Right after Matt Lauer was fired over claims of sexual harassment by multiple women, Fox’s Geraldo Rivera took to Twitter, using way over 140 characters to defend the now-unemployed NBC host who made $25 million per year as the network news division’s crown jewel.
Lauer is accused of a variety of misconduct, including showing a woman his dick and then yelling at her for not engaging in a sexual act, quizzing female producers on sexual partners, and pinching Katie Couric’s ass.
As Variety writes:
In front of the camera, for more than two decades, Lauer had positioned himself as America’s squeaky-clean dad. But behind the scenes, Lauer was a different person.
Despite being married, Lauer was fixated on women, especially their bodies and looks, according to more than 10 accounts from current and former employees. He was known for making lewd comments verbally or over text messages. He once made a suggestive reference to a colleague’s performance in bed and compared it to how she was able to complete her job, according to witnesses to the exchange. For Lauer, work and sex were intertwined.
ENTER GERALDO
Perhaps unaware of the extent of Lauer’s alleged degeneracy, Fox’s Geraldo Rivera hopped onto Twitter and broke a chair over his reputation – letting everyone know that Matt Lauer is a good guy, news is a ‘flirty’ business, the recent allegations against high profile men are an ‘epidemic,’ and people may be misinterpreting a man’s ‘courtship’ behavior with sexual predation.
Sad about @MLauer great guy, highly skilled & empathetic w guests & a real gentleman to my family & me. News is a flirty business & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation. What about #GarrisonKeillor?
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) November 29, 2017
This is already a PR nightmare…
Digging the hole deeper, Geraldo then said that “sexual harassment” shouldn’t apply where a boss-suboordinate relationship doesn’t exist. Because pinching your waitress’s ass is definitely not sexual harassment.
A jerk's a jerk in dating. #SexHarassment should be confined to situations where superior imposes himself on subordinate who feels unable to complain because of power of perp or feared consequences to victim's employment. Shouldn't be used to get even w bad bosses or hated ex's
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) November 29, 2017
This isn’t going well…
Rivera then suggests that a statute of limitations should apply to allegations of sexual harassment, along with proof in the form of “witnesses, electronic or written communications.”
#SexHarassment allegations should require: 1-made in a timely fashion-say w/n 5 yrs. 2-some contemporaneous corroboration, like witnesses, electronic or written communications. W $ settlements in multi-millions slight chance exists some victims are motivated by more than justice
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) November 29, 2017
Yes, there are definitely gold diggers out there – though I don’t think any of the recent cases were one-offs. Multiple accusers over several years is the general theme – though perhaps accusations levied weeks before an election should be treated with heightened scrutiny.
Geraldo then says, again, that news is a (formerly) “flirty” business, which is why we see so many married coworkers in the industry.
This issue is so red hot right now there is no room for any thought or opinion but hang em high. If News wasn’t (formerly) a flirty biz then how do we explain so many newsroom courtships that have led to happy marriages?
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) November 29, 2017
Several hours later, Geraldo apologized:
Reaction to my tweets today on #sexharassment makes clear
I didn't sufficiently explain that this is a horrendous problem
long hidden-Harassers are deviants who deserve what is coming
to them-Often victims are too frightened to come
forward in a timely fashion-I humbly apologize— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) November 30, 2017
Reactions have not been kind
Since @GeraldoRivera has taken it upon himself to cast doubt on the recent wave of sexual harassment allegations, here's a clip of Bette Midler in 2001 talking about being assaulted by him. pic.twitter.com/ISXld0ZXCJ
— Julian Routh (@julianrouth) November 29, 2017
I saw Geraldo Rivera defending Matt Lauer.
Then I saw an old interview with Geraldo bragging that he had sex with over 1000 women.
Then it made sense why he's defending Matt Lauer.
Celebrity journalists are scum of the earth.
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) November 29, 2017
Geraldo Rivera trying to tweet through his potential future sexual assault allegations like… pic.twitter.com/dn4JavUuSr
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) November 29, 2017
Geraldo defended Matt Lauer today.
Who else thinks a tsunami of women are about to come forward and accuse him of sexual harassment? pic.twitter.com/TNkuvLPUxE
— Cristina Laila (@cristinalaila1) November 30, 2017
If you enjoy the content at iBankCoin, please follow us on TwitterNailed it.
Geraldo 6 hours ago: Matt Lauer's a good guy, probably did nothing wrong & accusers should be forced to come forward within certain time period with documentation.
Geraldo 16 minutes ago: I've made a huge mistake pic.twitter.com/3UJ7wqvEB5
— ZeroPointNow (@ZeroPointNow) November 30, 2017
Why am I enjoying all of this so much? Does it make me a bad person to be so pleased seeing karma finally knocking on leftist doors?
How can I unsee that Geraldo selfie?
The issue not discussed is that there are so many gold-digging whores who reinforce the the scummy behavior or these guys, that they keep doing it.
Through most of my working life, I have had to tiptoe around some overpaid slut, not qualified for her job, but who is sleeping with the boss and so is put in a position of power. And as far as these celebrity abusers, the true victims of these guys is likely not the celebrity women that we’re hearing about, but rather the ones who never got their shot, because they were not gold-digging whores and wouldn’t polish Matt’s knob.
The smell of castration in the morning. These Libtard cunts are getting exactly what they have sowed. The Feminazi Frankenstein is loose.
Nothing new for Geraldo jumping to conclusions and burning his ass – isn’t there a vault to open anywhere for him and see if it turns out any different than the Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults?
NotGekko,
It only makes you a bad person if you aren’t also enjoying it when it happens to those on the right. Karma knows no politics.