Geraldo Rivera
Biography and Quotes

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Elian Go Home!

"But Fidel Castro has really done so much for the Cuban people, though. Free health care. You can’t even buy a handgun in Cuba. And you don’t have to be the President to enjoy a good cigar there. Little Elian should be fighting to get back home and away from these right-wing zealots who are trying to keep him entrapped in Miami."

-- CNBC host Geraldo Rivera on Elian Gonzalez, April 1 Upfront Tonight.

http://www.mrc.org/archive/nq/april/nq2000aprilfools.asp





"He is a wonderful candidate and I’d be proud to vote for him in every regard, just about. I think he’s a terrific guy. But I have no doubt in my mind, having lived through the David Dinkins-Rudy Giuliani bare-knuckled campaign for the mayor of New York, that certain people....I’m talking about white people, basically. They are gonna go into the secrecy of that polling place, they’re gonna remember Reverend Wright, they are going to be affected in a negative way. And I think that it will make Barack Obama’s success in the campaign for the White House extremely difficult."

— FNC’s Geraldo Rivera talking about Barack Obama’s campaign prospects on his Geraldo at Large, March 29.
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/2008/nq20080421.asp



“This is going to result in racial profiling. If, in her America, in Michelle’s America, when you look, ‘Is that Hispanic guy an illegal or is he legal?’ It reminds me so much of when they used to pull down the pants of Jews to see if they were circumcised or not. It is, it is so, so pathetic. It’s so un-American....I want you to know, ladies and gentlemen, that what they are doing is using the police force of the United States to break up families and sow horror and pain.”

— Geraldo Rivera rejecting columnist Michelle Malkin’s argument that citizens should report illegal immigrants to the authorities, FNC’s The O’Reilly Factor, June 8, 2007.


http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/dishonor/08/category/damnconservatives.asp

"You’re going to miss that guy. Don’t tell me you’re not gonna miss that guy. This is a master. He may be a rogue, but he is an artful and pleasant rogue and done a hell of a job as President. I’m gonna miss the guy...He should’ve been the vice presidential candidate."

-- Geraldo Rivera after humming the theme from Rocky over footage of Clinton’s pre-speech hallway walk at the Democratic convention, August 21 Rivera Live on CNBC. [81 points]

http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/2000/best4-6.asp#clinton