait, wait wait. It's one thing to be anti-woke. But it's not anti-woke to be absolutely repulsed by Kanye West praising [Adolf] Hitler, or Nick Fuentes being lavishly celebrated at Mar-a-Lago. That's not woke," correspondent Geraldo Rivera explained to Pirro.
"Here's the bottom line. If you don't like what someone's saying, you don't have the right to tell them they can't close their mouth and they cannot speak. The United States Supreme Court in Brandenburg versus Ohio – I go to the highest court in the land – says no matter how repulsive the speech is, America was founded on the concept of free speech. Hate speech is protected. I'm tired of saying it," Pirro said to her fellow panelists on The Five.
"These people like [Massachusettes Democratic Senator] Elizabeth Warren who says it's wrong or offensive that one human being should decide. Well, I don't like that Tim Cook is taking down the AirDrop for the protesters in China. That's one guy. You know, it goes on and on. That's not up to us. The thing that makes America different from every other country is that we have the right of freedom of speech which means we have freedom of thought. We are not a fascist nation," Pirro continued.
Because of the First Amendment's provision, there is a growing debate over how much power social media giants like Twitter and Facebook should have over moderating their user-generated content even though they are not a part of the federal government. But as Rivera noted, some speech is downright dangerous.
"Are we free to say Jews will not replace us?" he asked, referring to the chants by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.
"You're free to say whatever you want. I can slap you if I feel like it, but then I'll be prosecuted. Okay? Here's the bottom line. You don't like it, that doesn't mean the man or the woman is prevented from saying it. My god, how far have we gotten from the founding of this nation?" Pirro wondered.
"Alright," Rivera added. "Enough about Kanye."
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Geraldo Rivera lashes out after conservative journalist slams Fox News’ Ukraine commentary
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Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera lashed out at Never Trump conservative David Frum after the journalist posted a tweet slamming the Kremlin talking points that have come from some opinion hosts at the right-wing cable news outlet.
On March 21, Frum tweeted, “I'm trying to recall a single instance of a resignation of conscience at Fox News over the network's support for Putin's war. Marina Ovsyannikova risked life and liberty to tell her viewers the truth. Is there one wealthy Fox director or employee willing to forgo a single check?”
After seeing Frum’s tweet, Rivera angrily posted, “Fuck you. You don’t know me. Do you even have a job?”
Frum, a right-wing conservative who has been a scathing critic of former President Donald Trump, regularly appears in The Atlantic and other major publications.
The disparity between Fox News’ hard news division and far-right opinion host Tucker Carlson has been evident during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While Carlson has been an apologist for Russian President Vladimir Putin and been more than happy to push Kremlin talking points, Fox News’ hard news division has had plenty of boots-on-the-ground reporting from Ukraine during the conflict — and some Fox correspondents have been killed in Ukraine, including cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian correspondent Oleksandra Kuvshynova.
Mother Jones’ David Corn recently reported that Carlson’s commentary has been so pro-Putin that a Kremlin memo urged state-owned Russian television to feature him more prominently.
Frum, in his March 21 tweet, obviously wasn’t referring to Zakrzewski or Kuvshynova, but to all the pro-Putin comments that Carlson has drawn so much criticism for.
Mediaite’s Michael Luciano, reporting on Rivera’s anti-Frum tweet, commented that it is false to say that Fox News universally supports Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Luciano wrote, “Numerous Fox News hosts, including Rivera, Jesse Watters, and Sean Hannity, have vocally supported sending military aid to Ukraine.”
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GERALDO RIVERA (CO-HOST): I'll say this also: Any business person, any company that buys Russian oil is complicit. You are aiding and abetting a monstrous war criminal. You are just as guilty.
JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): Does that include America? That includes America?
RIVERA: It includes every one of us.
PIRRO: America?
RIVERA: Every one of us.
PIRRO: America?
RIVERA: If we buy -- if we buy -- I don't know about the nations -- but, generally, but I'll talk about any business person in America or anywhere else who buys Russian oil, you are complicit. Your hands are -- there's blood in that oil. You may get a bargain on it. It will haunt you forever. Turn your back on it. This -- this has to be seen in the context of what it is. This man is attempting to wipe out the Ukrainian race.
