Showing posts with label Fox News Latino. Show all posts
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Oct 6, 2015

Geraldo Rivera Calls Out Donald Trump on Canceling Hispanic Chamber Appearance: You had a deal.......

Geraldo Rivera to Trump on canceling Hispanic Chamber appearance: You had a deal

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You made a deal. On my WABC radio show and elsewhere you reaffirmed your commitment to appear this week in Washington for a question and answer session with Javier Palomarez, president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, who also appeared on the same radio show.
I applauded your agreement to appear at the chamber’s conference for several obvious reasons. It is Hispanic Heritage Month; your inflammatory view of Mexican immigrants; and your proposal to build the Great Wall of Trump along the southern border have obviously caused consternation in many Latino families.
I wanted and still hold a shred of hope that you will modify your harsh statements on the undocumented. You are not like Iowa Rep. Steve King who suggested all Latinos have big calves from carrying dope across the border. You are not Ann Coulter, a polemicist whose “Adios America” screed apparently infuses your thinking.
- Geraldo Rivera
Because of the respect and affection I have for you and your family, I also wanted you to have the opportunity to explain your stated desire to deport the 11 or more million undocumented immigrants now hiding in plain sight in the United States. Particularly, I was keen on hearing your defense of your proposal to deport the minor children of those immigrants, even if they are American citizens born in the USA. Part of that would necessarily have been an explanation of your stance that the 14th Amendment does not grant “birth right citizenship” to those born on American soil, even if their parents have been here for decades.
Obviously, as you pointed out when you announced you were canceling the Hispanic Chamber event, your appearance would have been huge (“yuuuge!”) bringing an attendance and ratings bonanza to the relatively low-profile but nevertheless legitimate and mainstream organization. But more than ratings, the substance of your scary proposals would have been aired in a context where the community most directly affected heard from you directly.
As the leading candidate for the Republican nomination, the fact that, if elected, you intend to disrupt the lives of so many millions of undocumented immigrants and their families needs to be explained to those people. The majority of them are law-abiding, hardworking, faith-based and long-standing residents, however undocumented.
Largely through your candidacy, “Immigration/illegal aliens” according to Gallup has become a “yuuge” issue for the nation. Back in June, just 6 percent of Americans said “immigration/illegal aliens” was “the most important problem facing this country today.” That number doubled to 12 percent in September, largely because you have made the issue front and center to your candidacy.
Many of the pundits you despise suggest that your candidacy is based on the fact that you are an “outsider.” I find that your most endearing quality, that, and the fact you are self-funding and promising to disrupt the cancerous grip lobbyists have on government. But given the Gallup survey showing that illegal immigration is the most important issue for so many, isn’t that what is fueling your popularity?
I wanted and still hold a shred of hope that you will modify your harsh statements on the undocumented. You are not like Iowa Rep. Steve King who suggested all Latinos have big calves from carrying dope across the border. You are not Ann Coulter, a polemicist whose “Adios America” screed apparently infuses your thinking.
You are our premier builder and the employer of thousands of Latinos. I’ve seen them myself in your various properties. I wanted you to say out loud at the Chamber that you will not go door-to-door to disrupt the lives of families that have made their communities better and stronger. I wanted you to say that you didn’t intend to slander a race of people when you made your initial remarks about rapists and drug dealers.
That is why I wanted to take you into the kitchen of a Mexican or Puerto Rican restaurant, so you could tell folks to their faces that you are an open-minded, deep thinking, color-blind creator of jobs and opportunity who was perhaps a bit exuberant in your initial remarks announcing your candidacy for the presidency.
But I fear that you have made a shrewd results-based calculation that Latinos are a vote that you do not need to win the Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire or South Carolina primaries.
You may be right.
On the other hand, you may be providing a “yuuuge” incentive for Latinos to register and vote against you and the GOP in November 2016. You made and broke a deal with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. There is no Art in that Deal. 
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Geraldo Rivera is currently a Fox News Senior Correspondent.Click here for more information on Geraldo Rivera.


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Sep 4, 2015

Geraldo Rivera Takes On Donald Trump.......

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Chloe Louise 

Geraldo....Donald Trump is always ridiculing the folks that have come to the US from Mexico and horribly talking about sending them back....I wonder if he would take the same tone with the folks in Europe fleeing Syria....would he like to send them back, as well....saying it has to be done to take back our country. 

