Maher Rips Rivera For His Trump Love And His Move To Fox
Fox's Geraldo Rivera's made an appearance on HBO's Real Time as part of his book tour, and it didn't go so well for Rivera. Host Bill Maher laid into him for his support of Dear Leader over on state-run TV, and for his move to Fox.
When asked to explain why he went to the right-wing propaganda channel which has turned into nothing more than a full time cheer-leading squad for Trump these days, Rivera told Maher he wanted to be a war correspondent after the terrorist attacks on 9-11. Maher forgot to remind him about the incident where he gave away our troop positions back in 2003.
Here's more on that and the rest of the interview from the Daily Beast:
There was a time, believe it or not, when Geraldo Rivera was considered an intrepid news reporter.
In the 1970s, Rivera took home a Peabody Award for his series of reports exposing the systemic abuse of disabled patients at Willowbrook State School in Staten Island. In 1983, he was the first network television newsperson to mention AIDS on-air.
But in the years since, between the Al Capone vault fiasco, his trash-TV show Geraldo, and his questionable work for Fox News, he’s become something of a punchline.