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Geraldo Rivera has long been a supporter and apologist of former President Donald Trump. In fact, the former talk show host even describes Trump as a friend. But despite his loyalty to the former president, Geraldo....
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Fox's Geraldo Rivera: Trump is being “unfairly mugged by the media” for repeatedly lying about Alabama and Hurricane Dorian
09/05/19 9:14 AM EDT
During coverage of Hurricane Dorian, Fox “hard news” show hosts climate denier
09/03/19 5:14 PM EDT
https://www.mediamatters.org/martha-maccallum/during-coverage-hurricane-dorian-fox-hard-news-show-hosts-climate-denier
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During coverage of Hurricane Dorian, Fox “hard news” show hosts climate denier
Roy Spencer uses his Fox News appearance to deny the documented link between climate change and hurricanes
WRITTEN BY JOHN WHITEHOUSE
PUBLISHED 09/03/19 5:14 PM EDT
During coverage of Hurricane Dorian, Fox “hard news” anchor Martha MacCallum hosted climate denier Roy Spencer who denied the proven link between hurricanes and climate change. Spencer also laughably asserted that climate change was occurring slowly; MacCallum did not provide any substantive pushback to his statements.
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CitationFrom September 2 edition of Fox News' coverage of Hurricane Dorian
MARTHA MACCALLUM (ANCHOR): Special breaking coverage tonight of Hurricane Dorian. Dorian is an extremely powerful storm, and we are sure to hear people blame its strength on global climate change. So, should we? Is that correct?Roy Spencer is a meteorologist, principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and author of the book Inevitable Disaster: Why Hurricanes Can't Be Blamed on Global Warming. So we know where you're coming from on this, Roy. It's good to have you with us tonight. You know, a lot of people look at this and they say that global warming has heated the surface of the ocean and that over time, those trapped gases continue to make that hotter and that that warm water is what leads to the fact that we've had five [Category] 5s in just the last few years. What do you say to them?
ROY SPENCER (METEOROLOGIST): Well, there's all kinds of statistics, Martha, that you could look at. The ones I look at are the long-term, because that's climate. Climate is long-term. And since 1900, out of all of the major hurricanes that have hit Florida, there has been no long-term trend in either their intensity or in the number of major hurricanes -- that is Cat. 3 or stronger -- that have hit Florida. Even if Dorian were to hit Florida as a Category 4, which it looks like now is not going to happen, there still would be no long-term trend. Now yes, we do expect, theoretically, that warmer waters should lead to stronger hurricanes. And the waters out around the Bahamas, where Dorian really intensified, are unusually warm. But if you go back, again, through the last hundred or more years, and look at the sea surface temperatures in that area and the hurricanes that have hit Florida, it turns out that the seven hurricanes -- since 1871 -- the seven hurricanes that went over the most unusually warm water for that time of year, and then hit Florida -- all of them occurred before 1950.
MACCALLUM: That's very interesting. Another statistic out there, and you tell me what you think about it, is that since 1970, you've had a one-tenths of a percent celsius increase every decade. So it's this slow but steady climb, and according to those numbers, that show that over time, the oceans are warming up. What do you say about that?
SPENCER: That's right. The oceans are warming up.
MACCALLUM: What do you say about that?
SPENCER: The oceans are warming up. The atmosphere is warming up. I think, probably based on the theory, over 50% of that is due to humans. But the warming is very slow. And warm waters is only one part of hurricane formation, OK? In order to have a hurricane, most of the tropics -- most of the tropics all the time, during the summer, are capable of producing or supporting a major hurricane. What's usually missing is a preexisting disturbance. For instance, most of the hurricanes we get started out as African easterly waves that come off of Africa, south of the Sahara Desert. That's where most of them come from, the disturbances. So you need that. But you -- even more important, you need low wind shear. So you've got these different ingredients you have to have. It's kind of like tornadoes. You have to have a special mixture of certain ingredients. It's not just sea surface temperature. Otherwise we'd be having major hurricanes all over the tropics, and we don't. They are a relatively rare phenomenon. So, yeah sea surface temperatures are important but statistically, like I said, if you look at the data going back over 100 years, you really can't support increasing hurricane activity with the increasing sea surface temperatures that we actually are seeing.
