Veteran journalist Geraldo Rivera was shredded for exploiting six dead construction workers to make a political point.
The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which was struck by a cargo ship on Tuesday, was a tragic disaster but a minor miracle because of the minimal loss of lives compared to what it could have been.
Unfortunately, people did die and six of them were reportedly undocumented workers who were part of the crew filling potholes on the bridge when the 1000-foot container ship the Dali collided with one of the main support pillars.
On Thursday, as his media colleagues were busily finding racial angles to the disaster, the 80-year-old reporter and former Fox News personality took to X with a lengthy post to use their deaths to advance his pro-illegal alien agenda.
“When the Key Bridge collapsed at 1:27am Tuesday morning, an overnight road crew filling potholes on the bridge died with it,” Rivera began. “The crew consisted of 6 apparently Undocumented Hispanic Immigrants, aka Illegal Aliens, from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. They drowned in the cold, murky water of Baltimore Harbor.”
When the Key Bridge collapsed at 1:27am Tuesday morning, an overnight road crew filling potholes on the bridge died with it.
-The crew consisted of 6 apparently Undocumented Hispanic Immigrants, aka Illegal Aliens, from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
-They drowned…— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) March 28, 2024
“There was no outrage from conservative media about them stealing jobs from citizens; because, as they often do, the migrants were doing a dirty, dangerous job no citizen wanted. An estimated 1/3 of our nation’s construction workers are undocumented immigrants. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2022 316 foreign-born, mostly undocumented Hispanic construction workers perished on the job,” he wrote. “Say their names. Maynor, Miguel, Dorlian, José, Alejandro.”
The unlucky workers have been identified as Miguel Luna, Dorlian Cabrera, Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval, Jose Mynor Lopez, and a sixth man whose full name hasn’t been released, according to CBS News.
X users blistered Rivera over his ghoulish post.
There was no outrage because conservatives actually value human life, regardless of their immigration status.
This is such a ghoulish post. https://t.co/4A3AyVtcaQ
— Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) March 28, 2024
“Say their names”?
They died, tragically. If they weren’t in our country, they might be alive today. Or perhaps they would’ve died by some other means in their home countries.
Thousands die every day. Secure the border and stop trying to manipulate people’s emotions.
— Zach Henry (@zhenryaz) March 28, 2024
If you were genuine you would remember them respectfully.
You have blood on your hands. You encourage people to come here illegally, exploit their deaths then virtue signal the ideology that cost their lives. They would be alive in their native country if not for you & your ilk https://t.co/QUwE4MeZMV— ‘ (@Bellisima_3) March 28, 2024
You are a disgrace to this country. Isn’t there some kind of far-left fundraiser you can attend tonight and kiss some ass? Just think if they were home in their own country they wouldn’t have been on that bridge. The fact that you try to garner some validity in saying they were… https://t.co/Dailo0LScm
— Lena Martin (@KekkityKekKek) March 28, 2024
That’s an odd way to politicize a tragic accident. I’m sorry the illegal immigrant work crew is dead, but accidents can happen anywhere. That doesn’t make them heroes. https://t.co/aH0DbintuJ
— Katya Sedgwick (@KatyaSedgwick) March 28, 2024
Don’t try to use the bridge collapse to throw shade at conservatives, you scumbag.
No bridges were collapsing when Trump was in office. Our country and the world were fine too. Now it’s all fucked to hell because of Biden and idiots like you who support him.
— Philip Anderson (@VoteBidenOut) March 28, 2024
Way to take a tragedy and contort yourself into some weird political talking point that makes little sense in this context
— D2 (@dedrick427) March 28, 2024
Damn. I didn’t know of their immigration status until I read your post. I know that since your heart is so heavy, you will be paying for all of their funerals. Illegal immigrants are grossly underpaid and I’m sure their families cannot bear the costs. We all thank you.
— mareeo (@ree_reeo) March 28, 2024
Many feel Rivera is and always has been completely devoid of shame.
The late Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten nailed Rivera’s journalistic style in a brutal observation of him in New Orleans during the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
“Seeing him descend bright-eyed and sweaty on wretched New Orleans, as he did in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, was like watching a vulture on crystal meth. The word that came to mind was not ‘reporting,’ but ‘feeding,’” Rutten wrote in his epic 2005 takedown of the then-Fox News reporter. “The only rational reaction was: Dear God! Haven’t these people suffered enough?”
His shameless “say their names” tweet shows that two decades later, Geraldo is still a vulture.
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