CNN’s Chris Cuomo may be a putz, but God help you if you ever call him one on Twitter.
CUNY Professor Angus Johnston learned that lesson the hard way:
Just idly recollecting the time when I got to witness Chris Cuomo's sense of journalistic ethics up close. pic.twitter.com/tWvr6yDS2S
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) May 20, 2021
(These were the first handful of a total of seventeen DMs he sent me over the course of three days because I called him a putz on Twitter.)
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) May 20, 2021
You’ll wanna strap in for this:
The conversation was quite a ride. pic.twitter.com/oSQRc3OxVV
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) May 20, 2021
And if you're curious, this was the tweet that set him off. https://t.co/QSzEGLfLg7
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) May 20, 2021
For folks who are wondering, his tweet was one in which he'd suggested that Kamala Harris needed to provide "proof" that she was a citizen "to deal with the allegation" that she wasn't. https://t.co/ZYlBpCPrhl
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) May 20, 2021
In response to that tweet, I'd pointed out that there was nothing for Harris to prove, since the allegation that she's not a citizen was based on a tendentious misrepresentation of the text of the Fourteenth Amendment.
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) May 20, 2021
Which text I helpfully provided for him in a followup tweet. https://t.co/TI17IRVBT2
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) May 20, 2021
(I explained in further detail when he DMed me. It didn't help much.) pic.twitter.com/g6yBTzZmG5
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) May 20, 2021
Like I say, it was a wild ride. pic.twitter.com/aNUQF3Sjka
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) May 20, 2021
Recommended
Clearly.
Wowww
— Jay Smooth (@jsmooth995) May 20, 2021
Criminy, that is something else, wow
— Katrina Voll (@VollKatrina) May 20, 2021
We call this "the Jake Tapper" but it's pretty appalling that he flat out threatened you. https://t.co/jtAFvA8zSJ
— Noam "MF Blum" (@neontaster) May 21, 2021
Or at least it would be appalling under normal circumstances. Since this is Chris Cuomo we’re dealing with, threats are pretty on-brand.
this is very gross, but also kinda funny on account of how the Cuomos just go straight for "mob movie" whenever they need to sound like a tough guy
— Alex P 👹 (@SaddestRobots) May 20, 2021
It’s funny that they take Italian Mob Movie insults to heart and then use that same rhetoric to be threatening. https://t.co/v1bgBftOqI
— Mary Choppins (@KhiannasTweets) May 21, 2021
Hilarious.
This is putz behavior if I’ve ever seen it
— Julián Gustavo Gómez (@TheJulianGomez) May 20, 2021
Right?
https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/1395736982307975170