Geraldo wants to fight Keith Olbermann

[RedEarth]

Geraldo wants to fight Keith Olbermann



During a radio appearance, Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera called MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann “a coward — specifically a ‘(female part of the anatomy) who wouldn’t walk across the street against the red light.’ He then said he was ready to fight him, saying: ‘I would make a pizza out of him.‘” Geraldo has previously attacked Olbermann as a “lowlife” and a “schmuck,” and said Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert “exist in a small little place where they count for nothing.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/08/geraldo-wants-to-fight-keith-olbermann/

[Clark2008]

1. Jealous much, there Geraldo?

You know what happened last time he opened something other than his mouth?

Yep... nothing.

[hatrack]

Wow, is he still alive?

:evilgrin:

[MadMaddie]

2. Geraldo can get his fight when he comes up with the treasures

of Al Capones safe...

[MADem]

3. Them Faux folks is CRAAAAAAAAZY.....

Dildo Really wants to whip KO....what's next? Greta Van Susteren vs. Contessa Brewer in a cage match?

Wow, some people can be sanctimonious, know-it-all, douchebag asswipes on the way up, and whining, crying, snuffling babies on the way down, can't they!

[Patchuli]

4. Yeah and Al Capone had walled-up treasure

and it seems to me we've seen Geraldo get a bloody nose for his trouble before. He looks like a real "schmuck" with his nose bandaged up there. Shooting off his mouth... He's a has-been! :nopity:

[Shakespeare]

5. Dude needs to get back on his meds, pronto.

'Cause that's just sad.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. I ask you, where would Heraldeau be without OJ & Jon Binet??

& that was back when he was hanging on at CNBC.

[fooj]

7. Geraldo's pissed because Faux canceled his BS show.

What a wanker! :spray: Boo f*cking hoo, Geraldo. Get a life.

[terisan]

8. Trying to boost ratings and please Fox to get screen time and keep income

Fox loves to keep people distracted from the life and death issues we face so they can keep making the big money....sort of like those wrestling shows.

Best to ignore anything he says so that he will disappear.

Decades ago Rivera and Imus (who new to NYC radio at the time) used to talk each other up to boost their careers. This is an old game and I hope KO doesn't play it. I like to believe he is authentic.

[Clevenger]

9. Rivera is terrified that he's all washed up...

...now that his lame show on Fox has been cancelled. In badmouthing Olbermann, Rivera is, in typical fashion, throwing shit against the wall to see if any of it sticks.

Rivera is so, so over.

[walldude]

10. Lowlife and Schmuck...

Geraldo, first off, don't use Hebrew, it makes you sound like a... um... schmuck. Second why don't you tuck that little one inch back into your pants and go draw some troop movements in the dirt you moran. Third if it's a fight you are looking for just go criticize a Uwe Boll movie. We are too busy trying to save your country.

[Bombero1956]

61. he uses Hebrew

because his mother is a Jew. But I think he's an atheist. Anyway you look at it he's a jealous asshole.

[benny05]

11. Geraldo's bandage will be bigger than Rocky 2006

Keith R. Morrow is the rock journalist for justice.

[oasis]

12. Rivera isn't worth shit on a stick. (n/t)

[illinoisprogressive]

13. does anyone really take geraldo seriously since 1980??????

[juajen]

14. I think Harry Reid could take Geraldo.

Honest, I do.

[sakabatou]

15. As much as I don't like violence

I think Gerlado needs to have his mustache knocked off.

[VelmaD]

16. I'm willing to fight him...

in Keith's place. I'm sick and fucking tired of "female part of the anatomy" being used as a slur and I've been itching to beat the shit out of the next asshole I heard using that term.

[sweetpotato]

63. I'll help

I'm also very tired of "female part of the anatomy" as a slur.

I am also tired of "girl" being a slur.

Women will not ever be "equal" as long as we are viewed by men as inferior. The use of female terms to degrade males demonstrates their notion that "female = inferior." I am sick of it.

[PsN2Wind]

17. How about a tuneup with Christiane Anampour (?),Geraldo?

She has the balls you used to have back when

[VelmaD]

18. *sigh*

Yeah...'cause having "balls" makes you tough and being a "pussy" makes you weak. Nope...no lingering sexism in our language. *sigh*

[PsN2Wind]

19. It's a euphemism

Try to deal with it.

[VelmaD]

21. no...

it's sexist bullshit.

