In the movie “Network,” character Howard Beale famously declared on national television that “I am mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.” CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo, 49, reportedly went full Howard Beale on Monday on his SiriusXM show in denouncing his work at CNN, denouncing both Democrats and Republicans, and declaring that President Donald Trump is “full of sh*t.” The CNN host is recovering from COVID-19 and appears to have emerged with something of an epiphany. There was a refreshing, if brutal, honesty to Cuomo’s revealing remarks.
Cuomo is quoted as saying “I don’t want to spend my time doing things that I don’t think are valuable enough to me personally,. I don’t value indulging irrationality, hyper-partisanship.”
He was clear that his future plans do not seem to include his CNN gig: “I don’t like what I do professionally I don’t think it’s worth my time.” He said that he was through “talking to Democrats about things that I don’t really believe they mean” and “talking to Republicans about them parroting things they feel they have to say.” He also said he had enough with Trump “who we all know is full of s–t by design.”
The part that many of us might relate to was Cuomo’s frustration with the life of a celebrity in not being able to tell off rude people, though he never seems to have been particularly chaste in such encounters.
He recounted how he was confronted for going outside with his family on Easter Sunday: “I don’t want some jackass, loser, fat tire biker being able to pull over and get in my space and talk bulls–t to me, I don’t want to hear it.” He wants to be able to tell such people to “go to hell” again and “That matters to me more than making millions of dollars a year … because I’ve saved my money and I don’t need it anymore.”
Returning to his profession as an anchor, Cuomo declared “I have to tolerate people’s opinion about me because I’m a public figure. I don’t want to do that, I don’t think it’s worth it to me.”
I do not think that he was longing to be intolerant as much as unrestrained I can respect that. I have seen past confrontations with Cuomo and it continues to amaze me that people feel that they have license to be absolutely rude to people who they see on television.
The question is how all of this goes down with CNN if Cuomo seeks to return, which certainly did not seem in the cards. There is also a question of his contract and what penalties and continued restrictions would be incurred from an early and unilateral cessation. Cuomo hosts one of the flagship primetime shows. A mutual withdrawal can certainly be arranged if both parties are willing. Otherwise Cuomo would be under continuing exclusive limits on his appearances under the standard talent contracts.
However, radio just does not cut it for such moments. Any break really should be done alive and dripping in a raincoat for the full Beale effect:
Sounds like he wants to become a Hermit. Time to head for the backwoods
Classic example of a subjective too full of himself.
Chris always tell the truth it will set you free. Then you will like youself again. No more lies. Be truthful you can have a great life without CNN
What was Cuomo doing outside on Easter Sunday? What was he doing with his family? He has the virus and should be in quarantine. He’s just another overrated elitist mouthpiece.
Maybe when leaves cnn. He will be a able to tell the truth. Chris write a book about how bad cnn is. There is no news there only lies. People who hate DJT. I hope he can find the truth and tell it about cnn. Cnn Is one of the worst propaganda info. about Trump they have spread more lies than any other network
Chris buy the network and return it to a real news network. Lots of luck
I want to know if he took chloroquine to recover.
BTW, no one suddenly “gets a conscience” after years of blatantly biased, disingenuous, rank partisanship. He’s probably eyeing a position as spokesman for his brother.
You don’t if you’re paid not to have one as CC was.
Selling one’s soul is kinda the same thing as not having a conscience.
Touche’
Do you suppose he saw yesterday’s briefing in which the president showed CNN anchors and guests who have been accusing the president of downplaying the virus doing exactly that in January and February?
I can’t wait for Trump to dust off the video of Pelosi encouraging people to come to San Francisco’s Chinatown in late February.
Chris Cuomo is kind of a jock. He tells it like it is and is getting ready to punch someone.
Possibly his brother Gov. Andrew Cuomo?
It seems like that’s what he wants – to be able to punch someone without worrying about his professional reputation or professional consequence. He wants to be able to opine and attack others on air but then be free of confrontation in his personal life. He wants total control like a typical celebrity who wants the perks without the costs. And he talks about how he has enough money. Screams selfishness and control
I think you buried the lede. He violated quarantine.
“He was clear that his future plans do not seem to include his CNN gig: “I don’t like what I do professionally I don’t think it’s worth my time.”
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Oh this is priceless!! Hahahaha. It’s professional suicide worthy of Al Pacino:
I agree with Chris. Dishonestly pretending to be unbiased, while using his position to spread agenda-driven hatred, is not a noble pursuit.
