A similar phenomenon exists here in Scotland. Every other day I see people thanking god we had Nicola Sturgeon leading the fight instead of the clownish Boris Johnson. Despite the fact Scotland and England have negligible difference in cases and deaths (Glasgow’s numbers are as bad as anywhere), both made serious blunders with care homes, and both have had essentially identical lockdown measures. It would seem that if someone already likes a politician they’ll willfully ignore any evidence to challenge the view. Quite why Sturgeon enjoys the popularity she does is a mystery to me, but the pre-existing goodwill has apparently shielded her from criticism.
She is popular because she is not Boris Johnson – or Alex Salmond.
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Fraser Bailey
3 years ago
Not a hero? That’s an understatement if ever there was one. He is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands in care homes, having allowed patients with Covid to be placed in those homes. Why did he allow this? Because he had granted immunity from prosecution to the owners of the care homes after they gave him substantial campaign donations. Pure corruption.
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Francis L
3 years ago
Since New York as a state has, even now, a far worse coronavirus death rate per pop than any European country and any other US state with the exception of the equally incompetent and authoritarian New Jersey, I assume this award is for a “fictional “series. One wonders who advises the Emmy committee and who might even have recommended Cuomo.
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Jordan Flower
3 years ago
The fact that this article had to even be written is a testament to how deeply partisan our media has become.
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Alex Lekas
3 years ago
But he’s getting an Emmy, albeit for his performance on tv, not as governor. And Cuomo may not have been “exceptionally incompetent,” but he was sufficiently incompetent in putting infected people into nursing homes.
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Adrian
3 years ago
If by “cases spiking” they mean “a tiny bump in cases” then yes, cases are spiking. There has been a tiny rise in deaths in NY which has come and gone. They are closing stuff down in a panic, having suffered the second worst record of the US states. They have alnost reached 0.2% mortality, so for them the war is over. Yet this guy is too incompetent to realise that.
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alex bachel
3 years ago
I don’t think that you can single out CNN as the sole news organization praising Cuomo, there are many others. This treatment of Cuomo just makes me believe that all awards are nonsensical.
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Vem Dalen
3 years ago
This is not really an exhaustive list of failure. Accepting that the care home policy was wrong, it would be useful to know what else would add to the argument. I’m not the slightest bit interested in beatifying Cuomo but this is a lightweight reaction.
Well, there’s also Cuomo’s disgraceful statement that he wouldn’t accept the FDA’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine, and New York state would be doing its own evaluation of it. His churlish criticism of Trump on vaccines, speaking of a Pearl Harbour style failure, is simply an embarassment now that doses will start to be administered to Americans in the first half of next month, a swift rollout that Trump’s Operation Warp Speed made possible. Also there are pictures of him maskless in the kind of groups where he preaches one should wear a mask. Just how long a list of fails do you need to conclude the man doesn’t deserve to get an Emmy award for his COVID broadcasts?
“how long a list of fails do you need” If it’s relevant, it should have been in the article. My point was that this written piece was very light on evidence.
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Roger Inkpen
3 years ago
I don’t follow US media so I wondered how Cuomo was treated. It’s true that the majority of deaths were in NYC – so he could have blamed the city’s mayor for that I suppose. But even in the rest of the state more died than anywhere else in the US I think.
Of course compared to Trump he couldn’t fare as badly with public perception. I guess that’s because Trump is an optimist – much like our own leader. More sober types like Merkel and Sturgeon seem to have come out with a better PR. So i suppose the lesson is we want sunny optimists for the good times, and dour puritans for the bad!
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A similar phenomenon exists here in Scotland. Every other day I see people thanking god we had Nicola Sturgeon leading the fight instead of the clownish Boris Johnson. Despite the fact Scotland and England have negligible difference in cases and deaths (Glasgow’s numbers are as bad as anywhere), both made serious blunders with care homes, and both have had essentially identical lockdown measures. It would seem that if someone already likes a politician they’ll willfully ignore any evidence to challenge the view. Quite why Sturgeon enjoys the popularity she does is a mystery to me, but the pre-existing goodwill has apparently shielded her from criticism.
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She is popular because she is not Boris Johnson – or Alex Salmond.
Not a hero? That’s an understatement if ever there was one. He is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands in care homes, having allowed patients with Covid to be placed in those homes. Why did he allow this? Because he had granted immunity from prosecution to the owners of the care homes after they gave him substantial campaign donations. Pure corruption.
Since New York as a state has, even now, a far worse coronavirus death rate per pop than any European country and any other US state with the exception of the equally incompetent and authoritarian New Jersey, I assume this award is for a “fictional “series.
One wonders who advises the Emmy committee and who might even have recommended Cuomo.
The fact that this article had to even be written is a testament to how deeply partisan our media has become.
But he’s getting an Emmy, albeit for his performance on tv, not as governor. And Cuomo may not have been “exceptionally incompetent,” but he was sufficiently incompetent in putting infected people into nursing homes.
If by “cases spiking” they mean “a tiny bump in cases” then yes, cases are spiking.
There has been a tiny rise in deaths in NY which has come and gone.
They are closing stuff down in a panic, having suffered the second worst record of the US states.
They have alnost reached 0.2% mortality, so for them the war is over. Yet this guy is too incompetent to realise that.
I don’t think that you can single out CNN as the sole news organization praising Cuomo, there are many others. This treatment of Cuomo just makes me believe that all awards are nonsensical.
This is not really an exhaustive list of failure. Accepting that the care home policy was wrong, it would be useful to know what else would add to the argument. I’m not the slightest bit interested in beatifying Cuomo but this is a lightweight reaction.
Well, there’s also Cuomo’s disgraceful statement that he wouldn’t accept the FDA’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine, and New York state would be doing its own evaluation of it. His churlish criticism of Trump on vaccines, speaking of a Pearl Harbour style failure, is simply an embarassment now that doses will start to be administered to Americans in the first half of next month, a swift rollout that Trump’s Operation Warp Speed made possible. Also there are pictures of him maskless in the kind of groups where he preaches one should wear a mask. Just how long a list of fails do you need to conclude the man doesn’t deserve to get an Emmy award for his COVID broadcasts?
“how long a list of fails do you need”
If it’s relevant, it should have been in the article. My point was that this written piece was very light on evidence.
I don’t follow US media so I wondered how Cuomo was treated. It’s true that the majority of deaths were in NYC – so he could have blamed the city’s mayor for that I suppose. But even in the rest of the state more died than anywhere else in the US I think.
Of course compared to Trump he couldn’t fare as badly with public perception. I guess that’s because Trump is an optimist – much like our own leader. More sober types like Merkel and Sturgeon seem to have come out with a better PR. So i suppose the lesson is we want sunny optimists for the good times, and dour puritans for the bad!