In the medical field they tell interns that when they hear hoof beats, assume horses and not zebras. The meaning of that expression is that when you are attempting to diagnose a patient, it is much more likely that the problem is going to be something common than something obscure or unusual.
This brings us to Cesar Sayoc and the attempt by right wing pundits like Rush Limbaugh to say that the pipe bombs being sent to prominent Democrats were a false flag operation meant to garner support for Democratic candidates. Geraldo Rivera, as it turns out, was also one of those people.
So Geraldo Rivera issued a mea culpa of sorts after it turned out that the MAGA Bomber wasn’t actually a Democratic false flag operation, but was instead a radicalized Trump supporter. How anyone living in the U.S. today could give serious consideration to such an outlandish theory boggles my mind, but I guess when you work at Fox news and swim in the same cesspool as Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson these types of things are bound to happen.
The next time Geraldo can’t quite figure out if some horrible and likely racist act is carried out by a Trump supporter or not, I hope he realizes that he is standing in the middle of a rodeo, in Wyoming and those hoof beats ain’t freaking zebras.