Posted on 11/23/2020 1:53:01 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Andrew Cuomo is set to receive an Emmy award for his daily televised press briefings during the pandemic, the Academy announced on Friday.
The Academy said Cuomo will be acknowledged for "his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and his masterful use of television to inform and calm people around the world."
Cuomo said he found the Emmy recognition "flattering" and that he was going to accept it on behalf of New Yorkers.
The recent announcement has received criticism, with some people saying it ignores the problems the state experienced during the pandemic.
New York governor Andrew Cuomo is set to receive an Emmy award for his daily televised press briefings during the coronavirus pandemic, the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced on Friday.
According to a statement issued on the Academy's website, Cuomo will receive the International Emmy Founders Award for his "leadership" during the pandemic and "his masterful use of television to inform and calm people around the world."
"The governor's 111 daily briefings worked so well because he effectively created television shows, with characters, plot lines, and stories of success and failure," the president and CEO of the International Academy, Bruce Paisner, said in the statement.
"People around the world tuned in to find out what was going on, and New York tough became a symbol of the determination to fight back," he added.
According to the Academy's website, the award is presented to an individual or organization who "crosses cultural boundaries to touch our common humanity."
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Rep. Lauren Boebert, a congresswoman-elect for Colorado's 3rd congressional district, tweeted on Friday: "Giving Andrew Cuomo an Emmy is the equivalent of giving Hannibal Lecter the Nobel Peace Prize."
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Emmys are for ACTING, which is the opposite of reality.
For millions it is a joke.
I think Larry King received Father of the year award once and he had been married 7 times.
All the dead nursing home residents infected by his COVID influx from the hospitals were especially calmed.
How long gods green earth does a politician get an Emmy award? The acting was that good so they’re recognizing him?? These people are sick
He’ll turn his Enema into a Trump bashing speech of course.
I hear the Funeral Directors of America is going to award him the coveted “Serial Killer of the Decade Award”.
Does anyone remember when there was a shortage of masks in NYC?
A man from another State sent cuomo one of two masks he had to give to a worker. cuomo fondled that mask during his presser spreading his germs all over it.
Then people started sending masks to NYC.
What does cuomo do?
He has a gigantic framed collage made out of those masks. This is something one does AFTER a pandemic is over, not while there’s a shortage of masks.
It was so insulting, infuriating.
He stole the masks for his own useless use. It’s as if he spat on all of us.
On the same level of absurdity as Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.
LOL!
If I kill people will I receive an Emmy?
5.56mm
We’re at the point where celebratory Democrats have gone over the rainbow....... and it aint pretty.
The Dem are joyfully holding hands, wearing daisy chains, skipping happily towards valhalla.......where a demented old man and a whore await them.
Wonderful news!!
His Emmy for Leadership may rank right up there with Hussein obama’s Nobel Peace prize
Cuomo? An Emmy? Well, he really did kill it.
Aren’t Emmys given for fictional tv?
Yo, Cuomo, where are all those ventilators?
So, a guy receives an award for destroying a state. This country is finished.
When he gets the emmy, it’ll prove that he’s an “acting” governor, not a real one. He’s just following a script, written by ________.
If he were a real governor, he would decline the award because it is an insult.
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