![]() ![]() And then an interview with Dan Rather, presumably in the hope some authoritative anchor pixie dust might rub off, in which many of the same beats are hit.įinally, because old habits die hard, Cuomo finishes the show with some light banter with a family member – not his brother this time, but his mother, herself a former first lady of New York who calls in to say the show is “good, very good”. His two guests, both Republicans, Clinton’s defense secretary William Cohen and Trump’s security adviser John Bolton, said the things you’d expect – Ukraine good, Putin bad, America must help.Īfter that, a fawning interview with Bill Maher, hardly a big get for his debut show, followed much of the same meaningless, both sides bad, stop fighting, start listening stuff that NewsNation claims to be all about (without, on the basis of this hour at least, doing much in the way of actual newsgathering). In an otherwise perfunctory segment on Ukraine, for example, he described the country’s ambitions as “insanely American” and compared their struggle to the Revolutionary war, as if it was only in these terms that his viewers might be able to support them. For all his promise that he was ready to deliver for the silent majority, the opening episode of Cuomo sounded a lot like it could have been on MSNBC.Īfter all that sheer monologuing it was into a decent, well-delivered and slightly dull news show – peppered with wild bits of imperialist agitprop. He makes clear demands for ranked choice voting, term limits in Congress, greater legal immigration to fill jobs, and limits to assault weapons. He admonishes the media for ignoring the protests in Iran, the GOP for failing to pass a law that would provide resources to those in emotional distress in schools, the big colleges for charging too much for an education, and Susan Collins for failing to speak up for democracy. Cuomo does a lot of hardcore opinion – much of it speaking to big-D Democratic principles. But actually this is not, as had been sold, a fact-based old school newscast. It’s all about avoiding partisanship, getting to the truth, reasonableness not left versus right, and other well-meaning centrist platitudes. ![]() Instead, Cuomo waxes for 15 minutes about the ideology of the new show. Indeed he has denied misleading his employers and is suing CNN for $125m for wrongful termination, none of which is mentioned tonight. Instead he tried to present his closeness to his brother as a positive for his viewers: “Most people in my business know politics from the outside, I know it from the inside … I’ve seen the inner workings of campaigns … and the interplay between the media and those in power.”īut then what did you expect? Cuomo has only ever had two settings: locker room banter or angry disappointed father. There was no mention of why both he and his brother were fired, nor any acknowledgment that he breached journalistic ethics. There was no mention of the 11 women who came forward including a staffer who alleged Andrew Cuomo groped her breasts and the state trooper who said he would run his fingers down her back while she was trying to protect him – allegations Andrew Cuomo denies. “I’ve been humbled by what happened and I’m also hungry to do better in a way that I’ve never done before.” So how to address all this and get on with the business of cable news? Cuomo got straight to it: “Shakespeare wrote in the Tempest, that ‘the past is prologue,’” he said, without a hint of irony. Your boy is ready to do the NEWS! Let’ssssssss anchor! ![]() Cuomo has always been a little more bro-ish than his cable news colleagues, but tonight his jockish figure is barely contained by his game-day pinstripe suit. No sitting on this show – just standing astride the studio, puppy dog forgive-me eyes looking straight into the camera.
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