Geraldo Rivera: I'm Not A Boastful Man, But Among My Many Accomplishments, I'd Have to Say Ending the Cold War and the Soviet Union Are Rather High on My List of Favorite Epoch-Changing Events

I'ma gonna stomp my planets post that no one except a few geeks cares about.

"GERALDO RIVERA:" Totalitarianism and dictatorship can never stand in the argument against freedom. Freedom always wins, free people always want that, they always want to be free and to have rights. If anything, it unsettles the Cuban government, the repressive communist Cuban government. I detest what they stand for, a lot of what they stand for. I think that they are, you know, Stalinist and old school. Fidel Castro should be on the garbage heap of history, I totally get that. But the way to do it is, get 'em cell phones. Get 'em satellite TV. Let 'em see what America's all about.

I am firmly convinced, I mentioned this to you earlier this morning, that when my talk show went on the air in 1988 in the Soviet Union, before the fall of the Wall, that helped accelerate the process, it was first my talk show and then Joan Rivers joined me on the air in the Soviet Union. Can you imagine ...

WABC RADIO ANNOUNCER NOAM LADEN: How did you even get on there?

GERALDO: Same way I get on everywhere, people pity me and fear my pungent sweat, but mostly they put me on "for the lulz."

He didn't say that last thing. I made that up.

Andre Sakahrov just emailed me to say, "He's right, I was a huge fan."

posted by Ace at 04:38 PM

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