The Geraldo Rivera termination tour continued Tuesday with another former Fox News host as the once “muzzled, now “liberated” personality dished on Dominion “bullsh*t” that contributed to his departure.
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Pity parties being all the rage in the victimhood class, Rivera continued his attempt to portray his decision to quit the network after getting dropped from “The Five” as though he had escaped some sort of interminable torment on CNN.
Joining fellow Fox News alum Alisyn Camerota on “CNN Tonight,” the interview appeared part therapy session as she wondered, “How are you feeling?”
“Feel liberated. I feel free, free at last,” Rivera expressed, earning the follow-up question, “And why, why did you feel hamstrung there or, muzzled, you know?”
“Well, I — you know, you are muzzled, corporate discipline muzzles people, even if, you know, self-muzzlement if that’s a word. I felt — you know, first of all, they denied me permission to go on many shows over the course of my long career there. They have a very rigid, very controlled, kind of discipline,” he contended.
To that end, Rivera argued his take on former President Donald Trump, “that he knifed the Constitution in the back,” a thread he would pick up again with complaints about Tucker Carlson and Jan. 6 coverage, was “noxious.” He further contended that he was “nominally a Republican” despite immediately rattling off views that run counter to the party platform on border security, sanctity of life, and the Second Amendment.
“…you know, there’s a lot of things going on. But it was — it was a very, it’s a very rigid, very controlled atmosphere, where everyone answers to management, and management doesn’t allow freewheeling,” the lament went on. “They have a message, they send a talent out to do an interview, if it’s a big story in The New York Times, or this or that, they pick their spot.”
“And they’re very strategic in that regard, very disciplined. Conservatives are much more disciplined than liberals. Liberals are all over the place. You know like here, I can say anything,” he postured before going on to claim that he had been suspended at Fox News for “complaining about Tucker Carlson, when he had the outlandish theory that Jan. 6 was staged, it was a government operatives, the whole thing was a theatrical performance.”
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“It was total bullsh*t and I said it. I said it in those words, it was published, and I get suspended right there,” Rivera said.
Camerota turned the conversation to Fox News’ settlement with Dominion Voting Systems for nearly $800 million and wondered if it would “change how they do business” and “their relationship with facts.”
“They really understood that what they did was really so far off the norm that they had to apologize in a way that only corporations apologize, with money,” suggested Rivera.
Previously, he had appeared on “The View” where he had ripped into Carlson whom he said had “drifted into this murky area…a swampy area where, you know, these conspiracy theories and it’s not just Jan. 6, a whole bunch of different mucky kind of conspiracies.”
Those notions were continued as he told the CNN host, “I just think that the embarrassment from what happened on their Jan. 6, post-Jan. 6 coverage, the embarrassment that they suffered as a corporation will and already has affected the way they presented. Yes, they’re still heavily opinionated in the evenings, that is true, but I think they would never, I would hope, now say something just to get an audience. I don’t think it’s that raw, their ambition, anymore now that they’ve been, you know, really scolded…”
“I think the penalty, the scolding that they got from the public really woke them up,” Rivera said before offering, “conservatives deserve their own scene, their own network…they just have to be more, as you say, fact-based. They have to be more professional. They have to be less partisan.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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