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Geraldo Admits He Was In Love With Barbara Walters But She Rejected Him, Makes Racially Charged Comment About Her Lover

Huffington Post   |   May 2, 2008 12:00 PM

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Update: In addition to making the racially-charged joke below, Geraldo admitted that he was "in love" with Barbara Walters in the 1970s and she rejected his advances. "I'll tell you one affair she didn't have," he told the co-hosts. "I put all my best moves on Barbara. ...I had been in love. I had a huge crush on Barbara." But Geraldo says she "gave [him] the brush off," pinching his cheek and saying, "Oh, you're so cute."

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Original Post: This morning on "Fox & Friends," Geraldo Rivera made an offensive and racially-charged joke about Barbara Walters' affair with married Senator Edward Brooke, who is black. Barbara told Oprah yesterday (in a show to air next week) that she had an affair in the 1970s with the Republican Senator from Massachusetts.

"Once you go black, you don't go back," Geraldo joked.

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Previously: "Fox & Friends" Hosts Reject Geraldo's Schwarzenegger Steroids Joke

 

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Maybe I'm clueless, but I've never been offended by "once you go black, you don't go back". How is it offensive to basically say that being with a black person is such a pleasurable experience, that you won't want to change?

Hell, I wish all African-American stereotypes were this type of "offensive".

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:17 AM on 05/05/2008
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CNN IS THE NEW FOX !!!! As a news/political junkie I've always noticed how the media has led us like sheep regarding our invasion of Iraq. Daily I'd flip through cable news shows in search of TRUTH. I felt long ago, and Huffington recently exposed, how the military 'experts' were being paid by the Pentagon (aka Bush regime) to lie and mislead the American people regarding Iraq. This means all the cable networks have been part of this manipulation. NOW I'M NOTICING A NEW TREND AT CNN !!!! CNN has quietly made changes that are a bit scary. First, they brought Keran Gentry from Fox. Their overall tone started sounding more GOPish. They took Solidad and Miles, replaced them with John Roberts and Campbell Brown (husband works at Fox). Added Tony Snow (formerly of Fox and Bush's Press spokesperson)...now the addition of Bush's former spokewoman Francis Townsend. Also, flip from CNN to FOX during Live broadcasts you'll see that they are using the same camera source, ie....WORKING TOGETHER !! These changes mean only 1 of 2 things. They expect Obama to get the nomination and want to join Fox (and much of MSNBC) in attacking him......or they've been notified by the regime that something big (bomb Iran?) is ahead....Either way the manipulative media is getting set for massive lieing.... Fooled us once (Iraq War)....but as they say....NEVER AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:31 PM on 05/04/2008
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That's insensitive and racially charged? I just thought it was true.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:15 AM on 05/04/2008
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I don't really think that's racist-but I'm definitely not an authority.

AA men do have that reputation but it's not PC to say it.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 07:57 PM on 05/03/2008
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Why is it so many white people act like the absolute authority on what is racist and what isn't? Especially with their never ending god-awful track record regarding racism to begin with.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:12 PM on 05/03/2008
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favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:45 PM on 05/03/2008
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Barbara has so much class, little wonder she chose someone else with the goods and brushed-off Geraldo.

Revaldo is however correct: Once you go BLACK you do not go back - its a simple matter of gratification. The proof of the pudding in in the eating - is there something Geraldo has omitted to tell us?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:19 PM on 05/03/2008
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OK...WHAT IS RACIST ABOUT THIS???GERALDO COULD BE A RACIST. I DON'T THINK SO BUT THIS IS NOT A RACIST STATEMENT. I'M BLACK AND I APPROVE HIS STATEMENT.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:11 PM on 05/03/2008
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Well, I have called Geraldo previously on his racist comments and statements. What he said was not appropriate and is a stereotype = racist.

Besides, IT IS NOT true. Not all men of any race are endowed healthily(is that a word?) I think you get the point. I am Black and have known a few men of various races. "Paper clips" abide in all. How's your critical thinking, inference, etc., etc?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:12 PM on 05/04/2008
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Geraldo, you'll do or say anything for 30 seconds of "fame". You are such an idiot.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:10 PM on 05/03/2008
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In love with Barbara Walters? A woman who once dated the hideous closet homosexual and character assassin Roy Cohn for power and access? Couldn't Rivera find anyone more loathsome to fall in love with?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:09 PM on 05/03/2008
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"OOOO! OOOO!! SENATOW BWOOKE!!!"
when you can't pronounce "r"'s, you can't go back.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:59 AM on 05/03/2008
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wayoutleft you owe a bottle of tylenol. I bumped my head when I fell out of my chair laughing so hard.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:58 PM on 05/03/2008
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Sick and sicker.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:53 AM on 05/03/2008
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It absolutely makes me sick to hear people with that "JUST GET OVER IT" crap and I'm so glad I'm not near one when they say it. That's like saying "get over" being Black. How do you do that? I wish each one of you who says it will turn Black instantly and have to live that way the rest of your life. That would be true retribution for me. And I love being Black, but you won't!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:25 AM on 05/03/2008
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People, the issue is not whether saying "Once you go Black..." is racist or not. The issue is why race is the first and sometimes only thing people focus us. And when they do, it is usually to make reference to a perceived racial trait: the "sexual wildness" (read: jungle) of Black lovers, the "hotness" of Latin lovers, the "exoticness" or "passivity" of Asian lovers...and those are just the sexual stereotypes! So even if we disagree whether the phrase is racist, we have to think why Geraldo chose to explain his loss in racial terms(crassly, penile endowment), rather than say that Barbara may have been more intrigued by dating a US Senator than some two-bit pseudo-journalist.