Contrary to Spencer’s assertions, the link between hurricanes and climate change is a well-known fact. The Union of Concerned Scientists broke the science down into three parts: Warmer water gives more fuel to hurricanes; rising seas worsen storm surges; and warmer air holds more water for rainfall.
The link between hurricanes and climate change
CitationThe Union of Concerned Scientists
Inside Climate News also points to a study linking slow-moving hurricanes like Dorian and Harvey to climate change.
Beyond that, Spencer’s assertion that climate change-driven “warming is very slow” is preposterous. Scientists are warning that the planet is reaching a tipping point beyond which the Earth could be pushed into “into a spiral of runaway climate change.”
Lastly, it’s ridiculous for Fox News to book Spencer at all. Spencer is a longtime climate-denying gadfly who is the “official climatologist” of Rush Limbaugh, someone else who frequently lies about climate change. Spencer has previously argued that climate activists “are supporting policies that will kill far more people than the Nazis ever did.”
In 2011, an editor of the journal Remote Sensing resigned after concluding that it should never have published a study by Spencer denying climate change due to “fundamental methodological errors or false claims.” The editor also harshly criticized Fox News for running with and exaggerating the study. Spencer had also released a study in 2003 that used faulty calculations to purportedly show that temperatures in the troposphere had remained constant over the previous two decades.
Fox News anchor Shep Smith has acknowledged that climate change is real. MacCallum’s decision to host Spencer on her “news”-side program goes to show how little the facts actually matter at Fox.
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Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera Defend Hannity from ‘Despicable’ Media Matters
by Josh Feldman | 3:15 pm, November 19th, 2017
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Bill O’Reilly came to Sean Hannity‘s defense this afternoon following a CNN appearance from Media Matters president Angelo Carusone.
Carusone spoke with Brian Stelter about pressuring Hannity’s advertisers and the successes they’ve had so far, and O’Reilly––who Hannity hosted on his show recently months after his firing from Fox––slammed both Media Matters and CNN:
Media Matters and CNN teaming up to try and knock Sean Hannity off the air. Despicable and unAmerican. Freedom of speech again under fire.
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Geraldo Rivera also took to Twitter to blast Media Matters to for their “totalitarian” campaign:
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Watching fast talking @GoAngelo of #MediaMatters on #CNN attempting to justify his creepy, totalitarian campaign to censor what Americans can watch on television. With his attacks on @seanhannity he’s gone a bridge too far & failed
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"fast talking." Subtle. Why don't you just go ahead and call me a greasy eye-talian while you're at it. Gross that you spend this much energy defending Hannity's destructive bullshit. You bring shame to yourself.
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I used to like Media Matters when the organization stuck up for progressive principles vs swaggering populists. You’ve taken it into the gutter of boycotts and bullying. It’s like you’ve forgotten what you’re supposed to stand for. You’ve become what you profess to loath.
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Watching my new hometown #ClevelandBrowns is challenging. But responding to #MediaMatters @GoAngelo There’s a difference between vigorously fighting for what you believe in and trying to wreck careers & destroy opposing views with anti-democratic boycotts vs 3rd party businesses
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https://www.alternet.org/media/5-worst-fox-news-lies-and-errors-repeated-donald-trump
Most U.S. presidents get their briefings from the experts on their staff. Donald Trump gets his information from Fox News. The New York Times reported early this month that Trump watches up to eight hours of cable TV news a day, and Fox News is his absolute favorite. As he guzzles Diet Cokes and scarfs fast food, Trump keeps on eye on the Faux News anchors and pundits who offer him their constant adoration. Everything else he denigrates as fake news, particularly if it offers an unflattering truth.
This would be problematic by any standard, but it’s made all the more insidious by the fact that Fox News is garbage. Studies have found that viewers who watch Fox News aren’t just less informed than other news consumers, but know less than people who don’t watch any news at all. That’s the result of Fox’s endless stream of alternative facts, the very thing that keeps the network in favor with the Trump regime.
Trump often promotes Fox errors and misinformation because they serve his agenda. Here are five examples of Fox lies and misinformation Trump has repeated since his election.