You see this is where Donald Trumps rhetoric is going to get him in trouble and why politicians talk the way they do. 

They have so many different political situations in the world--changing daily--the words of the politicians and world leaders really matter........Donald just might want to take these things into consideration. 

It would be interesting to see if he actually had a thoughtful answer to this political and strategic dilemma. He is constantly saying the US should stand up to the Middle East but let's see how he would realistically solve this important problem on the world stage without offending any groups of individuals or countries whose help we may need in the future. 

This is a much more complex situation--just shouting insults will not fix it.


It has to be said.........


Congratulations are in order to Geraldo Rivera for calling out his friend Donald Trump on false accusations regarding the folks from Mexico coming over to the the United States for work.

On a daily basis Geraldo Rivera deserves credit for his compassion and world view towards working class families from areas with less opportunities than the US.

As usual, along with the other great radio interviewers, Geraldo is not afraid to talk about a situation and go back and forth with the facts with his guest.  He is to be admired for acknowledging his friendship with the donald and his popularity but not being fearful of trumps potential for verbal punishment in a disagreement.

Good job, Geraldo, your intelligence as an interviewer and investigative reporter always shines through--Fox is lucky to have you.......perhaps you can school your cohort. Eric Bolling on world issues and what it means for the lives and welfare of workers everywhere to have a global vision. 

Geraldo Rivera along with the very gifted Noam Laden can be heard on WABC news/talk radio every week day morning from 10-12 AM.



Here is a link to fox News Latino to see the complete story......

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2015/09/03/geraldo-to-trump-youre-wrong-boss-immigrant-murder-wave-is-
factually-false/



Also, here is a link to Geraldo Rivera's facebook page for this story and other stories on the issue:

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Geraldo to Trump: You’re wrong, boss, immigrant murder wave is factually false

