{"id":1067827,"date":"2021-11-30T09:29:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1067827"},"modified":"2021-11-30T09:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:29:48","slug":"chris-cuomo-ignores-cnns-probe-into-his-latest-scandal-talks-tony-bennett-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-cuomo-ignores-cnns-probe-into-his-latest-scandal-talks-tony-bennett-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Cuomo Ignores CNN\u2019s Probe Into His Latest Scandal, Talks Tony Bennett Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchris-cuomo-ignores-cnns-probe-into-his-latest-scandal-talks-tony-bennett-instead%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1067827&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As New York\u2019s state attorney general released thousands of pages revealing that CNN host Chris Cuomo had tried to help his brother defend himself against sexual harassment charges by finding out the details of a forthcoming media story, Cuomo ignored his newest personal scandal on Monday\u2019s episode of \u201cCuomo Prime Time.\u201d He instead chose to discuss 95-year-old crooner Tony Bennett, COVID-19, and several dictionaries\u2019 choices for \u201cword of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, CNN announced it would conduct a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/29\/media\/chris-cuomo-documents-under-review\/index.html\">thorough review<\/a>\u201d of \u201cthousands of pages of additional transcripts and exhibits\u201d released by New York Attorney General (and Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james-announces-run-for-governor\">gubernatorial hopeful<\/a>) Letitia James, which show Cuomo used his position as a reporter to defend his embattled brother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-fall-of-andrew-cuomo-how-an-empire-built-on-fear-came-crashing-down\">then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo<\/a> (D).<\/p>\n<p>The documents reveal that Cuomo admitted under oath that he tried to ferret out the details of Ronan Farrow\u2019s reporting on the governor\u2019s sexual harassment scandal, something the anchor described as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/business-as-usual-transcript-shows-cnns-chris-cuomo-looked-into-ronan-farrows-investigation-into-andrew-cuomo-shared-intel\">business-as-usual<\/a>.\u201d That significantly expanded the younger Cuomo\u2019s admitted role as part of his brother\u2019s kitchen cabinet, committed to protecting the governor, even if his accusers\u2019 allegations were true. As this author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/opinion-one-cuomo-down-one-to-go\">reported<\/a> at The Daily Wire:<\/p>\n<p><em>In May, The Washington Post&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/chris-cuomo-andrew-cuomo\/2021\/05\/20\/99579382-b7f9-11eb-bb84-6b92dedcd8ed_story.html\">revealed<\/a><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>that Chris Cuomo had advised his brother on how to handle the allegations that he groped or propositioned a series of women who worked for him.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/CPT\/date\/2021-05-20\/segment\/01\">The day<\/a><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>the story broke, both Chris Cuomo and CNN promised that they had learned their lesson. Cuomo&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fMpz-_Ef3EI\">swore<\/a><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>\u201cit will not happen again,\u201d in part because of how it reflected on CNN.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After it emerged that the CNN host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/opinion-chris-cuomo-must-go-after-lying-about-his-brothers-scandal-again\">continued to advise<\/a> his brother, Chris Cuomo defended his ethical propriety on the air on August 16, in what he promised would be his \u201cfinal word\u201d on the subject. At the time, he said, \u201cI never made calls to the press about my brother\u2019s situation,\u201d something the latest probe appears to contradict.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in August, CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/honest-and-heartfelt-brian-stelter-spins-for-chris-cuomo-again\">Brian Stelter defended<\/a> his colleague on \u201cThe Late Show,\u201d telling Stephen Colbert that Cuomo observed appropriate \u201cboundaries\u201d in his handling of his brother\u2019s situation.&nbsp;But in his most recent \u201cReliable Sources\u201d newsletter, Stelter <a href=\"https:\/\/view.newsletters.cnn.com\/messages\/16382428339632761c0fccb48\/raw\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris had generally acknowledged and defended advising his brother \u2013 but<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>the<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>scope of how the anchor aimed to help his brother was more considerable than previously known<\/strong>. And&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/29\/media\/chris-cuomo-documents-under-review\/index.html?utm_term=16382428339632761c0fccb48&amp;utm_source=cnn_Reliable+Sources+-+November+29%2C+2021&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bt_ee=l0%2BpwlkUMDyjKQT2PBU67bnGKymwc69HS7LIux78sq4qQhGe0jkjPXMdXbFmccr5L3Jz1S7aG9CS016Ufz9mdA%3D%3D&amp;bt_ts=1638242833966\" data-location=\"t7\">he was more intimately involved than anyone on the outside appreciated<\/a><\/em><em>. For example, texts between Chris Cuomo and&nbsp;<\/em><strong><em>Melissa DeRosa<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>indicated that Cuomo sought to use his connections in the press to help prepare the then-governor\u2019s team as accusers started to make their stories public.