One thing that remains clear from this discussion on The O’Reilly Factor: Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera do not agree on solutions to help the poor. The two began a conversation prompted by Mitt Romney “misspeaking” about his concern about the poor, and took a turn towards solutions for them, before O’Reilly and Rivera began to disagree on requirements for birth certificates.

A few years ago, Newt Gingrich advocated for making English the official language of the nation to prevent people from speaking “the language of the ghetto.” In the context of his proposal, many, including Geraldo Rivera, think it is indisputable that he meant Spanish, and on The Factor last night, Bill O’Reilly countered that he could just as easily have meant Farsi.

One of the biggest news highlights (I use that term reluctantly) of 2011 was the Casey Anthony murder trial that captivated everyone and their Nancy Grace. If you were one of those people who thought we’d never have to hear about this woman again, prepare to eat crow! Anthony has reemerged online in a video diary, of all things, talking in vague abstractions about her state of mind instead of directly addressing the trial that changed her life.

North Korean state television announced Sunday that Kim Jong Il Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has died.

Geraldo Rivera ran into his pal Eric Bolling in the hallways at Fox News, and couldn’t help but give him a piece of his mind over a discussion that latter had on The Five over immigration. That chat, over the humane (or lack thereof) proposed treatment of illegal immigrants, then spilled over to a column on Fox News Latino, one that Rivera and Bolling debated spiritedly on Follow the Money last night.

On Friday’s Fox and Friends, guest anchor Eric Bolling and Geraldo Rivera duked it out over Occupy Wall Street. “Those complaining that the system is rigged have a beef,” Rivera argued. “What is the point, Geraldo?” Bolling interjected. “Let’s be honest, what is the message? Do you know what it is?”

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear arguments over the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care overhaul signed into law back in March of 2010. While the legality of what its detractors call “Obamacare” is the primary issue at play, a secondary –and more media-centric — issue has also arisen, and that is the costs and benefits of broadcasting the proceedings live from the nation’s highest court, as has been requested by both C-SPAN and Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA.) In the esteem of Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera, there are two simple words why the Supreme Court will never allow cameras inside their edifice: Jon Stewart.

Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera grilled Herman Cain spokesman JD Gordon Sunday night about the new salacious sexual harassment allegations being made against his candidate, repeatedly asking him for a yes-or-no response to the charges. “What you’re doing now is a recipe for disaster, mate,” Geraldo warned. “I’m telling you the morning papers are not past their deadline yet. Are you denying there was a cash settlement to two female employees of the National Restaurant Association — yes or no?”

Bette Midler visited HLN’s The Joy Behar Show yesterday, and when she wasn’t offering to support the Occupy Wall Street protesters with port-a-potties, she shared some interesting details from her earlier career with host Joy Behar. When asked about the claim made by Geraldo Rivera in his own book that he and she had sex, Midler declared “sex with Geraldo was nothing to write home about!”

Give Geraldo Rivera credit. He was undeterred by any animus exhibited towards “corporate media” behemoth Fox News last night by Occupy Wall Street protesters during last night’s live report at Zuccotti Park. Producers of his show Geraldo at Large, however, may not be as deserving of accolades, evidenced by the odd decision to tape a live segment dedicated to the Baby Lisa tragedy amidst the protesters, which in hindsight, probably went better than one could reasonably expect.

In what appears retrospectively to be an inevitability, Geraldo Rivera‘s broadcast live from Zuccotti Park had its first “live” moment tonight, as a protester dropped an f-bomb after shouting at Rivera, “my goal is to occupy everywhere!” The question prompting his response was a fairly innocent inquiry as to what the protester– dressed in a black and white outfit and matching fedora to give the Hipster Cop a run for his money– wanted out of the protests.

Geraldo Rivera knows a thing or two about Libya and Muammar Gaddafi, having covered their collective story for almost two decades. So it was somewhat predictable for Fox and Friends to invite him to the “curvy couch” to discuss yesterday’s news of Gaddafi’s death. What was somewhat surprising for long time viewers of the Fox News morning program, was Rivera’s championing of President Obama’s record on foreign policy.

The ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests continue to produce compelling viral video clips, many of which are related to Fox News. The latest such clip, in which a rainbow-hatted man dumps a bag of powder on Geraldo Rivera, functions as something of a Rorschach test, depending on how the viewer feels about the Occupy movement, Fox News, or Geraldo Rivera. It gets a little weird when those prejudices mix.

