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Bernie Goldberg to O’Reilly: Geraldo Wouldn‘t Defend Anthony Verdict if Victim Was ’Hispanic Immigrant’

The Casey Anthony verdict has caused plenty of consternation among the media. One such person annoyed, angry, and flummoxed is Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. On Tuesday, he hosted media critic Bernard Goldberg to discuss it. And when O’Reilly brought up his just-concluded interview with Geraldo Rivera — in which Geraldo defended Anthony as a “good mother” — Goldberg went off.

“I wonder if Geraldo and others who think like Geraldo would be so open minded if let’s say a militia man in Arizona was accused of killing a Hispanic immigrant, and the evidence was similar to this case — a mountain of circumstantial evidence,” he said. “You think Geraldo Rivera would go on the air and talk to you the way he did?”

Understanding that the question was loaded, and there’s really no non-controversial way to answer it, O’Reilly responded, “I really can’t answer that.”

Goldberg did: “I don’t think he would speculate that maybe this person did it, maybe she’s crazy, maybe this, maybe that. This is ridiculous.”

You can watch the comments below:

But if you thought that was interesting, you‘ll definitely want to see the aforementioned exchange between O’Reilly and Geraldo. It was fiery, as Mediate explains:

“Bull!” O’Reilly began to shout, which introduced a lengthy segment of unintelligible crosstalk, followed by O’Reilly shouting “how does a good mother go to a wet body contest when her baby is missing?” Rivera returned to the reasonable doubt standard as his crutch, noting that there was no cause of death or revealing autopsy results. “You don’t want to believe it,” O’Reilly concluded, “and the jury didn’t want to believe it either.”

Comments (199)

  • hojo
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:35am

    Tabloid news at its finest. Nothing to see here, move on.

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  • Mil-Dot
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:35am

    I agree with the verdict. You have to PROVE that a person did it beyond a reasonable doubt. Being a sleazy party girl with no common sense who lies through her teeth daily does not mean she is a murderer. If that were all that was needed to give somebody the needle half the US female population would be on death row. Now, On Heraldo, indeed, if the victim was an illegal alien, and the perp was a white guy, he would be going ballistic. That is a fact. He is an illegal alien apologist with no equal. But, he is not stupid.

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  • wewantchillywilly
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:33am

    Bill O’Reilly declared Casey Anthony guilty many, many times on his program. I think he is going to get some trouble for that.

    the more you look at it, the more they got the verdict right. Surprisingly, Sean Hannity has been the most reasonable guy on fox about this entire thing. i thought he’d be livid.

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  • commonsensesue
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:31am

    Geraldo has prompted me to turn the TV off or change the channel for a few minutes for quite some time. He shouldn’t be on Fox as a reporter…he is as biased as the day is long. His commentary often doesn’t make sense. Yesterday, I heard him wonder….Will we ever find the murderer of Caylee Anthony …could it be the baby’s father? I couldn’t believe it…the baby’s father?? What kind of a nut job is he? I will always believe Casey Anthony killed that sweet little girl, and she did it all by herself (no involvement by her dad or anyone else…well, maybe one of Casey’s imaginary friends!!). Bottom line, Casey will answer to God one day…and if she maybe has an ounce of conscience, she will have to live with her lie. She can lie to all of us, but SHE knows the truth. Nuff said from me…she‘s not worth ANYONE’S time.
    P.S. We should all be praying she never has another child…

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  • Hank919
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:26am

    Geraldo is a hack opportunist and really belongs on MSNBC with the other bedlamites.

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  • vaughan
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:24am

    There are some people who cannot or will not see anything but their own opinion. How anybody could have listened to testimony regarding the cadaver dog, the police etc and not think she was involved in the child’s death is beyond me. I can’t figure out how any mother can go dancing knowing that her baby is missing.

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  • dissentnow
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:24am

    In what world did Geraldo get his definition of “good mother”?

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  • jdare
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:19am

    I didn’t hear what Geraldo had to say, I always change the channel when he comes on. I think it was the Weather channel this time. More interesting and informative. Tea Party Patriot!

