CNN's Lefty Media Pundit Ignores Cuomo's Troubles

NY Post 3/7/21

CNN’s left-wing pundit Brian Stelter, who once hailed the "leadership" of Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, did not devote a single minute of his Sunday morning program, "Reliable Sources" to the growing scandal surrounding the embattled governor.

Instead, FOX News reports Stelter devoted time to providing free publicity to "Room Rater," a Twitter account created early in the COVID pandemic that uses a 1-10 scale to rate rooms seen in interviews on TV.

Stelter’s hard-hitting coverage of "Room Rater" coincided with two Democratic New York state lawmakers withdrawing their support for Governor Cuomo over allegations of sexual harassment and undercounting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes.

But just when you thought that was enough to no longer 'rely' on CNN to cover facts... more evidence is coming to light. 

Gutfeld on CNN's Chris Cuomo Saying He Can No Longer Cover His Scandal-Plagued Brother | https://t.co/tP8e7LprxT

— Tom Benson (@Tombenson1) March 7, 2021

On Saturday, another woman who worked for Cuomo publicly accused him of inappropriate behavior, on the heels of other allegations in recent weeks.

The woman, Ana Liss, told The Wall Street Journal in a story published Saturday that when she worked as a policy aide to the governor between 2013 and 2015, Cuomo called her "sweetheart," kissed her hand and asked personal questions including whether she had a boyfriend.

Karen Hinton, a former press aide to Cuomo when he served as the federal housing secretary under President Bill Clinton, detailed an uncomfortable hotel room interaction she also had with Cuomo in a story published Saturday in The Washington Post. Hinton, said that as she got up to leave, he gave her a hug that was "very long, too long, too tight, too intimate."

Fox's @HowardKurtz slams other networks for 'Scrambling for Higher Moral Ground' after 'Initially Ignoring' Cuomo scandal pic.twitter.com/IL8zSCOECz

— TV News HQ (@TVNewsHQ) March 7, 2021

Meanwhile, The Wrap reports Fox News “MediaBuzz” host Howard Kurtz called out CNN and MSNBC for their handling of the growing scandals surrounding New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, accusing them of downplaying accusations of sexual harassment and falsifying COVID-19 nursing home death counts until the story became too big to ignore.

“What a dramatic turnabout. A tacit admission that the media had botched the story by initially ignoring it, playing it down — ‘Nothing to see here, let’s move right along, and hmm, I wonder what Donald Trump is up to,'” Kurtz said at the start of Sunday’s show.