Video: Megyn Kelly and Geraldo shout at each other over the Gitmo ruling
posted at 7:11 pm on June 12, 2008 by Allahpundit
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By popular demand, although I’m not sure why. Both sides are awful. True to form from the immigration debate, Spitty’s on his high horse moralizing for all he’s worth without a care in the world about the practical effect of the new policy. Kelly, meanwhile, is hung up on the jurisdictional argument of the detentions being located in Cuba, even though the jihadis are in U.S. custody on a U.S. base located on land leased in perpetuity (read: owned and occupied) to the U.S. Read Ed’s post and Mark Levin’s take for the substantive objections to the ruling. If unlawful combatants are entitled to this sort of protection, what are lawful combatants, i.e. prisoners of war, entitled to? And if the former, perversely, have more robust rights than the latter, what incentive does that create?
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Sounds to me like the grinning idiot did most of the
shouting. The spitter has his sights on Megyn now.
I don’t know how or why I suffered throught that.
ugh. . . .
Texyank on June 12, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Engaging RMC in a battle of wits requires that you forfeit your wits, and most of the English language. He’s a nitwit, and can’t seem to grasp that the detainees are not lawful combatants – yes, there are battlefield “laws” – and that giving them the legal defense rights of U.S. citizens is neither warranted by precedent, nor wise.
Watching Geraldo was my first mistake; reading RMC comments was my second. Waiting until 9:57pm Eastern for someone to remark on the remarkable beauty of that lovely creature is my third and final mistake.
Good day to you, sirs. I said Good Day!
Jaibones on June 12, 2008 at 11:53 PM
Why don’t people understand that the CONSTITUTION IS FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS? The Constitution has nothing to do with non-citizens.
Illegal aliens don’t have Constitutional protection. American citizens are the only one’s who have CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
ThackerAgency on June 13, 2008 at 12:01 AM
He kissed her hand because he knows if he wasn’t talking to Kelly, nobody would listen to him.
ThackerAgency on June 13, 2008 at 12:02 AM
Do the detainees get to vote? do they get to pay taxes or apply for social benefits? Why then would they get the same legal protections that Americans do? This is an awful ruling and undercuts our sovereignty at least as much as the open borders does.
ThackerAgency on June 13, 2008 at 12:03 AM
Any time this jerk shows up anywhere on fox i turn it off.I can,t beleave fox pays this guy money what a waste.
thmcbb on June 13, 2008 at 12:08 AM
Geraldo is such a dirtbag.
I wanna do Megyn now just for giving it to this bastard.
blatantblue on June 13, 2008 at 12:09 AM
Good call.
How very gracious of you.
Jaibones on June 13, 2008 at 12:13 AM
Excellent points…
byteshredder on June 13, 2008 at 12:31 AM
Geraldo again proves what a punk and a liberal weasel he really is.
In his visits to Iraq and Afghanistan he was known as a bullet magnet. I wish the Insurgents or Taliban thugs would have been better marksmen.
old trooper on June 13, 2008 at 12:44 AM
Megyn Kelly vs. Geraldo Rivera.
I already know who is going to win and she’s much better looking.
indythinker on June 13, 2008 at 12:47 AM
Just set the terrorists free and tell them which way they should swim to Florida.
Enjoy the sharks.
Geraldo has no concept of what a war is. I hear Jerry Springer has a job opening for an intern.
indythinker on June 13, 2008 at 12:53 AM
I’m sure he got a woody seeing Megyn so pissed. (Or was that just me?)
gzelmiami on June 13, 2008 at 1:43 AM
Two quick facts.
The United States Constitution and Bill Of Rights apply only to United States Citizens and Legal Resident Aliens…not to foriegn nationals regardless of what the SCOTUS wants us to believe.
The Geneva Convention only applies to legitimate POW’s meaning soldiers in uniform fighting for a nation..it does not include terrorists or spies…
The Right Of Habeas Corpus is not an absolute right it can be suspended by exectutive order…if you doubt that look at the actions of President Lincoln in the American Civil War
JKotthoff on June 13, 2008 at 1:51 AM
Geraldo, we can do this… on three, we’re going to tell those voices in your head that “I’m the boss, I’m the boss, I’m the BOSS!!!”. Ok, now remember to take the little pills that the nice man in the white coat gave you and remember to be a good boy.
Claypigeon on June 13, 2008 at 2:05 AM
I would love to see Bolton’s ’stache kick Rivera’s ’stache’s ass.
silverfox on June 13, 2008 at 2:43 AM
I would love to see Bolton’s ’stache kick Rivera’s ’stache’s ass.
silverfox on June 13, 2008 at 2:43 AM
Bolton would break that lib’s ass nose again. And he would do what that wrestler did on TV, beach slap him.
BTW, how about Bolton for VP? or at least sect. of State?
gzelmiami on June 13, 2008 at 3:40 AM
This has more to do with “Sticking it to Bush” than anything else. It’s symbolic, and the country suffers.
BadBrad on June 13, 2008 at 5:25 AM
Here are the solutions as I see it:
1. The Geraldo problem – Cut off Puerto Rico from ties to the US. Since I can remember in my life, PR has voted twice for statehood, but PRs shoot it down. Treat them like any other foreign country, get papers to in, no more immediate citizenship status – no more problem
2. The Gitmo problem – Shoot everyone on the battlefield. TAKE NO PRISONERS. “Being British” about the whole compassion issue is bad policy. There shouldn’t be POWs in this fight.
Problem solved.
madmonkphotog on June 13, 2008 at 7:31 AM
I was watching this exchange when it happened and I was waiting for Geraldo to start spitting at Meghan. What a DORK!!!
dalec on June 13, 2008 at 8:59 AM
Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on one’s view), that is no longer true.
Justice Kennedy in the majority opinion recognized this. He said:
And why is there no parallel? Because the war “is already among the longest wars in American history.”
But why is length of a war – determined by the ferocity of the enemy – a factor that throws away 230+ years or rulings or thought?
Kennedy doesn’t explain it.
There really is, it seems from my limited understanding of these issues, no logical explanation for extending these rights to aliens held overseas.
The Court – or more precisely the 5 person majority – is simply exercising raw judicial power. In other words, they want to do to this even if the Constitution doesn’t require it.
SteveMG on June 13, 2008 at 9:25 AM
This is wrong. The GC provides the means to differentiate between POWs, legitimate combatants, partisans, and illegal combatants…the Conventions as a whole apply to all of these, they just set out different rules for the treatment for and rights of each category.
Of course, it’s not so bad for you to not know this as it is for RMC, who as a Guardsman was SUPPOSED to have had Law of Armed Conflict training and know the difference between POWs and imprisoned illegal combatants.
James on June 13, 2008 at 9:35 AM
Watched this with the volume off just because I really didn’t want to hear another Geraldo spit-fest and I really did want to see Mz. Kelly.
Then I realized I really couldn’t stand looking at that chimp long enough to get a glimpse of Kelly.
cntrlfrk on June 13, 2008 at 9:54 AM
Even if that is true (which, from my understanding, isn’t entirely so), the US is a signatory to other treaties outlining the treatment of POWs/detainees/prisoners (uniformed or not).
Additionally, we have domestic laws regulating the treatment.
So, it’s not just the Conventions that limit US actions re these detainees/prisoners (whatever one calls them).
SteveMG on June 13, 2008 at 9:58 AM
We live in a Judicial Tyranny.
JayHaw Phrenzie on June 13, 2008 at 10:03 AM
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