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Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:31 am
by Indy
Mori Chu wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:59 am
The GOP is no longer trying to actually grow their base so that they can win elections. They want to denounce, subvert, erode, and overturn elections. That's their pathway to power in 2022 and 2024. If the Democrats don't protect voting rights and tighten the ways that votes are counted and electoral votes are cast, the Republicans are going to literally overturn the 2024 Presidential election.
They won't have to 'over-turn' it if they continue their extreme gerrymandering. Once they do that, they can pass state laws that cut out non-partisan folks from the election process and allow governors or state senates to 'certify' election results before they go to Congress. Then the coup will be legal...
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2021 5:08 pm
by In2ition
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/nyre ... eport.html
Assembly Report on Cuomo Contains Grounds for Impeachment, Lawmaker Says
A report set to be made public next week sheds new light on the Cuomo administration’s manipulation of nursing home death data and the former governor’s $5.1 million book deal.
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:34 am
by Nodack
CNN fires Chris Cuomo
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/04/media/cn ... index.html
"When Chris admitted to us that he had offered advice to his brother's staff, he broke our rules and we acknowledged that publicly," the network said in a statement. "But we also appreciated the unique position he was in and understood his need to put family first and job second."
"However," the network said, "these documents point to a greater level of involvement in his brother's efforts than we previously knew. As a result, we have suspended Chris indefinitely, pending further evaluation."
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:03 pm
by Superbone
Yeah, saw that. Big time news as he was the number 1 anchor on CNN. Good for CNN. Gotta keep journalistic integrity at all costs.
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 2:25 pm
by Mori Chu
I think they made the right decision. His behavior was inappropriate, and they can't just let that go when his job was to be a supposedly trusted on-air newsman.
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:53 pm
by Nodack
Tough position to be in for him. Good decision getting him off the air for awhile.
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 9:51 am
by Mori Chu
It sounds like there was a sexual misconduct allegation against Chris Cuomo himself, which accelerated his departure.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/05/attorne ... iring.html
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 6:44 am
by Indy
Nodack wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:53 pm
Tough position to be in for him. Good decision getting him off the air for awhile.
Is it though? If my brother were accused by numerous women of sexual harassment, I wouldn't be going out of my way to help him.
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:03 am
by Nodack
You would automatically assume he was guilty and go on the air attacking him? You don’t think being a news anchor and having to report that kind of news about your brother would be a difficult position to be in? I can say I wouldn’t enjoy it or find it easy.
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:52 am
by Mori Chu
Nodack wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:03 am
You would automatically assume he was guilty and go on the air attacking him? You don’t think being a news anchor and having to report that kind of news about your brother would be a difficult position to be in? I can say I wouldn’t enjoy it or find it easy.
It isn't a binary choice between (go on air attacking my own brother) and (inappropriately use my connections as a journalist to try to smear my brother's accusers). Cuomo could have and should have just completely stayed out of the situation and let it resolve itself without his intervention.
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 6:58 am
by Indy
Mori Chu wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:52 am
Nodack wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:03 am
You would automatically assume he was guilty and go on the air attacking him? You don’t think being a news anchor and having to report that kind of news about your brother would be a difficult position to be in? I can say I wouldn’t enjoy it or find it easy.
It isn't a binary choice between (go on air attacking my own brother) and (inappropriately use my connections as a journalist to try to smear my brother's accusers). Cuomo could have and should have just completely stayed out of the situation and let it resolve itself without his intervention.
EXACTLY. You don't talk about it publicly or use your position privately to smear people.
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 10:12 am
by In2ition
This is Chris Cuomo's former producer and producer of the morning show "New Day".
CNN Staffer John Griffin Charged With Enticing Moms, Daughters Into 'Sexual Activity'
Brendan Cole - Saturday
https://www.newsweek.com/john-griffin-c ... bi-1658485
A CNN employee has been charged with three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to sexually abuse underage girls.
John Griffin, 44, of Stamford, Connecticut, was arrested on Friday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont.
The indictment says that between April and July 2020, he used Google Hangouts and Kik to communicate with people purporting to be the parents of underage girls.
