Justin McCarthy | Newsbusters.org | March 3, 2008
According to Geraldo Rivera, Rush Limbaugh is “the dean of the academy” of a “nativist reaction” and “the most savage talk radio campaign every in history.” Appearing on the March 3 edition of “The View,” the Fox News correspondent promoted to his book, “His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.” Rivera also said McCain’s virtual lock of the Republican nomination is “a victory for the decency wing of the GOP.” Rivera also claimed Mitt Romney “was such a nice guy” as governor of Massachusetts, but “suddenly became an anti-immigrant radical.”