[PsN2Wind]

40. Sorry if I'm not politically correct enough for you

that's what the ignore button is for. Sometimes it's hard to make a comment here without someone getting their panties in a twist. I'm sure if you spend enough time scouring the posts, you'll find much to get indignant about.

[VelmaD]

49. ah the old political correctness canard...

the battle cry for those who want to spew sexist or racist or homophobic garbage (or all of the above) and suffer no consequences.

The great thing about free speech is you can say whatever you want...but afterwards I can tell you you're full of shit. :hi:

[Beelzebud]

67. Ah the old political correctness canard canard.

All you're doing is trying to control speech.

If you are never offended by anything, you aren't living in a free society.

If you are offended by everything, you might want to lighten up a bit, because you'll never be happy in this world.

[VelmaD]

69. To reiterate the point...

from my post that you obviously neglected to read...you can say whatever you want...the right to free speech means that I can then turn around and call you on your bullshit. People who whine about political correctness are the ones who really don't believe in free speech because they want to be able to be an asshole without having to put up with people calling them on it. If you really believe in free speech, then you can't whine when you say something sexist (or racist or whatever) and people exercise their right to call you an asshole.

[JitterbugPerfume]

60. VelmaD

thank you for calling sexist BS for what it IS

[Shakespeare]

29. No, it's sexist and demeaning. Deal with THAT. n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

31. Yeah I think it's sexist AND demeaning.

I agree. And then if you really wanna get offensive, you use the "T" word for female anatomy....

:banghead:

[Beelzebud]

65. If you're never offended you aren't living in a free society.

[VelmaD]

70. being offensive on purpose...

makes one an asshole

[Beelzebud]

74. Stephanie Miller just said Bush doesn't have the balls to get out of Iraq.

Is she sexist? Was she saying that to be offensive on purpose?

I don't think the OP was trying to make a sexist jab. "have the balls" is a very common phrase to the average person.

I think you just look for things to offend you.

[VelmaD]

75. At the very least...

she's perpetuating sexist language. Which was what my original post in this thread was about in the first place...that our language includes a lot of sexist baggage that too many people don't seem to want to question.

[ProfessorGAC]

76. A Common Malady I Fear

I think intent is a missing variable in many of these discussions. When an insult is obviously NOT intended, i think the outrage is misplaced and is wholly unproductive. It fractures alliances when disagreement is elevated over an abstraction not intended to insult.

The Professor

[Beelzebud]

77. Great point. Intent is everything.

[VelmaD]

78. When an insult is not intended...

but the person insulted tells you what you said was insulting...a decent human being apologizes and then does not repeat the behavior/comment. Conversely, when someone tells someone else they've said something offensive...and the offender proceeds to tell the offended to "lighten up" or goes on a rant about "political correctness" and their right to say whatever they want...you can pretty much write that person off as an immature, self-centered asshole.

[Beelzebud]

80. Who's really self-centered here?

You apply offense where none was meant, and then demand an apology, and for the offender to change the slang phrases they use. Who is the self centered one?

The most ironic thing about this whole deal is that the person was comparing a real journalist to a fake one, and the example they used for the real journalist was a woman! Real sexist there... Totally offensive....

[VelmaD]

81. Are you really this dense?

Do you not get why people might roll their eyes when a woman journalist is praised for having "balls"? Especially in a thread in response to one male journalist denigrating another male journalist as a "pussy"?

If you go back and read what I have actually posted, particularly my first post in this thread, you will note that I never told anyone what they can and cannot say. I merely pointed out that our language is still filled with not-so-subtle sexism and that those of you demanding the right to say whatever you want seem to have a very thin skin when other people exercise that same right to call you on your bullshit.

[Beelzebud]

82. I'm not dense, I'm just sick of PC Police that look for things to be offended by.

You're free to rage against every tiny thought crime that offends you, and attempt to subvert free speech.

I'm free to value free speech, and the right to use whatever language a person feels like, even if it offends some.

We won't ever agree on this.

Have a nice day.

[VelmaD]

85. Your reading comprehension skills...

leave a lot to be desired. I won't tell you, yet again, to read what I've actually posted because it's obvious at this point that you either haven't and don't intend to, or if you have that it just isn't sinking in for you.

Small words and then I'm done. I don't think you actually believe in free speech for everyone. You believe in your own right to say whatever you want...but not other people's right to tell you off over it. This is unfortunately not uncommon...even on DU.

Have a nice life.

