Fox News chief ordered Geraldo Rivera’s mic cut for defending Obama on Benghazi: report

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/06/fox-news-chief-ordered-geraldo-riveras-mic-cut-for-defending-obama-on-benghazi-report/



A new report says that Fox News President Roger Ailes ordered the Fox News control room to cut host Geraldo Rivera’s mic just two days before November’s election because he was defending President Barack Obama against the network’s “misinformation” about terrorist attacks in Benghazi.

The New York Times reported on Monday that Bloomberg View columnist Jonathan Alter’s new book, “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies,” is expected to tell a story about how Fox News tried to use the Benghazi attacks to prevent Obama’s re-election.

“Roger Ailes covered the Benghazi story as if it were Watergate just before Nixon’s resignation, with almost wall-to-wall coverage,” Alter wrote, noting that Rivera was the only host “allowed to offer a dissenting view.”

But Rivera apparently went too far during his Nov. 2 appearance on Fox & Friends when he accused guest host Eric Bolling of telling a “lie” by suggesting that the president “went gambling in Las Vegas when he could have been saving our people in Benghazi.”

[Blue_Tires]

1. I'm more shocked Geraldo defended Obama on *anything*

[Beacool]

4. Why?

I hear him on the radio sometimes and he's usually defending Obama against the RW attack du jour.

[Blue_Tires]

5. Maybe I haven't been keeping up with him lately

Last time I saw/heard Geraldo, he was essentially saying Trayvon Martin deserved to get shot because he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt...

[Beacool]

7. I remember him saying that and he later apologized.

At the time I got what he meant, but it still came out all wrong. Yes, many of the people who are committing crimes wear hoodies, but so do a host of other people. I think that most of us have at least one hoodie. I know I do.

[Blue_Tires]

10. Doesn't excuse the fact he knowingly made a horribly bigoted, stereotype-feeding comment

and that he doubled down on the ignorance; only yielding when the shitstorm got too hard and the internets started digging past photos of HIM wearing a hooded sweatshirt...

And what do you mean you "got what he meant?" What the hell exactly do you think he meant?

[wiggs]

17. He goes both ways. His analysis is super shallow...

...but using easily available facts and reports, he does sometimes makes points that don't disparage the democrats and Obama.

[magellan]

2. The right needs to come up with new material

What does this sound like: Eric Bolling suggested that the president “went gambling in Las Vegas when he could have been saving our people in Benghazi.”

Remember that while Katrina was unfolding, Condoleeza Rice went on a shoe shopping spree in NYC and Bush** was partying in AZ with John McCain? Bush** didn't cancel his vacation until two days later, and only after public uproar reached fever pitch.

This isn't the first time I've noticed the cons picking up legitimate complaints from the Bush** years and twisting them to use against Obama. It's petty vengefulness, nothing deeper than that.

eta: I know this article is talking about something else - the mic cut - but the above stood out like a sore thumb.

[Beacool]

3. Well, they are still at it at Fox.

They want to help their Tea party nuts in Congress to conduct a witch hunt to embarrass Obama and smear Hillary (they fear her becoming the nominee in 2016 and wiping the floor with anyone they throw at her).

[think]

6. Nothing The False News Network does is surprising nowdays

It's Corporate propaganda 24/7/365 and nothing more....

[malaise]

8. If I were Roger Ailes

I would have jumped out of a window at FOX ages ago for being the biggest loser ever.

Fuck that scumbag.

[lpbk2713]

9. "You report, *I* decide"

Not only do they manage the news, they personally monitor their own talking heads who deliver it.

[DCBob]

11. Its shocking what this organiation gets away with in the name of news.

and yet they endlessly scream about the "liberal" media. Its sickening.

[mnmoderatedem]

12. of course there were 10 embassy attacks and 60 resulting fatalities under W

but that of course would not be Fox-newsworthy

[Dawson Leery]

13. 60 people died in Embassy attacks under the drunk frat boys undemocratic reign.

[Rex]

14. I fucking hate the M$M. They cause more damage to this country

like an enemy of the state. Once again a supposed news outlet plays politics to help get a certain party elected into office.

[Enrique]

15. the exchange was discussed here at DU

a lot of it made it onto the air, including Geraldo saying Bolling "lied"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021700984

[Yavin4]

16. Ailes thought that Benghazi would swing the election to Romney????

Wow. Talk about not living in reality.

[lpbk2713]

18. They live their entire life in a parallel universe.

And they assume everyone is just as stupid as they are,
which is why their bullshit is non-stop.

[Scurrilous]

19. K & R