And more importantly that what Geraldo may or may not have been thinking, what are you and I thinking when we do the same thing--that is, run to race as an explanation above all else?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:21 AM on 05/03/2008
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It was the line by the blonde bit who said, "...who by the way was African American.' That was the point where it went from angst about a married man to a man of questionable ethnicity.

By the way, I think Walters was always a terrible interviewer and she has become noted for talents I do not hear in her work.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:03 PM on 05/03/2008
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That's far more offensive than what Geraldo Rivera said.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:17 AM on 05/04/2008
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Excellent points all around ...
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favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:00 AM on 05/03/2008
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So, which way do you all who are jumping all over Rivera want to go?

Are we living in a world that has almost totally broken with our ugly past and moved into the world represented by Obama's Philadephia speech?

Or, are we still living in a world where race is so paramount that an amusing little joke is treated with the same outrage that Bull Connors is?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:14 AM on 05/03/2008
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30+ years later and Geraldo is still salty peanuts...i wonder what is his current wife is thinking..."maybe I need to go black:"......the statement is true, that is the entire reason white men in the past pushed racism...well that, free labor justification and elimination. Its hard to walk around not wanting to show women what you are working with and that you know how to work it., especially other race of women.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:22 AM on 05/03/2008
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Jerry's a quack

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:56 AM on 05/03/2008
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that is an old saying and he used it in a bitter way hes obviously jealous of the black guy "beating the breaks" off of barbara.

but heres one thats worse...

monsters ball

"youre not a man until you split dark oak" WTF!?

i always say thats the guy from raymond and he plays a couple of racial roles...

the old man on monster's ball and the police chief on malcom x ....

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 07:35 AM on 05/03/2008
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I know this guy has to be doing his pet sheep, while Bill'O is watching!!!!!!!!!!!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:46 AM on 05/03/2008
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Oh, yea. I forgot...

I got black friends, ya know?

g

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:21 AM on 05/03/2008
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I'm no fan of Geraldo. But I think what he said is fuckin' funny. :-D

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:20 AM on 05/03/2008
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Maybe Geraldo is talking about his own personal experience.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:13 PM on 05/02/2008
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Dan Abrams deserves the SCUM AWARD of the week for covering Rev Wright for a full hour tonight

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:10 PM on 05/02/2008
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I've decided to no longer write and threaten to stop watching such shows. Now, if I turn on Matthews or Race '08, or the Verdict, and they're trashing Obama AGAIN, I just click off. I figure if enuf viewers do that, they'll get the message.
And I think its OK for me to say this bec. I'm Jewish. Ever since this Wright thing surfaced, with the connection to Farrakhan, I've been hearing from fellow MOT's that Obama isn't pro-Israel, isn't a "safe" choice for the WHite House. Which is baloney. This guilt by association thing is ridiculous.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:19 AM on 05/03/2008
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AIPAC

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:35 AM on 05/03/2008
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I think his show is taking in the ratings, perhaps on the verge of being cancels. So he figured doing an how of Rev Wright might bring those rating up.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:53 AM on 05/03/2008
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The Verdict is a wasted hour!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:27 AM on 05/03/2008
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Right now, Bill O'Reilly is steaming with jealous rage.
Could there be hot, loofah makeup sex right around the corner?
Stay tuned.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:24 PM on 05/02/2008
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This rhymes just as well: "Once you go Black, you wanna run Back". Please, leave Geraldo alone!!! It's just harmless humor. Get a life.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:20 PM on 05/02/2008
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You ever seen anybody running back?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:22 AM on 05/03/2008
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this guy is just desperate for a little attention. too bad he is too pathetic to warrant any

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:05 PM on 05/02/2008
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you are defending geraldo, and you want us to get a life?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:03 PM on 05/02/2008
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ACTUALLY YOUR REMARK WAS MORE OFFENSIVE THAN HIS. HE WAS FUNNING.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:55 PM on 05/02/2008
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