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CNN’s Chris Cuomo Aims At Trump, Smacks Brother

Chris Cuomo

I like Chris Cuomo. He is a former colleague at CNN. I defended him – along with Sean Hannity and on Hannity TV – when some bozo confronted him when he was out with his family on a restaurant on a summer weekend. And certainly wished him well during his virus bout. No time there to fool around.

We just disagree on politics. And soooooo?

So. Much discussed recently have been the seriously malicious attacks on Goya CEO Robert Unanue for appearing at a White House event,  a ceremony for a Hispanic Prosperity Initiative. Standing alongside the President, the Hispanic head of a Hispanic company that is a serious all-American success story said that Americans were “truly blessed” to have Trump in the White House.

The Cancel Culture mob went crazy. Never mind that Unanue had not only been to the Obama White House where he was similarly gracious to Obama but had also, on a second occasion, closely cooperated with First Lady Michelle Obama on her MiPlato – My Plate – program with the US Agriculture Department. The program, according to Mrs. Obama’s office in a statement, was a:

“..nationwide effort to encourage health and wellness in communities across the country. Goya Foods is rolling out numerous steps to help communities enjoy healthy, tasty, and affordable meals including creating brochures, posters, coupons, and cookbooks for consumers; developing educational tools for 4th through 6th-grade students across the country; and imprinting the MiPlato icon on some of their products.”

So clearly, no one objected when Goya and Unanue were being celebrated by Obama and Unanue was polite and gracious to the President and First Lady.

But Chris was not pleased about the Goya attention from President Trump and said this the other night:

“You tell me how a president in the middle of a pandemic has got time for this bullsh*t? Are you kidding me?”

Um. Two things here.

Be careful what and how you criticize the President. Your critical chicken could come home to roost.

First, President Obama was in the middle of running wars in Afghanistan and Iraq when he took time out to celebrate Goya’s CEO. No word of criticism from Chris while American soldiers were dying and President Obama was taking time out for Goya beans.

But there is a very curious situation right now that Chris has, in his zeal to smack the President, opened up.

His brother Andrew, the Governor of New York, is also in the middle of dealing with the pandemic. The “Goya” moment for Governor Cuomo was not a can of beans but a poster. A poster celebrating his handling of the pandemic – a pandemic that is, as Chris Cuomo has himself pointed out, is not over.

So let’s take a look at what Governor Cuomo has been up to – using Chris Cuomo’s own standard.  And as a matter of fact, let’s turn to Chris Cuomo’s fellow CNNer Jake Tapper. Here’s the headline from Breitbart:

CNN’s Tapper: Gov. Cuomo’s ‘Victory Tour’ Poster Doesn’t Include Pictures of ‘32,000 Dead New Yorkers’

Ouch.

Yes, you read that right. Governor Cuomo, in the middle of a pandemic that on his watch has killed 32,000 New Yorkers, stopped his work to devote his energy to peddling a poster that celebrated – himself. And not a peep of objection from brother Chris and how, to borrow from Chris by changing the name of one title,  “a governor in the middle of a pandemic has got time for this bullsh*t?”

What has happened here, remarkably, is that in his zeal to attack the president, Chris has wound up opening the door for exactly the same attack on his brother. And by a CNN colleague no less – although Jake Tapper was not alone.

And now? Now let me defend both President Trump and Governor Cuomo.

They are both chief executives. Part of their respective jobs as president and governor is to act as cheerleaders for their country and state, not to mention everybody in their country and state. There are, literally, limitless ways to do this, and in the day and age of modern media the advisers to presidents and governors alike spend volumes of time trying to come up with ways to illustrate the point of the moment the president or governor wishes to focus on. In this case, President Trump wanted to make a point of standing up for Goya once he realized its CEO and products were under attack for the CEO’s moment standing up for him. In Governor Cuomo’s case, he clearly believes he needs to claim victory for his handling of the virus – which in fact is under assault, as no less than brother Chris’s own CNN colleague Jake Tapper illustrated. So…the Governor made time for his poster.

The central point here? To change an old bit of human wisdom about “be careful of what you wish for?” If your brother is Governor of New York, and is dealing with the exact same problem as the President you can’t stand?

Be careful what and how you criticize the President. Your critical chicken could come home to roost.

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