Geraldo Rivera

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Geraldo Rivera after delivering the keynote at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's 2008 Public Policy Conference.

Geraldo Rivera is a tabloid TV personality known for sensationalistic reporting of alleged Satanic ritual abuse and Satanic Panic claims in 1987 and 1988, having his nose broken by Neo-Nazi skinheads who threw a chair at him on a 1988 show,[1] and later as a war reporter in Afghanistan and Iraq who exaggerated stories about what he had witnessed during certain battles he was near, and who later gave away battle plans to the enemy by drawing maps of those plans on the great beacon of journalism, Fox News. He is half Puerto Rican, half Russian, has a law degree, and is an ex-cop.

In 1986, he set a television viewing record taking two hours to open the safe in The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault. (The safe turned out to contain some empty bottles, and nothing else.) He also appeared in a Perry Mason episode playing a sleazy television news host (Also Starring: Geraldo Rivera as Himself).

Despite his flaws, he's oddly likable in a batty aunt sort of way. Rivera knows what he is and is happy in his own skin. He's like the schlub people groan about when he shows up at a party, but they'd miss him if he didn't show up at all.

Unlike other Fox presenters, Geraldo suffers bouts of integrity, moments when he stands up to Michelle Malkin or Bill O'Reilly and demonstrates he has more principles in his left testicle than a roomful of Sean Hannitys.[2][3] Go figure.

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