1. When he tweeted Fox News' lies about his campaign manager’s crimes.
In late October, Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort—who made his name doing PR for dictators—was indicted on a dozen charges, including money laundering, conspiracy and tax fraud. Court papers specified that while Manafort’s crimes date back to 2006, the allegations included actions in 2016 and 2017. Fox & Friends quickly got to work spreading the lie that Manafort’s wrongdoing had occurred “many years before he joined Trump.” Fox News talking heads ran with their assigned angle, with Geraldo Rivera tweeting that Manafort’s “corruption predates time w @realDonaldTrump” and contributor Byron York stating Manafort’s “alleged crimes...if they took place, took place years before he joined the Trump campaign.”
Shortly after Fox’s inaccurate reporting, Trump seized on the useful lie and used it in one of his own defensive tweets. “Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign,” Trump wrote in his message, blathering on about “Crooked Hillary & the Dems.”
2. When he repeated Fox News’ false reporting about James Comey.
In their feverish haste to impugn former FBI director Comey, Fox & Friends writers totally misread a report from reputable news outlet the Hill. The source article indicated that of the seven memos Comey wrote detailing his troubling conversations with Trump, four contained classified information. Comey had previously stated, testifying before the Senate, that he shared one memo that did not contain classified information with a friend to leak to press. But a Fox & Friends segment and subsequent tweet claimed Comey had leaked “top secret information” to a friend, a declaration with no relationship to the truth.
"James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media,” Trump tweeted, his obvious source the bad information provided by Fox & Friends. “That is so illegal!"
The following day, after numerous outlets reported on the lie, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy issued a correction—though not an apology—for the error. The Trump correction is definitely on its way any day now….
3. When he was confused by Fox News about the Swedish terror attack that never was.
In their ongoing efforts to demonize Muslims both at home and abroad, Fox News put its spotlight on a documentary linking the increase in violent crime in Sweden with the arrival of brown migrants. (On a not-so-side note, the Guardian cites a Swedish Migration Agency report showing that is totally made-up Islamophobic garbage.) After watching the report on a Friday night, a confused and fact-indifferent Trump told an audience on Saturday that a terror attack had just occurred.
“You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden! Who would believe this?” Trump lamented to a Florida crowd. “Sweden, they took in large numbers, they are having problems like they never thought possible.”
The news shocked no one more than the Swedes, who had no idea what Trump was talking about and quickly recognized that he didn’t, either. “Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking?” Swedish politician Carl Bildt mockingly asked.He went on to mention the cities of Nice, Paris and Brussels, all of which had experienced terrorist attacks in recent years.
On Sunday, Trump tweeted that his “statement as to what's happening in Swedenwas in reference to a story that was broadcast on @FoxNews concerning immigrants & Sweden.” Of course.
4. When he tweeted falsehoods about President Obama because he misunderstood a Fox News report.
In the early morning of March 7, Fox & Friends quickly cycled through the day’s headlines. Trump’s attention may have been caught by a report that the “Trump administration just killed a former Guantanamo Bay detainee [Yasir al-Silmi] released by Barack Obama...He had been released back in 2009 even though the Department of Defense recommended that he stay behind bars. One hundred twenty-two prisoners released from Gitmo have returned to the battlefield.”
Fox reiterated that announcement in a tweet that again stated “at least 122 former Gitmo detainees have re-engaged in terrorism.” Trump could easily have asked any of the experts in his orbit about a numbers breakdown, but instead he decided to wing it, posting a tweet incorrectly blaming Obama. “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield,” Trump wrote in the Twitter missive. “Just another terrible decision!”
That’s a fairly funny claim from the king of terrible decisions. The Daily Banter gets to the heart of the problem here:
Naturally, Trump leaped to the conclusion that all 122 detainees mentioned in the piece were released by President Obama. They weren't. In fact, according to the Director of National Intelligence's website, President Bush released 532 detainees from Guantanamo Bay, and 113 of those former detainees returned to "the battlefield." Meanwhile, Obama released 161 detainees, with just nine returning to the battlefield.So, no, Obama didn't release 122 "vicious prisoners" from Gitmo who returned to terrorism. He released 161, but only nine of them rejoined al-Qaeda.
Trump lied.
5. When he even retweeted a Fox spelling error of his own words.
While delivering a speech in Poland last summer, Trump declared that "the West was saved with the blood of patriots."