He allegedly used the applications to say that women should be "sexually subservient and inferior to men" and that a "woman is a woman regardless of her age."
"On these communication platforms, Griffin sought to persuade parents to allow him to train their daughters to be sexually submissive," the indictment said.
Griffin works as a senior producer at CNN, where he has worked since 2013, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Prosecutors said he transferred more than $3,000 to the mother of two daughters aged nine and 13 who he had been communicating with.
The mother and the 9-year-old flew from Nevada to Boston in July 2020. Prosecutors say Griffin picked them up from the airport and drove them to his house in Ludlow, Vermont.
At the property "the daughter was directed to engage in, and did engage in, unlawful sexual activity," the indictment said.
Other allegations include that Griffin tried to entice two other children over the internet to engage in sexual activity.
In April 2020, Griffin is alleged to have proposed a "virtual training session" in which he instructed a woman and her 14-year-old daughter to remove their clothes during a video chat.
In June 2020, he also allegedly suggested the purported mother of a 16-year-old daughter to come to his ski house "for sexual training involving the child."
Griffin faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years of imprisonment and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for each of the three counts he faces.
He appeared in New Haven federal court via Zoom, where Judge Robert Spector said he would request his transfer to Connecticut, The Stamford Advocate reported. It said that he has been tentatively scheduled to appear in court again on December 15.
The indictment said that the federal government will seek the forfeiture of Griffin's house in Ludlow, as well as vehicles "and other property that was used in the commission of the charged offenses. "
A spokesperson CNN said in a statement: "We take the charges against Mr. Griffin incredibly seriously," the Mail Online reported, "we only learned of his arrest this afternoon and have suspended him pending investigation."
Newsweek has contacted CNN for further comment.
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 11:49 am
by Mori Chu
Yikes.
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 11:56 am
by Mori Chu
Hey, In2, now that Chris Wallace will be working for CNN, you are going to post conspiracy theories about him being a pedo, right?
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 12:13 pm
by In2ition
No one has started a thread on conspiracy theories, so it doesn't seem prudent. Does he have connections to Epstein & Epstein's Pedo Island?
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 1:58 pm
by Mori Chu
I'll ask Donald and get back to you.
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 1:52 pm
by In2ition
There is another CNN Producer that's in trouble for the same thing now. Rick Saleeby, a producer for Jake Tapper's program has resigned over the investigation and allegations that have been uncovered. What is going on at CNN?
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 8:14 pm
by Mori Chu
In2ition wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 1:52 pm
There is another CNN Producer that's in trouble for the same thing now. Rick Saleeby, a producer for Jake Tapper's program has resigned over the investigation and allegations that have been uncovered. What is going on at CNN?
Your channel is fascist propaganda.
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 8:33 am
by In2ition
Mori Chu wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 8:14 pm
In2ition wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 1:52 pm
There is another CNN Producer that's in trouble for the same thing now. Rick Saleeby, a producer for Jake Tapper's program has resigned over the investigation and allegations that have been uncovered. What is going on at CNN?
Your channel is fascist propaganda.
Oh yeah? What's my channel? You throw out this word "fascist" without any examples, which isn't a great look.
I'm asking what is going on at CNN and you act like I'm attacking you personally. So weird. Do you work for CNN now? I'm not even attacking them, just asking for an explanation on what is happening. Toobin, Cuomo, Griffin, and now Saleeby in a relatively short period of time.
Re: NY Gov. Cuomo scandal
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 3:32 pm
by Mori Chu
In2ition wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 8:33 am
Mori Chu wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 8:14 pm
Your channel is fascist propaganda.
Oh yeah? What's my channel? You throw out this word "fascist" without any examples, which isn't a great look.
I'm asking what is going on at CNN and you act like I'm attacking you personally. So weird. Do you work for CNN now? I'm not even attacking them, just asking for an explanation on what is happening. Toobin, Cuomo, Griffin, and now Saleeby in a relatively short period of time.
Sorry for teasing you. I was of course talking about Fox as the fascist propaganda. I don't ever watch CNN nor care much about who is or isn't on that channel. If anyone at CNN does something inappropriate or illegal, of course I favor their being removed from the network. Beyond that I don't know or care much.