but it's never seen anything like morton downey jr. >> i want to tell you -- >> sit down and shut up!me and take the television talk show into two different directions. so you start seeing the phenomenon of daytime television shows becoming less tame and more wild. >> the l '80s brought a lot of blinl rans to television, whether it was morton downey jr. being the offensive caricaturish person he was or geraldo. he did his own outland ish things. >> stay with us. we're going to get into the mind of another all-american boy who took part in a crime of passion. >> he takes the power of the talk show to a whole other level, trying to put people on stage who hate each other, who are going to fight. >> in the case of the church of satan, we have not had any problems with criminal behavior. >> yet, when you hear story after story after story of people committing these wretched crimes, these violent crimes in the devil's name. >> the more tension there is, the more conflict there is, the more ratings go up. >> geraldo rivera has criticism on devil worship, but today he found himself in a real

whether it was morton downey jr. being the offensive caricaturish person that he was, or geraldo.an boy who came under the influence of satanism and took part in a crime without passion or motive -- >> geraldo rivera takes the power of the talk show to a whole other level, trying to put people on stage who hate each other, who are going to fight -- >> in the case of the temple of set and the church of satan, we have not had problems with criminal behavior -- >> but yet when you hear story after story after story of people who commit wretched and violent crimes in the devil's name -- >> the more tension there is, the more conflict and violence there is, the more the ratings go up. and the american people love to complain about it, but they also love to watch. >> geraldo rivera is back in a controversy tonight. rivera drew sharp criticism with his recent television special on devil worship. but today he found himself in a real free-for-all. >> i get sick and tired of seeing uncle tom here, sucking up, trying to be a white man -- >> go ahead. >> sit down. >> hey, hold it. hold it. >>