2021 started off as Andrew and Chris Cuomo’s year, and it is ending with both of them being out of a job.
Andrew Cuomo resigned earlier this year after allegations of sexual advances and harassment towards women he worked with while governor of New York. There were several women who made this claim, and his brother used his influence to allegedly look up on dirt on them and act as his brother’s aide.
As soon as CNN learned about the latter, they did an investigation on him. Today, they made a decision about his future with the network.
“Chris Cuomo was suspended earlier this week pending further evaluation of new information that came to light about his involvement with his brother’s defense. We retained a respected law firm to conduct the review, and have terminated him, effective immediately.
“While in the process of that review, additional information has come to light. Despite the termination, we will investigate as appropriate.”
While Chris Cuomo said, “This is not how I want my time at CNN to end but I have already told you why and how I helped my brother. So let me now say as disappointing as this is, I could not be more proud of the team at Cuomo Prime Time and the work we did as CNN’s #1 show in the most competitive time slot. I owe them all and will miss that group of special people who did really important work.”
As someone who worked in hard news, I will admit we will use our jobs sometimes to get information about personal matters, like if a friend or family member might have been injured in an accident before it is released to the public. However, we know the line, and Cuomo crossed it.
Our loyalty belongs to our jobs and journalism before everyone else, including our family members. Or at least it should.
And to the people, who work at other news outlets, don’t get overly excited about this news. It could easily happen at your place of employment too. If it hasn’t already. Remember how happy you were to see male anchors get fired at Fox News, then CBS, then NBC, and so on. No place is safe from people abusing their power. And you know it.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 16, 2020
Last week. Donald Trump invited the head of Goya to the White House. When the executive was there, he praised the president, and people called for a boycott of his products.
On Tuesday, Ivanka Trump posed with a can of their beans from inside the White House, which is something that she is not allowed to do. Since we know the Trumps don’t follow the rules, he one-upped his daughter-wife by posing with a bunch of their products in the Oval Office on the resolute desk.
As soon as Chris Cuomo saw that he was pissed, and he called out Trump on his primetime show. Cuomo said, “You tell me how a president in the middle of a pandemic, has time for this 🐂💩. Are you kidding me?” We all wish he was, but Trump only cares about a few things, himself, his money, and pissing people off. He succeeded with the latter by posing for this picture.
However, no one as much as Cuomo, who said a word on CNN you are not supposed to say. Watch Trump’s supporters be more mad about the word 🐂💩 than the ethic violation their cult leader and his daughter-wife committed. Sad.
BTW when is trump going to hock Kool-Aid, or is that too obvious?
https://youtu.be/wbake8E5MAM?t=278
Now that Governor Andrew Cuomo is getting the national spotlight, Chris Cuomo is very jealous of him. Therefore, yesterday when his big brother was on Cuomo Prime Time, he called him out on all of his other television appearances like Ellen DeGeneres.
At that point, the Governor said that people tell him not to go on his brother’s show because he gets harassed. Which he does, and Chris continued to do so.
Chris went on to say that the other governors claim that Andrew talks in the third person on their conference calls. Something the NY Gov denied.
Then Chris asked if he thinks he is better looking now because he is “single and ready to mingle.” I know a lot of single women in NY who would date him. Heck, my married friend would leave her husband for him. Who does not want an intelligent man who cares about others before himself? Chris on the other hand, even if he was single, I don’t know anyone who would mingle with him over his brother.
Seriously, so far nothing good has come out of Coronavirus pandemic except for this. Hopefully, their play fighting will continue on the air for years to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsy5sZtMFw4
As much as we look forward to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily tough love press briefings, we can’t wait for him to be on his brother’s CNN Prime Time show. Yesterday, he was on Chris Cuomo’s show and they were bickering again.
Chris bragged how their mom taught him how to make her spaghetti sauce, and Andrew said he had to work back then like now. Then the governor called his brother a “meatball.” To which Chris responded by saying it is a compliment in Italian families. It isn’t, but let him believe that.
Andrew also gave his brother crap for doing his show from his basement. A place Andrew says that Chris’ wife Christina banishes him to a lot.
Talking about white rooms, Chris wanted to know if Andrew is considering moving to the White House. Is he? In one word, “NO!”
Sadly, this morning Chris got a yes, he did not want. He wrote, “S00000 in these difficult times that seem to get more difficult and complicated by the day, I just found out that I am positive for corona virus. I have been exposed to people in recent days who have subsequently tested positive and I had fever, chills and shortness of breath. I just hope I didn’t give it to the kids and Cristina. That would make me feel worse than this illness! I am quarantined in my basement (which actually makes the rest of the family seem pleased!) I will do my shows from here. We will all beat this by being smart and tough and united!
https://twitter.com/AdamJSmithGA/status/1242267017308233730 Last week, Chris Cuomo called out his brother Governor Andrew Cuomo for not calling their mother on the telephone. Even though he spoke to her just before that interview.
The Governor of NY has even spoken to her since. Yesterday, when Chris thanked his big brother for being on CNN’s New Day again, Andrew said, “Mom told me I had to.” The little bro responded with an eye roll that even Anderson Cooper would bow down to.
I love that even though Andrew is 62 and Chis is 49, they still bicker like when they were 5 and 18. Well, you know what I mean. That is why their sisters are mom’s favorites.
If Andrew is ever out of office, then CNN has to give them a show together where they fight all the time. It would be ratings gold.
