Geraldo Rivera calls himself ‘a product of affirmative action’
Jenny Goldsberry
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Geraldo Rivera spent his last Fox News segment as a “correspondent at large” on Friday.
Earlier this month, the anchor previously announced his departure from The Five, where he was the left-leaning host after Juan Williams’s departure in 2021. Rivera had been a Fox News correspondent for 23 years before he quit Thursday, and he credited his start to affirmative action.
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Geraldo Rivera on Fox News
“Thank you for the opportunity, because affirmative action has just been voted down by the Supreme Court of the United States in a very controversial decision that will impact many people of color. I was a product of affirmative action over half a century ago,” Rivera explained to his fellow Fox News anchors, who donned mustaches to match his own at the time.
“When the Ford Foundation and Columbia Journalism School got together to integrate the local news teams in New York, there were no black reporters, no Hispanic reporters, no women, and it was shocking. That was as late as 1968, ’69″
Rivera was a lawyer representing Puerto Rican activists in New York’s Spanish Harlem neighborhood before he was ultimately recruited by Columbia for its journalism program.
“So I got discovered that way, and they drafted me for the Columbia program, and the rest is history,” Rivera said.
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“We reached an amicable conclusion with Geraldo over the past few weeks,” a spokesperson for Fox News told the Washington Examiner.
Fellow Fox News anchors offered Rivera a send-off by way of a standing ovation. In the first quarter of 2023, The Five marked its sixth quarter in a row as the most-watched cable news program. It has since maintained the title of the top cable news program across all categories for the eighth straight week as of last week, with 2,644,000 viewers.