Tucker takes a look at CNN’s firing of Chris Cuomo, for helping his brother, as loyal people do. Highlights include:
“CNN’s top-rated anchor Chris Cuomo has been pulled off the air, likely for good. We’ll probably never see him on camera again.”
“The whole thing was fake. Chris Cuomo hadn’t quarantined. In fact, he’d been out and about, wandering around Long Island without a mask, yelling at anyone who questioned him.”
“No one else in the media at the time seemed bothered at all by this. His bosses didn’t care. Before you knew it, Chris Cuomo was back on television barking at you for, yes, not wearing a mask.”
“At CNN, there’s no penalty for falseness. The only thing you can’t do at CNN, the thing that they will never tolerate, is displeasing the people in charge. That means not simply Jeff Zucker who runs the company, but the billionaires who run our country. If you cross them, you’re done.”
“The Atlantic decided it was deeply displeased Chris Cuomo had dared to help his brother, the former governor of New York, when he was accused of sexual harassment. In the world that Jeff Zucker lives in, The Atlantic makes the rules.”
“Helping his brother is not the worst thing Chris Cuomo ever did. In fact, it may have been the best thing he ever did. Not because Andrew Cuomo was a good person, he certainly wasn’t a good person, Andrew Cuomo was loathsome.”
“But, Andrew Cuomo was Chris Cuomo’s brother, and that’s what you do with brothers, even the loathsome ones. You help them when they need it. Period. It’s called loyalty. At CNN, as at the rest of the media, this is an alien concept.”
“When we tell you that the media are corrupt, we don’t just mean that they’re corrupt politically. It is much deeper than that. They don’t acknowledge the most important rules in life.”
“Your first obligation is to your family. Your first obligation is not to the state, not to a political party, not to Jeff Zucker or some creepy billionairess at The Atlantic magazine. It’s not even to your own career. Your most basic obligation is to the people you are related to.”
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