He works for CNN. Maybe, deep down, he understands CNN was a news agency 30 years ago, and it now resembles nothing of the sort.
The man has a law degree. Maybe he can re-activate his license and land an associate’s position at a common-and-garden firm in Brooklyn or Queens, and earn a living the way his father did for 17 years. Not a bad life if he can re-acclimate himself.
Oh come on…he’s not going to practice law as an associate. He’d have to work his ass off for a very modest wage, compared to what he’s used to. Politicians and celebrities can hope to go to a big firm and get paid for their connections. They’re rainmakers. Which is fine, but it’s not to be confused with actually practicing law.
He’d have to work his ass off for a very modest wage, compared to what he’s used to.
The closest thing I can find to valid survey research on the legal profession which includes a discussion of man-hours (I’m recalling the New York Law Journal used to publish data of this sort regularly) was issued by the Oregon bar in 2012. It indicates a median work schedule of 44 hours per week. Some portions of the profession (BigLaw associates) work much longer hours. I did find a meatball observational study of entering and leaving times at a sample of big law firms which indicated that 60 hours a week at the office was about the median for the most oppressive firms. Since I didn’t suggest he might work at a BigLaw firm (and his father never got near one), your complaint is irrelevant.
Oh small firms log long hours too. It’s just not all pouring over the books. When you toss in volunteering and socializing and rainmaking it’s much the same.
Lawyers who don’t work long hours are either retired, or going to be, whether they like it or not.
Cuomo could however do exactly as you suggested and for example go into a medium level firm as a rainmaker and have easy hours raking in big bucks from referrals. this is what politicians do in Chicago. You got the name, you advertise, you get a lot of personal injury cases and farm them out, either inside to associates or outside for a cut. It’s a well worn path in Chicago. I wouldn’t know about New York.
Or if he doesn’t want to talk on the phone about p i cases he could be a rainmaker for a real estate development firm. I bet Trump could put in a good word for him as a favor to his brother. Probably a lot of money to be made if this mess ever abates. And even because of it!
I’m not sure he’s smart or energetic enough to get a M & A type business law berth however.
I’ll tell the Oregon bar their survey respondents are lying to them.
I used to work at the fringes of the legal profession in Rochester. Never heard complaints from lawyers about working hours. I did hear complaints about (1) deadbeat clients, (2) being pestered on the week-ends (by divorce clients in particular), and (3) deadlines.
I’m not in Oregon Im in the midwest. I can only speak to here. Hours are long for everybody who is serious about practicing law. That means you can exclude adjunct professors and part timers and legal clinic volunteers. I mean if you want to make a living you gotta put in the time and it’s a solid 50- 60 hour job on average not 40.
People don’t complain because they know that means they’re not cutting the mustard.
One of my mentors used to say “the law is a jealous mistress”
People don’t complain because they know that means they’re not cutting the mustard.
I worked for the state, not their firms, and they spoke to me as a friend on the week-ends.
My recollection from the New York Law Journal surveys was that 49 hours was the median at that time. This would be around 1990.
And don’t forget that Chris Cuomo is almost 50 years old. I have friends in their mid-thirties who are associates and rarely get home before 10 p.m, and also work Saturdays. A 50 year-old guy can’t keep up with that for long. The ideal associate is in his 20s and has no wife or kids.
… and no life.
For the first time I agree with Cuomo and feel his sentiment about hyper-partisanship.
it is sad that Republicans are increasingly staking out a stark “open the economy” position —
and the Democrats are staking out an equally stark “shut it all down” position.
There is a tradeoff, lives will be lost in both directions, and so the decisions to be made are matters of prudence and not ideology.
“For the first time I agree with Cuomo ”
The question is whether or not Fredo agrees with himself or better yet understands the subject matter.
He apparently understands the experience of the disease better than you or I since he had it.
sometimes an experience which reminds oneself of mortality casts things in a different light
I applaud him for criticizing hyper-partisanship. again:
“He said that he was through “talking to Democrats about things that I don’t really believe they mean” and “talking to Republicans about them parroting things they feel they have to say.” ”
yes this trend is very un-helpful by the partisan leadership.
The following referenced tract by Carl Schmitt is prophetic in so many ways, it’s why i keep recommending it, and so:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crisis_of_Parliamentary_Democracy
“I applaud him for criticizing hyper-partisanship. again:”
I would think about the things that caused him to change other than the Coronavirus.”
