Geraldo Rivera: Wearing a Hooded Sweatshirt Is Like Asking Someone to Murder You

Mike Riggs | 3.23.2012 12:27 PM

Next week: Wearing a skirt is like asking to get raped.

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DanD 13 years ago

This would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that someone died. Ugh.
fish 13 years ago

Skirt+Hoodie=Rape+Murder?

Math is hard.
1. Suki 13 years ago
  
  What about wearing a hoodie as a dress?
  1. Suki 13 years ago
    
    Damn Warty.
  2. fish 13 years ago
    
    What about wearing a hoodie as a dress?
    
    Murderous rape!
    1. BWL 13 years ago
      
      LMAO! you hit some gold there!
  3. Hazel Meade 13 years ago
    
    Next year's Versace.
    Just wait.
GILMORE 13 years ago

People like Geraldo Rivera remind me why minding one's own business is a virtue.
1. anon 13 years ago
  
  Every time I see that guy, I remember what the definition of the word douchebag is.
  1. fish 13 years ago
    
    Just him! So many trigger that response!
  2. Zeb 13 years ago
    
    Does anyone ever use the word "douchebag" to refer to an actual bag used for a douche?
    1. Loki 13 years ago
      
      Only if you're refering to a bodybag with a dead douche inside.
    2. Dr. Rection 13 years ago
      
      Nurse, hand me the douchebag.
    3. SOFL Hockey Fan 13 years ago
      
      I present to you......Lord and Lady Douchebag!"
o3 13 years ago

sagging pants, because belts are prohibited in prison, is one thing but hoodies are too ubiquitous.
Warty 13 years ago

Hoodie skirt
1. solly989 13 years ago
  
  +1
2. Suki 13 years ago
  
  That is a hoodie *dress*, they even spelled it out for you.
  1. fish 13 years ago
    
    Skirt? Dress? That outfit is practically demanding that a crime be committed!
    1. anon 13 years ago
      
      A rape and murder. Rapder, even.
      1. fish 13 years ago
        
        Analrapist was once Tobias's profession - a portmanteau of analyst and therapist.
        
        Needless to say, the business cards almost got him arrested.
    2. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      No, I'm pretty sure wearing that outfit is a crime and people are right and proper in destroying the wearer in self defense. Like seeing a forever lazy in public.
      1. Suki 13 years ago
        
        Only a crime for the fatties.
  2. Suki 13 years ago
    
    Jihadi version
3. Troy 13 years ago
  
  Thanks Wartster. That was coo.
4. Suki 13 years ago
  
  More topic appropriate
  1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    Kill it with fire!
    1. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      You can tell the model is reconsidering her decision that porn was more demeaning in the hood up picture.
5. free2booze 13 years ago
  
  Oh yeah, she's asking for it.
6. The Ghost of Mr. Blackwell 13 years ago
  
  Killer dresses!
solly989 13 years ago

I thnk he meant 'if you wear a hoodie then Geraldo will want to kill you'

But I think it's more fair to say, 'if you wear a hoodie, nobody should take you seriously because you are just a 16yr old punk-ass'
1. NCAA 13 years ago
  
  come again about hoodies
Tom Walls 13 years ago

In Soviet Russia, hooded track suit wear YOU!
1. Suki 13 years ago
  
  +1
mmmwright 13 years ago

Oh, I do wish Al Capone had a few more vaults that could be discovered. It would keep Gerry busy for a while.
1. robc 13 years ago
  
  And give the B Sharps material for a comeback album.
radar 13 years ago

Good lord. This story is going to be such a monumental clusterfuck, with screaming assholes on both sides.
1. Screaming Asshole 13 years ago
  
  Yer damn right I'm gonna make a stink about this!
2. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  And politicians looking to make political hay. Obama has already jumped in with both feet.
AlmightyJB 13 years ago

Get off my lawn!
Republicrat 13 years ago

These hoodies must be regulated. For teh childrunz!!!1!11!
Warty 13 years ago

I can only hope that my death results in such a screaming national clusterfuck. It's like having millions of slaves build you a pyramid, except it's made out of retardation instead of stone.
1. Almanian 13 years ago
  
  except it's made out of retardation instead of stone
  
  That is weapons-grade exquisite. I lol'ed.
2. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  Just like they used to carve memoriums out of stones rather than decals on a car that you'll get rid of in 3-5 years. Dear grandpa, we'll always remember you until it comes time to trade in the car.
  1. Warty 13 years ago
    
