Fake News CNN's Chris Cuomo:
Foot-in-mouth, darkly

Today (8/28) Chris Cuomo tweeted a link to The Hill's recounting of one white supremacist's shooting at a black Charlottesville man. In that tweet, Cuomo mocked those pointing out mainstream media's selective condemnation of politically motivated violence: "But antifa."

After receiving numerous Twitter messages castigating his effective indulgence of Left wing rioters' violence, Cuomo shot back: "This is not about minimizing iolence [sic] or crimes by others it is about remembering that white supremacy is an unqualified threat."

Like many in the establishment press, Cuomo advocates the despicable notion that violence employed as an offensive tactic is not invariably wrong, but can be sanctioned, depending on one's ideological affinity with given perpetrators. 


A quick review, now, of only some previous, risible Chris Cuomo claims:


- In a 2/23/2017 tweet, Cuomo blamed a 12 year-old girl's paternal upbringing for her perfectly understandable preference to not see grown "transgender" men lurking in little girl's public restrooms: "I wonder if she is the problem or her overprotective and intolerant dad? Teach tolerance."

Cuomo received backlash. He provided clarification -- though not before several days had passed. "Of course not OK for 12yo girl to be exposed to male genitals," the CNN host generously conceded. 
"[J]ust doesn't happen. That's my point. This is abt tolerance not predation."

Of course, wooly-headed, indulgent inclinations like Cuomo's can well be conducive to predatory atrocities. But that's a risk he's willing to accept -- regarding other people's children.


- During an October 2016 CNN segment, Cuomo admonished viewers to refrain from independent investigation of Hillary Clinton emails Wikileaks had released: "Also interesting is, remember, it's illegal to possess these stolen documents. It's different for the media, so everything you're learning about this, you're learning from us."

Cuomo was not only misleading his audience about their First Amendment guarantee to freely read available information -- and, by the doing, throwing up undeserved cover for struggling candidate Clinton -- but voicing astounding, outrageous scorn for the principle of the public's right to know. 

Mainstream media journalists like Cuomo don't enjoy Constitutional supremacy over regular citizens, no matter that they would doubtless prefer otherwise.


- On 5/16/2015, in a tweet that shall forever live in infamy, Cuomo asserted erroneously that: "Hate speech is excluded from protection" under the first amendment.

"Hate speech" of course, is a faddish category cobbled by nattering partisans, and has never been a distinction codified by Supreme Court authority. With the traditional exceptions of 'time, place, and manner' specifications, free speech is safe from oppressors' boots, as well it should be.

(Cuomo did subsequently claim he was referring to Chaplinsky's "fighting words" standard, though that supposed distinction was not reflected in his initial tweet.)


And CNN president Jeff Zucker actually pays Chris Cuomo to talk?