Fox's Geraldo Had a Melt Down While Defending Matt Lauer For Something G Has Experience on (in)

That picture of the old guy on the right is not only old like he is (dirty old man!) but is got more make up than the girl with carbon eyes and floral dress at the White House. Let's show a selfie.. (I'm told he posted, did not want to spend more time than necessary verifying if he posted or someone else posted, I think he posted because of the no shirt part (small part) that makes me feel ashamed of my heritage). By Adam

 Twitter alert: Geraldo Rivera posting seminude selfies again, bringing all he's got [photo] – twitchy.com

Fox News host Geraldo Rivera had a minor meltdown on Wednesday defending former NBC News host Matt Lauer, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. “News is a flirty business,” Rivera wrote on Twitter. “It seems like [the] current epidemic of sexual harassment allegations may be criminalizing courtship and conflating it [with] predation.” 

Rivera’s swift of defense Lauer’s alleged behavior sparked some questions—namely: What’s with the sudden concern? A 1991 resurfaced interview with Barbara Walters and Bette Midler seems to suggest Rivera has an extremely predatory definition of flirting. One might even call Rivera’s version of flirting sexual assault. 

Some backstory: in 1991, Rivera released a book aptly entitled Exposing Myself. The book is rife with Rivera’s alleged sexual encounters, one of which involves a story about Midler. “We were in the bathroom, preparing for the interview, and at some point, I put my hands on her breasts,” he wrote, proclaiming it was a “thrilling” moment.

Midler’s version of events differs dramatically from Rivera’s. She explained to Walters that Rivera shoved her into a bathroom with a producer, forced poppers under her nose, and groped her:

Geraldo and his producer came to do an interview with me in the early 70s. This was when he was very, sort of, hot. He and his producer left the crew in the other room and they pushed me into my bathroom. They broke two poppers and pushed them under my nose and proceeded to grope me. I did not offer myself up on the altar of Geraldo Rivera. He was unseemly.

Eleanor Sheehan 
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More Pussy from The Dick in Chief 

When the infamous (and very real) Access Hollywood tape Donald Trump gloating about grabbing women by the pussy leaked, it was obvious that his comments were standard Trump Talk. He would later describe them as “locker room” banter. The Daily Beast provided yet another instance of Trump’s habitual misogyny on Wednesday—in the form of an on-the-record comment he made gloating about “first-rate pussy.” 

A journalist for the now-defunct Maximum Golf magazine, Michael Corcoran, was writing a story about Trump in 2000 which involved flying on his private jet with Jeffrey Epstein, a notorious billionaire pedophile. Corcoran joined Trump and Epstein for dinner at Mar-a-Lago that weekend, during which Trump unabashedly remarked “there is nothing in the world like first-rate pussy” while observing a “young socialite.” 

Corcoran included the quote in his story, but the magazine’s top editors polished Trump’s comments to seem slightly more innocuous—despite Corcoran’s protestations:

Corcoran used the quote as the kicker in his piece, but says it was changed by the editor-in-chief, who replaced the obscenity with the word “talent.”

Joe Bargmann, Corcoran’s editor at Maximum Golf, confirmed Corcoran’s account. 

“I was asked to change the last word of the story from ‘pussy.’ When I refused, my top editor changed the quote,” Bargmann told The Daily Beast.

The story ran in August 2000 and featured a sultry spread of Melania, who was still Trump’s girlfriend at the time, naked in a bathtub filled with golf balls.

Given what we know about Trump’s long history of sexual abuse and harassment, his remarks aren’t entirely shocking. Gross and vulgar, but not shocking. But his previously unreported comments in Maximum Golf come as nearly every facet of American culture reels from a sexual harassment reckoning—and at a time when Trump criticizes his rivals for their sexual misconduct while maintaining his innocence.

Privately, too, Trump has claimed that the Access Hollywood tape wasn’t real. According to The New York Times, Trump told a Senator that the voice on the tape wasn’t his despite previously admitting it was.
Eleanor Sheehan