    My favorite memorial consists of some teddy bears, plastic flowers, and handwritten "We'll miss you!" signs, secured to a telephone pole with Saran Wrap.
    1. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      I wonder how many people have crashed their cars and died because they were looking at a roadside memorial to some dumbass kid?
      1. sailshonan 13 years ago
        
        Some places have tried to outlaw the roadside memorials because they say they are causing car crashes by people looking at them
    2. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      I think mine is the alternate Nazi universe in The Atrocity Archive where they carved a certain toothbrush mustachioed face into the moon. I want my face to rise above the Earth every night to glare balefully on the billions below.
      1. R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        That was totally "borrowed" from one of Jack Vance's Demon Princes novels.
        
        Which, if you haven't read them, you should pretty much do right now.
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        I'll have to check him out. For some reason I think I read one or two of his books and found the pacing to be abysmal, like worse than Jack McDevitt.
        
        T 13 years ago
        
        Sci Fi Book Club had a one volume set of them available a while ago. Dunno if they still do.
        
        But yeah, Vance is highly reccommended. Some is better than others, but almost all of it is worthwhile.
      2. SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        Brett, it might be more apt to think that the real memorial of that alt-Eerth was the fact they brought about the heat death of that entire universe billions of years prematurely.
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        I was gonna mention that I'd like it done without the infovore frost giant devouring the universe.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        You know that the 4th one is coming out in July, right? Pre-order now!
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        I did it last week. I'll start the full series re-read in early June.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        The British are just kicking our ass in the science fiction department. Living in 1984 is probably a great inspiration for them.
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        Its like somewhere around 9/11 American writers threw a party where someone got up and said, "I've got one word for you, just one word: fantasy!"
        
        Not that I dont love GRRM and Jim Butcher and Pat Rothfuss. But yeah, we've got nothing except Scalzi, who is funny and interesting but not particularly hard sci-fi.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        I think it has to do with the fact that less and less men read. They are consuming science fiction in video games and movies rather than books, so more women-friendly-fare is being published. Harry Potter and the movement of science fiction into the young-adult-only market doesn't help.
        
        [hides behind low wall to avoid the rotten vegetables that will be thrown]
        
        And add in the fact that the current crop of British science fiction writers had Iain Banks during the 1990s to inspire them. We had nothing comparable to match his brilliance and output.
Zeb 13 years ago

What a dick. The Whitney Houston comment adds a nice touch.
Colonel_Angus 13 years ago

THIS IS WHY LIBERTARIANS CAN'T HAVE HANDLEBARS.
Almanian 13 years ago

Holy mother FUCK.

I literally wear a hoodie every day as soon as I get home from work (till summer) cause I keep the Man Cave cool to save on heating costs. And now Ima get shot for it? THAT'S WHAT I GET FOR COPYING BLACK CULTURE!!111!

Oh, wait, I was copying farmer culture (see my Carhart? hoodie).

Again I say, "Holy mother FUCK." What a cuntstain idiot moron fuckbag douche. Prick.
1. Geraldo Rivera 13 years ago
  
  You aren't white anyways, so you're obviously a criminal, which warrants me shooting you sand nigger.
  1. Almanian 13 years ago
    
    *meekly*
    
    But I AM whyte! Wonder Bread White?!! British-Isles-freckles-and-reddish-hair-pasty-skin-burn-easily white!
    1. Geraldo Rivera 13 years ago
      
      Only criminals wear hoodies, and whites can't be criminals, therefore you are not white. Which means you must be black.
      1. Almanian 13 years ago
        
        FUCK MISTUH CHAHLIE FOR KEEPIN' A BROTHA DOWN! FIGHT THE POWER!
    2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      British-Isles-freckles-and-reddish-hair-pasty-skin-burn-easily white!
      
      You filthy soulless ginger fuck.
      
      (I keed! I keed!)
2. Mo 13 years ago
  
  That's what you get for copying start-up culture. Mark Zuckerberg is asking to be shot!
3. Pain 13 years ago
  
  I wear a hoodie because I live in Seattle and it rains a lot.
  
