Geraldo Rivera quits Fox News after being “fired,” he said, from “The Five,” but he received a celebratory send-off on Friday morning
last week letting his Twitter followers know that he was “contemplating retirement,” he began to tease the day on which he would announce his decision: Friday, June 30.“I am unsure about my next career move & will announce next Friday here on Twitter & Live on @TheFive whether I stay with Fox or do something else, with your support,” he wrote on June 23.
Instead, he teased a Friday morning appearance on “Fox & Friends,” which he said could be his last for the network after 22 years. “There has been a growing tension that goes beyond editorial differences and personal annoyances and gripes,”Another left-leaning commentator, Juan Williams, also left “The Five” after clashing bitterly with his majority-conservative fellow panelists, though he has remained with the network as a commentator.But it was all smiles and all happy memories on Friday morning when Rivera appeared on “Fox & Friends.
When he first joined Fox News from CNBC in 2001, years after his start as a muckraking investigative reporter for ABC’s “20/20,” Rivera said that some questioned whether his liberal leanings would work on the right-leaning network. “But it worked out,” he said. “Everybody was open-minded, openhearted. I was treated as a family member here, and I hope it was reciprocated.”“Get a Kleenex ready,” co-host Steve Doocy told him, teeing up a career highlight reel.
In a text message to The Washington Post after the show ended, Rivera described the treatment he got as “a nice send-off” with “no bitterness apparent.”
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