Unsolicited advice to disgraced CNN anchor Chris “Fredo” Cuomo: If the bosses offer you a fishing trip on a small boat, don’t go.
On second thought, do go, and take disgraced big brother Andrew Cuomo with you. Swimming with the fishes sounds like fun.
Smug and arrogant, Fredo Cuomo not inexplicably had a prime time gig with CNN, AKA Fake News. Fredo sometimes used this electronic soap box to spar verbally with, but always end up fawning over, Andrew.
The COVID-19 crisis was the pinnacle for the Brothers Cuomo. Andrew won an Emmy for his COVID-19 press conferences even as charges mounted against him — from killing elderly in nursing homes by mandating that those facilities take in COVID-infected patients, to being all hands and lips too often when females were around.
Andrew eventually got drummed out of the New York Governor’s office on the sexual misconduct allegations. Fatally mismanaging nursing homes apparently is OK.
And that same series of sexual indiscretions with females that brought down Andrew also snared Fredo, who violated just about every aspect of the so-called journalistic code, then lied about it to the public and to his bosses regarding the ways he was helping his brother combat allegations.
CNN looked the other way for a very long time, but finally has announced that Fredo is suspended “indefinitely.” Many are presuming that means he’s gone, at least from CNN.
No doubt the garbage dump of MSNBC, the same cable “news” operation that had an operative tailing the jury bus in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, will be eager to add Fredo to the Rachel Maddow misinformation stream.
But for now Fredo twists in the wind. The official CNN on-air announcement of Fredo’s suspension spoke volumes about the network. Anderson Cooper delivered the news while CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin was on the set with him.
That might provide hope for Fredo. If CNN is willing to put Toobin back on the air, after he very famously masturbated during a Zoom call, in the view of colleagues both male and female, then maybe Fredo’s lapse won’t prove fatal to his career.
But if Fredo is gone, we must pause a moment and observe that karma is, indeed, a female dog.
Now if only karma can catch up to Hunter Biden, another Fredo-like character whose chief talent is monetizing the family name.
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