In another universe, one where the fatally incompetent Andrew Cuomo was actually investigated by the media rather than lionized by it, the brothers Cuomo show on CNN could almost be cute. In times as trying as a pandemic, a few extra minutes of lighthearted family feuding isn’t terribly unwelcome. That is, until it becomes an extension of industrywide propagandizing to pretend that the New York governor did a halfway decent job instead of actively causing thousands of preventable deaths by forcing nursing homes to readmit patients who had tested positive for the coronavirus.
The jig is up, and as the public watches what had been branded “human sacrifice” in Florida and Georgia actually result in a decline of coronavirus cases and deaths, New York’s death toll becomes even more impossible not to attribute to an abdication of leadership. Perhaps the Cuomo brothers high jinks would be merely farcical if Chris Cuomo didn’t have the backing of his network to gaslight the public into believing that he hadn’t violated quarantine while infected with the virus. But now it’s an insult, one that CNN contributor Ana Navarro attempted to defend but was heartily rebutted by Janice Dean.
