{"id":1389341,"date":"2022-03-19T07:57:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T11:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389341"},"modified":"2022-03-19T08:02:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T12:02:24","slug":"maureen-callahan-shameless-delusional-cuomo-brothers-continue-to-play-the-role-of-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maureen-callahan-shameless-delusional-cuomo-brothers-continue-to-play-the-role-of-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Callahan: Shameless, Delusional Cuomo Brothers Continue to Play the Role of Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fmaureen-callahan-shameless-delusional-cuomo-brothers-continue-to-play-the-role-of-victims%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=1389341&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Cockroaches.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Richards.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuomo brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Andrew and Chris, those heroes-to-zeroes, have officially earned their place among the rare life forms sure to survive Armageddon.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing can exterminate these two from public life, because nothing Andrew or Chris has ever done is their fault.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, scratch that. The problem, you see (and can\u2019t you just hear Andrew\u2019s pedantic, patronizing voice saying this, lowering down into that slow, conspiratorial whisper?) is <em>ev-er-y-bo-dy else<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And really, the Cuomo brothers believe this. Two delusional, power-hungry, disloyal narcissists, determined to bully weary voters and viewers into submission. It\u2019s all so very dignified and statesman-like.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, just seven months shy of resigning in disgrace, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/17\/cuomo-slams-dems-as-extremists-driven-by-cancel-culture-in-bronx-church-visit\/\">Andrew gave a lengthy speech<\/a> explaining what\u2019s gone wrong with the modern Democratic party.<\/p>\n<p>Answer: They pushed him out of it.<\/p>\n<p>This speech was classic Andrew Cuomo, lamenting the thoughtlessness with which his political carcass was burned on the progressive pyre \u2014 and yet! He is magnanimous enough to maybe consider serving as governor again.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/220317_Yang_NYP___Cuomo_26.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/220317_Yang_NYP___Cuomo_26.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Former governor Andrew Cuomo departs an event with Ruben Diaz in The Bronx.\" class=\"wp-image-21567098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/220317_Yang_NYP___Cuomo_26.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/220317_Yang_NYP___Cuomo_26.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/220317_Yang_NYP___Cuomo_26.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/220317_Yang_NYP___Cuomo_26.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>In a speech, former governor Andrew Cuomo blamed his resignation on cancel culture.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Few things are as cringe-making as watching Andrew Cuomo play hard-to-get.<\/p>\n<p>And wouldn\u2019t you know, all the problems New York faces \u2014 Andrew can really relate. Number one, he said, is crime \u2014 like, say, the terrible crime committed against him.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cExtremists dictate radical positions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Translation: Woketivists and feminists got me fired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s an old expression: The politician who does nothing does nothing wrong.\u201d Self-explanatory.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/15\/andrea-stewart-cousins-blame-gov-hochul-for-bail-law-too\/\">misguided bail reform:<\/a> \u201cHow many more people have to be assaulted before [politicians] react?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talk about living in an echo chamber. As governor, Andrew was credibly accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/16\/hochul-signs-sex-harassment-laws-takes-dig-at-andrew-cuomo\/\">sexually harassing 11 women<\/a> and fostering a toxic, bullying workplace. This went on for years before an attorney general \u2014 a female attorney general \u2014 decided to react.<\/p>\n<p>But let Andrew Cuomo bring morality. ethics and a measured approach back to Albany, won\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>Taking advice from his equally disgraced brother Chris, Andrew then blamed his resignation on cancel culture.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/220317_Yang_NYP___Cuomo_20.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/220317_Yang_NYP___Cuomo_20.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Cuomo speaks at an event with Ruben Diaz in The Bronx.\" class=\"wp-image-21567103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/220317_Yang_NYP___Cuomo_20.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/220317_Yang_NYP___Cuomo_20.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/220317_Yang_NYP___Cuomo_20.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/220317_Yang_NYP___Cuomo_20.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>At the event, Cuomo said he proudly supported bail reform in 2019 when he signed the bill, but now sees a need to revise it.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a social death penalty,\u201d he lamented. \u201cNo one\u2019s immune \u2014 politicians definitely. I know, because my family paid the price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of prices, his brother Chris has just <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/16\/fired-chris-cuomo-demands-125m-from-cnn\/\">raised his ransom demand at CNN from $65 million to $125 million.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris, you see, regarded himself as a very serious journalist at CNN. Now he rides around in muscle cars out East, literally spinning his wheels for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/cuomo-preimetime.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/cuomo-preimetime.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Chris Cuomo Primetime\" class=\"wp-image-21567121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/cuomo-preimetime.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/cuomo-preimetime.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/cuomo-preimetime.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Chris Cuomo was fired for helping his brother, Andrew Cuomo, fight sexual harassment allegations.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jeremy Freeman\/CNN<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As one <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/02\/08\/chris-cuomo-wants-as-much-as-60-million-from-cnn\/\">source told Page Six in February<\/a>: \u201cChris is telling people in the Hamptons he was wrongly fired, humiliated, his career has been ruined, and he wants Megyn Kelly money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such a man of the people. Oh and a champion for women. Remember, as he once so seriously intoned on-air: he takes these issues, #MeToo and such, very seriously.