CNN’s Chris Cuomo is reportedly not very happy with his job any longer. In an interview with the New York Post he ‘trashed’ his job, both what he does on the show and how it constrains him personally:
Here’s more from the New York Post:
Chris Cuomo’s coronavirus-induced fever may have subsided but the CNN anchor was red hot on Monday.
The longtime cable host, 49, had an existential mini-crisis on his SiriusXM show, lashing out at his lucrative primetime gig and blasting President Trump as “full of s–t.”
“I don’t want to spend my time doing things that I don’t think are valuable enough to me personally,” Cuomo said. “I don’t value indulging irrationality, hyper-partisanship.”
Cuomo said his battle with COVID-19 has made him rethink his values and question his position as a public figure.
“I don’t like what I do professionally,” he said. “I don’t think it’s worth my time.”
“Loser biker”
Cuomo then launched into a tale about a “loser biker” who confronted him on Easter Sunday for being outside his Southampton home with his family despite his coronavirus diagnosis.
“I don’t want some jackass, loser, fat tire biker being able to pull over and get in my space and talk bulls–t to me, I don’t want to hear it,” he said.
Cuomo said he wishes he could have acted like a regular Joe and told the biker to “go to hell.”
“That matters to me more than making millions of dollars a year … because I’ve saved my money and I don’t need it anymore,” he said.
“I want to be able to tell you to go to hell, to shut your mouth … I don’t get that doing what I do for a living.
“Me being able to tell you to shut your mouth or I will do you the way you guys do each other.”
Back to his job…
Speaking about his job as the host of CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” the Queens-born anchor said he doesn’t want to spend his time “trafficking in things that I think are ridiculous.”
Such things include “talking to Democrats about things that I don’t really believe they mean” and “talking to Republicans about them parroting things they feel they have to say.”
He also wants to stop analyzing the president, “who we all know is full of s–t by design.”
As a public figure, Cuomo said, he has to tolerate other people’s opinions of him — and it’s just not worth it to him anymore.
“I don’t think it’s worth it to me because I don’t think I mean enough, I don’t think I matter enough, I don’t think I can really change anything, so then what am I really doing?”
“I’m basically being perceived as successful in a system that I don’t value,” he continued. “I’m seen as being good at being on TV and advocating for different positions … but I don’t know if I value those things, certainly not as much as I value being able to live my life on my own terms.”
The coronavirus has apparently had a huge impact on Cuomo’s thinking. The fact that he gave this interview at all suggests to me he’s at his wits end and will probably be leaving CNN before too long.
BIG UPDATE: Cuomo is now backtracking from his earlier comments, saying he love his job….
CNN host Chris Cuomo has had an apparent change of heart, claiming Tuesday that he loves his job — a day after publicly griping, “I don’t like what I do professionally. I don’t think it’s worth my time.”
But Tuesday, he claimed of the rant, “It wasn’t about CNN. It wasn’t about me wanting to leave my job.”
He said critics have shot back, “‘Yeah, but you said it.’
“‘But how did you mean it?’” he said people should ask him.
Cuomo said he was addressing “my frustrations about journalism and being worthy enough” to be part of the profession.
He said he will continue to follow a story anywhere “because of my commitment to the job.
“And I am so proud of the team,” he said of his colleagues at the network. “I’m happy to be one of their teammates. … And you don’t hear that from a lot of anchors.
“I can’t believe how lucky I am to be working with people like this,” Cuomo said.
“That doesn’t mean there aren’t frustrations in business,” he said.
But “I’m sorry I got us distracted to give them an opening to play this bulls–t angle,” he told listeners of critics.
“Not only am I not looking to quit my job,” Cuomo said, he only wants to work harder and better.
That sound you are hearing is Cuomo in reverse…