When did you decide 100% that Geraldo Rivera is a goofball?

[TheWizardOfMudd]

For me, it was years ago when he went to a white supremacist rally to interview not only the racists, but the minority groups that were also present to protest the rally.

Geraldo spent 45 minutes breaking up confrontations between the two groups and preaching non-violence to all of them, in addition to doing his interviews.

THEN, some supremacist called Geraldo a "jew-spic." Geraldo immediately threw down his microphone and started trying to punch the guy. I guess he had not been listening to himself for the previous 45 minutes!

To top it off, the cops arrested Geraldo for assault & battery. They were leading him away, handcuffed, and he was saying, "Come on, man, its me, Geraldo Rivera, you can't arrest me!" LMAO!

Did anyone else see that show?

[Walt Starr]

1. When he opened "Al Capone's Vault"

His career should have been 100% over that night.

[FleshCartoon]

5. That was it for me.

But it was funny as hell to watch him spitting and stammering at the end of the broadcast.

I emailed Fox after he drew the map in the sand on a broadcast when he was "embedded", effectively giving away his troops' location. I asked if he was stupid enough to work for them--I never got a reply. Btw, I love what TDS did with that.

[charlyvi]

13. He looked totally stupid

holding that dusty, empty bottle. Then he tried to make it sound good--A BOTTLE FROM AL CAPONE'S VAULT!!!

[BiggJawn]

26. Al Capone's BEER BOTTLE!!!

Good ol' Horrendo Revolver....

He became a joke that night, but he still hasn't caught on....

But he did (so he claims) get to poink Bette Midler, so he's still got something on me....

[RoyGBiv]

19. Yup...

I totally agree.

Just the show itself lowered his stock a great deal, but afterward, everything that came later was not at all surprising.

[SarahB]

25. Credibility-wise

I think it was at that point.

[acmavm]

27. Yep, that was a stupid thing to do. He's so desperate for attention, I

think he'd do just about anything.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

2. Al Capone's vault.

He looked like a total ass.

[Faygo Kid]

3. I remember that show - didn't they break his nose?

So many Geraldo memories. Egotistical dickhead.

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Isn't that the one where one of the skinheads broke his nose?

Yeah, that's when Geraldo was doing the Jerry Springer show even before Jerry did it.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

22. No, this wasn't Springer's show

He was out in the streets in some city where the racists were holding their rally.

I had forgotten about the chair incident! LMAO!

[OpSomBlood]

6. Absolutely Capone's vault.

Although Rivera (his real name is the far less exotic Gerald Rivers) has certainly screwed up many times since them. How he stays employed baffles me.

[lpricanprynces]

10. Unfortunately, we are distantly related...

Yes, Geraldo and I are 3rd cousins, though I wouldn't dare acknowledge that in I were speaking to people in person.

His name really is Geraldo Rivera. He used Gerry Rivers when he first started out because he knew it would be too hard to break into the business with such an ethnic name. After he got his foot in the door, he went back to his real name.

[OpSomBlood]

11. I stand corrected.

n/t

[PfNJ]

7. Geraldo throwing punches?

Didn't Frank Stallone teach him a lesson all those years ago???

Are you sure he was actually AT the rally, or was he hundreds of miles away, like the time when he claimed to be in the Tora Bora area a few years ago, packing heat and waiting to take out Osama bin Laden himself.....

[seventhson]

8. When he sold out on ther JFK assassination

and basically endorsed the Warren Report

Before that he had potential and he sold out to the corporations for the plum dissembling job on JFK

[JVS]

9. Wasn't he Kurt Vonnegut's son in law for a while but then got divorced

I remember a friend at the bar saying that Vonnegut hated his guts and wrote some funny stuff about him.

[Lars39]

12. I've always thought he was goofy,

but the funniest thing I can remember concerning Geraldo was The Daily Show coverage...stickman Geraldo in the sand...LOL!!!Classic :D

[charlyvi]

14. I saw that show.

It looked like a rhubarb at Wrigley Field. Then, Rivera shows up with this stupid bandage across his nose--I can't remember if it was later in the same show, or the next day. LMAO too.

[bagimin]

15. When he signed on at foxnoose

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. When I found out his real name is Gerald Rivers

And when I found what a smuck he was to the kids that came to his One on One events.

[UTUSN]

17. When He Went to Faux

He was great from his beginning of his career (exposing abuse of mentally impaired), and I liked his pre-SPRINGER stuff, and LOVED his legal coverage of O.J.-------------but, he LOST it..........

[eleny]

18. When he used to call himself "Jerry Rivers"

Back when he was doing the news on a NYC tv station.

[oceanpoetry]

20. when he was pointing to the location of US troops

in Iraq on a map he drew ...dumb!

[Hubert Flottz]

21. On or about::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

DAY ONE!

[NNadir]

23. Way back in the 1970's, when he was a local reporter on Long Island.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

29. Actually . . .

. . . I knew he was going to be a goofball before he was born.

[playahata1]

24. The Klan riot on his show,

when he broke his nose. That one incident was the inspiration for "Jerry Springer" as we know it.

[kskiska]

28. How about when he had fat from his butt

injected into his face to smoothe out his wrinkles (on the air)?

[Razoor]

30. when he had his own talk show years ago

which was nothing but trash

[Sugarbleus]

31. I saw the show but I think

I REALLY got a clue that he was "odd" when he joined Fox news.