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!”

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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. His response? To “occupy everywhere,” because “a lot of people have been deeply and profoundly fucked by the system.” That’s as far as he got, anyway, before disappearing into the crowd amid shouts of displeasure from both protesters and Geraldo Rivera.

The protesters was immediately whisked away by both the crowd and Fox News handlers, one assumes. Rivera called the stunt “lame” and noted that the protesters had promised no such disruptive language to get on television, and after a commercial break, apologized once again for the language, expressing hope that

the mishap would not mean the program would no longer be allowed to broadcast from Zuccotti Park. In between the apologies, however, there are a number of interviews worth catching, including one with a couple of young men in a beard competition (one of them explains the competition, while the other one seems exclusively capable of saying the words “this is preposterous!” over and over).

The live moment and Rivera’s apology via Fox News below:
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