There was great rejoicing throughout the land when CNN made it official that two corrupt-o-crats both named Cuomo – one a Democrat politician, the other a Democrat propagandist – were dismissed from the positions of authority they used to abuse others. If for some reason you didn't get the news over the weekend, the pompous CNN bloviator Chris Cuomo was first suspended, then fired from one of the Left's leading media operations for his complicity in helping his brother cover-up his exploitation and harassment of women.
It's sad to consider that it took allegations of sexual misconduct to bring down Gov. Andrew Cuomo, given that – long before such accusations surfaced – he had engineered such a reckless and inept response to the COVID pandemic that countless elderly people suffered and died needlessly. Part of the reason he escaped such a scandal was thanks to his well-situated brother, Chris, who ran interference for him from his primetime perch at CNN.
Yes, that's the same Chris Cuomo who contracted COVID himself, violated state and federal quarantine guidelines, cussed out a bicyclist who exposed him, and then staged one of the most absurd charades of the entire pandemic by "reemerging" from his basement quarantine despite everyone knowing he had already been out and traveling.
So to say there are very few tears being shed over the public disgracing of the Cuomo name is an understatement.
The reality is, however, that the Cuomo phenomenon is anything but the exception to America's current media-as-celebrity culture. Virtually every network has well-known, notorious agitators with a reputation for dishonesty, perversion, and even corruption in their employ.
Consider this last week alone.
Despite having been outed years ago for homophobic and bigoted remarks on her own blog, MSNBC continues to employ one of the most intellectually-challenged hosts in the history of cable news. Joy Reid has proven a master of race-exploitation and half-truths, using her nearly unwatchable broadcast "The Reid Out" to peddle misinformation for the sole purpose of inflaming her viewers. Consider:
When even leftist actress Sarah Silverman can't abide the inflammatory rhetoric your network is pumping out, maybe it's time to revisit your primetime lineup. No less than 22 states, including liberal utopias like New York and California, have the very kind of civilian volunteer force that Governor DeSantis has proposed. Yet, Reid pretends a civilian force that will undoubtedly be made up of some citizens whose families escaped the Castro regime dares to compare them to communist goose-steppers.
Meanwhile, her colleague at MSNBC, Mehdi Hasan took the occasion of former Senator and World War II vet Bob Dole's death to divide Americans by making it about his own Donald Trump obsession.
There is no question where the polarization and hatred in this country is being fueled. Politicians may participate, but they are mere cogs in the media outrage industry's wheel.
And lest you believe it is only the opinion journalists, think again:
Even what was once considered the neutral domain of late-night comedy, a field pioneered by non-political, equally-opportunity jokesters like Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, have now become the domain of angry left-wing partisans who replace comedic monologues with political speeches like this:
And this:
So, by all means, let us rejoice and be happy that our long, national Cuomo nightmare has mercifully come to an end. But let's also remember that saving the Republic depends on the public rejecting and marginalizing into irrelevance the copious Cuomo copycats that populate American media culture today.