Fox News aired the speech, but instead of Trump’s actual words, the chyron offered a misquote that read, “POTUS: WEST SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF PATRIARCHS.”
The error itself isn’t that extraordinary. Tickers, chyrons and other onscreen graphics are often written quickly, and mistakes are bound to happen. That, or Fox News believes Trump truly meant to say that bloodthirsty dads, fighting to the death, are the real heroes. Both of these things seem equally likely.
In any case, Trump tweeted the Fox News clip featuring the typo, despite the fact that it contained a total misstatement of his own words.
As another Twitter user noted, footage from just after the speech seemed to show Trump aimlessly moving around the stage with no sense of where to go or what to do. I guess that fits well with not remembering his own speech.
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Gerald Michael Riviera** (born July 4, 1943),[3] better known as Geraldo Rivera (/ˌhɜrˈɔːldoʊ ˌrɪˈvɛrə/),[4] is an American attorney, reporter, author, and talk show host. Rivera hosts the newsmagazine program Geraldo at Large and appears regularly on Fox News Channel. He is also well known from his history as a reporter and TV personality, and as the host of the talk show Geraldo from 1987 to 1998.
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Early life[edit]
Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, New York, the son of Lillian (née Friedman), a waitress, and Cruz "Allen" Rivera (October 1, 1915 – November 1987), a restaurant worker and cab driver.[5][6] Rivera's father was a Catholic Puerto Rican,[7] and his mother is of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent. He was raised "mostly Jewish" and had a Bar Mitzvah.[8][9] He grew up in Brooklyn and West Babylon, New York where he attended West Babylon High School. He has five siblings: Wilfredo, Sharon, Irene, Abnor, and Craig. Rivera's family was sometimes subjected to prejudice and racism, and took to spelling their surname as "Riviera" because they thought it sounded less ethnic.[10]
From September 1961 to May 1963, he attended the State University of New York Maritime College, where he was a member of the rowing team.[11][12] In 1965 Rivera graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, and he played goalie on the lacrosse team. He received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1969 and later did postgraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[13][14] He is a member of Tau Delta Phi fraternity.[citation ^needed]
After a brief career in law enforcement, wherein he served the New York City Police Department as an investigator, Rivera returned to law and became a lawyer[15] for the National Lawyers Guild.[16] He became a frequent attorney for the Puerto Rican activist group, the Young Lords,[16]which attracted the attention of WABC-TV news director Al Primo when Rivera was interviewed about the group's occupation of an East Harlemchurch in 1969. Primo offered Rivera a job as a reporter but was unhappy with the first name "Gerald" (he wanted something more identifiablyLatino) so they agreed to go with the pronunciation used by the Puerto Rican side of Rivera's family: Geraldo.[17]
Career[edit]
Early stages[edit]
Rivera was hired by WABC-TV in 1970 as a reporter for Eyewitness News. In 1972, he garnered national attention and won a Peabody Award[18][19] for his report on the neglect and abuse of patients with intellectual disabilities at Staten Island's Willowbrook State School, and he began to appear on ABC national programs such as 20/20 and Nightline. After John Lennon watched Rivera's report on the patients at Willowbrook, he and Rivera put on a benefit concert called "One to One" (released in 1986 as Live in New York City). Rivera reported Lennon's murder on Nightline on December 8, 1980. Rivera also appeared in The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2007), a movie about Lennon and Yoko Ono's lives in New York City.[citation ^needed]
From 1975 to 1977, Rivera was a correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America. He gave special reports for the show.[citation ^needed]Around this time, Rivera also began hosting ABC's Good Night America. The show featured the famous refrain from Arlo Guthrie's hit "City Of New Orleans" (written by Steve Goodman) as the theme. A 1975 episode of the program, featuring Dick Gregory and Robert J. Groden, showed the first national telecast of the historic Zapruder Film.[20]
