For four decades, Geraldo Rivera has been a crusading, vainglorious, undeniable presence in American television news. Whether he’s filing reports like his infamous “Men Who Wear Lace Panties and the Women Who Love Them” or getting his nose squashed by a white supremacist during a taping of his talk show, Geraldo has never failed to find an audience for his signature mix of reportage, sensation, and occasional slapstick. Some of his comments, however, have sometimes passed beyond the pale in the estimation of viewers, and when the Fox News contributor weighed in on the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, his remarks drew comment from viewers, columnists, and celebrities who said that Rivera’s remarks had achieved a theretofore unprecedented level of boneheadedness. The Daily Beast rounds up some of Rivera’s more numbskulled blunders.











