Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Geraldo is a dickweed
Geraldo Rivera arrives in a Fox News truck. An elderly woman with blond hair grips his elbow. She's wearing thick dark glasses and a pink shirt. He carries her small white dog in his arms. He's wearing thigh-high waders unzipped to below his knees. We shake hands. "Her relative called one of our stations," Geraldo tells me, explaining how that call went to another station, and then another, and finally to him.
The woman had been stranded in her home for six days. Geraldo picked up the woman and her dog and brought them here. The woman looks frail on his arm, though not as bad perhaps as a lady collapsed on a chair nearby, unable to move. Or a woman in a wheelchair being lifted from the truck, carrying her prosthetic leg on her lap.
"That's the second time he brought her here," one of the doctors tells me, nodding toward Geraldo.
"What?"
"They did two takes. Geraldo made that poor woman walk from the Fox News van to the heliport twice. Both times carrying her dog."
"Are you serious?" I ask. He says he is.
The prosecution rests.
CWCID: Glenn.
UPDATE: Fox has issued a denial. So it is at least possible that if Geraldo is a dickweed, this may not be the reason why. May, I say, because notwithstanding my abiding trust in Fox News, it does have a teensy-weensy vested interest in Geraldo coming out of this looking like a champ instead of a chump. The Salon piece struck me as pretty credible.
3 Comments:
By 
Josh, at
Wed Sep 07, 03:37:00 PM:
I don't know if "dickweed" is adequate...
By 
, at
Thu Sep 08, 01:37:00 PM:
Has anyone thought to ask the lady? Call me suspicious, but I'm fairly certain that the old lady would not put up with going thorugh this TWICE being tired, old, and abused by circumstance.
I could of course be wrong, but it don't pass the sniff test.
By , at
Thu Oct 18, 05:36:00 PM:
Regarding the heartwarming "live report" of our Knight in Shining Armor, Geraldo At Large Rivera in New Orleans, "saving" the lovely Alma Boucher and her elderly pooch, Sparky—
I have searched the web, to no avail, for any comment by someone besides me who may have seen a particularly offensive bit of footage of this event: In this scene, our hero is escorting Alma and Sparky to a rescue vehicle, and is holding Sparky by a leash. Sparky, on short little legs, struggles frantically to keep up with Geraldo's long strides. Oblivious to the gasping, stumbling little dog he drags along behind him, the man blabs on to his television audience without missing a beat—even when poor Sparky’s legs finally give way. The little dog struggles futilely to right himself, but twists onto his back as the unflappable Geraldo marches on, jerking the little dog across the rough concrete on his spine. (What a guy, Geraldo.)
Mercifully, a commercial cuts in, and when the story resumes, there isn’t as much as an “Oops” from Geraldo (or anyone else).
I don't see Sparky again during the rest of the segment. (Hope he recovered.) I tried to reach someone at the news station about that piece, but no one ever responded. I don’t believe there is a bigger narcissist in the world than this man. Every time I see him, I think of that little dog. Geraldo is such an idiot!!
(Didn't anyone else see this?)