[NancyG]

87. I use "She really has ovaries."

Sometimes "He really has ovaries." to make the point that balls ain't all there is.

My husband also uses the phrase.

[VelmaD]

88. I've heard that one, but I prefer...

the gender neutral "backbone" or "spine" or "guts". That's part of what really annoys me - it's not like our language doesn't have plenty of gender neutral terms to note that someone has courage and determination.

[ProfessorGAC]

84. As You Wish

The Professor

[Oldtimeralso]

20. Come on back to Chitown

Jerry Rivers will end up sealed in a basement

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. And to think I used to like Geraldo

[Warpy]

33. He wasn't bad in the early 70s

before he made a royal mug of himself with Al Capone's empty safe, lost his credibility, and had to scavenge around for a job where credibility didn't matter---Pox News.

[Occulus]

42. Al Capone's empty safe?

Do tell- this is one I haven't heard.

[myrna minx]

57. Back in 1986, Geraldo had a TV special about the

opening of Al Capone's secret vault, which after much hype, turned out to be empty. :rofl:

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/R/htmlR/riverageral/riverageral.htm

Rivera was undaunted by his altercation with the network and moved to boost his visibility with a hour-long special on the opening of Al Capone's secret vault in April 1986. The payoff for the audience was virtually nil since the vault contained only dirt, but the show achieved the highest ratings for a syndicated special in television history. Rivera wrote in his autobiography, "My career was not over, I knew, but had just begun. And all because of a silly, high-concept stunt that failed to deliver on its titillating promise."

[Warpy]

59. Oh, that one was hilarious and sad at the same time

The network (ABC?) had been running promos about Al Capone's long lost and never opened safe, reported to contain (variously) millions in paper currency, gold bars, his diary detailing all his nefarious activity, the famous second set of Mafia books, and so on and so forth. The hype was intense.

Came the big night, they dragged it out and tried to build it all up, and BAM! came the final moment, the safe was drilled open and....wait for it...the safe was ...... EMPTY!

I'm surprised he ever got enough of the egg off his face to show himself in public, let alone on right wing TV. His credibility as a reporter was totally shot after that, sad for somebody who'd had a decent reputeation and who had allowed himself to be talked into doing tabloid crap for ratings.

(and no, I wasn't glued to the set. I was at a friend's house and her husband was glued to the set)

[Beelzebud]

68. It was funny. The "safe" turned out to be a cemented storm drain to keep the lake out.

[JHB]

72. It was NOT empty!

I distinctly remember at least one vintage empty beer bottle!

:evilgrin:

[HughMoran]

23. HE compensates for the last time he was an ass by being an even BIGGER ASS

He's done it his entire career. How much bigger a dumb ass - who is not taken seriously - can this guy get? The imbecile was a liberal when that was popular, now he's a conservative because Fox is the only place that would hire him. What?? :crazy:

[man4allcats]

24. Geraldo - Always the Quintessential Rethuglican

Just beat the crap out of anyone you're not intellectually prepared to cope with. What a guy! A classic symbol of the RepugliNazi Brownshirts!

[JI7]

25. FUCK YOU WHORE-aldo

[BuyingThyme]

26. It's going to be difficult for Keith to find some high ground.

[GreenTea]

27. As usual the idiot Rivera got it all fucked up...he believed every....

word out this lying, corrupt republican administrations mouth about 9-11...never looking past the republican corporate agenda & BushCo's conspiracy theory, believing every word that came out of an arrogant, elitist, liar like Bush...Rivera thought he was going to be this great on the ground superstar reporter in Iraq, a sovereign nation that never threatened us but has a shitload of oil...And the idiot Rivera again believed BushCo lies about WMD, Hussein, etc...And played the fool for Fox news - Now trying to make himself legitimate, instead of the Bozo he is, by picking a fight with someone (Olberamann) who's in a position Geraldo wishes so badly he could be in....Instead, because of his right-wing ass kissing he's stuck with those same republican assholes forever...just like Dennis Miller...They'll be able hang with David Horowitz, collect unemployment insurance and get drunk talking about how they used to be a liberal, when it was "fashionable"!!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

28. Kurt Vonnegut wanted to fight Geraldo

I remember hearing Vonnegut on a talk show many years ago calling Geraldo Rivera a punk and wanting to fight him. Apparently, Geraldo was previously married to Kurt Vonnegut's daughter and engaged in continuous cheating on her and verbal abuse. I'm not sure what the details are, but Vonnegut writes about his daughter's bad marriage to Geraldo in the chapter of a Vonnegut book entitled "Fates Worse Than Death". I can imagine that being married to Geraldo WOULD be a "fate worse than death".

