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Poor, Pitiful Cuomo: Even Liberals at Vox Proclaim 'Fredo' Is Not an Ethnic Slur
Newsbusters ^ | August 14, 2019 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 08/14/2019 2:00:42 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Although Chris Cuomo and his employer, CNN, insist that calling someone 'Fredo' is an ethnic slur on a par with the n-word, even Vox takes exception to such a comparison. On Tuesday,  Vox culture staff writer Alissa Wilkinson weighed in on this topic and came down very definitely on the side of no ethnic slur represented by "Fredo." 

The very title of her article reveals what she thinks about this controversy: "CNN’s Chris Cuomo said 'Fredo' is like 'the n-word' for Italians. It’s … not."


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chriscuomo; fredo; fredocuomo
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You're going to ENJOY the picture on this story. Fredo? Maybe not so much.
1 posted on 08/14/2019 2:00:42 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Oh that picture is priceless.


2 posted on 08/14/2019 2:01:39 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Heaven has gates, walls and immigration policy but Hell has an open border policy. Food for thought.)
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To: PJ-Comix

All I see is a pic of Fredo Cuomo and John Cazale by Getty.


3 posted on 08/14/2019 2:05:46 PM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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Fredo, you’re nothing to me now. You’re not a brother, you’re not a friend. I don’t want to know you or what you do. I don’t want to see you at the hotels, I don’t want you near my house. When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won’t be there. You understand?


4 posted on 08/14/2019 2:16:31 PM PDT by cpt jack 1
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To: PJ-Comix

If you’re an anchor on CNN, you really do believe that whatever you say, it’s true. It doesn’t matter if it’s making up stories on the air or you’re out in public with your family. If you speak it, it’s true.


5 posted on 08/14/2019 2:17:17 PM PDT by robel
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Doesn't seem so long ago when a lotta folks (even some here) that you were engaging in hyperbole by referring to CNN as the Communist Nonsense Network.

Odd, the paucity of mea culpas from 'em . . .

7 posted on 08/14/2019 2:25:23 PM PDT by tomkat ( /.02)
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You left off the part about me taking a hit from the crack pipe.


8 posted on 08/14/2019 2:29:17 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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You left off the part about me taking a hit from the crack pipe.

I was trying to be nice.

9 posted on 08/14/2019 2:31:02 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: chris37

Good article. And for those outside ny, Shelter Island, where this happened is a fairly quiet, sophisticated place. You can only get there by boat. This did not happen in Manhattan or Brooklyn.


10 posted on 08/14/2019 2:31:20 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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that thought you ..
11 posted on 08/14/2019 2:36:05 PM PDT by tomkat (wishes there was an edit button in here)
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To: humblegunner

Isn’t the pic from Getty? I think you can’t post Getty pics on FR (but I could be wrong),


12 posted on 08/14/2019 2:36:40 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." A. Lincoln)
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The pic was from a humor blog. Look closely.


13 posted on 08/14/2019 2:40:56 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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What ethnicity is Cuomo anyways? Italian? WOP would be more accurate - this coming from a fellow part Italian.


14 posted on 08/14/2019 2:42:13 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: MayflowerMadam

Also not a Getty pic. I got the pic from BING search for “Chris Cuomo Fredo”. When you set the license to “Free share and use” that pic is the first one that comes up. If it was Getty, it wouldn’t appear with that filter restriction.


15 posted on 08/14/2019 2:45:13 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Ah. Thanks for the clarification. (I rarely post pics so am challenged.)


16 posted on 08/14/2019 2:46:45 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." A. Lincoln)
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We should throw an everybody dress up as Fredo nlock party in front of CNN


17 posted on 08/14/2019 2:47:56 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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".... You left off the part about me taking a hit from the crack pipe...."

He didn't call you a racist.

So there's that....

18 posted on 08/14/2019 3:07:46 PM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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19 posted on 08/14/2019 3:14:17 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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LOL!!..Now that’s funny..


20 posted on 08/14/2019 3:36:51 PM PDT by TomServo
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