Heartbreaking development from the Fox News headquarters: Geraldo Rivera and Dan Bongino are no longer BFFs.
Here’s what happened:
Fox News contributors Bongino and Rivera appeared together in a segment on Wednesday’s edition of the Sean Hannity program to discuss violence and looting in Minnesota in response to the shooting of Daunte Wright.
Rivera became increasingly argumentative during the segment, going full Kermit arms at one point, which prompted Bongino to suggest his mustachioed co-worker “take a Valium” and “stop pretending to be a cop.”
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Bongino served in the New York City Police Department from 1995 to 1999 and ran for Congress in 2012, 2014, and 2016. In other words, he knows what he’s talking about.
Rivera opened Al Capone’s vault in 1986.
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“There’s a big difference between reporting on a baseball game and playing it, Geraldo. You never wore a badge, period,” Bongino said after Rivera talked about Black Americans being three times as likely as whites to be killed in an encounter with the police.
“Not interested in your reporting on it, because reporters deal with facts, and you brought the race card into it the other night when we had this debate, despite having no facts to back that up, and when I brought up the facts that there is no systemic racism,” Bongino continued before Rivera cut him off.
“I know more than you. What do you know?” Rivera yelled. “What’d you have, a 10-minute career as a cop? You’ve been running for office for the past 20 years!”
“If there was a plague of police officers hunting Black men down at night, then I don’t understand — how is that happening?” Bongino replied as Rivera grew increasingly animated. “Where is this massive body count?”
As Hannity began to cut to commercial, Bongino told Rivera “you just want to see the country burn.”
“I want to see the country burn?” Rivera yelled. “You son of a bitch! I want to see the country burn? You punk! You’re nothing but a punk. You’re a punk, Bongino. You’re a punk.”
“You wouldn’t tell me that to my face,” Bongino replied.
“Oh yeah?” Rivera yelled. “Let’s see.”
It was quite delightful television, frankly. Check it out:
https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1382508232409812996?s=20
Mock and Rob provided more insightful analysis (code for “mercilessly made fun of Geraldo”) in today’s edition of Speed round. Check it out!
https://omny.fm/shows/mock-rob/speed-round-04-15-21-playboy-is-letting-overweight
