Posted on 03/20/2020 3:48:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK - Before President Donald Trump stepped into the White House briefing room to provide an update on the coronavirus, an opening act was broadcast across cable news of another chief executive calmly reciting statistics and safety tips.
For the second straight day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s matter-of-fact and slightly scolding demeanor from an epicenter of the pandemic was a stark contrast Thursday to the often haphazard and hyperbolic messages coming from Trump.
Through daily briefings and scores of media appearances, Cuomo has emerged as one of the key faces responding to the pandemic. He is one of several governors thrust into the spotlight as cases surge, forcing a reordering of American life without schools, sporting events or large crowds.
But it has been Cuomo’s daily briefings that have become must-see TV. Twice this week, the White House’s own coronavirus briefing was delayed until Cuomo concluded his own update, providing vital information to a public largely shut in at home, televisions anxiously tuned to cable news.
Meanwhile, an unexpected online fan club has popped up, full of adoring Twitter posts during the governor’s briefings and one Jezebel article Thursday titled “Help, I Think I’m In Love With Andrew Cuomo???”
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I live in Upstate........Cuomo is a jerk....just like his father. It’s all about power. He gives a damn about the people.
What bias
He’s watching the voter clock and the ASS-ociated press is searching for the next idol
Hey I’m of proud Sicilian/Naples blood and I hate this WOP pr.ck.
Americans of Italian descent are some of the most patriotic, America loving citizens, so much so that mom and pop didn’t speak Italian in the house (except for fights :)) because they said “we are in America now, we speak English!!”
Cuomo said America was never great.
#### you.
My pop would call me into the room when I was a kid if the POTUS was on TV. Didn’t matter if it was one he hated. That was the POTUS of the Greatest Country on Earth!
Cuomo, you wouldn’t be worth my father’s spit if he was still with us.
You’re a disgrace to this country and your ancestors .
BTW, my father hated your father as much as I hate you.
The Picard image really does say 1000+ words, doesn’t it?
Central , NY here and agree.
New York state faces $6.1 billion budget hole next year: officials
What's not to love.
BTW, the governor's pressers were what started the freakout panic buying at NYS grocery stores.
Usual junk from the biased garbage media. Whatever Trump does is bad and is cast in the worst possible light, whatever his opponents do is just wonderful and is cast in the glowing light of a pig heaven. Thus, no word about Dementia Joe Biden sticking to calls to lift travel bans nor any praise for Trump for sticking to this position, which makes our infestation with the virus far less than Europe or Asia. No word about Dementia Joe, instead of opposition politicians that rally to the nation’s good at the time of such crisis, pounding Trump with lies about disbanding some bureaucratic pandemic entity which wasn’t disbanded. Instead, they focus on the racist Trump for caling it the Wuhan Virus or China Virus when I distinctly recall no media hysteria of any type over the West Nile Virus, Hong Kong virus, or Lyme disease. The coronavirus might not make us sick but the damned media like the AP jerks already has.
Wonder if Cuomo is still shipping NYC’s homeless Upstate...
Cuomo and Kaiser Wilhelm...
Didn’t Cuomo say that NYS doesn’t need any conservatives or some such tripe? He’s a ‘hero’ of bringing NY legalized gay marriages to the fore. Pissant
I live in western New York and agree he is a jerk. He is setting himself up for 2024. Politics is want drives him. And the know the press is behind him.
we have an equal! praise the lord and hand out the blue berry muffins
You mean the same Cuomo who, in a moment of weakness, praised Trump’s leadership and willingness to work with governors? That one?
Yeah. Cuomo. How’s that fracking money coming along upstate?( southern tier)??
...spit...
Scolding who and why?
Some people troll me about being Sicilian. I then mention I may be related to two “families” and nobody has a response.
Hey you’re paesano? I didn’t know :)
The far northerners might as well be Swiss.
Sicily is beautiful.
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