Geraldo Rivera and Hannity Erupt Over Border Policy: 'When Did We Become the Party of Child Abuse?!'

[highplainsdem]

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/geraldo-rivera-and-hannity-erupt-over-border-policy-when-did-we-become-the-party-of-child-abuse/

Sparks flew on the set of Hannity Tuesday night as the Fox News host sparred with Geraldo Rivera over the separation of migrant families at the southern border.

Sean Hannity first said Democrats were “playing politics” by not taking an immigration deal from President Donald Trump, telling both sides of the aisle to “fix the law and do your jobs.”

“Politics aside,” Rivera replied, “This is cruelty as policy. This is an obscenity. This is the government of the United States and the president that we both love, advocating a system by which young children are torn from their mothers.”

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“When did we become the party of child abuse!?” Rivera said. He then pointed out that Trump implemented the “zero tolerance” policy that is responsible for charging border crossers and thereby sending their children to detention centers.

Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch spoke next, and after dismissing those getting “hysterical” about family separations, Rivera blew up.

“This is not hysterical!” Rivera shot back. “This is child abuse! How dare you! How dare you!”

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At the end of the segment, Rivera unleashed a final time on Farrell: “You know just because you don’t have sincere emotions, don’t say I don’t!”

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Video at the link.

[Corgigal]

1. Mr. Rivera

Please pick up the clue phone, Mr. Rivera. Your Hispanic and just thought, what?

[VMA131Marine]

26. You know his real name is Gerald Rivers right?

[cungar2000]

30. That last name is a myth perpetrated by Howard Stern

He was born Gerald Rivera but he's half Puerto Rican and half Jewish

Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, New York, the son of Lillian (née Friedman) and Cruz "Allen" Rivera (October 1, 1915 – November 1987), a restaurant worker and cab driver respectively.[4][5] Rivera's father was a Catholic Puerto Rican,[6] and his mother is of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent. He was raised "mostly Jewish" and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.

[ret5hd]

2. A repug hack trying desperately to appear to have redeeming values.

[Freethinker65]

3. "The president that we both love"????

[True Blue American]

36. Yuck!

[Paladin]

4. Fight, douchebags, fight! (nt)

[ProfessorPlum]

38. lol

[DetlefK]

5. In 2005, when John Yoo said that it's okay for the US military to torture children.

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. Though all the knocks for Rivera on this thread are true

I'm still glad that he said what he did on Hannity's show. His viewers are rarely confronted with those opinions.

[Kittycow]

8. Good point!

[highplainsdem]

12. Agree. Glad he spoke up. He's being condemned by Trump supporters online for doing so.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Is Rivera still working for Fox News?

If he hasn't quit then he's collaborating and enabling.
Guess that fat paycheck trumps his morality.

[mindfulNJ]

9. "the president that we both love"

Sweet Jesus

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. Meh..... fuck u, enabling piece of shit. Save ur bullshit "outrage" for someone else. nt

[beachbum bob]

11. not a lack of emotion..its a lack of morality covered with deep seeded racism

[Thrill]

13. So Rivera is finally admitting he's a Republican?

[vi5]

24. That was my take away from that as well.

[Progressive dog]

14. Rivera is a terrorist enabler,

pretending to be outraged while remaining in the cult. A few tears don't change that. He'll be back to spouting the Trump justifications before long.
He'll find new ways to hide what everyone knows and no good Republican admits. This is what they are selling.
"If only those evil Democrats would give Trump enough concessions, he wouldn't have to traumatize children."

[LenaBaby61]

34. THIS .....

[Jersey Devil]

15. It fits in with Rivera's origins as a reporter

He made his reputation as a news reporter in NYC on ABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News with a series exposing the abuses to adults and children that took place at a Staten Island facility for the mentally ill, exposing the terrible conditions in which they were housed and "cared" for and demanding that the situation be immediately addressed.

Where he went off the rails I don't know, but those are his roots.

[Cosmocat]

28. Yeah - fame

People are people, and most are weak to the pulls of fame and money.

He isn't the prototype complete POS scumbag like a Hannity, tucker carlson, etc.

But, what integrity and decency he had has been overwhelmingly over ridden by the pull ego, wanting to rub elbows with self important people, turning a dollar.

[True Blue American]

37. Geraldo went off the rails

During the OJ trial.

Best remembered for his Capone empty vault Expose!

[Sanity Claws]

40. I remember that story.

He is not the same person.

[spanone]

16. both of those assholes are dead to me.

[librechik]

17. Repubs have ALWAYS advocated "zero tolerance."

They are sick, twisted, child-spankers as a group, judgmental "not in my town" racists, and fervent advocates for lynching (or long, cruel, arbitrary prison sentences for cultural crimes like marijuana.)

That's what Larry Atwater meant by the term "Law and Order" when it entered our political vocabulary back in the 70s. A Law and Order candidate is open to lynching. Word to the toothless GOP.

[Hortensis]

18. Okay, Hortensis, be GLAD this creep is speaking out

against this. No matter that you despise him so much you don't want him weaseling credit for anything, it is a good thing.

[lindysalsagal]

19. Faux thinks Heraldo is a good guest/pundit?

Msnbc has Senators, congress members, governors...not late-night has-beens.

[NastyRiffraff]

20. Mr Rivera, about the president that you "love"

This is his policy. Abducting children and BABIES is his alone. He is completely responsible. Yes, there are others who are culpable; the appalling Kirstjen Nielson, the evil Stephen Miller, the cowardly John Kelly, the cowering Republican Congress, etc. But the president you love owns this. He can stop it with a phone call, with a signature. He is DOING THIS to children.

And you still love him. While I'm glad you said what you said to that toad Hannity, you are still a waste of space.

[lagomorph777]

21. the president...we...love advocating a system by which young children are torn from their mothers

What's wrong with this sentence?

[malaise]

22. Fuck Geraldo

He is part of the problem

[AllyCat]

23. When you agreed to support the Orange one.

[AlexSFCA]

25. he is just acting

[workinclasszero]

27. "When did we become the party of child abuse!?" Rivera said.

Since forever you fucking asshole!

[donkeypoofed]

29. That asshole Rivera only upset cause they're Hispanic kids?

Would he be as upset if they were Left.Wing kids or related to a Clinton? He never speaks up otherwise.

[bucolic_frolic]

31. If Trump thinks the American people of all parties

don't stand for childhood, motherhood, and apple pie he has made a serious miscalculation.

This is a turning point. This is a switch inside the minds of every American. This cannot be put back in the bottle. People are angry, outraged, and will not stand for it, and will do whatever it takes to oust these traitors.

[Initech]

32. When did they become the party of child abuse? Since about 11/6/16.

Since that day the entire world was turned upside down, and that wretched network is somewhat responsible for it.

[flibbitygiblets]

33. You've ALWAYS been the party of child abuse, ignorant asshole

Denying children food, healthcare and education; denying mothers the right to not have so many children that they can be provided for

THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF CHILD ABUSE

oh, and if you're going to break out the old "we can't afford those things" trope, first, fine, then admit you don't give a single shit about children. And second, guess what? This "zero tolerance" policy is not only cruel and inhumane, it's extremely expensive. We definitely don't have money to spend on willfully tormenting toddlers.

[rurallib]

39. yep - that 'party of child abuse' set sail long, long ago

[hibbing]

35. Clash of the brainiacs n/t