MidasTouch influencer Adam Mockler didn’t like being called out by Geraldo Rivera over this behavior in a viral clip.
The video exploded on social media when Mockler and CNN’s Scott Jennings went at it during a panel, resulting in Jennings telling the younger man to “get your f**king hand out of my face.” Rivera, who was present on the panel, would go on a different show and say that Mockler behaved like a “d**k” during the exchange.
A recent episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored brought the two together again, where the host asked Mockler to respond to Rivera’s insult.
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“I wasn’t sure if you were talking about Chris Cuomo there, actually, Geraldo, to clarify you were actually talking about Adam Mockler,” Morgan said after running a clip of Rivera’s comment.
“Do you still think so?” the young man asked.
“Well, Adam, what do you want to say to Geraldo? He called you a d*ck. Do you have a response?” Morgan wondered.
“Yeah, it’s not a ‘d**k’ to try to force a critical question and try to force the conversation to where the American people want it. Geraldo, you were there when Scott made fun of my bedtime five minutes earlier,” Mockler charged. “Again, this is somebody not bound by any rules whatsoever on this show. He’s able to lie over and over. Why should I be bound by some decorum that my opponents aren’t bound by? Do you see what I’m saying? It’s not the eighties anymore. It’s not even 2010 anymore. We are in a new era where we are playing in a reciprocal manner.”
“So I’m not playing the games where I have to be nice,” he explained. “And regarding life experience, really quickly, you have a whole life of experience, and you’re on the same panels as me. We’re on the same shows. We had a show last week. We have a show today. So life experience? What has it gotten you? I don’t know.”
“All right, Geraldo, your life experience has got you nowhere, the young d**k!” the host goaded.
“It’s got me a career that’s lasted 56 years so far and counting, and aside from 10 Emmys and a few other trinkets, I guess–” he said before Mockler interrupted.
“And now you’re on the same panels as everyone else,” Mockler needled.
“Adam, listen, don’t be a wise-ass, okay? I said to you in the commercial break that immediately followed your confrontation with Scott that I thought that you made some good points. The problem is that you can be very obnoxious in your presentation. Now, sometimes being obnoxious can lead to a whole career, but I advise you strongly, because you’re a smart kid and you obviously prepared for the debate, stick to that. Stick to the substance, because I think that you do have a future,” Rivera said. “In terms of Scott Jennings, I like Scott very much. I didn’t know him before the CNN experience. You know, it’s fun talking to him in the green room before the show.”
“And then see the confrontation, this spontaneous combustion. I was surprised. I was surprised by the fact that Scott reacted as he did. But then just listening to Adam, he can be very grating. And sometimes that works. I remember Morton Downey and a bunch of others from daytime TV and so forth. But I strongly advise you to stick to the substance because you can, as I indicated in the commercial break following the confrontation, you can be a voice for a generation that has so far been unable to penetrate into the mainstream media. That’s my point,” he concluded.
“This is so indicative of the double standards that we see all throughout the media,” Mockler dismissed. “I mean, you went on that whole rant, but you didn’t mention that Scott Jennings made fun of my bedtime or whatever, not that I care. But he’s the one who has an obnoxious air.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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