Benghazi-gate: Geraldo displays firewall protecting the common sense region of his brain... twice

To fully appreciate Geraldo Rivera's two appearances on Fox News (Fox & Friends and then the O'Reilly Factor) to discuss Benghazi-gate, consider three issues relative to the attack:

1. The lack of security for months leading up to the attack
2. The attack itself coupled with the Obama administration's failure to respond
3. The decision to point to the anti-Muhammad video for two weeks after the attack

Rivera has decided to side with the administration lock, stock, and barrel but he obviously believes that a vigorous defense of team Obama on issue number 2 is the best course. He obviously wants to talk about the other two issues as little as possible. When Eric Bolling brings up issue number 3, Geraldo shamefully doubles down on issue number 2 while also implying that Tyrone Woods' father is a liar but only because the father of the slain Navy SEAL has been misled by right-wing partisans (yes, that sounds like an insult to Charles Woods' intelligence).

Geraldo has no answers for issues number 1 and number 3 (this becomes blatantly obvious in his interview with O'Reilly, who made Rivera look like an unhinged adolescent who was growing increasingly frustrated with his inability to successfully argue with an adult).

First up, Geraldo vs. Bolling via MediaIte:

That night, Geraldo appeared on the O'Reilly Factor to discuss Benghazi-gate in general and his exchange with Bolling in particular. To call what Geraldo did filibustering would make a seasoned politician blush. O'Reilly kept pushing Rivera to talk about issue number 1 but the Fox News liberal simply couldn't go there until about three minutes in and even then, he meandered around the issue and actually said he hates to agree with O'Reilly, which could explain why he refuses to lower the self-constructed firewall he's placed in front of the common sense region of his brain.

O'Reilly makes mincemeat of Geraldo here. Actually, Geraldo does it to himself and O'Reilly seems to enjoy watching him do it.

Geraldo. Looking. Foolish.

Via MediaIte:

Geraldo: if Trayvon 'had taken that damn hood off his head...'

Well, you gotta give credit to Geraldo for not bowing to political correctness when it comes to his opinion of Trayvon Martin's hoodie but when it comes to defending his position with Martin family attorney, Ben Crump, you gotta give him low marks. Geraldo came up empty when Crump said that Mark Zuckerberg wears a hoodie too.

First up, during an appearance on O'Reilly on May 18th, Rivera said in response to the 7/11 surveillance video of Trayvon showing the teen in a hoodie, that Martin was dressed in 'thug wear.'



A couple of days later, Geraldo had Crump on his show. Crump went after Geraldo for focusing on Trayvon's attire and Geraldo didn't have have a response.

Geraldo: "I was manually raped"

Yes, Geraldo Rivera said he was "manually raped" by a male TSA agent. I don't suppose Geraldo understands that the TSA's policies as they stand today are a direct extension of Barack Obama's wishes. This could all end if President "I support gay marriage" would just sign another one of his infamous Executive Orders. TSA is a branch of DHS, which is headed by Janet Napolitano, Barack Obama's immediate subordinate.

Fast forward to the 1:50 mark.

Via MediaIte:

VIDEO: GERALDO INTERVIEWS BLACK PANTHER LEADER

Definitely an interview worth watching. Geraldo confronts New Black Panther Party Leader Malik Zulu Shabazz, going toe to toe for twenty minutes. When Rivera asks Shabazz about the other Shabazz - King Samir - and his exhorting black people to kill white people and their babies, Malik defends Samir as his brother. Geraldo then asks him how he can stand with someone who believes that. Malik's response is that he's more concerned about saving black babies. It should be obvious to anyone that Malik believes as Samir does but doesn't view it as expedient to express those beliefs. The fact that Malik is not repulsed by those words confirms it.

Remember what Glenn Beck quotes from Van Jones' now infamous line: "Drop the radical pose for the radical ends." Malik understands this and knows King Samir forgot to drop that radical pose. The fact that Malik still considers Samir a "brother" and part of his organization speaks volumes as well.

One other note about Malik. There is a video of him that surfaced on July 8th claiming there is a conspiracy at Fox News to keep him off that network. Since then, he's appeared on both Megyn Kelly's show and now Geraldo - both on Fox.

If there's one critique of Geraldo's performance, it's his defense of Al Sharpton but otherwise, he did an excellent job in this interview.

Via HAPBLOG

PART 1



PART 2



h/t to HAPBLOG

VIDEO: GERALDO, COULTER, AXELROD, AND LIMBAUGH

You can watch the entire Rush interview on Fox news Sunday at the bottom of this post but before doing so, I thought this exchange between Geraldo and Ann Coulter does a good job of providing insight into what's at the heart of the controversy that is almost certain to be front and center for a few days.

Geraldo takes issue with two specific statements from the extremely compelling Rush Limbaugh interview with Chris Wallace. First, he unbelievably implies that Limbaugh's statement that Barack Obama is a "man-child" was racist. Secondly, he feigns indignation over Limbaugh's take that Obama's trip to Dover Airforce base to salute a fallen soldier was nothing more than a photo op.

However, Coulter totally blindsides him with something I'm sure he wasn't expecting. His response was so very indicative of the left's mentality. Coulter actually responds by saying that the White House told New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny - you know, the guy who asked Obama at a press conference what he found most "enchanting" about being president - that it was an attempt by the administration to "buy time".

The OCTOBER 29TH ARTICLE by Zeleny didn't have the phrase Coulter pointed to but it did have a few interesting excerpts that seem to point in that direction:

The trip was a symbolic one for Mr. Obama, given the gravity of his coming announcement of a new strategy for Afghanistan.

A symbolic trip? How about a trip without symbolism (or photographers)?

The overnight trip was not announced in advance. The president, wearing a dark suit and a long overcoat, left the White House just before midnight. A small contingent of reporters and photographers was quietly called to follow him to Dover, where he met for two hours with members of 14 families. He returned to the White House at 4:45 a.m.

It would seem that Zeleny's article points to exactly what Limbaugh forcefully said; specifically, that Obama's trip to Dover was a "photo-op".

One more thing about Geraldo before you watch the video. Note that after Coulter points to the Zeleny article, Geraldo says, "that's gross". In light of the direction Coulter took the debate, the focus was on Zeleny's article. Was Geraldo calling the article gross or the White House's take on the trip? Decide for yourself.



Face the Nation's Bob Schieffer then lets David Axelrod respond to Rush's assertion that the Obama trip to Dover was a photo-op. Axelrod's refutation of it was beyond pathetic. However, look out for a couple of other things.

1.) Axelrod goes down the road of the Republican party being extremists yet fails to mention that it's the White House that has surrounded itself with radical communists and people who revere the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century, Mao Tse Tung. Not only that but Axelrod himself was mentored by SDS member Don Rose (SDS gave birth to Bill Ayers' Weather Underground) and is a longtime friend of another SDS member Marilyn Katz who, like Ayers, REGRETS NOTHING.

2.) Axelrod contradicts himself in this interview starting at about the 3:15 mark when Schieffer asks him about the White House "war" on Fox. Axelrod says, "We're not at war with anyone. We're at war only with people who represent mis-truths as truths." Uh, so now they're singling out individuals at Fox? The bigger problem here is that Axelrod actually said the White House is at war with people who disagree with them. Troubling indeed.



MUST SEE: LIMBAUGH'S INTERVIEW ON FNS SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.

Here's part 1 of the Limbaugh interview on FNS



Part 2 of Limbaugh interview



Part 3



h/t to H4A and GP