Andrew Cuomo, embattled Democratic New York Governor and former darling of the left-wing media, provides an interesting study in selective outrage.
Calls continue to be heard for Cuomo’s resignation due to accusations from a growing number of women that he did everything from making them uncomfortable with his comments, to actually reaching under the blouse of one.
In a classic example of piling on and virtue signaling, the list of fellow prominent Democrats calling for Cuomo’s resignation has grown steadily for weeks, reaching all the way to the top. Joe Biden – you know, running mate of President Kamala Harris and significant other of DR. JILL BIDEN!!!!!! – took a break from his comedic stumbling up the steps to Air Force One to proclaim that Cuomo should resign if investigations confirm the women’s allegations.
But Sleepy Joe Biden didn’t seem to feel as strongly about the FBI’s investigation into the suspicion that Cuomo and/or his aides intentionally under-reported nursing home deaths due to COVID-19 in an attempt to shield Cuomo from criticism because he had ordered such facilities in his state to admit or re-admit infected elderly.
Critics contend that this policy escalated New York’s nursing home death toll and the fact that it’s being investigated to determine if the totals were massaged downward suggests further suspicion is warranted that people in charge realized it was a mistake.
Despite it all, Cuomo has refused to resign and continues to go about playing the petty dictator in his state.
It’s more than a touch ironic that Cuomo hurriedly was awarded an Emmy for his virus press conferences.
Also ironic is a soundbite from one of those insipid gloat-fests he had on CNN with younger brother Chris, AKA Fredo. In what passed for journalism, Chris Cuomo asked Andrew last May about being “single and ready to mingle?”
Apparently, if that long list of accusers is to be believed, Cuomo has been looking to do more than mingle for some time.
If the FBI does as well on this Cuomo investigation as it did looking into the persecution of President Trump – by the FBI among others – expect nothing more substantial than a Cuomo underling or two being slapped on the wrist.
As for the accusations of sexual harassment, Cuomo has proven to be resilient, so short of him being imprisoned, I’d be surprised to see him leave his office ahead of schedule.
We are yet to hear any claims that Cuomo’s leers or roving hands killed anyone. Critics of Cuomo’s nursing home policy argue people did die owing to his bad policy.
Yet you are much more likely to hear or read about Cuomo’s unacceptable conduct with women than to hear criticism of his nursing home policy, or the alleged falsification of the records.
And that speaks to continuing decay of our society’s moral compass. I can’t imagine anyone being able to make a rational defense of those who see sexual harassment, as abhorrent as it is, as being much worse than a governmental policy that possibly inflated death totals, then under-reported them.
But that is exactly the case trying to be made.
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