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Geraldo Defends Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations From Eric Bolling’s Repudiation

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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?”

“I wish I could articulate an agenda for these people because they are squandering an opportunity here to make a point,” Rivera replied. “The point is that the system is currently played out. It’s crony capitalism, you’re talking about Solyndra, you’re talking about General Electric, you’re talking about people who aren’t making money the old fashioned way. They’re making money by rigging the system. The generation has a beef.”

“What system is better?” Bolling fired back.

“What has to happen is that our system — the best system ever conceived, has to be cleansed of the dishonesty that’s which is now institutionalized in the system,” Geraldo responded.

Brian Kilmeade countered that the protesters’ tactics were turning off Main Street America to their message.

“This movement has spread across the planet. You cannot deny that there’s something going on here. I think the more we concentrate on the freaks that are acting out, the more we miss the message that there’s a full generation here disgruntled, disillusioned and frightened for their future.” Rivera observed.

“You’re acting like these are isolated incidents!” Bolling pointed out. “There are 300 incidents of defecating on police cars, of rapes, of molestations, of methamphetamine being transfered and sold.”

“I so totally disagree with you. That is absolutely hyperbole! Give me a break!” Rivera exclaimed.

Watch the two Fox News personalities chide each other over Occupy Wall Street:

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  • Sean

    What kind of mad, topsy turvy, dogs sleeping with cats world are we living in when GERALDO RIVERA is the voice of reason????

  • Get Real

    It amazes me you can support the idea behind the OWS and trash the violence and crimes that has happened at the same time. Completely ignoring the violence & crime is what killing the OWS movement. People aren’t blind to this no matter how much the media tries to ignore it.

  • Anonymous

    Just imagine for a minute if those that attended Tea Party rallies committed the same acts as the OWS crowd? Imagine the MSM coverage of that…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg

  • Anonymous

    This is a typical example of how FOX has been lying about OWS….

    http://i.imgur.com/XEnVY.jpg

  • Anonymous

    So, the people who are going to be charged with ‘cleansing the dishonesty’ are dishonest themselves? People like OBAMO, Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, and Hairy Reed? THOSE ‘honest’ people?

  • Rufus Danegro

    Eric Bolling is a retarded sewer dwelling C.H.U.D.D

  • Truthcop

    Eric is right.
    There are hundreds of incidents reported across the country of drugs used/bought/sold, rapes, sexual assault, disease (fleas,lice,lung diseases), homemade explosives, there are over 300 arrests in NYC over the last 60 days…and on and on!
    Geraldo is an idiot.

  • Anonymous

    I find people that refer to President Obama as OBAMO (all CAPS, natch) to be the most honest of all.

  • Anonymous

    Even before there were any problems with the protests Geraldo was giving the same excuses.  A good question to him might be how many rapes/murders/assaults/theft/vandalism would it take before he agrees its a problem?   He’s so busy projecting his own opinion on what they stand for he isn’t concerning himself for what they do or don’t stand for, and it doesn’t matter what they do because he doesn’t care, he’d already made up his mind before the tents arrived…

  • S R Karenova

    It looks like Geraldo is going to have a meeting soon with Roger Ailes.

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    The OWS movement is two months old and Eric 1% Bolling feigns to have no idea what it’s about.  Well, if he’d leave the Faux noise studio and went down the street to the protests, I’m sure they’d be happy to explain it to him.

  • http://twitter.com/lizmckenzie55 Liz McKenzie

    Plants.

  • Anonymous

    Bolling is trying to be the next Glen “Crying Eyes” Beck for FOX ‘news’. Nothing interesting about this exchange.

  • Anonymous

    Annual or perennial?

  • Todd

    What is it about? What are their goals? Who are the leaders? Where are the members of this group talking about the crime & violence coming out of these protests? Right no where just ignore the crime and act like everything is fine. Blind morons like yourself are only hurting your cause.

  • Anonymous

    He had more of a connection to OWS than the AZ shooter had to the Tea Party. Many people have reported he stayed at one of the “occupy” camps….

    Did you object to the MSM jumping on the Tea Party and Palin after the Tucson shooting?

  • Kid Dynamite

    “There are 300 incidents of defecating on police cars, of rapes, of molestations, of methamphetamine being transfered and sold.”

    And that’s just Rush Limbaugh’s weekend trip to the Dominican Republic.

  • proud2teabagu

    The y can’t explain it and it is pathetic watching them try.

