>> Geraldo has disagreed with other personalities
on Fox News when it comes to war with Iran.
In fact, there was a video that went viral,
where he is saying it's a terrible idea to
escalate tensions with Iran and Brian Kilmeade
went at it with him.
Now, recently he was supposed to make an appearance
on Hannity show, but that appearance was cancelled.
And it seems like it was cancelled specifically
because Geraldo was gonna continue making
the case that war with Iran is a bad idea.
So he starts off with this tweet.
Urging Donald Trump to keep his powder dry,
please don't let this spin out of control.
You can always hit them back.
Please don't let this become an escalating,
you hit me, I hit you back harder until we
have another full blown, bloody Mid East war
on our hands.
What would we win?
And so then he ends up responding to someone
who apparently liked his tweet and he says,
thanks.
I'll be on with Sean Hannity tonight counseling
restraint and talking about these deeply disturbing
developments.
And then later he said, Nevermind, Hannity
just canceled me.
And I just like to end this whole exchange
with Malcolm Fleschner tweet, cancel culture
strikes again.
>> I really liked that tweet.
So look, before we open this up for discussion,
I just wanna remind you of how passionately
Geraldo feels about avoiding war with Iran.
This was a segment that Fox had earlier.
Take a look.
>> Now we have taken this huge military escalation.
Now I fear the worst.
You're gonna see the US markets go crazy today.
You're gonna see the price of oil spiking
today.
This is a very, very big deal.
>> And I don't know if you heard
>> But this isn't about his resume of blood
and death, it is about what was next.
We stopped the next attack, that's what I
think you're missing.
>> According to the Secretary of State.
>> By what credible source,
>> Okay.
>> Can you predict what the next Iranian move
would be?
>> They've been excellent, the US Intelligence
has been excellent since 2003, when we invaded
Iraq, disrupted the entire region for no real
reason.
Don't for a minute start cheering this on.
What you have done, what we have done, we
have unleashed.
>> I will cheer
>> Then you, like Lindsay Graham, have never
met a war you didn't like.
>> That is not true, and don't even say that.
>> If President Trump wanted de-escalation-
>> We should just let him kill us for another
15 years.
>> If President Trump wanted de-escalation
and to bring our troops home.
What this was a reaction to-
>> What about the 700 Americans who are dead?
Should they not be happy because of him?
>> What about the tens of thousands of Iraqis
who have died since 2003?
You have to start seeing things.
What the hell are we doing in Baghdad in the
first place?
Why are we there?
Why aren't these forces home?
>> You're blaming President Bush for the maniacal
killing of Saddam Hussein?
>> I am blaming President Bush in 2003 for
those fake weapons of mass destruction that
never existed and the con job that drove us
into that war.
>> Listen, you gotta give people credit when
they're right, and Geraldo was right there.
I think that he took a strong position.
I also give Geraldo credit for consistently
speaking out against Donald Trump's disgusting
immigration policies on Fox.
I'm sure that's not an easy environment to
share your accurate opinions in.
But yeah, so Hannity canceled.
Now, who knows?
Maybe they canceled him to maybe replace that
segment with something that involves a legal
analyst or?
>> I don't know, should we give Hannity the
benefit of the doubt?
>> Hannity did not want any of that smoke.
He's like man, I saw what you did to kill
me.
And I don't think any more clearly than he
does.
His producers probably said hey, we're gonna
go ahead and cancel Geraldo because first
off, Geraldo's only mistake was revealing
what he wanted to do that night.
When he talked to the person who retweeted
him or liked it and he goes, thanks I'm gonna
be on later to make sure I council against
this.
They're like no that's not the agenda tonight.
That's not what we're on board for.
Of course, yes again we're speculating.
But I mean, if it's not the case, go and let
us know what the other difference was.
I mean, they canceled on me tonight so I can't
come on and say what I had to say.
So I mean, again, what'll happen is you end
up revealing what your real intentions are
and what your real beliefs are.
And people on the region are like, well, 700
Americans were lost.
You don't care about the Americans being lost
when it comes to anything else except for
pursuing war.
And then so, of course, when Geraldo brings
up the tens of thousands of Iraqis dying,
there's no answer to that.
Those aren't real people?
Those are casualties of war.
Or when we talk about how we wanna make sure
we keep American troops out of harm's way.
They go hey, well American troops they signed
up for it.
They knew what they were getting themselves
into.
Somehow when it comes to having any kinda
empathy towards people it's all based on whether
or not you're falling not behind this president
and his line of ridiculousness.
Secondly, Geraldo use Trump's talking point
about we gotta get out of these stupid wars.
You can't follow a guy who continues to contradict
his own agenda and policies throughout his
presidency.
>> Right, exactly.
And look, it's hilarious to me to hear anyone
on Fox News or even anyone in cable news talk
about how egregious it is or how much of an
injustice it is when Americans die.
When in our own country they constantly push
for domestic policy that leads to more Americans
dying.
>> Totally, my god.
>> I mean, how many American die every year
because they don't have adequate health insurance?
And they will attack Universal Healthcare,
over and over again.
They'll talk about how we can't afford it,
can't pay for it.
When it comes to beating that war-drum, by
the way, which is the most expensive policy
to support, they're all for it.
They don't care about American lives.
American's overall, just like troops are nothing
more than pawns, nothing more than props,
that these lowly individuals use to make their
arguments when it's convenient for them.
But when push comes to shove, you think they
really care about the lives of Americans?
How about all those segments that Fox News
has done on homeless people?
Do they care about them?
They defame them, they slander them as dead
beats, as druggists, as all sorts of things.
They don't care about human lives.
What cares about is appeasing Trump, making
sure that Trump is happy with him.
Because you never know, you might lose access
to Trump if you criticize him.
And you might not be able to get a job in
Trump's administration.
We all know that Trump likes to pick people
out of Fox News.
So it's just gross.
And look, not to get too leftist, I guess,
whatever you wanna call it.
But that's what capitalism is, that's what
capitalism does.
It's all about profit, it's all about ensuring
that you have the upper hand and you increase
your chances of making more money, right?
That's what happens in our media all the time,
right?
>> Making money and being a tough guy, that's
the other part of it.
Even people who don't have, I guess, the interests
for lining their pockets.
It's, hey, we're tough guys, we're America.
Hey, we don't let them F with us like this.
Hey, you're not gonna say that to me.
There's a superiority complex that we have
from the moment that we're born that says,
we have to make sure that we talk about how
much better we are than you no matter what.
You can be on the lowest totem pole in America.
But you're like, I'm an American, I'm better
than you.
But your life actually has nothing to do with
this American dream that they've sold you.
That you're supposed to somehow pursue.
And one more thing that they don't care about
lives for is school shootings, mass shootings,
Car Club shootings.
We don't care about that stuff, thoughts and
prayers.
What bombs we dropping on people to stop that
from happening?
American lives are being lost every day.
You don't care about American lives.
>> Again, it's just something that they cite
when it's convenient to them to support a
policy that's horrendous, usually.
And, in this case, it's escalated tensions
and war with Iran.
So, again, credit where credit is due.
I think Geraldo is doing a good job.
And I think that he should be proud of the
fact that Hannity canceled his appearance,
right?
Look, I don't know what his future is gonna
look like.
Obviously, Shep Smith, who had the audacity
to speak the truth every once in a while on
Fox News is no longer there.
But we know what Fox News is, Geraldo knows
what Fox News is.
I don't agree with Geraldo on many issues.
But if you have any integrity and you actually
want to share truthful analysis with an audience,
Fox News is not the place to do it.
You're hardly even seen on cable news shows
period, much less on Fox News.
