Hostile reaction to that "narcissistic, self-involved slut" of a man, Geraldo Rivera, is misguided.
Reuters' Anthony De Rosa, for example, harshly tweeted that Geraldo is a "Moron," while CNN's Roland Martin similarly commenced a Twitter assault whose offensive operations were designed around the general proposition that Geraldo is "dumb."
Next will come a social media campaign that demands Geraldo's firing by Fox News, merely because the former is indeed moronic and dumb enough to assert that utterly innocent victims of violent crime can be, and one assumes often are, equally culpable in causing their own deaths. To wit: "I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was" -- which is like saying that Abraham Lincoln, by advertising himself in the president's theatre box, was as responsible for his assassination as John Wilkes Booth was.
Moronic? Sure. Dumb? You betcha. Yet our hostility toward Mr. Rivera should be more tempered and measured, since Geraldo's level of public prominence in civic deliberations is a directly proportionate and rather handy measurement of America's embrace of really dumb cable news networks.
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