Remember Court TV and the national obsession with high profile trials? For about a decade from O.J. Simpson to Scott Peterson and Natalee Holloway the country seemed to have an insatiable appetite for soap opera like details that slowly and painstakingly emerged day in and day out in courtrooms and from investigations around the country. Courthouses regularly became tent cities with media encampments at high profile trials. Some judges and lawyers (and witnesses ie. Kato Kaelin) became more recognizable than most movie stars. Sometimes, the cases addressed important issues like in the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy Mcveigh or assisted suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian or most obviously, Bush v. Gore. Others were far more frivolous like Anna Nicole Smith‘s lawsuit or a random celebrity drunk driving or drug case. Multiple daily cable news shows hosted by the likes of Geraldo Rivera, Greta Van Susteren, Nancy Grace (and me) covered the minutiae with analysis and debate from lawyers and participants.

Fox News weekend host Geraldo Rivera went to Zucotti Park this weekend to report on the Occupy Wall Street protest movement that has been going on for a number weeks and host his eponymous show remotely. During a segment dedicated to the populist protest movement and in the following segment, and while interviewing Cornell West and Tavis Smiley, the surrounding protestors began chanting “Fox News Lies.”

Fans of The Five can throw their hands in the air (perhaps even waving them like they just don’t care) and rejoice to the news that Fox News has announced that the 5pm panel show has become a permanent fixture on the cable news dial, thus increasing the chances that we will one day see the Bob Beckel/Eric Bolling fist fight we’re all so eagerly awaiting.

On tonight’s edition of The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera debated Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s decision to leave first responders and members of the clergy out of a 9/11 memorial on the World Trade Center site this Sunday. Taking a broader perspective of the national dialogue on 9/11, Geraldo referred to Ground Zero as “the most over-politicized, the most bitterly-partisan piece of real estate on earth.”

CNN host Piers Morgan defended himself on Twitter Tuesday morning against suggestions that he had any involvement with phone hacking while he was editor of recently shuttered News of the World, but that didn’t stop the scandal from jumping to his cushy entertainment gig as a judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Fellow judge Howie [...]

It’s Weird Rumor O’Clock, babies! Is Casey Anthony hiding out on Geraldo Rivera‘s boat? God, I hope so. They’d have so much to talk about.

According to “a source at Fox News,” rumor around the office has it that Anthony and her attorney, José Baez, are keeping a low profile aboard Rivera’s yacht, The Voyager.

A Florida judge is debating whether to release video footage of a jailed Casey Anthony that was sealed for being “highly inflammatory.”

In the video, Anthony reacts to news reports that a meter reader had found a child’s body in a swampy area near her family’s home. A highly emotional Anthony is seen doubling over and hyperventilating. At the time, the body had not yet been identified as that of Anthony’s daughter, Caylee.

The universal media revulsion with the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial continued throughout tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, as a livid Bernie Goldberg told Bill O’Reilly he was “so disgusted with this thing I can hardly speak straight tonight.” But unlike most in the media, Goldberg wasn’t just upset at the jury or Casey Anthony herself, but at his colleague, Geraldo Rivera, who he predicted would not “be so open-minded” if the victim in this case were “a Hispanic immigrant.”

Like many in the press, Bill O’Reilly isn’t taking the “not guilty” verdict in the Casey Anthony trial very well. After a scathing “Talking Points Memo” where O’Reilly called Anthony “vile” for not reporting her daughter missing, O’Reilly had it out with Geraldo Rivera, who landed an interview with defense attorney Jose Baez and came out believing Casey Anthony was a “good mother.”

Geraldo Rivera, not one for self-censorship, was quite blunt about his opinion regarding Casey Anthony, the Florida woman suspected of killing her daughter, Caylee.

During a Fox News report outside the Orlando courthouse where the headline-making Anthony case has been unfolding for some time now, Rivera noted that, in the weeks following her daughter’s death, Anthony had a tattoo done featuring the phrase “Bella Vita” (“The Beautiful Life”).

The defense’s case in the Casey Anthony murder trial increasingly slim, questions have begun to surround the bizarre responses of her father, George, to many of the questions in his testimony. On Geraldo at Large, Craig Rivera compiled everything in the press about George Anthony– his seeming detachment to his daughter, the fact that he did not notify authorities about a “smell of death” in his car– to attempt to put the puzzle of his role in the death together.

Nearly 24 hours removed from what is possibly the most significant and joyous national security announcement of the past several decades, Americans have seen nearly the full spectrum of possible responses to journalists finding out inhuman terror monster Osama bin Laden is dead. And while Glenn Beck brought out a marching band today and the New York Daily News cheerfully instructed bin Laden to “Rot in Hell,” in breaking the news, no one could top Geraldo Rivera‘s pure euphoria.