After Elvis Presley died in 1977, various media mistakenly reported that he had died from a heart attack. Rivera then investigated Presley's prescription drugrecords and concluded that he had died from multiple drug intake. His conclusion caused Tennessee medical authorities to later revoke the medical license of Dr. George C. Nichopoulos for overprescribing.[citation ^needed]
In October 1985, ABC's Roone Arledge refused to air a report done by Sylvia Chase, for 20/20 on the relationship between Marilyn Monroe and John andRobert Kennedy. Rivera publicly criticized Arledge's journalistic integrity, claiming that Arledge's friendship with the Kennedy family (for example, Pierre Salinger, a former Kennedy aide, worked for ABC News at the time) had caused him to spike the story; as a result, Rivera was fired. Sylvia Chase quit 20/20, although she returned to ABC News many years later. The report has never aired.[citation ^needed]
In April 1986, Rivera hosted the syndicated special The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault, an ill-fated adventure wherein Rivera excavated what he had been told was the site of Al Capone's buried treasure trove. Rivera broadcast live as the site was excavated, fully expecting to find a store of the former gangster's wealth. The show was heavily advertised, particularly on Chicago's WGN television station. A medical examiner was brought along for the excavation in case any dead bodies were excavated. The show was on air for several hours, displacing regularly scheduled programming, as Rivera's team penetrated the vault he was sure would yield the famed loot. Ultimately, the vault was found to contain a few broken bottles. Rivera held one of these bottles aloft for the camera and excitedly stated that it had once contained "bootlegmoonshine gin".[citation ^needed]
Talk shows, specials and guest appearances[edit]
In 1987, Rivera began producing and hosting the daytime talk show Geraldo, which ran for 11 years. The show featured controversial guests and theatricality, which led to the characterization of his show as "Trash TV" by Newsweek and two United States senators.[21] One early show was titled "Men in Lace Panties and the Women Who Love Them". In another in 1988, Rivera's nose was broken in a well-publicized brawl during a show whose guests included white supremacists, antiracist skinheads, black activists, and Jewish activists.[22] Regular guests on his show included LaToya Jackson, talking about the latest goings on and scandal updates in her family.
In 1988, Rivera hosted the first of a series of prime-time special reports dealing with an alleged epidemic of Satanic ritual abuse. He stated: "Estimates are that there are over 1 millionSatanists in this country.... The majority of them are linked in a highly organized, very secretive network. From small towns to large cities, they have attracted police and FBI attention to their Satanic sexual child abuse, child pornography, and grisly Satanic murders. "[citation ^needed]
Critics counter that more credible estimates are about 10,000 adult members of religious Satanic churches, temples, and grottos as well as 10,000 solitary practitioners of Satanism; Rivera's claims of ritualistic abuse, conspiracy, and criminal activity remain unsubstantiated.[23]
In 1994, Rivera began hosting Rivera Live, nightly discussions of the news on CNBC, while continuing to host Geraldo. The show was portrayed in the final episode of Seinfeld, with Rivera as himself reporting on the lengthy trial of Seinfeld's four main characters. On May 20, 1994, Rivera appeared on The Price Is Right.[citation ^needed]
Later, he would take his talk show in a different direction, transforming it from "Trash TV" to a more subdued, serious show, and changed its name from Geraldo to The Geraldo Rivera Show(first airdate September 7, 1997). By this time, however, the show had run its course; was canceled in 1998.[citation ^needed]
In 1997, Rivera contracted with NBC to work as a reporter for six years for $30 million, including hosting Rivera Live on CNBC. During 1998 and 1999, he extensively covered theimpeachment of President Bill Clinton.[citation ^needed]
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In 2001, during the War in Afghanistan, Rivera was derided for a report in which he claimed to be at the scene of a friendly fire incident; it was later revealed he was actually 300 miles away. Rivera blamed a minor misunderstanding for the discrepancy.[24]Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he accepted a pay cut and went to work for the Fox News Channel as a war correspondent in November 2001. Rivera's brother Craig accompanied him as a cameraman on assignments in Afghanistan.
