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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (391402)	4/14/2003 11:32:17 AM
From: username	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

LOL! I think Fox loves him. He's so "fair and balanced". Just so the rest of the people that read this thread know what we are talking about, I'll recap. Saturday night, Geraldo appeared on Fox surrounded by about 50 GIs, at night, out in some bad guy's abandoned back yard in Baghdad. He referred to some camo netting that rested behind him and the GIs, and said, "Wait till you see what's behind us! ('us'...yeah right, Geraldo)", then he went to a commercial! After the commercial, he backed up towards the camo netting and the GIs (including a captain) parted to each side, like a 40s movie musical, and then with a flourish Geraldo directed the GIs to pull the camo net and reveal (Presto!) a Huey helicopter. Geraldo then explained to his viewers back home that the helicopter was probably there so the bad guy could escape in it, but that the bad guy had probably not had time to use it. He then interviewed the captain about the 'copter, proving to the audience that the camo netting had been replaced after somebody had inspected the 'copter. (Naturally, the Army checked it all out for booby traps and all that way earlier, but Geraldo's loyal fans would not have figured that part out if the captain had not given the secret away.) The whole thing was obviously staged, and I strongly suspect that Geraldo thought it up himself and then directed it. Specifically, I suspect Geraldo TOLD the GIs, including a Captain in the United States Army, to find some camo, cover the helicopter up, stand around it, and then to walk to either side on cue, as he (Geraldo) did his little trick. It reminded me of a carnival scene in a bad movie. What I was most amazed about was that all this took place in a fire zone, in the middle of a war. Geraldo Rivera used the GIs for a sick stunt. I'd bet anything that the GIs only did it because Geraldo promised them that their families back in the US would see them. I was surprised the captain let him do it at all. Had it been me, I would have escorted Geraldo out of the area the moment he suggested the idea. But I don't claim to be able to think for a captain in the Army in the middle of a fire zone or anywhere else. The fact that Geraldo interrupted his stupid directing debut with a commercial proves to me that this guy is the sleaziest scumbag "journalist" in the United States. The crew in New York had to know the plan, because they ran a commercial in the middle of it. Geraldo had everyone's agreement. He's even sleazier than Peter Arnett. I wish I would have been there, I swear I would have spit in his face. Geraldo managed to accomplish several things, not the least of which was to use the United States Army to choreograph a little stage show and sell some sponsor's products at the same time. Fortunately the Arab press is too stupid to have seen his stunt and use it to PROVE that the live US feeds are stage shows. And he calls himself a journalist. He's a cheap prostitute who is interested only in himself and his career, he thinks that GIs on active duty in combat are very useful tools for his own purposes, and the fact that Fox didn't fire his ass on the spot proves to me that Fox is about as "fair and balanced" as any motion picture studio you would want to name; the only differences being that Geraldo found a Huey instead of not finding Al Capone's vault, and that he is not only a crappy actor, he sincerely sucks at screenwriting and directing as well.