  Geraldo please stay out of Seattle. Not because of the hoodie tweet. It's just that your d-bag and we're full up here.
  1. GILMORE 13 years ago
    
    SHOOT IT!!
  2. Warty 13 years ago
    
    Don't walk around whittling, dude.
Karburetor Kristen 13 years ago

Yipes! I guess I can expect one of my dog training clients to shoot me dead next time I teach class in cool weather!
1. Almanian 13 years ago
  
  Count on it.
2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Kristen you never told us how the road trip went. What's the verdict?
  1. Karburetor Kristen 13 years ago
    
    It was lots of fun (Claremont Lounge!!), except for the last day when he needed to conduct all his official business. We woke up, drove to the SC border to register his car (the GA address he uses is up in some podunk northern county), then back to fucking Atlanta to clean out shit from his old house and do an end-of-lease inspection with his former landlady, then drive 10 hours home.
    
    I was a wee bit cranky when we got home.
    
    But I scored his soft serve ice cream machine for myself!
* 13 years ago

15 minutes until Geraldo claims his twitter account was hacked.
1. Suki 13 years ago
  
  He said it on the air too.
  1. Ken Shultz 13 years ago
    
    It was a pun.
2. anon 13 years ago
  
  I dunno, he's too dumb to come up with that deflection technique.
Ken Shultz 13 years ago

Geraldo, still desperate to get noticed after all these years.

Seriously, if we ignore people like this, they will go away.

And if we're gonna make a list of people to ignore, could we all start ignoring Nancy Grace already?

She's like Geraldo in a wig except worse--much worse.
1. Loki 13 years ago
  
  Seriously, if we ignore people like this, they will go away.
  
  Unfortunately probably not. Geraldo is pretty much the White Indian of political pundits. Ignoring it will just make it louder and more obnoxious.
  1. Ken Shultz 13 years ago
    
    He's nowhere near as present as he used to be. I'd almost forgotten about him before this. When you say the stupid shit Geraldo does in a forum like this, you're a troll; when you say it on national television, they give you your own show.
    
    I'm just tryin' to say that if we ignore him, the effect will be limited. The more we pay attention to him, the bigger his profile will become. Just like with a troll, the best strategy is to ignore him.
    1. DesigNate 13 years ago
      
      Damn it Ken. If White Indian reads that he's going to try and get on national television to spout off his insane primitivist crap and then get a show.
      
      The irony will still be lost on him.
      1. Loki 13 years ago
        
        I wouldn't be surprised if he already has a community access show that he broadcasts from his mom's basement at 3am. His rantings sometimes remind of that kind of person.
        
        White Idiot's World! White Idiot's World! White Idiot's World!
rather 13 years ago

The only way to increase the latino, and black survival rate, and decrease the incarceration stats is to be bitten by a radioactive chameleon
Joe M 13 years ago

Can we agree that Twitter is pretty awesome? It allows dumbfucks like Geraldo to embarrass themselves even more than usual.
Bill Belichick 13 years ago

Should I not wear the hoodie during the snowy night game next December?

Should you give the hoodie footie for a Valentine's Day gift?
1. Ken Shultz 13 years ago
  
  Since he apparently washes people's windshields when they stop at traffic lights for spare change? He has an excuse to be dressed like that.
  
  I mean, that's the only reasonable explanation I can think of for why he dresses like that. I don't know. Maybe his washing machine has been broken for like five years?
  
  I dunno. If I saw him comin', I'd just give him a quarter so he wouldn't hassle me.
2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Bill Belichick
  
  If only Geraldo was right in this one instance. The world would be freed from the stain on humanity that is ^^this^^ cheating fuck.
  1. Gregg Williams 13 years ago
    
    I'm gonna take the heat off ole Bill for a while.
    1. Ken Shultz 13 years ago
      
      All the guys on the other side of the ball have incentives in their contracts!
      
      There, I said it.
      
      What?
      
      What?!
      1. Gregg Williams 13 years ago
        
        I know, right! It's like bitching about catching someone filming when every team does it.
        
        Ken Shultz 13 years ago
        
        Actually, that really was a cry baby thing. Stealing your signals?! Oh, poor baby.
        
        The old school coaches used to turn off the heat and hot water to visiting team's locker rooms at stadiums like Lambeau.
        
