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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeraldo Rivera and Hannity Erupt Over Border Policy: 'When Did We Become the Party of Child Abuse?!'
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/geraldo-rivera-and-hannity-erupt-over-border-policy-when-did-we-become-the-party-of-child-abuse/Sean Hannity first said Democrats were playing politics by not taking an immigration deal from President Donald Trump, telling both sides of the aisle to fix the law and do your jobs.
Politics aside, Rivera replied, This is cruelty as policy. This is an obscenity. This is the government of the United States and the president that we both love, advocating a system by which young children are torn from their mothers.
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When did we become the party of child abuse!? Rivera said. He then pointed out that Trump implemented the zero tolerance policy that is responsible for charging border crossers and thereby sending their children to detention centers.
Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch spoke next, and after dismissing those getting hysterical about family separations, Rivera blew up.
This is not hysterical! Rivera shot back. This is child abuse! How dare you! How dare you!
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At the end of the segment, Rivera unleashed a final time on Farrell: You know just because you dont have sincere emotions, dont say I dont!
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Video at the link.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Please pick up the clue phone, Mr. Rivera. Your Hispanic and just thought, what?
VMA131Marine
(4,153 posts)cungar2000
(98 posts)He was born Gerald Rivera but he's half Puerto Rican and half Jewish
Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, New York, the son of Lillian (née Friedman) and Cruz "Allen" Rivera (October 1, 1915 November 1987), a restaurant worker and cab driver respectively.[4][5] Rivera's father was a Catholic Puerto Rican,[6] and his mother is of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent. He was raised "mostly Jewish" and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
ret5hd
(20,532 posts)Freethinker65
(10,067 posts)True Blue American
(17,994 posts)Paladin
(28,277 posts)ProfessorPlum
(11,279 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Tom Rinaldo
(22,917 posts)I'm still glad that he said what he did on Hannity's show. His viewers are rarely confronted with those opinions.
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)highplainsdem
(49,044 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,022 posts)If he hasn't quit then he's collaborating and enabling.
Guess that fat paycheck trumps his morality.
mindfulNJ
(2,367 posts)Sweet Jesus
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)vi5
(13,305 posts)Progressive dog
(6,921 posts)pretending to be outraged while remaining in the cult. A few tears don't change that. He'll be back to spouting the Trump justifications before long.
He'll find new ways to hide what everyone knows and no good Republican admits. This is what they are selling.
"If only those evil Democrats would give Trump enough concessions, he wouldn't have to traumatize children."
LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)Jersey Devil
(9,875 posts)He made his reputation as a news reporter in NYC on ABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News with a series exposing the abuses to adults and children that took place at a Staten Island facility for the mentally ill, exposing the terrible conditions in which they were housed and "cared" for and demanding that the situation be immediately addressed.
Where he went off the rails I don't know, but those are his roots.
Cosmocat
(14,575 posts)People are people, and most are weak to the pulls of fame and money.
He isn't the prototype complete POS scumbag like a Hannity, tucker carlson, etc.
But, what integrity and decency he had has been overwhelmingly over ridden by the pull ego, wanting to rub elbows with self important people, turning a dollar.
True Blue American
(17,994 posts)During the OJ trial.
Best remembered for his Capone empty vault Expose!
Sanity Claws
(21,860 posts)He is not the same person.
spanone
(135,897 posts)librechik
(30,677 posts)They are sick, twisted, child-spankers as a group, judgmental "not in my town" racists, and fervent advocates for lynching (or long, cruel, arbitrary prison sentences for cultural crimes like marijuana.)
That's what Larry Atwater meant by the term "Law and Order" when it entered our political vocabulary back in the 70s. A Law and Order candidate is open to lynching. Word to the toothless GOP.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)against this. No matter that you despise him so much you don't want him weaseling credit for anything, it is a good thing.
lindysalsagal
(20,746 posts)Msnbc has Senators, congress members, governors...not late-night has-beens.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)This is his policy. Abducting children and BABIES is his alone. He is completely responsible. Yes, there are others who are culpable; the appalling Kirstjen Nielson, the evil Stephen Miller, the cowardly John Kelly, the cowering Republican Congress, etc. But the president you love owns this. He can stop it with a phone call, with a signature. He is DOING THIS to children.
And you still love him. While I'm glad you said what you said to that toad Hannity, you are still a waste of space.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)What's wrong with this sentence?
malaise
(269,212 posts)He is part of the problem
AllyCat
(16,235 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Since forever you fucking asshole!
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)Would he be as upset if they were Left.Wing kids or related to a Clinton? He never speaks up otherwise.
bucolic_frolic
(43,356 posts)don't stand for childhood, motherhood, and apple pie he has made a serious miscalculation.
This is a turning point. This is a switch inside the minds of every American. This cannot be put back in the bottle. People are angry, outraged, and will not stand for it, and will do whatever it takes to oust these traitors.
Initech
(100,107 posts)Since that day the entire world was turned upside down, and that wretched network is somewhat responsible for it.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Denying children food, healthcare and education; denying mothers the right to not have so many children that they can be provided for
THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF CHILD ABUSE
oh, and if you're going to break out the old "we can't afford those things" trope, first, fine, then admit you don't give a single shit about children. And second, guess what? This "zero tolerance" policy is not only cruel and inhumane, it's extremely expensive. We definitely don't have money to spend on willfully tormenting toddlers.