“I screwed up,” Cuomo said candidly on ABC’s “The View.” “I wrote the tweet while I was prepping for my radio show.”
“I was trying to get ahead of what I feel I contributed to as a mistake during the Obama birtherism stuff, which is we kind of let it devolve into where Obama had to prove he was a citizen,” he continued on “The View.” “And that gave a dignity to a bigoted move that was never warranted.”
“So this time, I wanted to get ahead of it but I wound up stepping right in it and mashing my foot around in it and then wiped it on my face a little bit,” Cuomo said to laughter. “And God forbid anyone on Twitter give you the benefit of the doubt.”
“The point is simple. You don’t get to disparage people this way because of their race, because you don’t like what they represent,” he concluded.
“And what I’m saying is, before we go through this again, **if you have an accusation, put up or shut up—**Kamala Harris shouldn’t have to go through this. That was my point, I made it poorly.”
Is there no institutional memory with our “press corps”? Rhetorical question. Of course not.
These people who read the news are primarily entertainers. They’re not professionals in the way that doctors, lawyers, etc are professionals. If they have a code of ethics, it must be vague.
These bozos keep repeating the same mistakes.
I’d love to hear an interviewer ask him what his qualifications for political journalism, what he sees as his successful reporting in the past, and whether he thinks he would have his job if he weren’t name “Cuomo.” Fucking nepotism.
Yeah I always did think she could go all the way, got temporarily blinded by Beto who is kind of blowing it at the moment, so I’ve been drawn back to Kamala. She is magnetic and has loads of charisma and warmth. I think she can go all the way too and I really am starting to be on fire with wanting her to become president.
Glad he owned it. But would it not be better if he had focused on her proposals on health care and alleviating income inequality? I do recall a time when an actual policy agenda mattered. Though the kook left commentary on her criminal justice record annoys me, I’d rather see/hear a discussion on that than this racist bunk.
I think you’re missing my point. He admitted that what he said substantively gave oxygen to it and stated that he recognized he did so, which was the opposite of his intent. That’s called admitting a mistake like an adult. He also articulated the correct intent, which is that the MSM should challenge the accuser to put up or shut up and then cease coverage. Correcting himself while openly admitting his mistake is a perfectly fine thing to do. The guy is actually one of the better friends we have in the MSM overall and is regularly brutal to the alternative facts club. I think he’s earned some benefit of the doubt instead of knee-jerk backlash pigpiling.
Anyone who thinks that the MSM should simply pretend accusations like this don’t exist and aren’t happening while a significant percentage of our idiot country goes around believing and repeating them is completely mistaken. The MSM should absolutely shine a light on them, debunk the everloving shit out of them and THEN ignore them.
So he validated the new right wing norm that Democrats need to show proof that their candidate is a citizen. This will now lead to all the crap that Obama had to endure. The longer this garbage hangs around the more time the Wohls of the world get to create confusion.
So Chris Cuomo is the 14,967,389th prominent person to tweet some really stupid, ill-advised, poorly thought out tweet that lands them in controversy, leading to furious backpedaling, apologies and deleting the tweet. Geez, if only all these people had some well publicized examples of what stupid tweeting could lead to, they might be forewarned and avoid similar mistakes.
It came THIS CLOSE to being a legitimate apology. If he hadn’t thrown in the thing about “God forbid anyone on Twitter should give you the benefit of the doubt,” it might have kind of resembled one. But that bit suggests (a) that there was some doubt for him to deserve the benefit of, which turns the whole thing into “well, I might or might not have done something wrong,” and (b) that the real problem here is the attitude of Twitter users and not the thing that he’s supposedly apologizing for. A legitimate apology is one that takes ownership of the bad act, not one that criticizes others for pointing out that it was bad.
Chris Cuomo - the great champion of bothsidesism, as opposed to his father, the unapologetically corrupt right wing governor of one of the bluest states. A pox on them both and anyone who voted for the latter.
Poor analogy. Your meme attempt has him not understanding he did anything wrong, whereas his statements about his tweet clearly recognize his error and correct it in a manner that shows he understands what he did wrong.
Besides, everyone knows the correct approach is to wait until they ask and then say yes, no matter what they’ve put on. Eventually, they’ll get the hint and stop asking that stupid question. I once tried “no, your fat makes you look fat” but, well, live and learn…
Was Mario Cuomo a corrupt right-winger? Not a New Yorker, I only remember him for his convention speeches mostly. I thought he was a good guy, wish he would have run for Pres.
