Posted on 11/21/2016 4:48:24 PM PST by Hadean
A top aide to President-elect Donald Trump is dismissing questions about Trump's tweeting, asking why a network news anchor would care.
"Why take it up? Why take up 'SNL'? No president does that. Why waste time? Why distract?" CNN's Chris Cuomo asked Kellyanne Conway Monday morning.
"Why do you care?" Conway replied in the contentious interview.
Trump over the weekend tweeted criticisms of "Saturday Night Live" and repeatedly called on the "Hamilton" cast to apologize to Mike Pence for comments targeted at the vice president-elect.
"Who's to say he can't do that? Make a comment — spend five minutes sending a tweet, making a comment," Conway said on Monday.
She then accused Cuomo of assigning "wrongdoing" and "malice" where it doesn't exist.
"I think we should all learn from the election that this doesn't fly with the voters," she added.
Conway said CNN is "focusing on divisions" by bringing up Trump's tweeting.
"This network and other people will always be focused on divisions. How about accepting the election results, Chris, and letting him form a government?"
"He is a leader and takes the counsel of many people, and that's exactly what he's doing."
Cuomo shot back: "And a leader should also have thick skin."
Conway continued to defend Trump's Twitter use as a way to reach his "25 million followers."
"It's a great way for him to take his message directly to the people," she said.
"Sometimes he's trying to cut through the nonsense of people telling Americans what's important to them."
CNN wants to shut Trump up. LOL
Not happening.
“thick skin”
Like Obie???
Hahahaha!!!
Open hatch. Insert Cuomo. Press button. Shred.
Chris Cuomo?!?
Gawd, what an incestuous bunch these libs are!
Well, Cuomo, you DO have a thick..........head.....
“Why take it up? Why take up ‘SNL’? No president does that. Why waste time? Why distract?”
how many times has ayatollah obama berated Fox news the past 8 year?
So funny how Chris Cuomo and many squeamish weakling FReepers feel Trump has thin skin. They don’t like it when a manly man counterpunches.
I raise a toast to manly man, counterpuncher Trump!
Cuomo is Fake News personified.
Love it. She’s good.
I love this pushback after decades of namby-pamby land.
Who are the top 10 or 20 companies advertising on CNN?
Now, those are the places to start applying pressure?
They hate it when they can’t filter what we hear.
Cuomo shot back: “And a leader should also have thick skin.”
She should’ve shot back: “well, Chris... he doesn’t have the RACE CARD to play..”
Open hatch. Insert Cuomo. Press button. Shred. Flush.
FIFY
How dare a man or woman, born in this land of liberty, speak out and expose political hacks and charlatans who mistake license for liberty and ignore that, in America, there are no such things as "baskets of irredeemable 'deplorables,'" but that all, according to their nation's document of freedom (the Declaration of Independence), endowed by a higher power with unalienable rights and that, in the words of Jefferson, each possesses "the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. all eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. the general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god." - Thomas Jefferson
Thick skin? That’s rich, considering Cuomo worships at the feet of the most thin-skinned president in U.S. history. I’m sure Chrissy called out Obozo on it plenty, though...not.
Thick skin. Translation: Shut up and let us run over you in the media like your Republican predecessor did.
Up yours, Cwhomo.
“”Cuomo shot back: “And a leader should also have thick skin.””
Who died and left Cuomo the “know all, be all” in the world of political leaders? Apparently Trump needs thick skin like “his” leader has...obozo spends a bunch of time defending his own actions - even going to foreign countries to do so. I think there was a time when he wasn’t quite as sickening as his father and brother but he’s been around CNN too long.
I thought you were going to say “How many times has obama been on SNL?” (once!) But he sure made the rounds with Letterman, etc.
Cuomo then admitted that he cared because the press would like Mister Trump to be passive and allow them to heap it on while he remains above the fray so that in four years he will be so battered and bruised that he cannot even win a primary.
Or did he leave that part out?
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