Former Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera was recently fired from the show on which he appeared and argued with Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters, \u201cThe Five.\u201d After that, he decided to quit Fox News completely , deciding that he was done with the network and his disagreements with it. His longstanding feud with Greg Gutfeld also played a role in his quitting.<\/p>\n
So, now that Geraldo is off of Fox News, he will be appearing on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d as a guest. He announced as much on Twitter, \u201cDelighted to do TheView Thursday. Wonder what they\u2019ll ask me about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though the comment was facetious and they\u2019ll certainly ask him about his time at Fox News and why he left it, trying to get him to attack the network for its defense, at times, of President Donald Trump and for not being sufficiently committed to \u201cour democracy,\u201d there are a number of other things about which it could ask him to excite its woke audience.<\/p>\n
One is his defense of affirmative action. In one of his last moments on Fox News,Geraldo defended that race-based policy and described himself as being a product of it, saying:<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a product of affirmative action over a half a century ago \u2026 When the Ford Foundation and Columbia Journalism School got together to integrate the local news teams in New York, there were no black reporters, no Hispanic reporters, no women.\u201d<\/p>\n
Continuing, he added that because that lack of diversity was \u201cshocking,\u201d he was chosen to be one of the diverse candidates. In his words : \u201cAnd it was shocking. And that was as late as 1968, 69. So I was selected. I was making news representing a group of Puerto Rican activists, the Young Lords, who had taken over some buildings up in the Spanish Harlem. And I was their lawyer and their negotiator. And I made a lot of news as their spokesperson. And so I got discovered that way, and they drafted me through the Columbia program, and the rest is history.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyond the affirmative action issue and his leaving Fox News, \u201cThe View\u201d could ask him about his feud with FNC\u2019s Greg Gutfeld, one of its few remaining hosts that brings in a notable number of viewers. Though Geraldo has refused to comment on his fights with Geraldo in the past, he did tell the Associated Press, \u201cThere has been a growing tension that goes beyond editorial differences and personal annoyances and gripes. It\u2019s not worth it to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps, now that he\u2019s gone from Fox News and no longer has to argue with Gutfeld and Watters every day, he\u2019ll get into more detail about what made his fights with Gutfeld so contentious.<\/p>\n
However, he also might not. When leaving Fox News, he said, I love Fox and the people at Fox. I always will. I will never let anyone separate us. I am beyond grateful, I love you for it.\u201d So he might just harbor no ill will and want to retire in peace rather than stir up a contentious fight. Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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