Makes me a big fan of antibody testing, Kurtz. Diagnostic testing. Testing across the board.
Elvis I agree 100% we should have massively more testing and antibody testing too.
Problem is, some research suggests that the virus may not excite enough antibody activity to prevent reinfection, the study I heard the other day from a pathologist talking about it, maybe like around about a third of people who get it and recover, do not have sufficient antibodies to prevent re-infection. I think he said it was published in Nature. Not sure the sample size, but we could look it up
This means the covid problem is here to stay a long time. This is why i suggest we also better figure out how to get more businesses online once the curve is flattened sufficiently for hospitals to process the flow of the infected. this may be a 18 month crisis until a safe and effective vaccine is developed and we can’t just stay home that entire time. there is a tradeoff. I believe this quandry is precisely what Cuomo was referring to in his comments.
This article may be referring to what i was talking about, says a chinese study showed post-recovery people will still testing postive at rate of 15%, not sure if that was the same one i heard about or not, and another theory coming from korea about reinfection
https://time.com/5810454/coronavirus-immunity-reinfection/
I think you should be less credulous.
Kurtz, it sounds like you want to quarantine the entire country until total safety is secured. The number of deaths in the young and healthy is quite small. Better for the elderly and the sick to self-isolate. The country cannot survive the economic catastrophe we will be facing if the country doesn’t go back to work.
Flattening the curve without treatment or a vaccine that works doesn’t save lives rather it extends the time where those lives will be taken.
Serological / Antibody tests are not diagnostic. PT-PCR tests must be administered to confirm the former. Currently we have no reliable PCR tests for SARS-CoV-2. The PCR tests in Wuhan, China are 71% sensitive.
Diagnosis of COVID-19 is based on a constellation of symptoms together with history, physical and multiple tests including CT of chest. There is no such thing as 1 test that a person can take to know if they do or do not have SARS-CoV-2. Reports to the contrary are myth and have no support in evidence.
COVID-19 Testing: The Threat of False-Negative Results
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(20)30365-7/pdf
Maybe is finally realized that there is more to life than spewing hatred
Evidently, the ChiCom virus causes you to be super sensitive to criticism.
You don’t suppose he is going to set up his brother to be killed? 😉
I don’t think Fredo is that smart so my bet is in the immediate time frame he will attach his future to his brother who was bailed out by Trump.
I have to agree, he’s not the brightest bulb. He went to Fordham Law, which is a decent school, but with his family connections he couldn’t at least get in NYU? Holy cow, he must have had some sorry grades and LSAT scores…..
Per US News, NYU ranks 6th (or the 96th percentile) and Fordham ranks 27th (85th percentile) of the nation’s law schools. No clue what it was when he entered in 1992. Not sure why the difference should have mattered much to him or to his father.
It matters a lot to legal employers. Talk to any legal headhunter and he will tell you that if you’re not from a T-20 (top 20 law school), that your prospects are limited and you will struggle to repay your student loans. Most pre-law advisors counsel against going to law school at all if you don’t get into a T-20, as the cost is not worth the rewards.
Derek, that is the common talk, but there are tons of lawyers out here who went to state schools or “not top 20” who make plenty of money. this is a foot in the door thing, and most legal jobs won’t sniffle at very good grades from a state school
and getting your foot in the door is not much. you need to work it once you’re there
cuomo has a name and he could have a fantastic law career off the stupid tv
and top 20 law schools are not all the much better than next tier 20 and the student is what makes the lawyer not the brand name on the sheepskin
Derek, strange as it may seem to you, there are over 600,000 working lawyers in the United States earning a living at it. About 80% of them never got near a top-20 school.
The ones I knew had degrees from Buffalo and Syracuse. I have a shirt-tail now who is an associate at Jones, Day. He’s the issue of a mid-card state law school. The average in-state graduate incurs $60.000 worth of debt at that particular school.
FINALLY CHRIS sees the light about CNN, DEM’s, even Republicans – all politicians – but the most important thing is he does not like what CNN is up to.
When you have such a virus and could be facing death, it is amazing how it changes you.
Jealous of his brother.
Nick:
In spades or should l say en picches.
He has an orderly domestic life an millions of dollars in the bank. He also gets to be the younger son, which is much more fun than being a 1st born son.