Geraldo Rivera in Michael Hastings: Reporter "Hard to forget" ruined the career of General Stanley McChrystal

Then journalist Michael Hastings was killed in a car crash Monday, friends and admirers took to social networking sites to express their shock and pain at the loss of a talented and uncompromising reporter.

On Tuesday, host of Fox News Geraldo Rivera offered his own dubious version of sympathy.

Reporter Michael Hastings KI tragic car destroy condolences to familyBut hard to forget that you destroyed the career of 1 of our best fighting General

-Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) on June 19, 2013

Rivera refers to the profile of stone rolling of the Polk Award-winning de Hastings of General Stanley McChrystal, who at that time was on his way to the United States and allied forces in Afghanistan.

Negative comments about the administration of Obama that led to the resignation of general McChrystal.

Rivera's comments met with a strong reaction on Twitter.

@geraldorivera oh, the general words & actions had nothing to do with it? Thank you for the record straight!

-Susie Madrak (@SusieMadrak) on June 19, 2013

do @geraldorivera remember when you gave us troop positions in TV Live?

-Christopher Brower (@cfbrower) on June 19, 2013

(Fox News pulled banks outside Iraq in 2003 under pressure from the armed forces since he shared details of movements of American troops in air.)

Rivera is not the only person suggesting that Hastings was undue damage to career of McChrystal. Wife of Hastings, Elise Jordan, wrote an email to The New York Times criticizing his obituary by her late husband, which brought the accuracy of its reports in question.

"I was shocked and saddened to read a misguided brash my last husband Michael Hastings Rolling Stone story"The Runaway General"in his obituary," Jordan wrote.

She went on to say that the fall of McChrystal was caused mainly by comments made on the tape.

I can personally verify that some of the comments have been made more devastating McChrystal, and many others of his colleagues in his presence were met with enthusiastic approval. Michael refused to give further evidence to investigators from the Pentagon, while it could directly attributed a series of insubordinate comments to other staff of the general, in part because he believed that it was not the role of a journalist to open their notebooks to the military, and in part because he felt that what is needed when it came to the war in Afghanistan is not a change in personnel, but in politics.

Read the rest of the letter of Jordan here.

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