I just want any of the pubs that kissed his feet to revisit their own Cuomo coverage. One writer to say 'Whoops!'
We did a deep dive into these failures months ago, so if you read the Examiner mag you know what's actually happening with the virus in NY. But wouldn't it help partisans with fingers in their ears to see it in, say, The Atlantic? A full takedown of Cuomo? If not, why not?
Like maybe time to update this? "To Cuomo’s credit, he appears to have handled New York’s emergence from the depths of the spring better than he handled the state’s descent." theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
This is the way ppl in the media have been talking about Cuomo: his nursing-home mass slaughter was a 'mistake,' and he's since turned New York around. And that Atlantic piece is the closest you'll come to a critical take, and it's a billion miles from reality, still.
"Cuomo does have a good story to tell about New York’s stabilization and recovery—health-wise, if not yet economically—over the past few months."
I just want these writers to say: oops, I stepped in it.
I'm afraid to encourage the New Yorker to take another shot at it because their 'profile' of Cuomo was downright pornographic. Take a cold shower and respect yourselves newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
The one I keep dunking on is this, so I'm reluctant to keep doing it, but it's just the broad side of a barn nytimes.com/2020/03/16/bus…
"A month ago, it would have seemed unlikely — ridiculous, even — that the most riveting duo in America would be the Empire State’s combative governor and his kid brother, the wide-eyed cable-news host.
"He was a Democratic district leader, Manhattan county clerk, borough president, lawyer and author. But above all, Dinkins was a dignified and well-respected gentleman."
The great secret of NYC is that it's much tougher on you in life than in death. Sometimes the abuse you take is a form of in-group sentimentalism, weird as that sounds.
Glad Scott Gottlieb wrote this, which correctly makes clear that the ppl who have been treating wearing masks as a silver bullet are usually wearing a mask that provides between 10% and 30% protection (less, b/c they're not wearing/handling them correctly) wsj.com/articles/some-…
The person yelling at others about wearing a mask is very likely using it at 5% protection and then obliterating whatever is left by barking for the camera.
This is why "oh but many of those packed, screaming and singing protesters were wearing masks" was such a laughable excuse for saying you were allowed to march with de Blasio but not attend an outdoor funeral.
One of the reasons it matters that Biden has begun elevating institutionalists instead of ideologues: institutionalists may share the ideologues' posture in the Gulf but are much less reckless. Institutionalists probably won't want to blow up Arab-Israeli peace. Ideologues will.
Ppl have to understand that a lot of the praise from center and right on Biden's fopo choices thus far is not *policy agreement* overall, it's recognition that these are folks you can disagree with but actually have a debate on policy with.
And they value the architecture of America's place in the world. I don't have any illusions about their preferred approach to Iran (bad). But would they sacrifice half a million Syrians for it? Would they trade Israel for Qatar over it? Less likely than the ideologues.
Looks like Biden has decided on Not Susan Rice for Secretary of State
Also not at all surprised by Michele Flournoy at Defense after her CNN oped in September reminding Biden that he needs to pick her for Defense cnn.com/2020/09/02/opi…