[Richard Steele]

50. Geraldo WHO, now?

:shrug:

[bleedingheart]

53. Kurt refers to him as Jerry Rivers

I was at a lecture he gave years ago...and he introduced himself as the former father in law of a guy who used to be known as Jerry Rivers before he became Geraldo Rivera...

bwahahahah it was really funny and you could tell he didn't like him.

[Batgirl]

30. I'm embarrassed for Geraldo, kind of like how I'm embarrased

for the increasingly rare motorist with a 'W' sticker.

Since neither creature is remotely aware enough to be embarrassed for themselves.

[Mz Pip]

32. Time for Puppet Theater!

Steel cage death match with puppets.

Geraldo will never be as famous or as timely as Stewart or Colbert. Geraldo is a has been hack. KO, Stewart and Colbert have actual talent!

Mz Pip
:dem:

[gr8dane_daddy]

34. Olbermann's weapon of choice...

Terrifies the 'stache

[Pushed To The Left]

35. Rivera is a trained fighter. I don't know if Keith Olbermann has any fight

training, but I haven't heard anything about it. It doesn't seem very impressive for a trained boxer to challenge an untrained person to a fight!

[Berry Cool]

37. The only time Keith ever fought is beating up a bully in grade school.

He "went Ralphie" (as in A Christmas Story) on a bully who made fun of him. And his mom even showed up just like in the movie. He's told the story a few times.

But he was joking on Dan Patrick's radio show about this. Said that all he'd have to do to beat Geraldo is sit on him.

[Batgirl]

38. I highly doubt KO needs to be worried

In fact I'm pretty sure I could beat up Geraldo and the last fight I had was with a baby possum in the back yard last summer and I lost (by virtue of screaming and running away.)

Even if Geraldo is actually "a trained fighter" he would be too busy striking manly poses (similar to the manly war correspondent poses he struck while in Afghanistan) to actually throw a punch. Partciularly if there were cameras present.

[SOS]

73. Geraldo is 5'9" tall and is 63 years old.

I hope Keith accepts!

[Berry Cool]

36. As I said earlier in the Keith Clubhouse,

"If Geraldo makes a pizza out of him, I'm picking up the phone and ordering one large KO with everything."

Delivered to my door!

[Algorem]

39. old Whoraldo takes half hour just to crawl out from under O'Reilly's desk.

[opihimoimoi]

41. Jealousy talking....nothing more than that....a wanna be....

[Raksha]

46. A wannabe and a has-been at the same time...

it doesn't get any more pathetic than that!

[slj0101]

43. Saith the Duke of Credibility and Relevance.

:eyes:

Doesn't he have another empty vault to plunder?

[TheWatcher]

44. So DO IT Geraldo.

I for one am getting sick of all the talk from these bloviating idiots. If they want to fight someone so bad, why don't they just do it.

Talk, Talk, Talk, Threaten, Threaten, Threaten, Posture, Posture, Posture, Chest-Beat, Chest-Beat, Chest-Beat.

Christ, if you people want to fight so badly, quit all the fucking talk and bring it on.

Because quite honestly, I can no longer say it is a bad thing for most of these people to be beaten into oatmeal. I know that does not play well to our crowd, but for God Sake.

Is it going to be necessary for all of us to arm ourselves, because these people are becoming clinically insane, and violently unhinged?

Perhaps the only thing that will make it NOT come to that is that 99% of these idiots are pant-shitting cowards who could never hope to prevail in an actual confrontation.

[Yukari Yakumo]

45. He just wants to be "Worst Person in the World" one last time {nt}

uguu

[Hippo_Tron]

47. It pains me to say it but I was watching Scarborough tonight in complete agreement with Joe

He was really taking it out on Geraldo and O'Reilly for their senseless bashing of MSNBC and their shilling for the Bush administration. Don't get me wrong, I know Joe's no saint considering he voted for Bush himself, but at least he realizes when it's time to jump ship.

[B Calm]

48. They are trying their best to attach their-self to Olbermann's popularity.

[Buzz Clik]

51. (psssst! Geraldo! Your career is over. Be a man and accept it.)

[OxQQme]

52. The Bloviator

<snip> http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-blo1.htm
To speak pompously.

