Media gadfly Geraldo Rivera says he was fired from ABC News over a $200 donation, adding that George Stephanopoulos is in big trouble over his much larger, $75,000 donation to the Clintons.

In a Facebook posting Friday morning, Geraldo told the story of his firing from ABC in the 1980s.

Fired For A Lousy $200 Donation

In 1985, after fifteen great years, I was fired by ABC News. The official reason for my firing was a non-disclosed $200 donation to a family friend running in a non-partisan mayoral campaign in New Bedford Massachusetts.  

Geraldo goes on to explain that the donation was the excuse the network used to fire him over a disagreement with executives about a 20/20 story on Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys.

1985

The point is ABC treated my undisclosed $200 donation harshly because the network wanted me out for that unrelated reason.

2015

Now ABC is bending over backward to minimize and forgive George Stephanopoulos' $75,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation because he is central to the network's recent success. 

Geraldo admits meeting Stephanopoulos and his wife on a recent trip and thinking highly of them, but adding that doesn't mean the network anchor isn't in trouble.

Up until now there’s been only George's historic connections with the Clintons to undermine his credible objectivity as the network's principal political reporter.

The donations look like he’s trying to buy continued access to the family he served so loyally as a political operative in the 1990’s.

Moral of the Story

If Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace or Bill O’Reilly made a similar donation to say an educational foundation run by Jeb Bush liberal wolves would be howling in front of Fox News.