Controversy arose in early 2003, while Rivera was traveling with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq. During a Fox News broadcast, Rivera began to disclose an upcoming operation, even going so far as to draw a map in the sand for his audience. The military immediately issued a firm denunciation of his actions, saying it put the operation at risk; Rivera was nearly expelled from Iraq.[25][26] Two days later, he announced that he would be reporting on the Iraq conflict from Kuwait.[27]
In 2005, Rivera engaged in a feud with The New York Times over their allegations that he pushed aside a member of a rescue team in order to be filmed "assisting" a woman in a wheelchair down some steps in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The ensuing controversy caused Rivera to appear on television and demand a retraction from the Times. He further threatened to sue the paper if one were not provided.[28]
In 2007, Geraldo was involved in a dispute with fellow Fox colleague Michelle Malkin. Malkin announced that she would not return to The O'Reilly Factor, claiming that Fox News had mishandled a dispute over derogatory statements Rivera had made about her in a Boston Globe interview. Rivera, while objecting to her views on immigration, said, "Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life. She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people." He added, "It's good she's in D.C., and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her." Rivera later apologized for his comments.[29][30]
In 2008, Rivera's book, titled HisPanic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S., was released.[31]
On January 3, 2012, Rivera began hosting a weekday radio talk show on WABC (AM) in New York.[32] On January 30, 2012, Rivera also began hosting a weekday radio talk show on KABC (AM) in Los Angeles.[33] He fills the 10 AM to noon (PST) time slot between the syndicated Imus in the Morning and Rush Limbaughprograms.[citation ^needed]
On March 23, 2012, Rivera made controversial comments regarding Trayvon Martin's hoodie and how the hoodie was connected to Martin's shooting death, and as of November 5, 2014, he continues to do so as he did on the Dan LeBatard Radio Show on ESPN.[34] Rivera apologized for any offense that he caused with the comments, of which even Rivera's son Gabriel was "ashamed".[35] Some, have reportedly taken the apology as disingenuous;[36] among those who did not accept it was Rivera's longtime friend Russell Simmons.[37] He later apologized toTrayvon Martin's parents as well.[38]
Rivera planned to visit Iraq in April 2012, for what he promised his wife would be his last (and eleventh) visit.[39]
Although he considered running as a Republican in the 2013 special election for New Jersey senator (to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Frank Lautenberg), he eventually decided not to stand for election.[40]
In 2015, Rivera competed on the 14th season of the television series The Celebrity Apprentice, where he ultimately placed second to TV personality Leeza Gibbons. However, Rivera still raised the highest amount of money out of any contestant in the season, with $726,000 (just $12,000 more than Gibbons).
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Rivera has been married five times and has fathered five children:
- Linda Coblentz (1965–69, divorced)
- Edith Vonnegut (December 14, 1971–75, divorced)
- Sherryl Raymond (December 31, 1976–84, divorced)
son: Gabriel Miguel (born July 1979)[41][42]
- C.C. (Cynthia Cruickshank) Dyer (July 11, 1987 – 2000, divorced)
daughters: Isabella Holmes (born 1992)[43] and Simone Cruickshank (born 1994)
- Erica Michelle Levy (since August 2003)
daughter: Sol Liliana (born 2005)[44][45]
He also fathered Cruz Grant (born 1987) with an unnamed, Mexican American[46] woman.
Rivera has been a resident of Edgewater, New Jersey.[47] He had previously resided in Middletown Township, New Jersey at Rough Point, an 1895 shingle-style estate.[48]
Rivera is an active sailor. He is owner and skipper of the boat Voyager and sailed in the Marion–Bermuda race (June 2011). His vessel finished in 12th place out of 13 finishers in the Class "A" category.[49]
On July 21, 2013, at 1 AM, Geraldo Rivera tweeted a picture of himself clad only in a towel, exclaiming that "70 is the new 50".[50][51] He has since removed the tweet and the picture,[52]however, the photo can still be found on the internet for those who wish to see it.
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- Rivera, Geraldo (1972). Willowbrook. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 0-394-71844-5.
- Rivera, Geraldo (1973). Miguel Robles—so far. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0-15-253900-X.
- Rivera, Geraldo (1977). A Special Kind of Courage: Profiles of young Americans. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-10501-9.
- Rivera, Geraldo (1992). Exposing Myself. London: Bantam. ISBN 0-553-29874-7.
- Rivera, Geraldo (2008). HisPanic: Why Americans fear Hispanics in the U. S. New York: Celebra. ISBN 0-451-22414-0.
- Rivera, Geraldo (2009). The Great Progression: How Hispanics will lead America to a new era of prosperity. New York: New American Library. ISBN 0-451-22881-2.
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