The Highwire with Del Bigtree - GERALDO EATS HUMBLE PIE

Episode Date: January 26, 2022

After a year of shaming vaccine hesitant Americans, media heavyweight Geraldo Rivera was forced to eat crow on live TV after the triple vaccinated pundit tested positive for Covid.#Geraldo #GeraldoRivera #GeraldoEatsCrowBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

It is so clear that there's a giant shift right now. The vaccine is a complete and total disaster. I called it right up front. Didn't I tell you? I said, honestly, this is going to be the greatest gift that's ever happened. Nobody ever watched how the sausage was made. In this case, how a vaccine was made. Nobody ever watched the rushed science and the lack of safety studies and the lack of placebo studies.

I was talking about it. You know, we worked hard. We put out the vaccine safety product. We went to the NIH and said, you better fix this. or you're going to have trouble. We're all on this now. We're all over it. We started going to the CDC meetings.

We started really being a thorn in the side of this bad science. But what happened? This COVID comes along and they decide, let's race out a vaccine in front of everybody. And I said this is going to be the biggest disaster they've ever had. They're promising us the COVID-19 vaccine unicorn. Instead, we got some hybrid disaster monster-looking thing like this. That's it. brought to its knees, we predicted that.

I told you this is where we would be. And so now we get to have that moment. I don't know how long it will last, but we'll get to have this moment where many of those that attacked us, many of those that said we were crazy and wanted to walk away, and we're watching them. We're watching the Joe Rogan shift out of having Peter Hotez

and saying, wow, this sounds like a good idea to now waking up. There's a huge wake-up going on. and it's a fantastic moment and I think we should embrace it and I want to honor those people I truly want to honor anybody that you know I get it

you were an a hole at one moment you attacked us you came at us but at least have the dignity and the honor to admit you were wrong in this case one of my favorite videos that happened last week came from Geraldo Rivera now Geraldo Rivera if any of you

watched Fox News he has been vicious and disgusting when it comes to people who are not vaccinated. I think we have a little chunk of sort of how he talked about the anti-vaxers. Take a look at this. No shirt, no shoes, no vaccine, no service. You have no individual rights when it comes to the vaccine. I think the vaccine is absolutely bulletproof against this damn disease.

I despise vaccinated people who are smug in their protection, who urge unvaccinated people to exercise their freedom. We had a lightning storm in Cleveland last night. It was as likely to get hit by one of those lightning bolts as to get this terrible disease if you are vaccinated. This is a disease of the unvaccinated. I think that you cannot have a right of privacy that I'm in your room with my grandchildren who are not vaccinated because they're too young and you lied about your vaccine status and you sneeze on my grandchildren. You know, that could be a crime. That is absolutely so self-involved.

If you're unvaccinated, then you should at least get tested every week on your own or understand why you are banned from the VA, where you are banned from restaurants, while you are banned from other businesses and colleges increasingly, and they should be because it's selfish. I mean, amazing, as he said all these things. I said, you know, just like you spent all that time getting into Al Capone's grave, which proved to be a nothing burger.

It'd be really awesome if you actually dug into a scientific study or some research around this. Or how about just read the emergency use authorization? But all that being said, he didn't. So he had that other way of learning. That way that comes when you decide to not do any investigation of your own, only trust the experts. Eventually you're going to have to fall.

You have to get burned by that stove like you're a three-year-old child, which is what happened here. But at least this three-year-old is finally admitting he was wrong. Why? Because he caught COVID. He did get struck by that bolt of lightning like everybody that got the vaccine. And here's what he's saying now. I am vaccinated to Moderna shots, then boosted with the Pfizer booster. You know, I thought for sure that I was immune.

I've been very hard on the unvaccinated, as Dana suggests, I eat some humble pie in that regard because I went to Key West Florida with my family on vacation. and guess what, I came back with a scratchy throat. I insisted I didn't need a test because I was vaccinated and boosted. Then Erica, my wife, insisted, so a couple of days by the time we finally got the appointment, I take the test. Erica is negative, and I am positive. It was shocking to me.

It was in some ways embarrassing. I didn't quite know how to respond to it. You know, I was just having a conversation. My own son, you know, was he had that moment where, he had made a mistake and done something wrong. And, you know, at his school, decided I'm going to stand up. And he told me, you know, I stood up and said, yeah, it's me. You know, I was the one that got in trouble here and it won't happen again.

I said, you know, I'm proud of you for, you know, being honorable that way. Everyone makes mistakes. But what we want in a society and what makes a great society is not that people don't make mistakes, but that when they do, they will voice it and stand up and, you know, face the consequences. So in this case, I want to honor Geraldo Rivera for, even though, you know, you had made a lot of statements that were not factually based, I am glad that at least you can say you're eating some humble pie. And I want us all to really get used to this because there's a lot of people that are going to want to reembrace you, to come back. And we're going to have to put away all the slander and all the disgusting things that have been said because the ultimate goal of this entire thing was to tear us apart, to tear the fabric of our families apart, to tear us the size. apart, to make us feel like we're so distant in our, you know, philosophical and political

differences that will never be able to come together. So it's going to be up to us to create an environment allows those, those prodigal sons, if you will, to come back to the truth that actually their natural immune system was the only way out of this thing. And now they recognize that since that's the only thing that kicked in when they finally got a symptomatic disease or version of SARS-CoV-2, even after two, three, or maybe even four, vaccinations. It's going to be hard for us, but I would say forgive and forget and then let's embrace these people and move into a space where we never let this ridiculous thing happen again.