{"id":2001735,"date":"2023-08-15T19:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T23:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/geraldo-rivera-makes-stunning-admission-about-fox-news-in-new-interview\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T19:16:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T23:16:06","slug":"geraldo-rivera-makes-stunning-admission-about-fox-news-in-new-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/geraldo-rivera-makes-stunning-admission-about-fox-news-in-new-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Geraldo Rivera&#8217;s Surprising Revelation on Fox News in Recent Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeraldo-rivera-makes-stunning-admission-about-fox-news-in-new-interview%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2001735&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Geraldo Rivera Makes Stunning Admission About Fox News in New \u200dInterview<\/h2>\n<p>Geraldo Rivera was never a good fit for \u201cThe Five.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For most Fox News viewers, that was evident with every minute he spent on the set of one of the network\u2019s most popular shows \u2014 getting\u2062 regularly destroyed in battles of wits with\u200d his better-armed, conservative co-hosts.<\/p>\n<p>And \u200bnow, \u200dweeks after he was fired from \u201cThe Five\u201d and quit the network in response, he\u2019s admitting the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u200d made a very pragmatic decision, a business decision,\u201d Rivera told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/geraldo-rivera-tells-all-why-he-left-fox-news-tensions-with-greg-gutfeld-and-calling-out-pathetic-tucker-carlson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mediaite<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-behind-desantis-team-sends-replacement-for-ron-to-campaign-event-for-mothers\/\" title=\"DeSantis Team Substitutes Ron at Campaign Event for Mothers\">liberal news website<\/a> that focuses on coverage of the media itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it \u2063looks in \u200bretrospect that\u200b they made the right decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It would be hard to find\u2063 a regular Fox News viewer who would disagree.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t as though \u201cThe Five\u201d can\u2019t accommodate a liberal \u2062viewpoint. The\u200c late, curmudgeonly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/longtime-fox-news-host-bob-beckel-dead-73\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob Beckel<\/a> managed \u2064to fill that \u2064role \u200bfor years without regularly embarrassing himself and the network with indefensible arguments. Even if his views weren\u2019t popular, Beckel was an accepted part of the show.<\/p>\n<p>(Beckel, unfortunately, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Should-Be-Dead-Surviving-Addiction\/dp\/0316347744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had worse problems<\/a> \u2063 than a \u2062liberal opinion.)<\/p>\n<p>But Rivera\u2019s grating pomposity and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/geraldo-rivera-gets-absolutely-torched-air-taking-shot-trump-jury-verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">condescending self-righteousness<\/a> were never a match for the more quick-witted, better-prepared conservatives he tried to contend with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Five\u201d co-host and Fox\u2019s late-night comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/greg-gutfeld-takes-epic-swipe-ex-fox-news-host-geraldo-live-audience-bursts-laughter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greg \u200dGutfeld<\/a> was a frequent Geraldo antagonist \u2014 with Gutfeld basically lighting up the scoreboard\u200c like\u200b the Harlem Globetrotters to\u2062 Rivera\u2019s hapless Washington Generals.<\/p>\n<p>The fact \u2062that Gutfeld was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/greg-gutfeld-reportedly-reason-geraldo-rivera-leaving-five-knockdown-drag-fights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cited specifically<\/a> as one of the reasons for Rivera\u2019s departure would come as no surprise to \u200danyone \u2062with even a passing \u200dfamiliarity with either Gutfeld, Rivera or the show itself.<\/p>\n<p>But even though Gutfeld might have been the most outspoken of Rivera\u2019s ideological opponents, he wasn\u2019t exactly alone.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, any \u2063viewer of \u201cThe Five\u201d had a reason\u200c to wince a little whenever it came time for Rivera to offer his two cents on any\u200b given subject.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gutfeld-cant-contain-geraldo-makes-touch-ev-comment-imaginable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">take on electric vehicles<\/a> was \u2064priceless, if only because it\u2062 showed\u200b how out of touch\u2063 with normal Americans he \u2063actually is.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/geraldo-rivera-loses-greg-gutfeld-lays-pro-life-stance-insulting-punk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attack<\/a> on Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh\u200b and Amy Coney Barrett after the Dobbs \u200cdecision striking down Roe v. Wade last year\u200d was not only mean-spirited, it was without foundation.<\/p>\n<p>His knee-jerk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/geraldo-rivera-condemns-freedom-convoy-gutfeld-doesnt-let-get-away-heated-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">utterly predictable liberal condemnation<\/a> of Canada\u2019s \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d truckers during the COVID-19 pandemic was no doubt intended to be \u200ciconoclastic in \u200bthe\u200d setting of a Fox News show. It was exactly\u2062 the opposite\u2063 \u2014 it was Geraldo the Establishment attempting to lecture the lowly.<\/p>\n<p>Except his co-hosts didn\u2019t\u2062 let him get away\u2063 with it, and the Fox News executives know where their audience\u2019s hearts really are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas I satisfied with how Fox handled \u2064the tensions? No,\u201d Rivera told Mediaite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other cast members were perceived to be far more significant to the overall thrust of the \u2064program \u2062than I was. And so I became a kind of collateral damage. If you \u200clook at how well that program has done since I\u2019ve \u200dleft, if anything, [ratings are] back up. So I\u200b can\u2019t say that they\u2019ve made\u2063 the wrong decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(On Thursday, according to the industry publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/thursday-august-10-scoreboard-the-five-is-the-most-watched-cable-news-show\/535841\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advertising Age<\/a>, \u201cThe Five\u201d was the No. 1\u2064 program on cable news. That\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/five-continues-not-make-history-dominate-earns-no-1-show-tenth-month-straight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not unusual<\/a> for the show.)<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, the other cast members \u2064on \u201cThe \u2063Five\u201d \u2014 such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/greg-gutfeld-opens-new-time-slot-blistering-takedown-ladies-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gutfeld<\/a>, former \u200dBush White \u2063House press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dana-perino-makes-big-splash-returns-world-audio-everything-will-okay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dana\u2064 Perino<\/a> \u2062 and blossoming \u200dFox star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fox-news-sees-huge-win-new-prime-time-lineup-getting-rid-tucker-carlson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jesse Watters<\/a> are, \u2062in \u2063fact, far more significant than Rivera filling the role\u200c of a \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/geraldo-rivera-makes-stunning-admission-about-fox-news-in-new-interview\/\" title=\"Geraldo Rivera's Surprising Revelation on Fox News in Recent Interview\">reflexive liberal mouthing empty opinions<\/a> that could have been picked out of a random trash can at NPR.<\/p>\n<p>But when it came to his views of his role at\u2064 Fox in general and \u201cThe Five\u201d in particular, Rivera was \u2014 like a stopped clock \u2014 right for a change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI should have left a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-franklins-name-scrubbed-from-tacoma-city-park\/\" title=\"Ben Franklin\u2019s Name Scrubbed From Tacoma City Park\">long time ago<\/a>,\u201d \u2062Rivera told Mediaite. \u201cBut for various reasons, not the least of which was my own insecurity about where I would end up, I stuck around and I stayed\u2064 too long at the dance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stayed too long, and he was out of step just about all the time.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s figured it out way after everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/geraldo-rivera-makes-stunning-admission-fox-news-new-interview\/\">Geraldo Rivera Makes Stunning Admission\u200d About Fox News in New Interview<\/a> appeared first on\u2063 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geraldo Rivera&#8217;s unsuitability for &#8220;The Five&#8221; was apparent to Fox News viewers. He consistently struggled against his conservative co-hosts, often being outmatched. Recently, he was dismissed from the show, leaving only a few weeks since his departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2007,"featured_media":2001736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}