![]() ![]() He's nuts!" he wrote.Ĭhris Cuomo also weighed in on Twitter about the incident, thanking his supporters while writing about the "lesson" he learned. He shouldn't be allowed to have any weapon. "Would Chris Cuomo be given a Red Flag for his recent rant? Filthy language and a total loss of control. ![]() He even managed to bring in the gun control debate in tweets about Cuomo. Totally lost it! Low ratings the 45th President tweeted. Once the video went viral, the Commander-In-Chief turned to his favorite past time: tweeting. it's good to me, actually," Splinter News managing editor Katherine Krueger tweeted.Īny mention of CNN wouldn't be complete without a tweet from Donald Trump, of course. "i love that we're gonna spend all day debating whether 'Fredo' is an ethnic slur against Italians. Said Vanity Fair's Michael Knowles: "'Fredo' is not the 'n-word for Italians.' It's a movie reference invoked specifically to make fun of Chris Cuomo." Almost too normal," journalist Jordan Uhl tweeted. "Gonna pace around my apt the rest of the night thinking about how someone can claim Fredo is 'like the n-word' for Italians.very normal s***. Shows you what Cuomo thinks of black people FREDO was associated with being 'slow, and couldn't be trusted.'" Slave masters didn't called Italians 'fredo' 3. Political commentator Wayne Dupree tweeted: "Chris Cuomo claimed calling him FREDO was like calling blacks the n-word 1. "Calling an Italian man Fredo perpetuates cruel, unfair stereotypes, and if you ever do it my cousins and I will show up to your house in track suits and smash your car windows," CJ Ciaramella, criminal justice reporter for Reason, joked. Equivocating the two is pure racism," Trump advisor Katrina Pierson tweeted. ![]() Fredo is a term from The Godfather, referring to the dumb brother. "Did just say that 'Fredo' is to Italians what the N word is to black people? N word is a dehumanizing word used against blacks who endured years of oppression. '"if you're comparing the badness of two words and you won't even say one of them - that's the worse word,'" Alex McDaniel, deputy editor at SB Nation tweeted, quoting material from comedian John Mulaney's stand-up special New in Town from 2012. However, despite the partisan divide you would expect in an incident like this, many of the reactions simply took Cuomo to task for labeling "Fredo" an ethnic slur. Meanwhile, Natalie Shure of TruTV's Adam Ruins Everything tweeted, "Seems like 'Fredo' needled Cuomo less for the Italian slur factor and more for the implication that he's a lame oaf brother being carried along by a powerful family." And they never think about the energy they take rationalizing the denigration of others," she tweeted. "People who tell you it's ok to call an Italian man Fredo are the same people who said it was ok to throw money at a woman leader and call her a whore. She compared the man calling Cuomo "Fredo" to Bernie Sanders supporters throwing dollar bills at Hillary Clinton's motorcade in 2017 to protest the corrupting force of money in politics. Neera Tanden, CEO of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, took the verbal attack on Chris Cuomo seriously. He deserves the apology," the Hannity host tweeted. "I say good for He's out with his 9 year old daughter, and his wife, and this guy is being a jackass in front of his family. It's awesome that Cuomo's network CNN has his back, but the Cuomo Prime Time host had support from an unexpected source – Fox News' Sean Hannity. ![]()
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