Burnishing his credentials as a nitwit, a sycophant and a power-groupie, TV talking head and irredeemable hack Geraldo Rivera told the New York Post that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio needs to meet multiple-bankrupt and Hair Club For Men icon Donald Trump, because...well, I'll let the porn-'tached doofus tell you himself:
“Doesn’t that say a lot, that the mayor hasn’t met the biggest, most important developer in town?” Rivera said. “I think the big picture is, the mayor exists in his own little bubble. He has to expand his world if he wants to represent the entire city.”
The oleaginous Rivera is better known for
opening an empty safe, to the wild acclaim of absolutely nobody; for claiming the 'fog of war' led to his
falsely claiming to have witnessed combat in Afghanistan and for
justifying the murder of Trayvon Martin because the youth was 'wearing a hoodie'.
To be fair to Rivera, his career as an actual journalist started out promisingly and a story on the abuse of patients at a Staten Island hospital won him a Peabody Award (not the kind Bill O'Reilly won but a real one).
Sadly, it didn't take long for Rivera to hit the skids and by the 80s, he was reduced to things like the anti-climactic 'Al Capone's vault' stunt and the Springer-esque depths of Geraldo (described by Newsweek as 'trash TV') which specialized in features like 'Men in Lace Panties and the Women Who Love Them'.
By the early 90s, he was appearing on The Price Is Right.
Then, finally, Rivera touched bottom, the last cruel indignity: in 2001, Rivera went to work for Fox News. As a credible reporter, he was deader than vaudeville.
Now, to cap some 30 years of vapid, clueless blather, Rivera defines meeting a man with a windswept chinchilla on his head as 'expanding your world view'.
And so, I invite you to salute Geraldo Rivera, whose fearless exploration of witlessness has taken him to the bottom of the Mariana Trench of stupidity.
From the Peabody Award to The Price Is Right to the far-right vapourings of Fox News to the 'world expanding' qualities of noisy, vulgar buffoon Donald Trump.
Bravo, pendejo; I think your work here is done.