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  • RepubliCorp
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:18am

    I didn’t follow the case much so I wont judge her. But seems like Casey better hide and change her looks / name.
    People are really off the charts pissed off here in Florida. I bet she will be paid big-big bucks for a interview and disappears ……….

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  • hauschild
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:17am

    Rivera needs to do something about that ‘stache. It’s not “happening” any longer.

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  • gabbygirl
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:15am

    I stopped watching Geraldo long before the Anthony case. All of his opinions are skewed by emotions & his liberal bias.

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    • LookingforJustice
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 11:15am

      Amen to that! I turn the channel EVERY time he is on Fox.

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    • AllHisChildren
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 1:40pm

      I agree with you, GABBYGIRL! Whenever Rivera is on, I switch channels. There is certainly “reasonable doubt” that Geraldo should even be on FOX. If they want someone on Fox with a more liberal mindset with opposing opinions, in order to stay “Fair & Balanced”, how about hiring a liberal who makes sense and can back up his/her opinions without whining from behind their “VICTIM” masks!! We’re tired of hearing it!!! If someone breaks a law or moral principle, commits a crime or terrorism, they have to be punished!! No more excuses to hide behind, Geraldo!!!

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  • Southernguy
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:14am

    Geraldo is an idiot. I wonder how many illegals he’s hidden out over the years.

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  • The Toad
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:14am

    Bernard Goldberg is correct Geraldo Rivera loves them Hispanics and illegal immigrants!!

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    • butler180
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:14am

      and has utter contempt for the people in the country where he became a millionaire.
      As far as I know (correct me if I am wrong) he started out white and turned Hispanic after he figured out he could make more money doing so.
      BUT he will always have Willow Brook to his credit and that washes away a lot of the bilge he spews

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  • Jake-the-Goose
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:14am

    Whether Goldberg is correct or not – accusing Geraldo of racism, is foolish, and only perpetuates these idiotic ‘us-vs.them’ arguments.

    I can’t believe adults watched this trial in the numbers I have seen reported – get a life people.

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    • spyderpopp
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 11:54am

      Jake-the-Goose, I agree with half of what you said. Even if correct about Geraldo, Bernie should have kept his opinion to himself or put it another way, if his point could have been made another way.

      As for telling the people who were watching this trial to “get a life”, I would say you should have a heart. When this thing first hit the news, it was about a missing child, last seen in the care and custody of her mother. But when that little child is found 6 months later, thrown away like yesterday’s garbage, after the mother has led the police on wild goose chases and hindered the proper investigation into her own child’s disappearance, all while her baby decomposes and the evidence degrades beyond the point of getting any usable scientific evidence, well that just grabs the attention of the public, begging the question, where’s the justice for this little child?

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:09am

    Bernie is quite correct; I have him on my radio show and yesterday he was VERY insightful on just about everything we talked about. Bernie rocks!

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  • BBReggie
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:09am

    Bernard Goldberg is correct. Geraldo’s opinion would be exactly opposite if the suspect were a white male.

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  • thomasnash1027
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:08am

    I dislike Geraldo just as much as the next person, if not more, but in this case he is 100% correct (as much as it pains me to say it). The neglect and abuse issue is specific to the charges against her and had to have led to the child’s death in order to be relevant in this case. If we want to be angry or disgusted with anyone it would not be the jury or the system it would be the prosecution. They failed to present a case backed by irrefutable evidence that would prove to the jury “Beyond a reasonable” doubt that Casey Anthony murdered her child. Because of her actions after the child went missing we all believe that she is guilty. I’m certain that even members of the jury believe this, but ultimately we dont decide these things based on what we think or how we feel. Thank G-d we have a legal system that requires a much higher burden of proof when we are trying to convict someone of a crime such as 1st degree murder which comes with a maximum sentence of death. The United States justice system worked perfectly in this case. The prosecution failed miserably.