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In a wide-ranging interview with America’s most incendiary public figure, Donald Trump, the leading contender for the Republican nomination for the presidency of the United States and I had the following exchange Wednesday Sept. 2 on my WABC Radio show. One of the many issues my longtime friend and former “Celebrity Apprentice” boss and I covered was the candidate’s contention that there is an illegal immigrant – mostly Mexican – violent crime wave.
Trump: A lot of the gangs in Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis and Ferguson are illegal immigrants.
Geraldo: I think you’re wrong about that, boss. The crime wave we’re seeing is not a function of immigrants. It’s black on black.
Trump: In L.A. and Chicago you have tremendous [amounts of] illegal immigrants in gangs and they’re rough dudes.
Let me analyze Trump’s answer to this and other questions I asked.
Tapping into the primal fear many white Americans have about the “browning” of the nation, [Trump] has been catapulted to the front of the GOP pack. My dilemma is that after knowing Trump for so long, I believe he has been trapped by his own inflammatory rhetoric and his rabble rousing success into a position far harsher than necessary.
- Geraldo Rivera
Remorseless and violent, there is little doubt that long-established Latino gangs, many of whose “rough dudes” are indeed undocumented immigrants, have been a persistent problem for law enforcement in cities like Los Angeles and Chicago. Still, by a disproportionate percentage, the vast majority of big city murders in 2015 are homegrown, young black men killing other young black men from Compton to South Chicago to West Baltimore.  
A black-owned business in Memphis sponsored my favorite billboard of the year. It says, "Black lives do matter, so let’s quit killing each other."
Memphis is our third most dangerous city proportionate to population. Heavily African-American, it shares that distinction with the others in America's top ten most deadly. They are, in order,
1-Detroit
2-Oakland
3-Memphis
4-St Louis
5-Cleveland
6-Baltimore
7-Milwaukee
8-Birmingham
9-Newark
10-Kansas City
The number of murders in 2015 jumped by 33 percent or more in Baltimore, New Orleans and St. Louis. These are all cities with few Latino immigrants, documented or otherwise.
Talk of an illegal alien murder wave is factually false.
It is always easier to blame the outsiders for what ails us. We are the problem. This is the inconvenient truth.
But back to Trump.
I have known and admired him for decades. He is a superb builder who has made decent neighborhoods out of urban blight, reinvigorated the sport of golf, and created clothing lines and television programs from scratch, earning multiple billions in the process. He is a great American and now he is running hard and well for the Republican nomination.
But he is scapegoating Latino immigrants.
His off-handed and deeply disparaging remarks made during his announcement speech about undocumented Mexican immigrants have made Trump the poster boy for the xenophobic, nativist, Ann Coulter wing of the Republican Party. His attacks on Jeb Bush for answering a question posed by a Latino reporter in Spanish were absurd. Still, there is no doubt that Trump’s message is resonating with many Republican primary voters.
Tapping into the primal fear many white Americans have about the “browning” of the nation, the billionaire businessman and reality television host has been catapulted to the front of the GOP pack. My dilemma is that after knowing Trump for so long, I believe he has been trapped by his own inflammatory rhetoric and his rabble rousing success into a position far harsher than necessary to make the points about the need for border security and a legal reckoning for the 11 plus million undocumented immigrants currently estimated to be living in the United States.    
Geraldo: Do you believe that you could have made the same points without demonizing a whole race of people?
Trump: No, I don’t think so Geraldo, I really don’t. I think they are tough points; I think we have to make them tough. I think it has to be done properly, you need borders, I’m a believer in the wall; walls do work by the way. But I’m a believer in the wall and I have seen where people are pouring across the borders and big league, and I mean big league. What’s really coming across and going right back are drugs.
After I pointed out that a trillion-dollar wall could be defeated by a hundred-dollar ladder, our conversation turned to Mr. Trump’s outreach to the Hispanic business community.
Geraldo: You had a meeting yesterday with Javier Palomarez the CEO of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.  Did you meet with him first of all, because you wanted in some ways to communicate directly to the community to tell them how you feel about these issues and why [your feelings] may be more reasonable then how they are being portrayed?
Trump: Sure, he is the head of a large group … Hispanic businesses and that’s right up my line … And, by the way, the Hispanics are great entrepreneurs, the Mexicans are great entrepreneurs. Part of it is they work hard, have great energy and are great people. But I had my people reach out to him, he was happy about it. We had about an hour meeting and it was terrific. I think he was a terrific guy. We don’t agree on everything certainly but I think I agreed to do some kind of luncheon or whatever down in Washington, so I will get to inspect the Old Post Office (Trump’s new DC hotel project) as it goes up under budget and ahead of schedule. Unlike government, I am under budget and way ahead of schedule. Do you like that?
Geraldo: I do, but I want you to stay on point.
Trump: OK, but I get to check that while I go down. I like to do many things at one time, because he is having the meeting down in Washington. So, I will be going down at some point in October or whatever. I will go to Washington. That won’t be that easy a meeting because you’ll have hundreds of people and they will have constituents of his and they may disagree with me but ultimately we will all get along.
Finally, the candidate and I turned back to his deeply disturbing promise to eject all undocumented immigrants in the country.
Geraldo: But you’re talking about millions of otherwise law-abiding men, women and children, some kids born U.S. citizens. They are frightened to their core about things you’ve said about throwing them out. That’s a legacy you can’t have.
Trump: All I’m telling you is lighten up, it’s all going to work out. I’m telling you, I’m a great manager. And you know I’m reasonable, otherwise you couldn’t have come in second place on (Celebrity) Apprentice.
Geraldo: You’re very reasonable, that’s why I’m so shocked by some of this extreme language, it seems so unnecessary.
Trump: You’re going to find I have a big heart and I’m going to do it right. It’s not OK right now. Tremendous crime and those we’re getting out immediately, and you’re not fighting me on that.
Geraldo: I want the criminals out or in jail regardless of their race … but why doesn’t Trump, the charming, charismatic, original, successful [man I know], take the substance of what you want to accomplish for America and tone down the rhetoric, be the man that I know with an open heart, a practical idealist, who wants to accomplish what you did for yourself for the country. I think you can still say this is a problem, we need secure borders, let’s get the crooks and criminals out.
Trump: Geraldo, if I win, I’m doing pretty well.
Geraldo: You’re doing fabulous. I’m proud of you, everyone that loves you is proud of you.
Trump: A poll came out yesterday that I’m at 40 percent.
Geraldo:  But why not ease off a little bit?
Trump: I have no objection to that at all. You know I have a big heart.
Geraldo: That’s why I want to take you to a Puerto Rican restaurant.
Trump: I would love that.
Geraldo Rivera is currently a Fox News Senior Correspondent.Click here for more information on Geraldo Rivera.










