Live Stream of the GOP Bloodbath in Detroit

can be found here.

In the meantime, I dedicate this video to Donald Trump:



Still outrageous after all these years.

Blasts From the Past

A couple of Geraldo's greatest hits, which he has NEVER lived down.

From 1988:



And this:

Bring Me the Head of Geraldo Rivera

He is kicked out of OWS to return to Al Capone's vault:

So Does the Michelle "Whitey"

tape exist?




Larry Johnson of No Quarter keeps hammering on this. I will believe it when I see it, even with Stone's claim at least seven news organizations are bugging him about it.

Bring Me the Head of Geraldo Rivera...

... or something to that effect. Since this has been a rather "dead" news day, I thought I would post my reflections on one of my least-favorite of all "journalists."

Rivera ain't the worst, but he will do until another one comes along.

Yesterday I posted that the only time in my life I ever cheered vile racists was when one of the young skinheads took a chair and bashed Geraldo with it in an onstage brawl in 1988, breaking his nose. Apparently Geraldo was proud of his battle scar, even appearing on the cover of Newsweek with the title "Trash TV." The article was about the rise and rise of tabloid television, featuring the likes of the program of the late Morton Downey, Jr. and the tabloid show A Current Affair. Little did Newsweek know that these shows were the start of a "golden age" of television where almost anything and everything goes. Later would come Jerry Springer, entire television networks specializing in trash (read Fox and its numerous spawn), and O'Reilly graduating from Inside Edition to Fox News Channel.

Geraldo, though, survived and thrived despite some bumps in the road: divorces, job changes, and an autobiography for which he publicly apologized. I could pad this blog and post excerpts from his tome Exposing Myself, but I won't subject readers to that ordeal. In this book Geraldo bragged about affairs he had with the late Senator Jacob Javits' wife, Liza Minnelli, and Bette Midler. More entertaining, though, were his attempts at getting it on with women of less fame and fortune. One memorable episode was his encounter with a prostitute. Unfortunately, or fortunately for the woman, Geraldo was so cold with fear nothing happened. Another memorable moment was when Geraldo was seriously involved with a woman in his youth, and she dumped him for another woman. Both of these women knew things the rest of the world had to find out the hard way. Needless to say, the book was not a best seller.

After all these years I'm still a bit unclear as to why he left ABC News, but he did leave at about the time 20/20 sacked a "report" about the Kennedys and Marilyn Monroe and their nonexistent relationship. This "story" was no doubt based on British tabloid author Anthony Summers' "definitive" biography of Marilyn Monroe, Goddess, one of the worst books of the 1980s. Reportedly several people working for ABC News had connections with the Kennedy family and pressures from that family forced the network to do the right thing and dump such an idiotic piece. Geraldo feigned outrage and shortly thereafter went to the greener pastures of syndicated television.

When Rivera went to cable television, I did regularly watch his "O.J. Show" (okay, it was called Rivera Live) in the mid-1990s. Little did I know at the time some of the "experts" featured on that show were some of the vilest people on the face of the Earth, and many of them appeared on the show when the fake Clinton "scandals" were going on. You know, Federalist Society hacks like the DiGenovas and Ann Coulter, and others actively involved in the persecution of the Clinton family. While Geraldo helped his reputation a bit by exposing the VRWC, he eventually lost what reputation he had by going to Fox News. Apparently legal affairs programs, like the law practice in his youth, bored him, and he followed his true calling back to tabloidism.

And that's where he's stayed ever since.

I still am not sure if Rivera has been pulled from Iraq. No doubt when it happens he'll be all over the place talking about it. Then he can take his yacht back to the United States and find Al Capone's treasures.