Fredo Cuomo raked over the coals by journalists after saying he “obviously” can’t cover his brother’s scandals [VIDEO]

CNN’s Chris Fredo Cuomo opened his show last night making obvious excuses for why he won’t cover his governor brother’s obvious scandals:

Fredo said ‘obvious’ like three times, as if him calling it obvious excuses him from covering his brother’s scandals. Everyone who watched his show saw how he covered his brother last year:

But now, suddenly, Fredo can’t cover his brother? Yeah, right. This is why he never should have covered his brother in the first place like he did, heaping praise on him while he was killing patients in nursing homes.

Also, Fredo said CNN is covering his brother’s scandals ‘extensively’. What? No, CNN covered Ted Cruz’s Cancun trip extensively. Their coverage of Cuomo’s sex and nursing home scandals has been paltry at best.

According to the New York Post, Fredo is being raked over the coals by journalists from his own ranks, and a couple from the right:

This is why it was a mistake to allow him to do those interviews with his brother,” New York Magazine contributor Yashar Ali wrote on Twitter, “And don’t come to me with ‘we needed it! It made us happy!’ If you’re getting your comfort and joy from a Cuomo brothers interview you have bigger problems to deal with.”

“The fact CNN ever allowed Andrew Cuomo to appear on Chris Cuomo’s show is incomprehensible to me,” Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Susanne Craig, who writes for the New York Times, tweeted of Cuomo’s new journalistic practice.

Craig’s colleague, Times’ White House correspondent Annie Karni, echoed her confusion at CNN over allowing a primetime anchor to interview his lawmaker sibling in the midst of the worst health crisis in a century.

“That makes sense,” Karni tweeted of the anchor no longer covering his brother, “What never made sense to me was Chris Cuomo covering him when things were going well for Andrew Cuomo.”

Al-Jazeera English senior correspondent Alan Fisher slammed the CNN anchor for changing his stance on covering his brother once he started getting bad press.

“So he can cover his brother when he thinks it’s good news but not now. The whole shtick with his brother was wrong then and this is really apparent now,” Fisher wrote on Twitter.

Derek Willis, who covers politics and elections for ProPublica, tweeted that Cuomo’s statement was “ridiculous,” noting that such disclosures end up being necessary “when you pretend that an obvious conflict doesn’t exist.”

Ben Terris, a political reporter with the Washington Post, joked on the social media platform that “Every J-school student knows that ethically you are only allowed to interview your brother when the news about him is good.

“That’s like, a day one lesson.”

Calling it “confusing,” Byron York, chief political correspondent at the Washington Examiner, asked on Twitter: “Why is it that Chris Cuomo cannot cover his brother the governor now, when he could cover his brother the governor last year at a time when some in media were pretending the governor was doing a good job handling the pandemic?”

Even Cuomo’s colleague, CNN commentator Mary Katherine Ham, questioned him directly on the site, writing, “Why is this different from spring/summer of last year?”

As of Tuesday morning, the younger Cuomo has not yet answered her question.

Imagine that, Fredo not answering his critics because he knows he screwed up and he knows he’s wrong and all of them are right.

CNN is garbage.


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