New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was interviewed by CBS ‘Sunday Morning,’ and the GIF they used to promote it says a lot.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on confronting a "frightening" pandemic, and thoughts on his political future https://t.co/k98X0h5Zw8 pic.twitter.com/gf4Ef2Yqd0
— CBS Sunday Morning ? (@CBSSunday) June 21, 2020
The reviews are that it went about as you would expect a MSM outlet interviewing a Democrat governor to go.
CBS News, the home of Walter Cronkite, did a segment on Cuomo, asking about what's Trump's fault with Covid, his mom, daughters, everything except the 6,000 nursing home deaths.
This is a puff piece. Do better. https://t.co/UBpGvHSy6e
— Yochonon Donn (@Yochidonn) June 21, 2020
Since CBS thinks it's best to glorify Cuomo instead of talking about his killing of the elderly… that tells me all I need to know.
— BigNanMa (@BigNanMa1) June 21, 2020
Whose bright idea was it to give Andrew Cuomo the CBS Sunday Morning treatment?
— Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) June 21, 2020
Zero push-back or even mildly critical line of questioning, but an extended, playful riff on his love life. Great stuff.
— Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) June 21, 2020
Of course, they failed to ask about a rather important part of Cuomo’s coronavirus story.
Why didn't you talk about Cuomo sending the infected into nursing homes? https://t.co/pjFyYb0ND9
— Bill Dirks (@Billslawnspray) June 21, 2020
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Never asked about sending infected patients to nursing homes https://t.co/AHKC81WGpb
— JPC14409 (@jpc14409) June 21, 2020
According to NewsBusters, it got even worse.
JANE PAULEY used to do cotton-candy interviews with Hillary Clinton on NBC. Now on CBS, she's vomiting rainbows with Andrew Cuomo: He's ‘having a moment’ and he's SINGLE! https://t.co/ddGwo84XzD
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) June 21, 2020
PAULEY: You are a bachelor, you’ve got a nice house here, having a moment, and you can’t do a thing with it. Is your social life in a phase one relationship, possibly? Is that an unfortunate set of circumstances?
[Laughter]
CUOMO: Well, I think —
PAULEY: I know you’re a bachelor. I know. I know you’ve talked about being available.
Janice Dean, whose criticism of Gov. Cuomo is well–documented, had thoughts.
Not surprising another total puff piece on @NYGovCuomo. Maybe someday you guys could do some real journalism and interview the families that lost their mothers/fathers/grandparents because of this guy’s policy to force covid into their living facilities. https://t.co/Xq6z49vLZ1
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) June 21, 2020
And somehow we aren’t surprised.
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Editor’s note: Additional tweets have been added to this post.
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