While appearing on CNN, WaPo media critic rips CNN for Cuomo brothers' 'love-a-thon': 'It's a major black eye for network'
Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple went scorched earth during an appearance on CNN. While appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources," Wemple bashed the liberal cable TV news network for allowing CNN host Chris Cuomo to have "love-a-thons" with his brother Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).
Chris Cuomo is the anchor of CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time," which is self-described as a "news program where Cuomo tests power with newsmakers and politicians from both sides of the aisle." However during the coronavirus pandemic, Cuomo welcomed his New York governor brother on the show to deliver an unchallenged and glowing narrative of his leadership.
Many times the interviews were completely unprofessional and chummy. There were jokes that the governor only appeared on the show because their mom made him and then there was a strange segment that involved a gigantic Q-tip. All this positive coverage despite New York having the second-most coronavirus deaths per million and there being bombshell reports that New York's nursing home deaths were far higher than Cuomo's administration admitted.
Cuomo has not appeared on his brother's CNN show since the flurry of sexual harassment allegations against the governor started to storm in.
Flash forward to Sunday, Wemple was a guest on "Reliable Sources" to discuss the media coverage of Andrew Cuomo and his scandals. Wemple did not hold back at pointing out the bias of a news network previously handing out flattering publicity to a political figure by his own brother.
"I would be remiss, Brian, if I didn't mention CNN's own huge media story here with Chris Cuomo, the anchor at the nine o'clock hour, who covered Andrew Cuomo and had all these wonderful love-a-thon interviews with him, more than ten of them," Wemple told CNN host Brian Stelter.
"And they suspended the conflict of interest rule for Chris Cuomo for those interviews, yet all of the sudden they've enforced it again now that Andrew Cuomo is in the midst of a historic scandal in the Albany State House," Wemple continued.
"So, I think that is a major black eye for CNN," Wemple proclaimed. "I will say that you and other people have covered the Cuomo story very aggressively, so I do want to be fair about this, but it is a major black eye for this network."
Stelter looked stone-faced as Wemple ripped his network during an interview on CNN.
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To his credit, this isn't the first time that Wemple has called out a left-leaning cable TV news host. In 2019, Wemple bashed MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow for her partisanship and "rooting" for the Steele dossier to be true instead of being more concerned with the truth.
When small bits of news arose in favor of the dossier, the franchise MSNBC host pumped air into them. At least some of her many fans surely came away from her broadcasts thinking the dossier was a serious piece of investigative research, not the flimflam, quick-twitch game of telephone outlined in the Horowitz report. She seemed to be rooting for the document.
And when large bits of news arose against the dossier, Maddow found other topics more compelling.
She was there for the bunkings, absent for the debunkings — a pattern of misleading and dishonest asymmetry.
Did the 'Cuomosexual' media enable Gov. Andrew Cuomo?
Two more women came forward over the weekend with allegations of sexual misconduct against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Although Cuomo issued a public apology for making people uncomfortable, he said he "never touched anyone inappropriately." Now Democrats are calling for the resignation of the once beloved governor.
Steven Crowder told his audience Monday that he does not believe Cuomo is a "serial rapist." However, he does believe Cuomo should be held accountable for the grossly underreported number of COVID-19 deaths that occurred in New York nursing homes.
Crowder reminded his audience of when Steven Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Ellen Degeneres self-identified as "Cuomosexuals" and members of the mainstream media praised Gov. Cuomo as "one of the heroes on the front lines [of COVID]."
"Do not let the left get away with this," Crowder said. "This was their guy ... the example of how states should handle COVID."
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EXCLUSIVE: Alex Jones opens up about Jan. 6 at the Capitol
"I tried to get ahead and stop it but I couldn't move," Alex Jones recalled as he opened up about the tragic scene that unfolded Jan. 6 outside the U.S. Capitol.
During an exclusive interview with Steven Crowder, a passionate Alex described reaching the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., where he witnessed "hundreds of thousands" people at a rally with a small group of them breaching the building.
"We are running. We get there and there is tear gas and explosions, and it's surreal," Alex said. He recalled using a bullhorn to make the rioters stop but "by that point the crowd could not even hear him."
Steven asked Alex if he felt responsible [as an organizer of the event] for what happened that day.
Alex said he arrived to find "flash bangs" and "people beating cops" and he was sick over it.
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Trump campaign official confronts Chris Cuomo for giving his governor brother a pass on coronavirus in combative interview
The communications director for the Trump 2020 campaign slapped down CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on his own show for going easy on his governor brother on the coronavirus in a combative interview on Monday.
Tim Murtaugh confronted Cuomo and cited an interview where he joked with his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, while the coronavirus ravaged New York City.
"Your own brother, the governor of New York said that every time he turned to the administration, the federal government was there with everything that he needed, and with everything that he asked for," Murtaugh said.
"He did not say that, and that is not what happened," Cuomo replied.
"Yes, he absolutely did, every time, yes!" interjected Murtaugh.
"No," said Cuomo. "He said I went to the federal government, they helped me with things, they did not help with everything, they're still not helping."
"Your brother..." interrupted Murtaugh.
"My brother what? Keep talking about it," said Cuomo, visibly upset at the line of questioning.
Murtaugh went on to remind Cuomo about how his brother falsely predicted a vast shortage of ventilators in New York City that would lead to many deaths. Cuomo tersely admitted that was true.
"You're gonna ask me these self-righteous and talk about people taking it seriously, does this look like a couple of guys who were taking it seriously?" Murtaugh asked and then held up an image from Cuomo's show where he held up a large Q-Tip cotton swab as a joke.
"You had your brother on for the Cuomo Brothers Comedy Hour, joking about the size of the Q-Tip that you would need for his nose to take the test," Murtaugh said.
"Yeah, I did. It was funny as hell," responded Cuomo defensively.
"Does this sound like somebody who is taking it seriously?" added Murtaugh.
"Now, you took your swing," said Cuomo later on in the interview. "It missed. So now let's discuss. Is that all you got? That my brother didn't take COVID seriously? Are you kidding yourself? That I made fun with him at a time of such acute distress?"
Murtaugh went on to call out Cuomo for a report that said he had broken quarantine after he had tested positive for the coronavirus, and mocked him for the CNN show where viewers watched him come up from his quarantine in the basement living quarters.
"And you came home and you pretended to rise up from your basement, like Lazarus, even though you had already broken quarantine while you were COVID positive!" said Murtaugh.
Cuomo accused Murtaugh of mocking him for getting sick and denied ever breaking quarantine. He apparently doesn't remember the confrontation with a bicyclist while looking at some undeveloped property he had recently purchased.
Here's part of the fiery interview with Murtaugh on CNN:
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Stu Does America: '...and stupid Chris Cuomo is at his house in the Hamptons getting tested'
March 25, 2021 marked the one-year anniversary of the day Gov. Cuomo (NY-D) imported COVID-19 infected patients into nursing homes.
In this clip, Stu Burguiere hammered Gov. Cuomo for his deadly nursing home scandal as well as on recent allegations involving COVID-19 testing.
The Washington Post reported that according three people with knowledge of the situation, Gov. Cuomo's administration: "Arranged for his family members and other well-connected figures to have special access to state-administered coronavirus tests." According to witnesses, Cuomo's administration dispatched a top state doctor and other state health officials to their homes.
Burguiere noted a New York State law that prohibits an elected official from receiving preferential treatment over others. Burguiere has been outspoken about his disdain for Gov .Cuomo's brother, Chris Cuomo and this clip was no exception.
"You're a healthcare worker doing everything you can to keep people alive, and stupid Chris Cuomo is at his house in the Hamptons getting tested," Burguiere said.
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