Jesse Watters turned to Geraldo Rivera on Fox News Monday evening for some criticism of the non-Fox News media's coverage of U.S. Border Patrol agents using tear gas against migrants, including children, on the Mexico side of the U.S. border Sunday. Instead, he got a lecture on Fox News' coverage of the migrant caravan.
"Fulfilling my role as the designated piñata on Fox News, I want to say I am ashamed," Rivera said on The Five. "This tear gas choked me. We treat these people, these economic refugees, as if they're zombies from The Walking Dead." He noted that many of the Central American migrants arrested Sunday were mothers with children. "These are not invaders," he told Watters, and his network. "Stop using these military analogies. This is absolutely painful to watch. We are a nation of immigrants. These are desperate people," and "they walked 2,000 miles" for service and agricultural jobs, not to "rape your daughter or steal your lunch."
If Watters was surprised by Rivera's response, he wouldn't have been if he'd read Rivera's Twitter feed.
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