Former Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera was truly in his element when he dropped by “The View” where he turned on the charm and left the normally abrasive co-hosts purring as he took shots at his former colleagues and dazzled his fellow leftists by sucking up to them.
The 80-year-old journalist who announced that he was quitting the conservative network last month after he was dumped from “The Five” had teased his appearance on the popular ABC daytime gabfest with a Twitter video from his boat off the coast of Hampton Beach. “What’s my message when I get to The View? Will I be angry and bitter over being fired from Fox News, from The Five?” Rivera said.
On Thursday, Geraldo refrained from taking a flamethrower to Fox News but told the ladies at the table that he’d been fired from the top-rated show because of a “toxic relationship” with a co-worker whom he refrained from naming but dropped hints as to who it was.
Rivera said that while he still had time remaining on his contract, he decided that, “if you fired me from the number one show, then I’m going to quit. And that’s basically what happened,” referring to being ousted from “The Five” and that one of the problems was that “I had a toxic relationship with another of the cast members.”
“Which one?” Joy Behar asked, to which he responded by telling the women to, “check the internet,” hinting that it’s Greg Gutfeld whom he has clashed with.
Rivera was much less charitable when it came to Tucker Carlson.
“I think that he is an excellent writer,” he told the ladies. “I think that he was very charismatic in his presentation. He was number one for a reason, was a pretty good show. Then he drifted into this murky area where a swampy area where, you know, these conspiracy theories and it’s not just generates a whole bunch of different mucky kind of conspiracies.”
“Will he still have that influence?” Rivera asked of Tucker on Twitter. “Fox is a tremendous platform. And once you lose that platform, you’re kind of screaming in the wilderness and competing with a lot of other people who have podcasts and so forth. So will he be the same character? I don’t know.”
Carlson has been doing just fine without Fox News with his latest episode on Twitter featuring an extended interview with controversial influencer Andrew Tate having drawn over 71 million views in two days.
“I don’t like to be unkind, but that what he did, just as I would never vote for Donald Trump, I will never forgive Tucker for what he did about January 6th,” Rivera added.
What he could possibly mean is that he’ll never forgive Carlson for blowing a smoking hole in the concocted J6 narrative which he did by airing never before seen footage of the infamous day exposing key myths.
Thanks to Carlson, Americans were able to see Jacob Chansley, aka the QAnon shaman, being escorted around the Capitol by police who acted as tour guides as well as performing a great public service by showing Officer Brian Sicknick alive and well on the day of the so-called “insurrection” despite the propaganda that he was murdered.
Tucker Carlson releases J6 video footage showing capital police acting as tour guides for the QAnon shaman. pic.twitter.com/DZzt4HgpBZ
— Gretchen (@GretchenOO8) March 7, 2023
Rivera also spoke of the current situation at his former employer, “It just seems to me that there is a period, now, of fear at Fox. I believe that there is an atmosphere that because of the Dominion settlement, $787 million, and these other cases, the $12 million for the woman with her allegations, and they’re cutting back now.”
“They’re firing a lot of people, and I think the crush of that retrenchment as they try to make up for those huge settlements, paid, and to come,” he said. “It’s the little guy and girl who are the object of the accountants’ wrath or let’s lose three of these jobs or five of those jobs. And I think that the journalists, you know — I think the high-profile journalists are fine. What happens to the staffers, young and old, I wonder, and I worry about them.”
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