In the Wednesday edition of his unoriginally titled show on SiriusXM’s POTUS radio station, Let’s Get After It, indefinitely suspended CNN host Chris Cuomo addressed the surprise move by CNN boss Jeff Zucker. In his comments, Cuomo issued another likely empty apology and seemed to chide accountability by suggesting the suspension was part of “a process that they think is important.”
“Hey everybody, it’s Chris Cuomo, let’s get after it, quick note, the obvious, I’ve been suspended from CNN,” he announced at the top of the program. “You know this already. It hurts to even say it, it’s embarrassing, but I understand it and I understand why some people feel the way they do about what I did.”
As well he did back in MayCNN received an apology from Cuomo. “I’ve apologized in the past and I mean it, it’s the last thing I ever wanted to do was compromise any of my colleagues and do anything but help,” he lamented.
Three months later, however, What have we learned? that he had lied to viewers about his involvement with his brother, disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s sexual misconduct defense. Again, He liedHe also explained what his role was at the time.
We learned the same three months later. CNN executives were lied by him about how he was helping and that he had abused his power as a star journalist at the network for his brother’s benefit.
If that wasn’t enough of a hint that he didn’t respect CNN’s leadership, he flashed a hint of contempt for the suspension. “Their process is something I recognize.,” he said before adding: “I respect that process, so I’m not going to talk about this any more than that.”
On Wednesday’s Report SpecialHoward Kurtz, Fox News Channel’s media analyst pointed out that Zucker needed to be kicked to suspend the star.
CNN has now suspended its highest-rated journalist after months of not taking any actions, no internal inquiries, or even a handshake. CNN president Jeff Zucker instead waited to see if any new evidence about Cuomo and his defense brother Andrew Cuomo surfaced. He also funneled information regarding sexual harassment reports from his media sources.
Updated: The New York TimesArticle that The news about Cuomo’s suspension was brokeZucker could have been under pressure by Discovery CEO David Zaslav on Tuesday to initiate disciplinary actions against Cuomo
By Tuesday afternoon, CNN’s top executives were mulling Mr. Cuomo’s fate just as they were convening for a meeting on the news network’s own corporate future.
David Zaslav, the chief executive of Discovery, who masterminded a deal this year to merge with CNN’s parent company, WarnerMedia, visited CNN’s Hudson Yards offices in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, four people with knowledge of the meeting said. The previously scheduled gathering was intended as a get-to-know-you session with Mr. Zaslav…
The paper also noted “[a]bout a dozen of CNN’s top managers” were in attendance as well.
CNN Media Bootlicker Brian Stelter offered his suggestions Cuomo was essentially getting an extended Christmas vacation, Kurtz wasn’t so sure. “But a spokesperson told Fox News there is no end date, at least while the network weighs his future,” he concluded.
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