{"id":191507,"date":"2021-03-05T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=191507"},"modified":"2021-03-05T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:00:27","slug":"walsh-the-cuomo-sexual-harassment-scandal-is-distracting-from-his-far-worse-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-the-cuomo-sexual-harassment-scandal-is-distracting-from-his-far-worse-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"WALSH: The Cuomo Sexual Harassment Scandal Is Distracting From His Far Worse Scandal"},"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%2Fwalsh-the-cuomo-sexual-harassment-scandal-is-distracting-from-his-far-worse-scandal%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=191507&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Andrew-Cuomo-3-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The media is reporting with frantic urgency about a scandal involving the Democratic governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo. This is the same governor who instated a policy in the spring of 2020 requiring nursing homes to admit COVID patients. Many thousands of elderly perished because of that policy. The alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/03\/cuomos-nursing-home-scandal-is-only-getting-uglier\">cover up<\/a> <span lang=\"EN\">\u2014\u00a0<\/span>Cuomo\u2019s aides allegedly underreported the official fatality numbers in order to downplay nursing home deaths\u00a0<span lang=\"EN\">\u2014\u00a0<\/span>is only now coming fully to light. This is, without question, a major scandal. But that is not the scandal that the media has plastered all over its headlines. It is not what has prompted fellow Democrats to call for his <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/everyone-calling-for-cuomo-resign.html\">resignation<\/a>. It is not the scandal that forced Cuomo to hold a press conference and publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/politics\/where-is-cuomo-ny-governor-avoids-public-amid-outcry-over-harassment-allegations\/2920812\/\">apologize<\/a> for his behavior. No, what sparked that level of attention and backlash are sexual harassment allegations against the governor.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that we are putting the deaths of thousands of human beings to the side for the moment so that we can focus on the apparently even more serious charge that Andrew Cuomo made inappropriate remarks to a few women. The Washington Post has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/03\/01\/andrew-cuomo-timeline-what-he-said-about-sexual-harassment-vs-allegations-against-him\/\">details<\/a> on those accusations:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Former top staffer Lindsey Boylan\u2026\u00a0said her uncomfortable experiences with Cuomo dated to 2016. In December of that year, she said, her boss informed her that the governor had a \u201ccrush\u201d on her\u2026 In October 2017, she said, the governor suggested they play strip poker. And in 2018, she said, he gave her an unwanted kiss on the lips. Cuomo and his office have denied the details of the allegations but have called for an investigation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The second on-the-record accuser is another former aide, Charlotte Bennett\u2026\u00a0said that, in June, Cuomo asked her a number of questions about her personal life, including whether she had been intimate with older men. She said he also talked about being open to a relationship with a woman in her 20s\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A third accuser\u2026\u00a0Anna Ruch said she had never met Cuomo when he placed his hand on her bare lower back at a September 2019 wedding and then, after she removed it, placed his hands on her cheeks and asked if he could kiss her.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p data-el=\"text\">Some of these comments are inappropriate to varying degrees. Some of them <span lang=\"EN\">\u2014<\/span>\u00a0like a woman hearing from a third party that the unmarried Cuomo has a crush on her <span lang=\"EN\">\u2014<\/span> can\u2019t reasonably be construed as sexual harassment on the part of Cuomo himself. The unwanted kissing and touching is, again, inappropriate, but not much different from, or worse than, the handsy behavior for which President Biden is famous. And certainly none of this rises to a level that puts it in the same ballpark, city, or universe as the nursing home scandal.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">Yes, the inappropriate comments and the policy that killed thousands of elderly people are both bad. But saying \u201cboth are bad,\u201d as if to lump the offenses together in the same category, is like saying \u201cboth are bad\u201d when you find out that Ted Bundy not only murdered 17 people but also once stole a guy\u2019s parking lot at Walmart. It may be true that both things are bad, but the one thing so outweighs the other, and is such a vastly bigger deal, that it seems silly to spend significant time discussing the lesser offense. It\u2019s quite a bit worse than silly when the bigger deal is treated as the addendum to the smaller one.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">It\u2019s hard to avoid the conclusion that the Left has latched onto the sexual harassment scandal as a way to distract from the far more damning one. The other option is that the timing is all one big coincidence. Perhaps the media developed a sudden yet sincere interest in Cuomo\u2019s behavior towards women, after spending the past 11 months singing his praises from the rooftops, and the fact that it is now drowning out the story about Cuomo\u2019s reckless endangerment of the most vulnerable in his state is purely incidental. That\u2019s always a possibility but I wouldn\u2019t bet on it. If we\u2019ve learned one thing about the media, it\u2019s that distraction is one of their favorite tactics.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\"><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\"><em>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 <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media is reporting with frantic urgency about a scandal involving the Democratic governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo. This is the same governor who instated a policy in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274865,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Andrew-Cuomo-3-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WALSH: The Cuomo Sexual Harassment Scandal Is Distracting From His Far Worse Scandal","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Andrew-Cuomo-3-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WALSH: The Cuomo Sexual Harassment Scandal Is Distracting From His Far Worse Scandal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191507","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}