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    • lantzh
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:59am

      Tell you somthing , if you leave your kid on the playground and walk across the street to get a cup of coffee and come back and the kid is gone, weather you do or dont report it, and then the kid ends up dead 2 days later. Your guilty of negligant homicide. I dont give a crap who actually killed the kid, your the parent and responsible for that childs welfare. If you, by Act or Omition cause that child to be put into harms way, by not providing supervision, your GUILTY. Ms. Anthony is guilty of neglance and child endangerment that lead to her childs death, no matter how you look at it…

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    • teresa2010
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:35am

      Man you are an idiot

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    • Mad Mike
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 11:05am

      I agree. I ended up watching way to much of this trial because I was struct by how hard the prosecution tried to make the flimsy evidence mount up to more than it was. At some point I found myself–libertarian and constitutional conservative that I am–seeing the government run amuck. The Judge was also caught up in the attempted lynching, what did Judge Napolitano call him, “a prosecutor in black robes…” Given the lack of hard evidence I am amazed that they pursued the death penalty. Regardless what you think of Ms. Anthony’s complicity or guilt, the state’s prosecution team did not prove their case for (1) pre-meditation, (2) motive, and (3) cause of death and in a larger sense failed to link it to the Mother in a way that warranted death.

      If we make the leap that all this “flimsy stuff” means she was *proven* guilty then what happens when the government tries similar tactics on innocents when they want to prove some other crime? Consider, for instance, some of the weak “scientific evidence” the Judge allowed into the court. What precedents are we setting. Frankly, I was troubled by the whole affair more for how the process proceeded then what happened in the end.

      We either believe in the principals of our republic, the law and individual rights or we don’t. When viewed from this context, the jury made the right choice. They upheld the law, some of them I am sure, while holding their noses…

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    • Marine1775
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 11:48am

      Well said!

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    • outrider
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 12:58pm

      I too am grateful for our legal system, even after the OJ jury revealed the system’s weakest link, and even now, after the system’s failure to find justice for this murdered child. “Better that 10 guilty men go free than a single innocent man be hanged.” Or something like that.

      That said, the jury should have found Anthony guilty of at least child endangerment. There is no doubt whatsoever that she left the house with Caylee and at the very least “misplaced” her somewhere in a dangerous situation that resulted in her “abduction” and ultimate murder or acccidental death; no doubt that Casey, or someone of her choosing, continued to drive her car even as the odor of Caylees’s corpse rotting in the trunk became intolerable; no doubt she failed to call for help to locate the missing Caylee, and that she obstructed Cindy’s efforts as well. For 31 days, wasn’t it?

      Nancy Grace was right about the devil dancing over this verdict. Now all we can do is pray for Caylee and let God sort it all out. Maybe He will do a “Hugo Chavez” on her. Not that we’d actually wish for that, of course.

      As for the nauseating Geraldo, wasn’t his birth name Jerry Rivers? He plays the Hispanic card whenever he can, and wore out his welcome with me years ago. He cheapens the entire Fox product. Fire O’Reilly too. His bullheaded style obscures his show’s content and whatever truth he speaks.

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    • EthanNDomsMom
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:43pm

      I totally agree that it’s not the jury we should be upset with but the state. They didn’t prove ANYTHING! The defense was professional and at the end even complimented the prosecution, who didn’t deserve any compliments. Maybe the state needs to find new prosecutors?

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    • smoknlownslow
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 6:05pm

      I totally agree Thomasnash1027. Our justice system may not be perfect, but it is the best in the world.

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    • RAMULUS
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:01pm

      Amen!!!

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  • psst
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:06am

    Well! If one can recall. During the time OJ killed his wife and the guy who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and was just returning a pair of eyeglasses the wife had (earlier in the evening)left at the restaurant where he worked Jeraldo the marxist was working at PMSNBC if i recalled correctly.
    Him and many of the shyster lawyers who were his nightly guests were all blah-blah-ing about how OJ could not be found guilty.Oh yeah. Ol marxist Jeraldo was a big supporter of OJ the Killa.Like the Raid commercial. He kills em all.or Black Flag. Kills em dead.
    Even the most ignorantly stupid viewer who were following the case knew that OJ killed those two people.
    The problem is that many ameriKans are so dumbded down,they need a map to find where they should wipe their karse after taking a dump. How can you select a jury from among stupid people. In the OJ trial, the blacks on the jury would never have found OJ guilty of killing two whites, even if they saw him do it.
    Bernie is right.Jeraldo would be committing Seppuku ( after hearing a Not Guilty verdict)if the dead child was an illegal hispanic.Or legal.
    babbl’n billO thinks he has kaballs. But that is only in his own mind.
    BTW Why are we funding abortions? Isn’t it much less expensive to let the chirrens be born and place them in a garbage sack and dump them in a dumpster or the woods?
    Abortions cheapens life.Don’t want yer child? Garbage sacks are inexpensive.

