Salon on Geraldo Rivera's orchestrated photo op with victim at NO Conv Ctr

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/05/cityinruins/index.html

Geraldo Rivera arrives in a Fox News truck. An elderly woman with blond hair grips his elbow. She's wearing thick dark glasses and a pink shirt. He carries her small white dog in his arms. He's wearing thigh-high waders unzipped to below his knees. We shake hands. "Her relative called one of our stations," Geraldo tells me, explaining how that call went to another station, and then another, and finally to him.

The woman had been stranded in her home for six days. Geraldo picked up the woman and her dog and brought them here. The woman looks frail on his arm, though not as bad perhaps as a lady collapsed on a chair nearby, unable to move. Or a woman in a wheelchair being lifted from the truck, carrying her prosthetic leg on her lap.

"That's the second time he brought her here," one of the doctors tells me, nodding toward Geraldo.

"What?" "They did two takes. Geraldo made that poor woman walk from the Fox News van to the heliport twice. Both times carrying her dog." "Are you serious?" I ask. He says he is.



"At the New Orleans Convention Center, Geraldo Rivera strolls in front of Fox News cameras with a woman he says he rescued."

for help for those folks.. but this is too doggone much.


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Geraldo has always been about Geraldo.

I'm not saying that he lacks the capacity for good...it's a quality that we ALL have.

But he's a showman, and he had to taint the positive reaction he got the other day by pulling this.

Of course, Salon is relying on the doctor's version of the story, but when you look at Geraldo's track record, why would the doctor lie?

:shrug:

Geraldo is a glory-seeking tool, always has been, always will be...

No wonder he works at Fox News.

I don't think it gets much lower than using this catastrophic tragedy to improve ones image, or resurrect a rotting career.

Lowlife.