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2003-03-31 Iraq

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-03-31 10:21 am|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Straaange. I just saw him on TV not 5 minutes ago (11:40 EST); He actually commented on this rumor at the tail end of his broadcast, and the 5 to 7 "Screaming Eagles" in the background were grinning from ear to ear.

Posted by Ptah 2003-03-31 10:51:31|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-03-31 10:51:31|| Front Page Top

#2 I hope it is a rumor. I've actually come to enjoy Geraldo.

Posted by Fred 2003-03-31 10:56:48|| 2003-03-31 10:56:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Gak. What did he say (thereabouts, I don't want the same info repeated here!)?

Posted by Steve White 2003-03-31 10:58:16|| 2003-03-31 10:58:16|| Front Page Top

#4 he's not kicked out according to his latest, and blamed it on that pathetic NBC (alluding to Arnett?) spreading rumors

Posted by Frank G 2003-03-31 11:00:08|| 2003-03-31 11:00:08|| Front Page Top

#5 NOT TRUE, they say at the Command Post.

Posted by Potiers 2003-03-31 11:00:22|| 2003-03-31 11:00:22|| Front Page Top

#6 he drew a sand map on the ground - looked more like kids diagramming a street football game than disclosing confidential position info

Posted by Frank G 2003-03-31 11:01:18|| 2003-03-31 11:01:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Usually, I can't stand the guy. But I think he's done a good job over there. The 101st seems to have no problem with him. The little thing in the sand he did was a helluva lot less then what all these retired generals (jesus, how many of them ARE there?) do on the telestrator in studio about every five minutes.

Posted by tu3031 2003-03-31 11:10:22|| 2003-03-31 11:10:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Say it ain't so ..... Gerald's support for the troops is both patriotic and energizing. This is a ploy by NBC - spinning the truth, learned it from the Clintonite's - so that they deflect the onslaught of emails for their initial support of Arnett

Posted by Tony 2003-03-31 11:56:38|| 2003-03-31 11:56:38|| Front Page Top

#9 The other embedded journalists are not as well known as Geraldo. The 101st considers itself a first-class fighting machine, and considers the assignment of someone this well-known to cover them as a badge of honor. What's great about Geraldo, is that it comes across that the feeling is mutual: History is made where-ever the 101st is sent.

If you play those paper-based war games, he's the "counter" that adds +10 morale to every army unit in the same square he's in.

Posted by Ptah 2003-03-31 12:17:03|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-03-31 12:17:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Hey don't mock Geraldo's sand maps. Those maps were the best graphic presentation I've seen on Fox yet.

I'm so tired of the map with just one city on it (usually not the one being discussed) and the huge toy planes and tanks they drop on it.

Posted by Chris Smith 2003-03-31 12:22:21|| 2003-03-31 12:22:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Two points:

First, Geraldo is the "rock star" persona of the embedded journalists. It is no coincidence that he with the 101st. It appears that he has bonded with the screaming eagles, and that they have bonded with him.

Second, I used to detest the guys politics. He was one of the most ardent apologists for Clinton and the left on TV. It has been amazing to see his transformation, however, now that he is spending time with real people, real soldiers in the field. He has become an ardent supporter of the war.

Posted by Jonesy 2003-03-31 13:58:36|| 2003-03-31 13:58:36|| Front Page Top

#12 I watched Geraldo's broadcast and couldn't figure out what the fuss was. His little sand drawing went, "OK, the Brits are over here in the east moving up this way, the 3rd ID is giong up this way, the 101 is around here, ya da, ya da." No big deal, all the networks are reporting the same, in more detail. Then it hit me. One of the commentators asked him about supplies. He responded; "We're pretty good here, supplies are coming up OK. The Army has completed a new road out to the west that they are using to bring up supplies! "
Holy Shit! That's something that no one had mentioned before or since. A new road, punched through the desert out west of all forces we know about. I wouldn't have caught it myself till I heard a caller on a radio show mention it. That's what has the brass in a uproar. I would not be suprised if Geraldo stayed there and was told to shut up about the road. Pulling him might raise attention to what he said..

Posted by Steve 2003-03-31 15:16:30|| 2003-03-31 15:16:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Veteran reporter Geraldo Rivera, a correspondent for Fox News, is being removed from Iraq by the U.S. military for reporting Western troop movements in the war, the Pentagon said on March 31, 2003. "He was with a military unit in the field and the commander felt that he had compromised operational information by reporting the position and movements of troops," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told Reuters.

So what's the deal? Yes? No? Maybe?

Posted by tu3031 2003-03-31 15:56:59|| 2003-03-31 15:56:59|| Front Page Top

#14 I don't trust Geraldo, so it doesn't surprise me that he tried to pull a fast one with his little sand map. If I were the Commander, I'd have my men leak all kinds of B.S. to that ego-maniac, knowing he'd just have to be FIRST! to report it. Then I'd sit back and have a good laugh at his expense.

Posted by becky 2003-03-31 17:03:13|| 2003-03-31 17:03:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Crap there goes the plans for......

Geraldo reveals the seceret vault of Sammy.

Posted by Brew 2003-04-01 00:34:31|| 2003-04-01 00:34:31|| Front Page Top

#16 Then it hit me. One of the commentators asked him about supplies. He responded; "We're pretty good here, supplies are coming up OK. The Army has completed a new road out to the west that they are using to bring up supplies!"

The "Map" is chicken feed. The comment about the road should have had him canned immediately!

I used Google to look up the latest on the incident. As of 2 hours ago, Google news said Geraldo's still with the 101st, but the pentagon link states he wasn't an official "embedded" reporter. Thus, he wasn't given the normal training (i.e. beating over the head) about what constitutes operational security.

However, I believe that, in private, he's biting this tounge severely: I can tell he really loves the troops, so the thought of putting them or their supplies in danger must tear at him.

IF they leave him on, he must have given the commander a convincing show of contrition, and is probably going through "embedded" training right at this moment.

I think that the commander, IF he leaves Geraldo on, probably has decided that the reporting and the morale boost Geraldo provides outweighs the

Posted by Ptah 2003-04-01 08:03:30|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-04-01 08:03:30|| Front Page Top

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