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  • NWalters78
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:04am

    I am not an O Reilly fan, but I am less of a Geraldo fan. Bite it, Rivera.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:02am

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    Geraldo Rivera needs to be DEPORTED….racist piece of crap…………….

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    • Lamarr01
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 1:03pm

      You can’t deport Geraldo. He was born in Puerto Rico. His latino values and logic are sweeping the land. Latinos thrive on committing petty crimes and not getting caught. Geraldo is representing the undereducated, underprivileged underclass who are resisting the oppressive authority of “the Man”.
      In this case, “the Man” was trying to unjustly punish Casey Anthony.

      Casey will become wealthy from the million dollar book deals and the made-for-cable movies. Geraldo will want to pay for her first TV interview. He was able to hype Al Capone’s secret stash of dirt, rocks and an old bottle.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 12:47am

      Lamarr01
      You can’t deport Geraldo. He was born in Puerto Rico.

      No he wasn’t. He was born in Brooklyn.

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  • liberalsarealiens
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:59am

    I find them both insufferable! Bill O is way too opinionated along with anyone disagreeing with him being shouted down in liberal/progressive fasion! Geraldo is a tabloid “journalist” at best who bloviates way too much. Go home both of you!

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  • Sicialian Eyeball
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:53am

    How true…………. Nothing more than a latino shill.

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    • freeus
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:57am

      How true, and Bernie brilliantly articulated the truth with respect to Geraldo’s position.

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  • jakartaman
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:47am

    Geraldo is a blithering idiot.
    Why Fox panderers to his tabloid journalism is beyond me.
    I bet if you polled the Anthony jurors you would find 10 demedopes and 2 weak knee independents.
    They all are devoid of common sense

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  • JohnBirch
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:44am

    New show !
    Geraldo & O’Rielly: Self Serving Loud Mouths!

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    • nugykent
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:12am

      i agree.bill use to do news.now the show has more spin than a comic book.as for rivera,he has never reported the news

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    • snidley-whiplash
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 10:22am

      Fox News ……………………..down,down the slide to lower ratings. Yes O’Reilly and Geraldo suck.

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  • TeaForMe
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:38am

    I cannot and will not listen to Geraldo Rivera anymore. He slammed people who oppose amnesty as bigoted one too many times. I guess my Hispanic immigrant friend of 25+ years is also bigoted, as she also opposes open borders.

    Geraldo is a hateful ideologue who makes outrageous and false claims against anyone who disagrees with him. It is long past time for Fox to let him go.

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    • 50BMG
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:45am

      I agree. Geraldo is insufferable. He’s no journalist. A biased, liberal mouthpiece, yes, but a journalist? No way.

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    • booger71
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:51am

      Jeraldo is still looking for Al Capone’s secret stash.

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    • nptden
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 6:40pm

      I agree they both are. They both convicted Calley before the evidence was given. OReilly hates to admit he is wrong. Geraldo hates to admit he is a racist. He wears that PR chip on his shoulder all his life. He’s nothing but a dirt bag mudraker. When the hell did HE ever participate in trials?

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    • Thighmaster
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:46am

      Wasn’t Geraldo the one sent back to the USA in disgrace because he reported off the record information about our troops?

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    • butler180
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:03am

      Yes

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    • RCScrolls
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 10:31am

      Remember when He Told live TV the miners are all alive, all alive. Then we found them to all be dead. Hes a fruit cake and bigoted biased Mexican.

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    • t00nces2
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:48am

      Yes Geraldo… Maybe this and maybe that. Maybe you will find something interesting in Al Capones vault…

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    • Ironmaan
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:50am

      Geraldo is a dope. The kid was murderded found in swamp, mother doesnt’ report the kid missing for 31 days, hair with marker that only appears during decomposition is found in the trunk of her car which smells of a rotting corpse, and she lies continuously. Geraldo and this jury are an embarrassment to any clear thinking person. I guess the jury and Geraldo need a video of the crime to convict her.
      http://guerillatics.com

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    • butler180
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:05am

      Right on.