&nbsp;<\/em>(Emphases in original.)<\/p>\n<p>As he did during his brother\u2019s sexual harassment charges, Cuomo simply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chris-cuomo-ignores-brothers-controversy-and-his-own-then-don-lemon-attacks-the-gov\">ducked<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/even-with-chris-cuomo-gone-his-show-ignores-brothers-scandal\">subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Chris Cuomo chose to open his program with a rare, two-minute-long dialogue with Anderson Cooper about his affection for crooner Tony Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>He then wished a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2020\/12\/faq-what-is-hanukkah\/\">happy Hanukkah<\/a>, to my Jewish brothers and sisters!\u201d He added, \u201cI hope Thanksgiving was a reminder for everybody of the good people and the good things in your life. Lord knows we could use the help, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo \u2014 who is dependably liberal \u2014 took a decidedly more populist approach to the issues on Monday night\u2019s episode. Cuomo critiqued the legacy media\u2019s coverage of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 during the Thanksgiving holiday. (\u201cThey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/world-health-organization-skips-over-naming-new-coronavirus-variant-xi-to-avoid-causing-offence-report\">skipped a couple letters<\/a> in their labeling of variants, for different reasons,\u201d he said opaquely.)<\/p>\n<p>That echoed the way he deflected his brother\u2019s sexual harassment probe three months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re focused on COVID here,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/CPT\/date\/2021-08-03\/segment\/01\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Cuomo as he opened his August 3 show, \u201cespecially until we get the Delta variant under control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How CNN\u2019s Chris Cuomo started his show tonight:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m Chris Cuomo. Welcome to &#8220;Prime Time.&#8221; We&#8217;re focused on COVID here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s forgetting something. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/weS89sGTtT\">pic.twitter.com\/weS89sGTtT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1422725870473596928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cuomo dedicated two segments to the Omicron variant, one segment to the phone call between Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), another to cracking down on smash-and-grab robberies. He closed with a segment on the \u201cword of the year\u201d as chosen by various dictionary companies.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo said bad behavior in politics will never improve, because \u201cnobody ever says anything about\u201d such infractions, \u201cnone of the leadership; they\u2019re just quiet in these cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although numerous watchdogs called for Chris Cuomo to step down or be fired months ago, CNN has thus far stood by the well-connected personality. A former CNN employee told The Hill that CNN brass deliberately keep their ethical standards vague to avoid having to fire favored hosts \u2014 or to allow them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-fires-rick-santorum-after-he-claimed-founding-fathers-birthed-a-nation-from-nothing\">fire<\/a> disfavored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rick-santorums-firing-proves-cnn-doesnt-want-to-hear-anyone-who-sounds-like-you\">contributors<\/a>. \u201cThey can\u2019t say that [Cuomo]\u2019s violated any written [ethical] policies because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-cnn-employee-says-outlet-has-no-real-ethical-code\">there aren\u2019t any, period<\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;Steve Holmes told The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>During his 10 p.m. hand-off with Don Lemon on Monday night, Lemon offered Cuomo his support:<\/p>\n<p><em>I know you had a great Thanksgiving \u2014 I hope you did. I missed you. I am grateful for your friendship and your love. I think that you are fantastic\u2013one of the kindest people I know on this planet. There you go \u2014<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As New York\u2019s state attorney general released thousands of pages revealing that CNN host Chris Cuomo had tried to help his brother defend himself against sexual harassment charges by finding out the details of a forthcoming media story, Cuomo ignored his newest personal scandal on Monday\u2019s episode of \u201cCuomo Prime Time.\u201d He instead chose to discuss 95-year-old crooner Tony Bennett, COVID-19, and several dictionaries\u2019 choices for \u201cword of the year.