  • Anonymous

    This movement has been quite interesting, if not only because it has COMPLETELY brought to reality the phrase ‘hippie punching’. Never have I heard the hyperbole-and-a-half as the litany of insults, smears, exaggerations, and outright lies that are applied to the participants in this protest in such a blanket manner.

    “WHOLESALE MURDER! DRUGS EVERYWHERE! RAPE! LICE! DEFECATION EVERYWHERE! AIRBORNED STD’S! JUST A BUNCH OF LAZY TRUST FUND BABIES LOOKING FOR A HANDOUT AND SOMEONE TO GIVE THEM A JOB!”

    With such a ludicrous original position as that, how could anyone ever begin to accept that there is indeed substance behind what these millions of people are trying to convey?

  • http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

    Geraldo is such a fool. He continues to defend these despicable left wing agitators as if they are somehow fighting for a noble cause. These freaks just want to watch this country burn. F*ck them.

  • Anonymous

    Many people have reported he stayed at one of the “occupy” camps…

    Stop listening to FOX lies. The only connection was that the authorities searched the camp along with everywhere else in a 2 mile radius. They stated they were not related long before FOX kept up with their lies.

    Did you object to the MSM jumping on the Tea Party and Palin after the Tucson shooting?

    Yes I did.

  • Anonymous

    Feel free to use the ‘ol google-fingers, it’s quite easy to understand (I’m not saying ‘sympathize’) what their fellow americans are trying to say:

    http://antranik.org/understanding-the-occupy-movement/

  • Anonymous

    Right. And you know what the best thing to do, if you just want to ‘watch a country burn’?

    YEEEEEAH, I would TOTALLY camp out somewhere for like two months – now THAT’S INSANE AND SO AGGRESSIVE. THOSE INSANELY ANGRY… PEOPLE CAMPING….

    But you keep going on and punching those hippies – with a dash of antichrist-like projection!

  • Anonymous

    You know I am open to being convinced of the facts… if you have a link or a report definitively showing he had no connection I can be convinced. But more than Fox News has reported this. And to say a connection to the movement is a “lie”… well that depends on your definition of connection is I guess.

    http://biggovernment.com/mrctv/2011/11/17/occupy-san-diego-holds-moment-of-silencesolidarity-for-white-house-shooter/

    The media lynch mob with their pitchforks and torches after the Tucson shooting MADE a connection to the Tea Party and Palin that later it turned out didn’t exist… as much as they tried to create one. Sheriff Dupnik is a disgrace to the badge.

    I don’t feel there is enough of a connection to tie Oscar Ortega Hernandez to ODC. But there is more of a connection and solidarity than there was in Tucson. Why the 2 very different media reactions??? You don’t think there might be a bias do you?

    And if you were the one liberal that kept a straight head after Tucson… all I can say is that that makes you a better man than most on the left.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/11/15/abcs_sawyer_says_palin_targeted_gabby_giffords.html

  • Anonymous

    The AZ shooter didn’t come from the future. 

  • Anonymous

    Washington Post:
    In trying to determine why he traveled to the nation’s capital from the western part of the country, investigators also found no connection between him and the Occupy D.C. protest, according to three law enforcement officials familiar with the case.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/crime-scene/post/oscar-ramiro-ortega-arrested-after-shots-fired-near-white-house/2011/11/16/gIQA6lznRN_blog.html

  • Anonymous

    Thank you. Very helpful and on point. :).

  • Anonymous

    Geraldo looks like a substitute teacher trying to explain chemistry to 1st graders.

  • Lizton

    Eric Bolling is the purest definition of an empty suit.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1572984371 Cindy Nowicki

    Geraldo is more 1% than Bolling….Why only point out one, when both fit the 1% mold?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    How do you get “lying about OWS” when the graphic clearly states that he tried to blend in with OWS, trying to blend in would suggest to me that they are denying a connection, but that he may have used the campsites as cover when he came into the area.  I am not aware of Fox portraying this guy as an OWS protester…  clearly they have treated this incident as a singular act of a troubled individual.

  • Anonymous

    And the relevancy of your statement about Mr. Bolling, and how such relates to the topic of: Compare and contrast the economic efficacy of Anarchy vs. Capitalism is?

    Purveyor

  • Mr. Pennypacker

    There are a lot of “plants” in the crowd that are doing this to shine a bad light on the movement.  

