Tea Party Leader Blasts Geraldo Rivera For Airing Anti-Tea Party ‘Hit Pieces’

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by Frances Martel | 11:51 pm, April 17th, 2010

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More drama between Fox News and the Tea Party movement: Geraldo Rivera had Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams on to vent his frustrations about how the tea partiers are portrayed in the mainstream media, and Williams promptly took out his anger– straight at Rivera.

Rivera begins the segment by asking Williams about misconceptions about his organization in the media, to which Williams, without missing a beat, replied that “as long as you keep helping them with hit pieces like the one you just ran” the misconceptions would continue. Clarifying that the tea party is a “human rights movement,” he continued to bash the host:

“nutwads who march around the woods with guns and years’ worth of food in their backpack are not part of us, but you keep sending them our way and we keep doing our best to disown them.”

“You seem to be attacking me,” Rivera finally astutely noted. That prompted Williams to actually attack Rivera, personally: “you’re Geraldo Rivera; William Randolph Hearst winces at some of the work you do.”

Ouch. Also, wrong: Hearst is widely recognized as America’s first yellow journalist and would have probably loved the Al Capone vault special.

This exchange was probably most awkward for Mike Huckabee, who is sitting there silently the whole time and later given the responsibility of hastily taking control of the conversation away from Williams.

Watch the segment below:

fox news, Geraldo at Large, Geraldo Rivera, Mike Huckabee, Tea Party, Tea Party Movement

AmericanCowboy

Jerry Rivers should be on MSNBC with all the other media hacks.
Big_F-ing_Deal

The teabaggers sure are a bunch of whiny bitches.

They know how to dish it, but take it? Not so much.

Shouldn’t Breitbart be crying moar soon too? It’s been a while since that sniveling bastard showed his face on TV. lmfao
Rosey

“Ouch. Also, wrong: Hearst is widely recognized as America’s first yellow journalist and would have probably loved the Al Capone vault special.”

Hey Frances, I’m pretty sure that was his point, genius. His point is is that Hearst would have more class than to run some of the ‘peices’ that you have run. That’s sayin’ alot knowing that Hearst pioneered and mainstreamed yellow journalism…but thanx for playin’…
MrGlennBovineKoldys

WOW!

This Mark Williams?

Great choice of “leader” teabaggers!

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/teabagger-mark-williams-says-obama-indo

Teabagger Mark Williams says: ‘Obama is an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief’ and tries to defend it!
By John Amato Tuesday Sep 15, 2009 4:00pm
TylerDurden

Geraldo, the lib who wants to be a Conservative.
TylerDurden

CrooksandLiars, a perfect appellation for Mr.Glenn and his libby friends.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

Mark Williams is proof that the Teabaggers are “nutwads.” The tea party isn’t a salute to the patriots of the Boston Tea party, it’s a perversion of a tailgate party that draws together the nutwads and the douchebags lead by Andrew Not So Breitbart and Mark Williams.
felixw

Once again, frank exchange of opinion on Fox, and not the predictable, politically correct mush you get from CNN or the smear of the day from MSNBC.
Polly1943

Tea Party concerns:

1. Taxes have grown unmanageable for middle America.
2. Federal government spending is OUT OF CONTROL.
3. Illegal immigrants cost YOU and ME billions of dollars a year.
4. The Federal Government is usurping power from the States.

Instead of name-calling, you people should be very very concerned about the direction our country is going.
Phocus

Geraldo is balance. Anyone who expects fair from him is nuts. Let the dude pour it out…we are smart enough to know what he is. It was good to hear him get blasted with the truth…smile. SIXTY IN 2010
http://www.facebook.com/people/Wayne-Shepard/1095585968 Wayne Shepard

RON PAUL!
GIVEMEFREEDOM

LOL, libs are outraged that the “tea baggers”, as they like to call em, get ANY airtime at all. And then they’re all indignant in the end when FOX calls up Mark Williams who Geraldo thought might put a verbal hex on the Obamanites instead turned his immediate attention on the hoaxster in chief Rivera. Will this excellent theater ever end??? I think not, the libs can’t let go even when they’re in first place . . . . they’re such bottom dwellers.
Sunnyr

Gerry Rivers AKA Geraldo Rivera is an over-the-hill, irrelevant nincompoop and should be ignored. Good for the Tea Party guy in setting this Leftist Nutball straight!!
TEXICAN

Polly1943 says:
April 18, 2010 at 11:55 am
Tea Party concerns:

1. Taxes have grown unmanageable for middle America. (WHEN WERE THEY RAISED?)
2. Federal government spending is OUT OF CONTROL. (OUT OF CONTROL UNDER BUSH?)
3. Illegal immigrants cost YOU and ME billions of dollars a year. (BILLIONS, REALLY?) (NO.)
4. The Federal Government is usurping power from the States. (WHAT STATE?)

Instead of name-calling, you people should be very very concerned about the direction our country is going.

YOU SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE FACISM OF THE NEW ARIZONA LAW?
http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Franson/500132399 John Franson

“Also, wrong: Hearst is widely recognized as America’s first yellow journalist and would have probably loved the Al Capone vault special.”

You misunderstood. Williams was basically saying, “You’re so bad you make William Randolph Hearst look like Edward R. Murrow.”