Geraldo: ‘Once you go black, you don’t go back.’
This morning, Geraldo Rivera appeared on Fox and Friends and commented on Barbara Walters’s newly-disclosed affair with former senator Edward Brooke. Gretchen Carlson made a point of noting that Brooke is African-American. “Once you go black, you don’t go back,” Geraldo said. The Fox and Friends hosts laughed, and one added, “I don’t know if that’s a song…” Watch it:
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Once your a “Hack”, you can’t go back.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:56 pmThis, coming from a man who believes there’s treasure buried in the walls. Thanks Fox for dumbing down America.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 pmHmmm…let’s see. Commenting on an over-long-ago affair. Emphasizing the racial difference. Perpetuating racist stereotypes. Not only being uncritical, but laughing about it all.
This is over the top, even for Fox. Why didn’t Geraldo just go all the way and speculate on Brooke’s fondness for watermelon?
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:01 pmGeraldo’s prediction - Hil will be the candidate
Also, Lee will be found in Grant’s tomb, Gary Indiana will fall in the sea, and sun will rise in the west.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:02 pmThere should be some shame in this revelation that Brooke and Walters had an affair. I suppose they were having their affair and going to church every Sunday, appearing pious. Then when the light are off they are screwing like rabbits.
Seems kinda high school to me.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:06 pm? lol
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:10 pmHey Geraldo, How about the affair(s) you had? How quick we forget. Once you go Brown, your left with a frown….lol
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm“Once you go fox,
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:16 pmyou are dumber than a box of rocks.”
Once you watch Fox, you’re as dumb as an ox.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:17 pmOn a serious note, Fox will start questioning the relationships of every female journalist who reports on Obama. They’ll make jokes about it, but that will play on the internal bigots of everyone of their viewers.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:19 pmAmazing that one of the requirement for being on Fox, is considering racist remarks funny, and being dumb as a sack of granite. With all due apologies to granite sacks everywhere.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:20 pmBobwurst Says
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
On a serious note, Fox will start questioning the relationships of every female journalist who reports on Obama. They’ll make jokes about it, but that will play on the internal bigots of everyone of their viewers.
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I think you forgot a qualifier there — Fox will start questioning the relationships of every WHITE female journalist who reports on Obama. They will not, however, dig into the relationships of non-white male journalists who report on Clinton, nor will they care about non-white female journalists who report on McCain.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:28 pmhellinabucket Says:
This, coming from a man who believes there’s treasure buried in the walls. Thanks Fox for dumbing down America.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
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Hey now! They found some old bottles in that vault! Those have to be worth, what, a buck fifty each? That’s a lot in this economy!
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:28 pmPeople sometimes tell me that the contents of my sack are made of granite. ;)
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:30 pmGirls who go “Geraldo” switch teams for good. ;)
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
I think you forgot a qualifier there — Fox will start questioning the relationships of every WHITE female journalist who reports on Obama.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
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Just wait till they find out Obama fathered one — and perhaps as many as TWO — children with a black woman!
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pmBrooke was just polling the electorate
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pmGeraldo’s “Springer envy” is showing
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pmZooey Says:
Girls who go “Geraldo” switch teams for good. ;)
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
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HEY HEY HEY some of us are on lunch break here!!
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:33 pmGeraldo= evil Ned Flanders?
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:34 pmHAHAHAHA….funny….not.
Good ole’ racist conservative humor….their audience eats it up, they love HATE, RACISM, HOMOPHOPIA…the sickness that is the 28%ers.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:47 pmSo the important issue to the Rethugs at Fox is not that Barbara was doing it with a married man but that the married man was a different color. I thought these folks were all about the bible. And where exactly does it say that having sex with a “brown person” is a sin. And being that Jesus was born in Israel the chances are good that he was pretty brown himself.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 pmNow we have to wait to seen how the Clinton/Rove team use this against Obama. Probably the old fashioned way, “They’re going to be stealing all the white women.” Makes you proud to be an American doesn’t it?
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:52 pmWho’s Geraldo and why would I care who he or the Walter’s woman do or don’t sleep with?…My own dance card is all that I have ever kept track of…Blessings
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:52 pmOnce you go Fox, you may as well hide in a box.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:01 pmhussein toasterhead Says:
Zooey Says:
Girls who go “Geraldo” switch teams for good. ;)
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
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HEY HEY HEY some of us are on lunch break here!!
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Sorry about that, HT. :P
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:03 pmI’m thinking a TV ad where they morph Cleavon Little in a cowboy hat into Obama shouting, “Where all the white women at?”
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:18 pm#
leftright Says:
You racist Neanderthal! Why don’t you take you wet back butt back to wherever you came from!!
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:15 pm Add Karma Recommend (0) | Report Abuse
FLAG THE RACIST TROLL.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:24 pmI disagree. This isn’t racist humor. It’s just lazy, not very funny and GROSSLY inappropriate for the office (especially when you work on television)
This is a quip I have personally used, and I am not neither a racist nor all that funny.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:24 pmHi ralph, good to see you back. Were you on vacation for a while?
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:24 pmRalph, blazing saddles?
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:25 pmJust heard Thom Hartmann mention Thinkprogress and read comments from this particular article.
Way to go again TP!
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:28 pmMy roommate has been ’stealing all the white women’ for years. I don’t think its because he’s black as much as the fact that he hits the gym more often than I do.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:28 pmThere once was a network named Fox
whose viewers had heads filled with rocks
the only cure that we know
is after watching a show
is two week of Colbert and Detox.
(note Colbert can be swapped with Countdown, Daily Show or Dan Abrams)
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 pmIt’s amazing that Barbara Walters having an affair with a black man is apparently more scandalous than her having an affair with a married man. But I have to ask — why is this newsworthy?
1) Even if the information surfaced relatively recently, the relationship is old. Is an affair from the 1970’s really important?
2) Is Barbara Walters running for anything? Is Edward Brooke? Is there anything to be gained from sullying their reputations?
Oh wait — I think I know what the deal is. Edward Brooke is a former senator who happens to be black. Barack Obama is a current senator who happens to be black. Because Edward Brooke had an affair with a white woman over 30 years ago, it means that all black senators do — therefore Obama has been having affairs with white women.
Following this logic, it means that McCain has been tapping his toes in public bathroom stalls.
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:13 pm.
Gretchen, Gretchen, Gretchen…
Great point Gretchen, it isn’t that the Senator was married, but get this… it was that he was black… G A S P !!!
Hit it, Geraldo!
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May 2nd, 2008 at 3:21 pmOh…no…they…didn’t…!!!!
*cringing*
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:22 pmHad enuff, that was really cool. I was listening on my way to lunch with my daughter at preschool! Bobwurst and I got mentioned by name. I’m still glowing!
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:38 pmIt’s cool that Barbara was with a black man. It’s uncool that he was married.
Fox was over the top on this one. Regardless of the intent, it looks racist.
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:49 pmFox must be absolutely desperate for topics…an affair that occurred in the 1970’s between two people who are now 78 and 88 years old. Guess it doesn’t take much to titillate these folks, huh?
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 pmWay to go RUC, you’re famous.
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pmHey! Shane! Are my fifteen minutes up?
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:26 pmGeraldo is just jealous.
He’s explored one old concrete vault, and now he wants an “in-depth” with Barbara.
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:00 pmIt must be hard going through life looking like a sleazeball.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:58 amOnce you go rican, you don’t go speakin.
May 4th, 2008 at 6:17 pm