Geraldo: 'I Outsmarted Myself' With 'False Flag' Pipe Bomb Theory

[DonViejo]

By Kate Riga
October 26, 2018 2:30 pm

Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera attributed his own intelligence to his dabbling this week in the conspiracy theory that Democrats planted pipe bombs among their own to galvanize their voters and embarrass President Donald Trump.

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As recently as Thursday night, Rivera was calling the bomb scares a “heavy-handed” “elaborate hoax” intended to make Trump look bad.

Cesar Sayoc, a middle-aged Floridian who drove a van plastered with pro-Trump, anti-Democrat decals, was arrested Friday morning in connection to the attempted attacks.

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[regnaD kciN]

1. "Geraldo" and "smart" never belong in the same sentence...

[GWC58]

28. At one time, long ago, while Geraldo was with

ABC I actually liked him. What the hell happened? Oh yeah FauxSnooze!

[Jersey Devil]

36. He won several awards for investigative reporting with ABC Eyewitness News NYC

His biggest scoop was an expose' of totally deplorable conditions that existed in Willowbrook, a facility for the mentally ill located in Staten Island.

[JHB]

41. He wasn't rising as far and as fast as he thought he should...

...so he decided he'd do better as an independent. Thus stunts like Al Capone's vault, mediocre gigs like like his Jerry-Springer-esque afternoon talk show, and other less than stellar ventures, including his finding safe harbor on FOX.

I tend to suspect his success on ABC owed a great deal to the resources the network was able to provide for him. It wasn't so much that something happened to him as it was that once he left there was no effective check on his showboating tendencies.

[onenote]

2. It is easy for anyone with half a brain to "outsmart" Geraldo

How he can outsmart himself, given that he is anything but "smart", is beyond me.

[jberryhill]

21. Oh, come now

Geraldo managed to figure out who killed OJ Simpson's ex-wife.

[angstlessk]

33. Heck, he was outsmarted by a long dead mafia boss..

and he has not gotten smarter!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

34. he needs someone to draw a map in the sand

https://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/31/sprj.irq.geraldo/

[GWC58]

43. Yeah, maybe for his next "stunt" Rivera can

go into the Mayan pyramids. Ya know “just because.” 🤪😧🙃

[dameatball]

3. Actually you "out stupided yourself." And to think I liked you a few decades back.

You had a bright future, but you threw it away.

[Squinch]

12. Can you believe it? All the good he did, and this is where he ended up.

[dameatball]

14. Maybe it was there to see and I was too young then. He does seem to be quite a narcissist.

[Squinch]

16. I don't know. I work with disabled people. That whole Willowbrook thing sparked a revolution

that improved untold thousands of lives. And he did it at a lot of risk to himself. I think you saw him correctly then, narcissist or no.

He could have made a career of using that talent. Instead he sold his soul to a sewer.

[dameatball]

18. Thank you for that insight. In my world he just sort of disappeared for a while and emerged as a

emerged as a different person. Similar case in my view would be Dennis Miller.

[allgood33]

42. Most of FOX ended up there but will claim the Democrats made them do it.

FOX RW personnel ought to locked up for defrauding the public and inciting violence.

[mobeau69]

30. Geraldo et. al don't have any ideals.

They'd drop their "beliefs" like a bad habit in the pursuit of more wealth.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. He didn't outsmart himself; he outstupided himself.

You'd think Al Capone's vault would have taught him a lesson years ago. But at least he admitted he was wrong, unlike most of the rest of those knuckleheads.

[struggle4progress]

5. I-95

[JHan]

25. ++++

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. The sentient being that is his mustache is to blame. nt

[ghostsinthemachine]

7. To be fair, outsmarting Geraldo

Isn't all that difficult (see Capones vault).

[hlthe2b]

8. Geraldo sealed his karma a long time ago and since many many times over

Every once in a blue moon he'll argue with Hannity re: the fate of the immigrants and asylum seekers, but then goes right on back to the most horrendous RW conspiracy theory and giving Trump full cover.

Rot in hell, Geraldo. You've earned it.

[Cha]

9. NO.. You Are STUPID to ever think

it was a "false flag".

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[ProudLib72]

10. He meant "outsharted" himself

It's all he's capable of nowadays.

[blugbox]

31. Winner.

This post wins.

[tonedevil]

11. It is truly hard to imagine...

how stupid you have to be to be outsmarted by Geraldo Rivera.

[Grasswire2]

13. !!!

At least he got ahead of criticism by bailing on the CT early.

[NurseJackie]

15. "Outsmarted" doesn't apply to a hack like Geraldo!

[NurseJackie]

17. Never mind??? Who does he think he is?

[Midnightwalk]

19. Breaking news. Geraldo is still an idiot.

Move along folks. Nothing to see here.

[Downtown Hound]

20. "I outsmarted myself."

Not that hard to do Geraldo. How's Al Capone's vault?

[doc03]

22. Why does he even have a job after that Al Capon secret vault

fiasco?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Isn't there a vault somewhere you have to open Geraldo?

[ck4829]

24. Geraldo, your intelligence is 0 multiplied by some number greater than 0

Guess what?

It's still 0.

[rockfordfile]

26. Geraldo Rivera is a un-American pos.

[SWBTATTReg]

27. No, you didn't outsmart yourself. You just spoke idiotically w/ a conclusion ...

(like others in the rump orbit) made, based on NO evidence what so ever.

Idiot. And you call yourself a journalist? What happened to waiting until all of the facts are in?

[gratuitous]

29. Congratulations are in order, then

You finally outsmarted someone, Geraldo. Good for you.

[Caliman73]

32. Why is it that right wing conspiracies never pan out?

People on the left have had "conspiracy theories" which we have posited. Before it was known through records, it was believed that the FBI was trying to subvert leftist groups like the Black Panthers, SNCC, and that they might be trying to go after MLK and Malcolm X. Lo and behold, those suspicions were true.

Right wing conspiracies (9/11 trutherism, Birtherism, Chemtrails, weather control, Lizard people, Sandy Hook crisis actors, Pizza Gate) and now the right wing bomber remain sweat drenched fantasies.

Is it that we on the left are just so much better than right wingers at covering up our sinister plots? OR Is it that right winger are just dumb, crazy, and desperate?

[Wednesdays]

35. Geraldo is still relevant?

[D_Master81]

37. well what do you know?

The most obvious answer actually can be the answer.

[riversedge]

38. Geraldo forgot to mention that the #MAGAbomber loved #Trump!

[Liberal In Texas]

39. "Oh, and by the way, you remember that vault with all that Capone money?"

Same deal. I was wrong.

Well, not really wrong. I was making it all up.

[JHB]

40. I think "outsmarted myself" gives Geraldo too much credit...

Better to say it showcased the actual goods, without the airbrushing.

[Initech]

45. Yes that assumes he's smart to begin with!

Only an idiot would give himself a high five over something like that.

[Initech]

44. Go fuck yourself and shove it up your ass, Geraldo.