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By Justin McCarthy
According to Geraldo Rivera, Rush http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=737 “was such a nice guy” as governor of Massachusetts, but “suddenly became an anti-immigrant radical.”
Geraldo also said he refuses to even shake CNN correspondent http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3330’ hand. The relevant transcript is below.
WALTERS: But when we have someone like John McCain, and, and others who say “look, let’s let the illegals work their way back, be identified, pay a fine,” you know, have to have certain steps, it’s called “amnesty.”
GERALDO RIVERA: I don’t think that that’s amnesty at all. And thank God John http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3355 wing of the GOP. The other candidates, Mike Huckabee, a wonderful guy otherwise, he put the co-chairman of the Minutemen on his advisory committee.HASSELBECK: And Mitt Romney.
RIVERA: And Mitt Romney, I mean, who was such a nice guy when he was mayor- governor of Massachusetts, suddenly became this anti-immigration radical. And the reason conservatives don’t have Mitt Romney to vote for is that the hispanics in Florida listen to his hateful rhetoric, and they said “forget about it. We don’t care that you come down here and drink café com leche and say ‘Cuba si,’ and ‘yankee no’ and all these other formulaic things. If you are slandering people that look like me and sound like me, we’re not going to vote for you.” They voted for John McCain five to one. That’s why he’s out.
BEHAR: Wasn’t that to appeal to the base? And why would the base go along with something like that?
RIVERA: Well, you know, where, it stems from kind of a nativist reaction that started really at the grassroots and it’s driven by the most savage talk radio campaign ever in history.
BEHAR: Name names.
RIVERA: Well, I think that [ul=http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=619 is the dean of the academy. Lou Dobbs on CNN has been shameful in his hate mongering.
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