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Chris, don\u2019t forget, tried to smear at least one of his brother\u2019s accusers while at CNN. As a working on-air journalist, he secretly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/20\/chris-cuomo-apologizes-to-cnn-admits-he-advised-andrew-on-scandal\/\">advised his governor brother off-air<\/a>, at the height of Andrew\u2019s scandals. Yet this wasn\u2019t enough to terminate Chris. Nor were any of the multiple journalistic ethics Chris breached during the height of COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, wouldn\u2019t you know: it was a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/04\/chris-cuomo-fired-from-cnn-over-involvement-with-brother-andrews-scandals\/\">sexual harassment claim brought against Chris<\/a> last December that did him in. If CNN wasn\u2019t willing to fire Chris Cuomo before, then that sexual harassment complaint must have been believable.<\/p>\n<p>Just as everyone knew Andrew was a bully, everyone knew Chris was too. A few months before Chris was let go, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2021\/09\/27\/melanie-buck-felt-threatened-enough-by-chris-cuomo-to-quit-show\/\">Page Six reported<\/a> that one of his female producers had \u201cbegged to leave his show,\u201d with more than one source saying that \u201cshe felt threatened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her request was granted.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a new claim filed against CNN on Wednesday, Chris Cuomo whines that he \u201chas had his journalistic integrity unjustifiably smeared.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/chris-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/chris-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Chris and Andrew Cuomo on CNN.\" class=\"wp-image-21567183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/chris-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/chris-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Cuomo said that CNN executives Jeff Zucker and Allison Gollust were also secretly advising Andrew.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">CNN<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cuomo says that his former BFFs Jeff Zucker and Don Lemon are just as ethically compromised, that the whole news organization is rotten and problematic \u2014 no argument there \u2014 that Zucker and his <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/02\/cnns-jeff-zucker-resigns-over-romantic-relationship-with-colleague\/\">girlfriend, CNN exec Allison Gollust<\/a>, were also secretly advising Andrew, so why should he take the fall?<\/p>\n<p>Much like Alec Baldwin\u2019s recently filed claim for arbitration, Chris Cuomo\u2019s contains some doozies: Chris never \u201c[took] part in \u2014 or even became aware of \u2014 any efforts to tarnish the credibility of Gov. Cuomo\u2019s accusers\u201d is but one example.<\/p>\n<p>And as with Baldwin\u2019s filing, there is a startling lack of self-awareness here. When your complaint essentially reads, \u201cEverybody hates Chris,\u201d you have to wonder: Just why does everybody hate Chris?<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/951616944.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/951616944.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=732\" alt=\"Chris and Andrew pose for a photo.\" class=\"wp-image-21567143\" width=\"338\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/951616944.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=673 676w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/951616944.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=505 507w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/951616944.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=338 338w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/951616944.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=168 169w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/951616944.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Both Cuomo brothers have been accused of sexual assault in their workplaces.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Tribeca Film Fe<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A sampling from cited news reports:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/chris-cuomo-despised-figure-cnn-fallout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chris Cuomo a \u2018Despised Figure\u2019 <\/a>Within CNN at This Point as Fallout Continues Over His Firing: Insider.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[S]ome CNN employees found Cuomo\u2019s combative, hot-blooded conduct . . . <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/02\/16\/jeff-zucker-chris-cuomo-cnn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018rude and even threatening.\u2019\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Chris] Caused \u2018So Many Headaches\u2019 for CNN, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbangor.com\/national-news\/cnns-brian-stelter-on-chris-cuomo-firing-he-caused-so-many-headaches-for-cnn-staffers-were-very-unhappy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Staffers Were \u2018Very Unhappy.\u2019 \u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/cnn-cans-chris-cuomo-for-helping-andrew-cuomo-fight-sexual-harassment-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">toxic and distracting presence.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And my favorite, from a CNN insider: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10262857\/Chris-Cuomo-friendless-CNN-prior-suspension.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I don\u2019t know anyone who likes him.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One female state assemblywoman on the then-embattled Gov. Andrew Cuomo: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/cuomo-harassment-fallout\/2021\/08\/09\/282606f2-f918-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A lot of people just don\u2019t like him.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We get it. The preening, the machismo, the pedantry, the hypocrisy, the bully-cum-hapless-victim-act, the sheer arrogance and contempt, the inability to ever once express a shred of remorse or humility \u2014 the Cuomo brothers, for all their rivalry, are quite the same. And now they face an identical fate, probably the worst either could imagine: to be irrelevant, unwanted, not missed, once-big men made small by, of all people, women.<\/p>\n<p>Hey \u2014 at least they\u2019ll always have each other. I mean, Fredo would never turn against his own brother . . . right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cockroaches. Keith Richards. The Cuomo brothers. 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