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    • madhornet
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 1:37pm

      a good way to bring down a country and i’m one pissed off angry American. Geraldo is a racist pile of garbage. The country has been weakened and life devalued. Hollywood is winning the minds of millions of people who have become traitors to their own conscience. spineless stupids in front of the tv watching horsecrap shows that come from men’s and womens darkened minds. You let gaYs “marry” and the rest of the country will rot

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    • Bobmouse55
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:41pm

      Yeah, and the cops won’t let anyone video it because they “feel unsafe”.

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 6:55am

      In my opinion Geraldo Rivera is like a fish out of the water. He flips and flops in an effort to find water more suitable to his personal likes and dislikes. He rants and raves in his attempst to support lost causes. He’s clearly a liberal progressive who has a liberal progressive solution for the illegal immigant problem, amnesty. Amnsty is not a solution but is a multiplication to the problem. Any form of amnesty would only require another and another in the near future.

      Geraldo belongs on MSNBC and not FOX NEWS. His statement that Casey Anthony “is a good mother” is like saying Adolph Hitler loved the Jews. It’s time for him to move on to “other waters” because he’s muddying the water at Fox News. I prefer a “clear water” approach to my News Network, that’s why I choose to watch Fox News and not Geraldo Rivera. He’s also a racist that always sides with“latinos” in cases that enviolve them. To me, that’s understandable, since he is one himself (Porto Rican)”.

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    • I_Hate_Libs
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:53am

      Agreed I don’t understand why Fox keeps him on?

      The horror of the Democrat mind.

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    • SFsuper49er
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:25am

      I agree, Geroldo needed video evidence of her actually doing the crime. She Should have not gotten off then walk I can tell you that!

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    • SacredHonor1776
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:51am

      Because they truly are fair and balanced, with both eighties and lefties hired.

      They aren’t like MSNBC that fires all conservatives.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:09am

      Heraldo/colmbs whats the difference, both pinnnnn headed liberals, disgusting.

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    • drbage
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:39am

      All you really need to know about Geraldo is revealed in his history. He got his start and niche propelled road to “fame” from ABC.

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    • biffo
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:41am

      Geraldo is a hateful ideologue who makes outrageous and false claims against anyone who disagrees with him. It is long past time for Fox to let him go.

      Exactly, he is a loudmouth racist.

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    • jnobfan
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:52am

      Fire this idiot. He doesn’t need the money and seriously has a liberal mental disorder.

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:12am

      Turn it all off. Save yourself the anxiety and frustration. All of these guys are in it ONLY for the money…period…Nothing against making money…but only for the money I do. Even FOX. Time to move on to GBTV…at least it will be the truth (with both historical and future perspective) no matter the cost. These guys @ FOX and everywhere else in the media just continue to feather their own nest REGURGITATING the news. They give us nothing to live by. Nothing more…nothing less.

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    • melmatmic
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 11:44am

      We must listen to Gerry. He knows where Al Capones secret vault is!!!!!!!!! That wrestler should have hit him a little harder with that chair.

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    • agthorn
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:40pm

      Agreed … my wife is born in South America and is a legal immigrant here and also finds Geraldo’s “logic” tainted and much spin … sad but I guess he represents the ‘left’ on Fox.

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    • mahazar
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 10:19pm

      I can not stand to listen to Geraldo. Why is O’Reilly so beholden to him? He lets him blather on and on while Geraldo says Nothing! Is this why Michelle Malkin isn‘t on O’Reilly’s show anymore because Geraldo won out over her????

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    • ryukidn
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:55pm

      @teaforme your assessment is dead on with the additional point that he’s a “race baiter”! when geraldo comes on, FOX goes off! his analysis on nearly any topic is grossly distorted & lacks any objectivity because it’s always colored, no pun intended, by his ethnicity. his tabloid style is just unbearable. lord knows we have plenty of drama going on without him spinning!

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