Jan 13, 2014

Geraldo Rivera: The Trouble Between Chris And George


Geraldo Rivera: The Trouble Between Chris And George

Living on the Hudson River in the shadow of the graceful George Washington Bridge a half mile from where I’m writing this note, the scandal threatening to cripple and consume the political career of Republican Governor Chris Christie literally hits close to home. Like gun rights in Texas and Alaska or real estate prices in California and Florida, traffic on the George is part of countless Northern New Jersey dinner conversations.
Does Governor Christie seem the kind of man usually kept in the dark on matters of this potentially career-wrecking importance?
- Geraldo Rivera
It is also part of the dialogue of national commerce.
This is where I-80 begins its 3,000-mile run west to California. I-95, the all-important East Coast artery connecting Maine to Florida crosses the river here. Truckers carrying the products and produce of the nation have a special fear and loathing of the 82-year old span. Time is money. And time is often squandered trying to get through this strategic bottleneck on the route between New Jersey and Manhattan’s Washington Heights.
The big bridge, the world’s busiest, dominates life in and around my Bergen County community of Edgewater, and adjacent Fort Lee, whose Democratic mayor Mark Sokolich was allegedly the target of the intentional lane closures at the center of this Made for New Jersey outrage.
The moods and schedules of over 300,000 drivers a day, 100 million a year (in each direction) rise and fall based on life’s great questions: Is there traffic? How bad is the waiting time? Will there be construction delays? Isn’t that $13 toll outrageous? Should I take my bicycle? Has there been yet another jumper? Will I get my kid to school on time? Will this sick person in the ambulance really get to the hospital on the other side before it is too late?
It was too late for 91-year old Florence Genova, who after suffering a stroke died in an ambulance after paramedics were delayed due to the chaos of heavy traffic artificially created when a senior aide to Governor Christie apparently ordered local bridge access lanes closed as retaliation for Fort Lee’s mayor not endorsing the governor’s 2012 re-election bid.
Motivated by sincere outrage or just grabbing the opportunity to bite the swaggering, scary bear of a man who serves as our governor, Thursday night a group of New Jersey residents announced that they were filing a federal class-action lawsuit against Governor Christie. It is the least of his troubles.
There are currently at least three major investigations into what is unimaginatively labeled Bridgegate; one by the Office of the Inspector General of the Port Authority, another by the Democrat-dominated New Jersey State Legislature, and the most ominous for the governor, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, the job Chris Christie held until being elected. They are probing whether federal criminal laws were broken, either by the vindictive lane closures or by false statements made attempting to cover up what was done.
Having voted for Christie twice, I admire his confidence and competence. Unlike the national GOP, he has always been a pragmatist rather than an ideologue. When he embraced President Obama in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, I saw it as the governor doing his best to get all the help the federal government could possibly offer his stricken residents.
When he recently announced a New Jersey version of the DREAM Act wherein undocumented immigrant children could qualify for in-state tuition at state colleges and universities, I applauded. That is how George W. Bush won so sizable a percentage of the Hispanic vote, and that is the only way a Republican can win back the White House.
But with this pointless, bratty, ham-handed, dirty, lane closure trick that punished hundreds of thousands of innocent travelers, commuters and truckers, Republican and Democrats alike, the once bold and even fearsome politician is reeling. Maybe the governor is telling the truth when he insists that his longest-serving advisors and closest friends kept him in the dark on the September lane closures until Tuesday of this week.
To which I have three questions:
1.- Does Governor Christie seem the kind of man usually kept in the dark on matters of this potentially career-wrecking importance?
2.- Would your closest friends and long-serving advisors do something that could ruin your political life without asking or at least admitting it to you long before your enemies shoot you with your own smoking gun?
3.- How would you feel about President Obama or Secretary Clinton if e-mails surfaced connecting either’s closest aides and associates to, say, a Benghazi cover-up or the IRS scandal?  
In terms of his presidential aspirations, yesterday, the fat man sang.
Geraldo Rivera is currently host of "Geraldo at Large" on Fox News Channel (FNC), which is also nationally syndicated by Twentieth Television. Rivera recently celebrated 40 years in journalism.
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