manhattan123
manhattan123's JournalThe way Cuomo engages the press corp...
at his daily press conferences is night and day compared with the orange fuckwit in those laughable sessions at the White House every afternoon.
Cuomo strives to answer every question with facts and numbers, and as detailed as he can (or has one of his experts on the dais pipe in.) He engages with the reporters, he is human to them, laughs occasionally, teases them sometimes, never nasty.
Such a contrast to the blustering, bullying, bullshitting that Trump does every day.
Even Cuomo's people are impressive...
Watching his daily press conferences, I'm always impressed by the people on the dais with him, state health commissioner, etc. The woman who usually sits next to him, Melissa DeRosa, his chief of staff, occasionally jumps in with facts and figures or says, "We'll take care of that." She knows her stuff.
Compare that to, er, Jared Kushner.
Covering Trump's press conferences
The networks should stop airing those laughable press conferences from the White House live, where the lackeys obsequiously praise Dear Leader, who then spews out garbage, some of it potentially dangerous, attacks opponents, does his usual egotistical preening, "I'd give myself a 10" and the self-aggrandizing, the childish taunting, and, of course, refusal to accept blame for clear failures. "No, I don't take responsibility."
They can certainly be covered by the press, and then any actual news items reported in a regular segment after fact checking.
These daily airings have replaced the MAGA-t rallies, that the TV networks also covered live in 2016, giving Trump hundreds of millions of dollars of free air rime.
I'm currently watching "The Plot Against America" on HBO, which is an alternate history depiction of Charles Lindbergh (who was, indeed, an isolationist) winning the Republican nomination and then beating FDR, allowing the Nazis to spread through the world. One scene has the father of an embattled Jewish family listening to Lindbergh on the radio, fuming that they just keep giving him air time where he says the same things over and over.
Very close to home.
This is the part of Cuomo's press conference today that was just astoundingly good
Beyond the numbers and stats he provides every day, not sugar coating or trying to downplay this crisis, like a certain orange-tinted fool, he also inspires. Unlike a certain orange-tinted fool.
[link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=rRBz_HEgSfE&feature=emb_logo|
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