        Chris Hanberger went to the Hall of Fame as the "The Hangman" BECAUSE he clotheslined everybody!
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2cpWWmvcTI
        
        They're turning it into a sissy sport. Stole your signals? I can't stand Belichick, but what a crybaby excuse for losing.
        
        robc 13 years ago
        
        Mike Golic had the best line about the Carson Palmer Rule: No hitting QBs below the hemline.
Steve S. 13 years ago

Quickly Mike, alert Old Navy before tragedy strikes again!
Robert S. 13 years ago

White boys from all white neighborhoods say what?
1. GILMORE 13 years ago
  
  What!
Enjoy Every Sandwich 13 years ago

If you look at what he's actually saying he's got a point.

He is NOT saying that people have a right to shoot you if you're wearing a hoodie. He's saying that an asshole may shoot you if you do. It ain't right but in some neighborhoods I can see it happening. One thing this country isn't going to have a shortage of anytime soon is assholes.

And yeah, in the wrong time and place wearing a skirt can get you raped too.
1. Loki 13 years ago
  
  How many assholes we got in this country anyhow?
  1. anon 13 years ago
    
    Too many. There aren't enough dicks to fuck them all.
  2. Loki 13 years ago
    
    So, is Spaceballs a really unpopular movie with the H&R commentariat, or did no one pick up on the reference and run with it because it was too obvious?
    1. DesigNate 13 years ago
      
      I am ashamed to say that I didn't recognize the line. I will sulk off to my corner now and make myself watch it ala Clockwork Orange.
    2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
      
      Replace "in this country" with "on this ship," and I would have gotten it immediately. The problem is, there are a lot of assholes in this country that aren't crosseyed gunners on starships, so it sounded like a legit question.
      1. Loki 13 years ago
        
        Noted. Next time I'll do this:
        
        How many assholes we got on this ship in this country anyhow?
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        I'm surrounded by assholes!
        
        Brett L 13 years ago
        
        "YO!"
2. triclops 13 years ago
  
  if he has a point, then every black kid should dress like a mormon missionary because then no one would ever attack them (except other blacks who don't think blacks should dress that way)
  1. Enjoy Every Sandwich 13 years ago
    
    All he is doing is restating a known fact about basic human nature: people judge you based on your appearance.
    
    So yeah, in some places they would indeed be safer in a business suit. Like I said, it ain't right. But unless you've got some magical formula to change human beings you have to be mindful of it.
3. Fez 13 years ago
  
  Amen! I mean, women wearing burkas in the Middle East never, ever, ever get raped! They sometimes get stoned because they were adulterous whores. That's just what happens when you're a woman in the wrong time and place. I don't see why people get so pissed off about it - it's just a fact of life that we can and should do nothing about...
Oblong 13 years ago

Well, I read the politico bit, and he's not WRONG. It's just one of those things that's stupid to say, at least right now.

Of course, I wore a hoodie to work today SPECIFICALLY because of this.
Morgan 13 years ago

I don't see where he said it meant Trayvon was guilty, just that it made him look suspicious. I don't think that's crazy if he means when the hood is up.

In the middle of the night, in a world where people have the right to self-preservation, how threatening do you want to look really? Should everyone ignore all outward appearance and social signals when it comes to defense?

Any death's a tragedy, but I think Geraldo's trying to say, in general, looking like a thug is going to make you more likely to be treated liek a thug. People will accept your intent to look that way. It's not the most insane thing of the day.

That distinction goes to Obama for "my hypothetical son looks like Trayvon." What is the implication there?
1. Loki 13 years ago
  
  Maybe Obama was Trayvon's real dad?
2. triclops 13 years ago
  
  wearing a hoodie is not looking like a thug, unless you are my grandma. when she sees a young man wearing a backward baseball cap, she asks me if that means he is in a gang.
  that is how stupid it sounds to me.
  1. Enjoy Every Sandwich 13 years ago
    
    I'm afraid a lot of folks are that ignorant of popular culture. A lot of members of my family think that Springsteen's "Born In The USA" is a patriotic song.
3. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  In the middle of the night, in a world where people have the right to self-preservation, how threatening do you want to look really? Should everyone ignore all outward appearance and social signals when it comes to defense?
  
  Did your mother drop you on your head when you were a baby? How someone looks has nothing to do with your defense until they initiate force against you, you stupid bastard. And yes, we all have a right to self-preservation. That does not give us the right to harass and stalk someone that dresses in a way that makes you piss your little panties. It gives us a right to defend ourselves when that person initiates force against us.
  