\u201dEarlier in the day, CNN announced it would conduct a \u201cthorough review\u201d of \u201cthousands of pages of additional transcripts and exhibits\u201d released by New York Attorney General (and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful) Letitia James, which show Cuomo used his position as a reporter to defend his embattled brother, then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D).The documents reveal that Cuomo admitted under oath that he tried to ferret out the details of Ronan Farrow\u2019s reporting on the governor\u2019s sexual harassment scandal, something the anchor described as \u201cbusiness-as-usual.\u201d That significantly expanded the younger Cuomo\u2019s admitted role as part of his brother\u2019s kitchen cabinet, committed to protecting the governor, even if his accusers\u2019 allegations were true. As this author reported at The Daily Wire:In May, The Washington Post\u00a0revealed\u00a0that Chris Cuomo had advised his brother on how to handle the allegations that he groped or propositioned a series of women who worked for him.\u00a0The day\u00a0the story broke, both Chris Cuomo and CNN promised that they had learned their lesson. Cuomo\u00a0swore\u00a0\u201cit will not happen again,\u201d in part because of how it reflected on CNN.After it emerged that the CNN host continued to advise his brother, Chris Cuomo defended his ethical propriety on the air on August 16, in what he promised would be his \u201cfinal word\u201d on the subject. At the time, he said, \u201cI never made calls to the press about my brother\u2019s situation,\u201d something the latest probe appears to contradict.Earlier in August, CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter defended his colleague on \u201cThe Late Show,\u201d telling Stephen Colbert that Cuomo observed appropriate \u201cboundaries\u201d in his handling of his brother\u2019s situation.\u00a0But in his most recent \u201cReliable Sources\u201d newsletter, Stelter wrote:Chris had generally acknowledged and defended advising his brother \u2013 but\u00a0the\u00a0scope of how the anchor aimed to help his brother was more considerable than previously known. And\u00a0he was more intimately involved than anyone on the outside appreciated. For example, texts between Chris Cuomo and\u00a0Melissa DeRosa\u00a0indicated that Cuomo sought to use his connections in the press to help prepare the then-governor\u2019s team as accusers started to make their stories public.\u00a0(Emphases in original.)As he did during his brother\u2019s sexual harassment charges, Cuomo simply ducked the subject.Instead, Chris Cuomo chose to open his program with a rare, two-minute-long dialogue with Anderson Cooper about his affection for crooner Tony Bennett.He then wished a \u201chappy Hanukkah, to my Jewish brothers and sisters!\u201d He added, \u201cI hope Thanksgiving was a reminder for everybody of the good people and the good things in your life. Lord knows we could use the help, right?\u201dCuomo \u2014 who is dependably liberal \u2014 took a decidedly more populist approach to the issues on Monday night\u2019s episode. Cuomo critiqued the legacy media\u2019s coverage of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 during the Thanksgiving holiday. (\u201cThey skipped a couple letters in their labeling of variants, for different reasons,\u201d he said opaquely.)That echoed the way he deflected his brother\u2019s sexual harassment probe three months earlier.\u201cWe\u2019re focused on COVID here,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Cuomo as he opened his August 3 show, \u201cespecially until we get the Delta variant under control.\u201dHow CNN\u2019s Chris Cuomo started his show tonight:\u201cI\u2019m Chris Cuomo. Welcome to &#8220;Prime Time.&#8221; We&#8217;re focused on COVID here.\u201dHe\u2019s forgetting something. pic.twitter.com\/weS89sGTtT\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 4, 2021Cuomo dedicated two segments to the Omicron variant, one segment to the phone call between Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), another to cracking down on smash-and-grab robberies. He closed with a segment on the \u201cword of the year\u201d as chosen by various dictionary companies.Cuomo said bad behavior in politics will never improve, because \u201cnobody ever says anything about\u201d such infractions, \u201cnone of the leadership; they\u2019re just quiet in these cases.\u201dAlthough numerous watchdogs called for Chris Cuomo to step down or be fired months ago, CNN has thus far stood by the well-connected personality. A former CNN employee told The Hill that CNN brass deliberately keep their ethical standards vague to avoid having to fire favored hosts \u2014 or to allow them to fire disfavored contributors. \u201cThey can\u2019t say that [Cuomo]\u2019s violated any written [ethical] policies because there aren\u2019t any, period,\u201d\u00a0Steve Holmes told The Hill.During his 10 p.m. hand-off with Don Lemon on Monday night, Lemon offered Cuomo his support:I know you had a great Thanksgiving \u2014 I hope you did. I missed you. I am grateful for your friendship and your love. I think that you are fantastic\u2013one of the kindest people I know on this planet. There you go \u2014 I meant every word.Cuomo, whose \u201cCuomo Prime Time\u201d once reigned as the CNN\u2019s top-rated program, lost its first-place position to \u201cAnderson Cooper 360\u201d earlier this month. In the first week of November, Cuomo attracted only 684,000 viewers.Related: Chris Cuomo Ignores Brother\u2019s Controversy \u2013 And His Own. Then Don Lemon Attacks the Gov.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}