Drew Peterson & Geraldo Rivera face off on Mancow &Cassidy

What happens when Geraldo Rivera, who has previously termed DrewPeterson "a butcher", ends up on the phone with Drew himself? Mancow &Cassidy found out when they hooked the two up on the WLS phone lines!

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MULLER: Geraldo, we have a caller for you. Caller, are you there? You’re on WLS.PETERSON: I’m here.CASSIDY: It’s somebody you’re not a big fan of, Geraldo.RIVERA: Who’s this?PETERSON: Hey, Geraldo. How you’ve been, buddy?RIVERA: Who’s this? Tell me who it is?PETERSON: This is your arch-enemy.RIVERA: Is this Drew Peterson?PETERSON: It sure is. How’ve you been?RIVERA: Oh, I don’t think I have much to say to you. Except, that I can’t wait ‘til youget indicted and that’s all I can say to you. And I don’t know why people in themedia kiss your ass to put you on television. I think that you’re a repulsive person.PETERSON: I’m having trouble hearing you.RIVERA: And I think you murdered both your wives.PETERSON: Well, that’s wrong and I’m glad you’re an objective reporter, here. I’mglad you take time to look at both sides.MULLER: Drew, you have said that you think many people have given you a fairshake but you don’t think Geraldo has.PETERSON: Not at all. Not at all.MULLER: You think he’s been unfair to you.PETERSON: There’s no objectivity with him. He’s a sensationalist.MULLER: Everybody called you a liar, Drew, about your fiancée. It turns out youwere the only one telling the truth. She was even lying. She moved back in?

PETERSON: I’m the only one telling the truth, yes.RIVERA: [unintelligible] the mother of your children and then Stacy, the young andbeautiful girl, she goes missing and now you, what? Are you going to kill the fifthone—this new one?PETERSON: [unintelligible] Geraldo.RIVERA: You’re pathetic. You’re a pathetic cretin. You are! You’re disgusting!PETERSON: You’re the nuisance of news!RIVERA: You’re disgusting to me. You are![EDIT]MULLER: OK, we gotta bleep Geraldo there.CASSIDY: You went a little over the line Geraldo, but the fact is, Geraldo, he hasn’tbeen charged with anything.RIVERA: Call the Illinois State Police about him. And the fact that you’ll use him forentertainment is just a symbol of how low we’ve fallen.MULLER: But, wait, how am I using him for entertainment? This is a major newsstory in Chicago. You’ve interviewed himRIVERA: Is it necessary to put him on with me?MULLER: What’s that?RIVERA: Aww, he’s a disgusting piece of crap. He is. And you know he killed thosewomen and he’s laughing at you and he’s using you all…MULLER: But Geraldo, you have O.J. on. You have Michael Jackson. I’d do the sameinterviews.RIVERA: I don’t have O.J. on.MULLER: How, how…RIVERA: Michael Jackson was acquitted.MULLER: How do you know Drew Peterson won’t be?RIVERA: I do not believe…as I understand the evidence and I understand the intentof the State Police, he’s going to be indicted on at least one of those homicidessometime soon and he did a very clever job. Give the murderer credit in hiding histracks and I think it’s just a matter of time. They’ll get him. What goes around

comes around buddy! What goes around comes around. There’s cosmic justice andDrew Peterson, it’s like O.J. Simpson. It took a while but it will happen.MULLER: I agree with everything. Look I agree with cosmic justice and all that. I willtell you that half the cops that I speak with in Chicago, and I have a lot of copfriends, half of them think he’s absolutely guilty and the other half are convincedhe’s not. It really is down the middle.RIVERA: You haven’t talked to any state policemen, cuz those are the guys who arein the know. Not the local guys. Talk to some of the neighboring cops aroundBolingbrook. Ask them what they think of him.………………………………..MULLER: Geraldo at large. Fox news channel.RIVERA: Well, I’d say it was a pleasure but you really upset me. I still love you.MULLER: Why did I upset you?RIVERA: Just to put me on with that…MULLER: But you were put him on your TV show!RIVERA: I didn’t put him on. Well, I put him on at the very beginning.CASSIDY: You wouldn’t put him on now?RIVERA: He goes on now and they play him like…it’s like murderers have becomecelebrities in our culture. It’s fascinating how this happens with all of the tabloidshows and all of the court shows and everything else a person famous for being thesuspect in the murder of two wives becomes a celebrity.MULLER: It’s a big story in our city.RIVERA: It’s a symbol of where we’ve sunken as a culture.………………………………..MULLER: Drew?PETERSON: I’m still here.CASSIDY: So, thanks a bunch, Drew.MULLER: Drew, you’ve never been charged right?PETERSON: Never been charged with anything except that ridiculous gun charge.