  FUCK!
4. T 13 years ago
  
  So I'm justified, by this logic, in popping a cap in all the tweener girls in my neighborhhod, because all of them wear hoodies when it's slightly cold out. And they even put the hoods on! ZOMG! GANGSTERS!
  
  I also live in a upper middle class gated community, just like the one Zimmerman felt a need to patrol. If I felt a need to accost every young person in a hoodie I would literally have no time to even eat at certain times of the year.
  
  Hoodie = thug is one of the stupidest things I have heard recently.
5. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  What is the implication there?
  
  That poll numbers are looking, really, really, really bad.
Meanwhile 13 years ago

Obama, Bernanke, Geithner, and Blankfein are sitting around table dividing up the pie and laughing their asses off.
sloopyinca 13 years ago

Get my gun! He's coming right for us!
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Nobody wants to get a visit from the Secret Service but me, I guess.
  
  But the joke's on them. I left the (m) off the end of my e-mail address. Haha, suckers!
  1. Secret Service Agent 13 years ago
    
    Noted
SugarFree 13 years ago

I thought he had his hood up because it was raining.

Look, I make as much fun of racialism as the next guy around here, but it wasn't the hoodie that got him shot, it was being black. A white kid in a hoodie or a light-skinned Hispanic in a hoodie on the same night with the same circumstance would be 99% likely to be alive right now. Those kids wouldn't have looked "out of place," Those kids wouldn't have looked "suspicious," and on those kids a bag of Skittles wouldn't have been mistaken for a gun.

Geraldo is a grade-a moron.
1. Robert S. 13 years ago
  
  Actually him attacking someone got him shot. Didn't deserve all the shit that happened to him before but he shouldn't have thrown a punch over it.
  1. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    And who's word do we have to say that's how it went down? And who's initiative led to that possible confrontation?
    
    The fact is, if Zimmerman wasn't out playing at being a cop, Martin wouldn't be dead. Can we put him in jail over it? Probably not. But his actions created the situation that led to Martin being killed, I don't give a shit how the kid was dressed.
    1. Robert S. 13 years ago
      
      Well we have a 911 caller who says that a man in white is on top. Trayvon was wearing a grey hoodie and George was wearing a red sweater. Who do you think was on top? Zimmerman is a douche but he's being railroaded.
      1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        So we have a caller that misidentified both people. What's your point?
        
        Robert S. 13 years ago
        
        My point was that grey is more likely to be mistaken for white then red is.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Really? What if it was a very dark grey? And it was raining, so even a light grey would end up dark from the moisture.
        
        IANAL, but it took me all of 5 seconds to destroy this eyewitnesses testimony.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        Give it up, sloopy. Robert got a good look at the only color that concerns him.
        
        Robert S. 13 years ago
        
        I think you alluding to the fact that eyewitness testimony can be problematic. You're right, it can be. Of course in this case it's better than your evidence, which is.... Trayvon must be the victim, he is black. That evidence is irrefutable to you because you're a right-thinking person.
      2. SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        We don't know that means anything. If Zimmerman attacked him or tried to restrain him, Martin could have been merely fighting back. There's no evidence that Martin did anything other then defend himself beyond what Zimmerman claims. Fuck that wannabe cop piece of shit. And the piece of shit real cops that didn't investigate the crime scene when there might have been a chance to find something out about what happened.
        
        Zimmerman's going to get away with it. He gets to murder a kid for being black in the wrong neighborhood. I hope he feels really good about himself. Finally one of "those guys" won't get away with it.
        
        Robert S. 13 years ago
        
        We don't know a lot of things about this case. That hasn't stopped the race baiters and right thinking sophisticated whites like yourself from assuming a shitload of black-paranoia stoking facts. Of course, you'll return to your all white neighborhood tonight, so you're not concerned.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        You got your measure of blood, Robert. Go ahead and give up right now if you think you can convince me to celebrate it. Or is it not enough yet, Robert? Maybe just one more dead kid will satiate you? Or like a baker's dozen maybe?
        
        Take your collectivist wet dreams elsewhere, shitbag.
        
        Robert S. 13 years ago
        
        Your willingness to make the "correct" assumptions about his case just makes you a better person than me.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        Yes. It does.
        
        the fez 13 years ago
        
        Arrogant clueless wankstain.
        
        DesigNate 13 years ago
        
        Wow, you are a racist piece of shit.
        
        Die in a fire.
        
        the fez 13 years ago
        
        Pavlovian piece of shit.
        
        TrickyVic 13 years ago
        
        ""That hasn't stopped the race baiters and right thinking sophisticated whites like yourself from assuming a shitload of black-paranoia stoking facts""
        
        Fair enough. So what was it that made Zimmerman suspicious enough of Martin that he had to follow him? Not the candy, not walking on the sidewalk. Geraldo might be correct.
        
        TrickyVic 13 years ago
        
        ""stoking facts.""
        
        You're the one claiming Martin attacked. Offer the proof.
        
        Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
        
        I don't know if it was racially motivated, and I don't care. A man with a gun chased down and killed an unarmed teenager for doing nothing other than walking through his neighborhood. That's all I care about.
  2. R C Dean 13 years ago
    
    Actually him attacking someone got him shot.
    
    Sounds you've got the cellphone video everybody has been hoping for. Better turn it over, stat.
Tony 13 years ago

And wearing a mustache means you're lookin to rape...
1. Phat Indian 13 years ago
  
  And when "your" rapist is finished he spits on your back!
Corky 13 years ago

This is like the worst chat room ever.
Apatheist ?_?? 13 years ago

Holy fuck, hoodies are not a criminal culture thing. Anybody above who says so is just as retarded as Geraldo. In college it would be a shocker if someone didn't own a hoodie that they wore regularly when it was cool enough. You old people are fucking stupid.
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  I wore a The Ohio State University hoodie to the bar last night to watch them dismantle Cincy (except for a early second half run). And after the game and 4 pitchers of beer, Banjos and I walked 3 miles home because it was a nice night and I'm too Jewish to pay for the cab.
  
  I'm thankful I made it home alive!
  1. Banjos 13 years ago
    
    I thought we walked home because you are starting to get paunchy?
    1. Brett L 13 years ago
      
      Does this count as a nutpunch?
    2. T 13 years ago
      
      Let him have his illusions, Banjos. They're essential to a happy marraige.
    3. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Sounds likes it's time for sloopy to "accidentally" wet the bed. There's nothing like knowing you might wake up in a rapidly cooling puddle of piss to keep a mouthy spouse in line.
      1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        LOL. I tried that with the first wife and woke up with a Cleveland Steamer one morning.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        Learn to be a light sleeper. It has many advantages.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, first and foremost, it keeps you from having to clean turds off your chest.
      2. T 13 years ago
        
        Damn, my wife just threatens to murder me in my sleep whne she's trying to keep me in line.
        
        SugarFree 13 years ago
        
        Plausible deniability. But you do it often enough, she'll make the connection.
        
        sloopyinca 13 years ago
        
        According to Zimmerman, this would give you the right to preemptively strangle her.
Brett L 13 years ago

Perhaps not the stupidest thing said in the last 24 hours. This is my nomination:

Pat Robertson: "And you just ask yourself," Robertson said, "OK, so Peyton Manning was a tremendous MVP quarterback, but he's been injured. If that injury comes back, Denver will find itself without a quarterback. And in my opinion, it would serve them right."
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  Never thought I'd see myself typing these words, butI find myself liking Pat Robertson more and more every day.
  1. Brett L 13 years ago
    
    Don't they still have Kyle Orton? Also, I'm pretty sure Jesus don't hate the Mannings. Not compared to his hatred for Sodom Jets.
Aresen 13 years ago

Geraldo: Try substituting "turban" for "hoodie" and "terrorist" for "gansta" and see how that flies.
1. Aresen 13 years ago
  
  Uh. Maybe 'flies' isn't the best word choice there. 🙂
  1. DesigNate 13 years ago
    
    I think it was brilliant.
2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  I think that statement would bomb if he put it on twitter.
Nathan 13 years ago

Well, Bill Belichick better watch out, then!
sloopyinca 13 years ago

[Sticks arm out like Roman Emperor with thumb extended...waiting on crowd's response]

Verdict?
1. SugarFree 13 years ago
  
  Do they make it in fat librarian sizes?
  1. Episiarch 13 years ago
    
    XXXXLib
  2. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    fat librarian
    
    No need to be redundant.
    1. SugarFree 13 years ago
      
      Too many snacks. There's a whole cheesecake in the break room, dammit.
  3. sloopyinca 13 years ago
    
    2XL in stock...
2. Warty 13 years ago
  
  HOLY SHIT I MUST HAVE ONE
3. Brett L 13 years ago
  
  It will definitely get you shot by Randall Munroe and other velociraptorphobes.
4. Tony 13 years ago
  
  Does the little boy come with your order?
5. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  That is AWESOME.
6. Geraldo 13 years ago
  
  Verdict?
  
  POW! POWPOWPOWPOW!!
Joshua Corning 13 years ago

I miss the good ol' days when Geraldo opened Al Capone's locker or when he took fat from his ass and injected into his forehead.
Joshua Corning 13 years ago

I am a whitey white man who grew up in whitey white town and went to whitey white school 30 years ago...

And we all wore hoodies before we switched to grunge flannel.
Robert S. 13 years ago

I'm genuinely scared of black men from the ghetto. I think that's legitimate. Black men from the ghetto are more likely to violent; especially towards whites. Why shouldn't the fact the young black male style is heavily influenced by gangstas from the ghetto be relevant to the discussion of why douchebag Zimmerman was suspicious of Trayvon?
1. sloopyinca 13 years ago
  
  I'm genuinely scared of black men from the ghetto.
  That's a shame for you then.
  I think that's legitimate.
  I think you're a racist dickhole.
  Black men from the ghetto are more likely to violent; especially towards whites.
  he overwhelming majority of crime committed by blacks is on blacks, and the overwhelming majority of crime against whites is committed by whites.
  Why shouldn't the fact the young black male style is heavily influenced by gangstas from the ghetto be relevant to the discussion of why douchebag Zimmerman was suspicious of Trayvon?
  Urban styles (meaning from the hood) permeate every sector of society. You are as likely to see a skateboard punk wearing his pants off his ass with a hoodie up as you are some thug walking through South Central.
  
  Jesus Christ, you are really a racist piece of shit.
2. Fatty Bolger 13 years ago
  
  Do you have a teen son? A lot of (probably most) boys wear hoodies, regardless of race and whether or not they live in a poor neighborhood or a tony gated community.
  
  My son will wear a hoodie when he walks around our middle class neighborhood. Does that make him a legitimate target for some random dickhead? Fuck you, and fuck Geraldo.
3. Cucuy 13 years ago
  
  Your right to be afraid of Black people ends where their right to not be murdered for existing in the wrong place begins. You don't get to shoot someone because they look Black. You don't get to shoot someone because they're wearing a hoodie. You may shoot someone IF AND ONLY IF they are DOING something RIGHT THEN to endanger you. And it doesn't count if you're the one who jumped the gun and initiated force.
  
  By that logic, I could shoot a guy walking on the same side of the street as me. After all, female victims of rape and murder are, most of the time, victimized by men. Therefore, if a guy within 20 feet of me looks at me, I can reasonably assume that he is going to rape and murder me. I'll tell the cops that Robert said it was "legitimate".
Eichmann 13 years ago

Being Jewish is just asking to get gassed.

Thanks for justifying my actions, Geraldo.
1. DesigNate 13 years ago
  
  It's not the being Jewish. It's having a big nose that makes it okay.
  1. Circumcised Penis 13 years ago
    
    What am I, chopped liver?
newsflash 13 years ago

Or maybe there's more to this story...

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dp.....z1phFMGCu4
Not a goodie goodie 13 years ago

This goes here
Jim Walsh 13 years ago

So JUST NOW Geraldo Jr. is ashamed of his old man...?
Joefromjerze 13 years ago

Since I dont want my brains to explode all over my keyboard Im going to pretend his twitter was hacked. There's no way someone in the public eye actually says that shit for real, right?
shrike 13 years ago

All Power to the Imagination!
sgan chaz 13 years ago

Blame the Hoodie? GIVE ME A BREAK. It was raining.... the kid was running.....and ....SORRY... but we don't ALL use Totes umbrellas when going to the corner grocery store for a snack. Nor should we risk losing our lives while doing so! And by his own admission, Mr. Zimmerman, the gunman, was stalking unarmed Trayvon - against the advice of the police (via cellphone contact). Mr. Rivera: you should be ashamed of your inane, insensitive comments, and your attempts to create "excuses" for the inexcusable actions of judge-jury-executioner Zimmerman.
99guspuppet 13 years ago

Wearing a 3 piece suit and a big mustache is inviting homosexual rape

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