Geraldo: Treatment of Dallas Ebola Patient Was Clearly Racist

‘You’re Playing the Race Card!’ Fox’s Geraldo and Bolling Battle over Dallas Hospital’s Ebola Treatment (Mediaite)

Fox’s Geraldo Rivera thinks racial and socioeconomic factors may have contributed to the Dallas hospital’s initial decision to not further monitor the now-deceased Ebola patient. He repeated that point several times Thursday, ultimately taking it to The O’Reilly Factor to debate it with guest-host Eric Bolling.

“It was either gross malpractice or it was the doctor seeing yet another poor black man without insurance in the emergency room, yet again, these urban hospitals overrun with patients without insurance,” Rivera explained. “I think there’s almost zero chance that his race or social class played no role.”

Bolling was unhappy: “How could you bring race? You know what, Geraldo, I would expect Al Sharptonto bring race into this, I would expect Jesse Jackson to bring race into this, I would not expect Geraldo Rivera to bring race into this.”