https://www.mediaite.com/online/cnns-chris-cuomo-filmed-threatening-heckler-who-called-him-fredo-ill-fcking-ruin-your-sht/
CNN’s Chris Cuomo erupted at a man in public who apparently called him “Fredo,” in a wild moment caught on video that went viral Monday night.
The encounter between Cuomo and the man happened at a Shelter Island bar — that appears to be Sunset Beach — on Sunday. The video, surreptitiously filmed by the man Cuomo was shouting at, was uploaded to Twitter by a user who said he was sent the clip.
“Punk-ass bitches from the right call me Fredo,” Cuomo told the man, who claimed he thought the CNN anchor was named Fredo. “My name is Chris Cuomo. I’m an anchor on CNN. Fredo is from The Godfather.”
“They use it as an Italian aspersion. Any of you Italian?” Cuomo continued. “It’s an insult to your fucking people. It’s like the N-word for us.”
They went back and forth, and at one point Cuomo said, “I’ll fucking ruin your shit. I’ll fucking throw you down these stairs like a fucking punk.”
A CNN spokesperson told Mediaite in a statement, “Chris Cuomo defended himself when he was verbally attacked with the use of an ethnic slur in an orchestrated setup. We completely support him.”
Cuomo is receiving support from outside CNN as well. His 9 p.m. rival at Fox News, Sean Hannity, tweeted “good for [Cuomo]” in response to the video. “He’s out with his 9 year old daughter, and his wife, and this guy is being a jackass in front of his family,” Hannity wrote. “Imho Chris Cuomo has zero to apologize for. He deserves the apology.”
Cuomo is off air this week, but he will return on Monday. CNN
Poster Comment:
Okay, I hate to say this but it's time to Red Flag Fredo Cuomo. AG Barr needs to bring him in for questioning before he commits Mass Murder
#1: misterwhite To: IbJensen (#0)
Does CNN also support Trump when he is verbally attacked?
misterwhite posted on 2019-08-13 09:28:32 Reply Private Reply
#2: Hank Rearden To: IbJensen (#0)
How will anybody know?
This leftist fredo dipshit will never be called anything but Fredo from now on in public.
Good.
Hank Rearden posted on 2019-08-13 10:11:25 Reply Private Reply
#3: Tooconservative To: Hank Rearden (#2)
It'll be a bigger massacre than banning people for tagging posts with #LearnToCode to ridicule some journalists losing their jobs after those very same journalists had posted lots of Learn To Code articles themselves about coal miners and others losing their jobs in previous years.
Tooconservative posted on 2019-08-13 10:41:43 Reply Private Reply
#4: Tooconservative To: IbJensen, misterwhite, Hank Rearden (#0)
$34 for a T-shirt. Yeah, it's easy money. I bet he sells out.
Here's another fun bit:
HotAir: Chris Cuomo 2010 on the Cuomo family’s political prospects: “Who am I, then, Fredo?”
Apparently, Chris Cuomo should throw himself down the stairs for calling himself Fredo in public less than 10 years ago.
Sliwa said he dubbed the Cuomo family “la Cuomo Nostra.”
“There is a group of people — politicos — who always hint they might run, but not necessarily plunge all the way, and they are members of la Cuomo.”
“Who am I, then, Fredo?” Cuomo asked in response.
“Yes, exactly,” Sliwa said. “So you better be careful that your brother Andrew doesn’t kiss you on both cheeks and then all of a sudden they take you out on the middle of the lake and where’s Chris?”
I just realized after reading this that Chris Cuomo is Fredo. And he knows it. And he's known it for a long time. And it makes him very angry if other people know it.
Trump Junior tried to help poor Fredo Cuomo.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 13, 2019
Tooconservative posted on 2019-08-14 09:44:52 Reply Private Reply
#5: Tooconservative To: All (#4)
He’s out with his 9 year old daughter, and his wife, and this guy is being a jackass in front of his family.
Imho Chris Cuomo has zero to apologize for. He deserves the apology. https://t.co/VnyMNgz14U
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) August 13, 2019
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2019
Trump retweeted a tweet from 6:09pm 8/12 that was linking to Saavedra's reporting on the Fredo scandal. At 7:22pm 8/12, Hannity issued his tweet supporting Fredo also linking to the Saavedra report, saying Cuomo was out with his wife/kid. Which was not true. No wife or kid to be seen. So at 1:41pm 8/13, Trump blasts the "Republicans who come to his [Fredo's] defense".
I don't watch or listen to Hannity much because he's too tiring and formulaic. But I would love to know how he managed to backpedal away from carrying water for Fredo after his hero, Trump, condemned Republicans doing exactly that. And Hannity justified it in part by saying Cuomo was being insulted in front of his wife/kid (which he was not).
I'm waiting for Trump to call Hannity #FakeNews. : )
Of course, the two just hadn't coordinated their tweeting. Neither would have tweeted what they if they had compared notes with each other much.
Tooconservative posted on 2019-08-14 10:05:28 Reply Private Reply
#6: misterwhite To: Tooconservative (#5)
misterwhite posted on 2019-08-14 10:14:48 Reply Private Reply
#7: Tooconservative To: misterwhite (#6)
I thought Cuomo was right and that the guy was baiting him. Except I thought maybe it was a 4chan/8chan setup based on Cuomo referring to himself as a Fredo back in 2010. But so far, no indication that it was the funloving 8chan guys pranking Cuomo so who knows? Usually with a 4chan/8chan prank, they'll take credit after a few days.
Tooconservative posted on 2019-08-14 19:46:00 Reply Private Reply