Friday, April 04, 2003

Public radio station fires host

Hughes also complained to his listeners about not wanting to run NPR news. "We know if you want a current assessment of what's going on, you're sure not listening to us," he said on last weeks show. "You'll be over at Fox TV where they're not bending the news. ... It ain't happening on NPR."

He should have been fired for thinking Fox doesn't bend the news, and may I submit the following as evidence:

Geraldo Rivera: A made-for-cable-TV fraud

Rivera, perhaps the phoniest newsman to ever crop up on the tube, is a shrill liar who manufactures stories, capitalizes on pain and suffering and promotes himself even when that self-promotion obscures the story he is supposed to be covering.

When challenged, Rivera usually lapses into profane claims of persecution.

Last year, during the intensive American bombing in Afghanistan, Rivera went on Fox News and claimed to be standing on ?hallowed ground? near Kandahar where U.S. Servicemen and Afghan rebels died from friendly fire.

However, Baltimore Sun TV reporter David Folkenflik did some digging and discovered Geraldo was nowhere near Kandahar but was, instead, in Tora Bora, several hundred miles away from the action.

When confronted, Rivera claimed he made an honest mistake under the influence of the ?fog of war.?


This was written back in December of 2002. This is the man Fox has hired to report for them. This is the man the Pentagon will most likely let back in Iraq.

I have to ask myself why...

Kansas @ 5:00 PM