# What I hate about Geraldo Rivera **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 28, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-hate-about-geraldo-rivera/34880 "2000-09-28T15:55:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dietrologia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@dietrologia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dietrologia)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-hate-about-geraldo-rivera/34880/1 "2000-09-28T15:55:47Z")
To be honest, there are many things I hate about Geraldo Rivera, but I’ll let you handle the rest… 1. He’ll literally spend a whole minute asking a question of a guest–covering background, laying the groundwork, expounding on what the answer might be, finally asking the guest the question… only to interrupt immediately with a loud, “Wait, wait, wait! We have to break, we have to break. I’m sorry, we’ll be right back.” Doesn’t this moron have any kind of clock in the studio? After, oh, 10 years or so in the broadcast business, hasn’t he realized that you need to give a guest more than five seconds to answer a question? On a side note: Just **HOW** stinky must Gerry Spence’s buckskin jacket be? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-hate-about-geraldo-rivera/34880/2 "2000-09-28T20:29:41Z")
Let’s see… A guy named Jerry Rivers who changes his name to seem more ethnic? Don’t forget, this is the guy who gave investigative journalism a bad name. He’s a snake oil salesman, willing to distort a headline to generate viewership and to put up any argument to inflame people. He’s an idiot. And isn’t his latest headline-grab that he’s dating Darva Conger, that stupid bitch from “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire and Look Like a Ridiculous Slut on TV?” ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-hate-about-geraldo-rivera/34880/3 "2000-09-28T21:16:27Z")
What I hate about Geraldo Rivera. Gee, let me count the ways. 1. His nose is deformed from being decked one too many times. 2. He’s a lawyer. 🙂 3. He thinks any publicity is good publicity. 4. He kissed and told. 5. And lied, acc. to Bette Midler. And I trust HER. 6. He talked about nothing but O.J. Simpson for 3 freakin’ years. 7. He’s a lawyer. Did I say that already? 🙂 8. His makeup is too yellow and makes him look jaundiced. 9. He sucks up to people who agree with him and dismisses people who don’t. 10. He paved the way for Jerry Springer. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-hate-about-geraldo-rivera/34880/4 "2000-09-28T21:19:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EJsGirl \* > \*\*And isn’t his latest headline-grab that he’s dating Darva Conger, that stupid bitch from “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire and Look Like a Ridiculous Slut on TV?” > > \*\* He is??? Oh good lord. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-hate-about-geraldo-rivera/34880/5 "2000-09-29T01:49:25Z")
I have a hard time believing he’s real. I think he’s just a particularly well-drawn cartoon. Did you see the series he did about his one- or two-month long sailing vacation? There was nothing, _not one fucking speck_, of anything interesting about it…but I bet he got to write the vacation off as a business expense. Schmuck. ---
**Author:** ![lovelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@lovelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelee)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-hate-about-geraldo-rivera/34880/6 "2000-09-29T02:03:51Z")
Is he actually still around? I know he calls in to Howard Stern every so often, but I didn’t realize he still had an actual television show. So… when is Donahue on? =) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-hate-about-geraldo-rivera/34880/7 "2000-09-29T03:20:18Z")
If I ever saw Geraldo Rivera, I’d look him right in the eye and I’d say, “Hey, I think I know where Al Capone might have buried some stuff. You interested?” ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-hate-about-geraldo-rivera/34880/8 "2000-09-29T03:44:16Z")
I second Lovelee’s post… Geraldo’s still around? ---
**Author:** ![timmar68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-hate-about-geraldo-rivera/34880/9 "2000-09-29T03:48:01Z")
I lived for his show when I was in highschool. I’m not proud of that. ---
**Author:** ![justice-chi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@justice-chi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justice-chi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2000, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-hate-about-geraldo-rivera/34880/10 "2000-09-29T03:59:59Z")
i was watching one of his shows. it was about child molestation, and right in the middle of this girls speech he butts in and says “his sweaty, greasy hands caressing your child body” right then me and my friend looked at each other, busted up laughing and promptly changed the channel. kinda of like pressing on a serious burn wound. hes lawyer pig who twists facts for his own enjoyment.