  • Ark

    You need Herman Cain to answer a deep question like that. LOL

  • Anonymous

    I am sorry, but I fail to see your mirth, much less the relevancy of YOUR response?

    “Only a foole laughs at his own joke”  (Chinese proverb)

    The Purveyor of Rhetoric

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    Bolling sucks!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    So, sir, you are saying the original Boston Tea Party was participated in by a bunch of Anarchists?  You are right. Thank God for the brave souls that changed our country now and then!

  • Anonymous

    CAROLINE,

    Respectfully, would you clarify your position as I can’t make your comment fit the topic.  Or, perhaps I am missing your attempt at humor?

    IF, you are trying to “compare” the Boston Tea Party with contemporary anarchy, that would necessarily be ‘non sequitur?’  However, were you to “contrast” the Tea Party with modern anarchists, you could easily support such a debate?  I’ll let you figure this one out!  (Test your knowledge of history and  argumentation skills, so to speak) Ouch!

    Don’t forget to be intellectually objective!

    Purveyor of Rhetoric

  • Yukon Jack

    Rufus Danagro is truly the most compassionate, tolerant and loving individual who despises and never uses ad hominem attacks to express his liberal/progressive views.

    Truly a prince of an individual!!

  • Yukon Jack

    And Roger will tell Geraldo to keep up the good works proving that FOX is, indeed, fair and balanced.

  • Pablo

    They’re not the 99%? How can they be plants when your movement is virtually everyone?

    Could it be that you’re really the .099%?

  • Pablo

    U.S. Park police say
    Ortega may have spent time with Occupy D.C. protesters.

    ABC and the US Park Police tell FOX LIES!!!!! too, BFD?

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/white-house-shooting-suspect-ramiro-ortega-hernandez-arrested/story?id=14966099#.Tsem_VY1SSo

  • Pablo

    Why don’t you do it? Tell us what the goals are. What would it take for them to go home?

  • Pablo

    What millions of people?

  • Pablo

    That’s just silly. A tax protest is not anarchy and the Sons of Liberty were not anarchists.

  • Pablo

    They’re not the 99%? Those are 1%ers?

  • Pablo

    If you click through to the OWS demands, you land here: http://tinyurl.com/3doym5n

    There are 8 proposed demands and ALL of them are for federal legislation. So, why are they trying to disrupt Manhattan?

  • Yukon Jack

    OWS people just LOVE some of the most despicable sorry and hypocritical sub-human specimen of the 1%: Like Leo Girard, Richard Trumke, Al Sharpton, Michael Moore, Ellen Barkin, Susan Sarandon, any and all RAP “artists”, sports heroes of the African-American persuation, the owner of BET, MSNBC hosts, union ‘leaders’, Louis Farrakhan, the Al-Quada and the Taliban, just to name a few.   

  • Cassandra

    The protesters are focusing on Wall Street to draw attention to the fact that big money is unduly influencing legislation. Corporations exist solely to make a profit, which is fine – that’s capitalism. It’s up to citizens to ensure that corporations make their profits within confines of laws that protect the health and well-being of our society, including food safety, safe labor practices, protecting our air and water, regulating our financial systems, etc. If politicians’ election campaigns are funded by unseen, bottomless-pocket contributors and influence peddling by industry lobbyists they are going to enact laws in their benefactors’ best interests, not the voters’.
    By NYPD’s estimates over 32,000 people turned out on Thursday to show support for OWS. Take a look at the photos. They are not all freaks, criminals and druggies. There are plenty of sane, reasonable and employed people and they are not trying to overthrow the government. They’re calling on us to try to fix it.

  • chatiecathy7

    I love your response Cassandra. You put it into words that anyone could understand if they were not blinded by greed. You are right, not all are freaks, druggies and criminals. They are trying to be portrayed that way by those who are the 1%.  Their  message is clear, we are the 99% and we are speaking up for ourselves loud and clear. OWS is gaining in numbers and they aren’t going anywhere soon.  These are the voices of the 99% Americans who want “Change”. 

  • chatiecathy7

    You are truly blinded and drinking too much koolaid.  Sorry for your loss.   lol

  • AliveStillKickin

    Geraldo’s only function on FOX News is for target practice.
    Many of the OWSers wanted to kick his ass. I was hoping they would.
    Nobody really takes him seriously as a reporter.
    He is Gloria Allred with facial hair.

  • Anonymous

    Fox and Friends, for people who have no friends.

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