This word is almost entirely restricted to the United States; it doesn’t appear in any of my British English dictionaries, not even the big Oxford English Dictionary or the very recent New Oxford Dictionary of English. Yet it has a long history.

It’s most closely associated with U S President Warren Gamaliel Harding, who used it a lot and who was by all accounts the classic example of somebody who orates verbosely and windily. It’s a compound of blow, in its sense of “to boast” (also in another typical Americanism, blowhard), with a mock-Latin ending to give it the self-important stature that’s implicit in its meaning.

The word is actually much older than Harding; Fred Shapiro of the Yale Law School has recently turned up several examples from the middle of the last century, such as this one from the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention for the Revision of the Constitution of the State of Ohio in 1851: “The bloviators attempt to disturb the proceedings of this Convention”. This and other examples suggest it was at first a local word in Ohio, Harding’s home state. Bloviate may be a back-formation from the noun bloviation. This would fit with the US fashion in the early nineteenth century for expansive mock-Latinate words like sockdolager, hornswoggle and absquatulate.

There’s a gap in the citation record in the middle years of this century. The word only began to be used again in the 1960s, even then at first always in reference to Harding. This may be linked with a number of biographies of him that appeared about that time. The word only returned to any sort of regular use in the nineties.

[ProfessorGAC]

54. Textbook Example Of Projection

To whit: "Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert “exist in a small little place where they count for nothing.” Let's be serious! Rivera has been a laughingstock for 20 years, and he thinks Stewart and Colbert count for nothing?

What a tool?

BTW: Olbermann would kick his ass. Rivera is all talk, no walk. Always has been.

The Professor

[ProfessorGAC]

55. Dupe

.

[gatorboy]

56. And the winner gets whatever's in Capone's vault!

[KharmaTrain]

58. Whore Alert...Eagles Don't Fly With Turkeys

Ain't that something we hear from Geraldo right after his show is cancelled:

http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/167988

The dude's all but worn out his welcome at Faux and has nowhere left to go. He's gonna "take one for the team" here...sucking up to Ailes and Murdoch so they "give him one more chance".

Gotta give Geraldo credit, he keeps reinventing shit and getting paid for it.

[Hubert Flottz]

62. I guess the Lazy Assed GOPers in Congress will want a week off

for that shit too! Where is the Bout going to take place?

[brentspeak]

64. Geraldo senses he's becoming more and more irrelevent

This is his desperate plea for attention.

[EnviroBat]

66. Hey Rivera, come to MY town...

I'll beat your ass so bad even the porno industry won't want you. Not the they would anyway, you dick-less puke. Man I'd love a shot at this so called, "trained fighter"... I'd stomp a mud-puddle in your ass and walk it dry.

[TZ]

71. Geraldo is proving his lack of intelligence

You would think that after the way he got ripped by both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (which was hilarious) he would have learned his lesson by now. I am sure that Olbermann will have something appropriately scathing to say in return. We are talking about the same idiot that gave away troop movements in Iraq after all and got kicked out. I have a friend who told me many a time that true stupidity is making the same mistake over and over again....

[Norquist Nemesis]

79. Misplaced anger. It's not KO's fault Geraldo's program got 86d

but like a typical spoiled brat, he's going to put to blame anywhere but on himself.

[AspenRose]

83. KO could probably "K.O." Jerry Rivers.

eom

[stanwyck]

86. Geraldo wins.

because people are actually talking about him. And that's all he really wants. He's following the lead of Trump and Rosie. Get a feud going and even a has-been poser like Geraldo gets the attention of worthy people.
This just shows how powerful Olberman is becoming.
I mean, cunning Geraldo wouldn't pick someone on the decline, now would he?
He's become the Tonya Harding of journalism.

[Tarheel_Dem]

89. ding! ding! ding! We have a winner......

I hope that KO won't allow himself to be used by Geraldo like Rosie continues to be used by The Donald. Who-raldo is so over. He has always been a whore, and likes to rub shoulders with the power elite in Washington. I remember his show on CNBC (when I could still stand to look at him) he was a staunch Clinton supporter, and had a relatively decent following on the left. When he switched sides, he was welcomed by the right, but do you think they really trust him?

If Keith just lets this die, it won't be long before Mr. Rivers will soon follow in the disastrous footsteps of predecessors like Dennis Miller, Ron Silver, Rita Cosby, et al. Fox News Channel, the last bastion of scoundrels.

[rknryd]

90. Bitter, party of one

Your table's ready.

HA! :evilgrin: