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Mon Mar-14-05 10:38 AM
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Geraldo sank to a new low on Saturday

Edited on Mon Mar-14-05 10:47 AM by underpants

ON EDIT- Changed the subject line to more accurately reflect the comments in this thread.

I observed the following on Saturday.

Apparently the last person to realize that Nichols was in custody was the CNN anchorwoman. I could tell from the way the cops were walking out of the apartment complex they either had the guy or Nichols was shot. For a brief moment when the hostage situation first broke and the Gwinnett county spokesman was on saying that the area was blocked off I thought we might miss this story from the comfort of our living rooms-thank god for the helicopter shots.

My wife and I couldn't believe that the black bald male they were clearing patting down beside the SUV could be anyone BUT Nichols. This continued for at least five minutes.

I switched over to Fox and they weren't sure either. Fox apparently got every black person they could find to be on the air. It was nice to see on one hand but both 24 hour news agency seemed determined to get black faces on the screen. I am not sure exactly why but the guys they had on had some very good insight and commentary.

The two commentators (not the anchor) that Fox had on very quickly made the point that it didn't matter if the deputy was a woman or not. The amount of training and techniques used by law enforcement make it a moot point. I will say this, that guy could have taken down almost anyone I saw in uniform or not in uniform and that includes myself.

Lastly let me say a word about Geraldo Rivera......SLIME!

He apparently was in Atlanta or flew there directly and in the period after the arrest he had several people who lived in the neighborhoods on. They all had seen basically the same thing-Nichols looked to be exhausted and dazed.

Then a moment of TV history- Geraldo was on an audio feed and he had managed to get Barry Hazen Nichol's defense lawyer in the rape case. Let me say that Hazen struck me as being very sharp both on CNN later in the day and on the Today Show this morning. Rivera was laughing with an "innocent bystander just trying to do her job" (another resident of the apartment complex) when he starting talking to Hazen. Geraldo related what Hazen had told him-that his office wasn't very far from the courthouse and that he usually drives but on Friday he decided to walk.

Geraldo (close quote)~"So hehehe it is safe to say that if you hadn't walked to work yesterday and gotten there a few minutes later than normal hehehe you would be dead right now"

Hazen-silence followed by a diplomatic effort to not comment directly on the asinine statement Geraldo had just made.

Then that night ABC WNT tonights coverage of the events of the last two days included the following "The alleged death of the judge" I don't remember who the anchorman was but he said that at least twice.