It did.

From behind a couple of… big men, Cuomo does his best Fred Sanfordesque “Hold me back!”

The encounter between CNN’s Chris Cuomo and the man happened at a Shelter Island bar — that appears to be Sunset Beach — on Sunday. The video, surreptitiously filmed by the man Cuomo was shouting at, was uploaded to Twitter by a user who said he was sent the clip.
— Mediaite, 8/12/19

It seems to be a mystery to many that “Fredo” is the Italian equivalent of the “n-word” to black people, albeit a pitiful comparison.

Cuomo’s reaction is perfectly fine for me. I’m not Italian, so I’m not bothered by the word Fredo, but unless there is another Fredo who was stolen from his homeland, enslaved, beaten, ripped from his children and forced to watch as his wife was raped, then Fredo is nowhere close to the n-word. That’s what Cuomo tried to explain during the incident. He literally argued that Fredo is a racist slur akin to calling a black person the n-word.

It ain’t. It ain’t again. And, it ain’t some more.
— The Root, 8/13/19

However, Chris Cuomo should be applauded for the clarification because we all thought Fredo was your garden variety referral to the “dumb” one in the family.

According to Cuomo, we were all wrong.

But this is yet another example of a media figure who believes HE can call people liars, demean those with whom he disagrees with, and dictate how the American people should conduct our daily lives but when called a name he considers an insult, can go off and his employer is okay with that.

Chris Cuomo defended himself when he was verbally attacked with the use of an ethnic slur in an orchestrated setup. We completely support him.
— Matt Dornic, CNN spokesperson,, 8/13/19

Not sure if that encounter would meet the media definition of a verbal attack, but we guess it all depends on who’s receiving the “attack”.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the video was a conservative prank …

Again note how the media consistently identifies the “conservative” but they never seem to get around to labeling anyone liberal. As if the liberal is in the mainstream and the conservative is fringe.

… first posted by conservative media personality Brandon Straka. Straka shared the video on his YouTube channel “That’s the Point,” saying the clip was sent in by a fan. Straka claimed that the man in the video did not know Cuomo’s real name, only that Rush Limbaugh refers to him as “Fredo.”
— NewJersey.com, 8/12/19

This from the same media that relishes every “got’cha” moment they can gleefully report on, “orchestrated” or not. And like most thinned skinned, they’re also a prime example of both hypocrisy and selective memory which almost always comes back to bite.

Cuomo was interviewed by Curtis Sliwa on his AM 970 radio show in January 2010 about whether his brother Andrew might seek the Democratic nomination for governor. Sliwa said he dubbed the Cuomo family “la Cuomo Nostra.”

“There is a group of people — politicos — who always hint they might run, but not necessarily plunge all the way, and they are members of la Cuomo.”

“Who am I, then, Fredo?” Cuomo asked in response.

“Yes, exactly,” Sliwa said.
— New York Post, 8/13/19

So, the lesson of all this is something we already know.

It’s a fascinating case study. These people can dish it out. They can talk about Donald Trump all day long. They can spread lies. They can slander and libel people left and right. They can spread false conspiracy theories and hoaxes, and they can try to pass them off as real. They can try to overturn the results of an election! They can join a silent coup. They can join in the attempted destruction of anybody who is on the right simply because they don’t agree with them. But, man, they cannot take a single little bit.
— Rush Limbaugh, 8/13/19

Exactly. Chris Cuomo and his overpaid, teleprompter-reading media colleagues can look down on and mock us, destroy our reputations, destroy our livelihoods, and even publicly slander us behind the shield of their First Amendment protection, but please… leave THEM alone.

They just can’t take it.

Yes, we can officially confirm that our beloved Republican Tea Party is being led by the Mad Hatter and us millennials have been thrust into their wonderland. The good news is, they will eventually die off (peacefully in their sleep, we hope), and then we can get right on with the OBVIOUS social change that needs to happen, IMMEDIATELY. So what can expect to happen when that last tea-party coffin is sealed?
— Candace Owens, 10/4/15

For those with a proper frame of reference, liberals during the Iraq War complained that the Bush Administration had no “exit strategy”. With that, Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk have done what way too many uninspired millennials do.

Co-opt something without attribution and make it their own: in this case, the “#WalkAway” campaign.

Two months ago, Brandon Straka was a New York hair stylist with $300 in his savings account and a struggling side job as a performance artist. Now, thanks to his starring role in a video telling Democrats to ditch their party, he’s the head of a movement that’s been embraced by a wide swathe of the pro-Trump internet and earned him shout-outs from some of conservative media’s biggest names.

It’s exactly the kind of conversion narrative primed to go viral on the right. Straka’s video has earned nearly 2 million views on Facebook and YouTube, and scored him shout-outs from the likes of Fox News host Charles Payne, Trump superfan Bill Mitchell, Turning Point USA head Charlie Kirk, and Candace Owens, Kanye West’s guide to the right-wing internet.
— Daily Beast, 7/3/18

While Brandon Straka found yet another way of saying things that black conservatives have said and were vilified for decades ago, he created a hashtag which today is all that’s required for that instant stamp of relevance.

Originality-challenged Owens and Kirk are now instructing black people to leave the Democrat Party under that co-opted #WalkAway hashtag, however they’ve been very careful as to not articulate just where they’d want them to go.

Many black conservatives escaped the liberal Democrat plantation for different reasons but most did so after realizing conservative principles were superior to the liberal. We embraced the Constitution as it was brilliantly written; not see it as a document flawed in its application today and in need of specific updates. We understood that government dependence was a strategic trap set by Democrats and self-reliance was the key to personal and professional upward mobility.

We’ve heard little of this from Owens on her numerous cable news appearances; only that there is a need to wake up black people, she has the alarm clock, and has presented herself as a genius by (again) repackaging the brilliance of others as her own.

Again, where would Candace Owens have these new woke black people go? Details.

Good thing she didn’t lead the Underground Railroad as they kinda’ needed a Point B.

As many blindly jump onboard any trending social media creation, are they really cognizant and appreciative of conservative principles if they come aboard the Republican ship or will Owens and Kirk take this new bloc and attempt to divide us from within and steer the Party in a direction at odds with those principles?

Or as self-described “community organizer” will Charlie Kirk use the organizations he’s already infiltrated to push his “conservatarian” platform which includes many concepts again at odds with conservative principles we currently try and adhere to?

Will these new “woke” black defectors from the Democrat Party see not enough handouts from either party be lured into the Bernie Sanders wing where way too many “free” shiny objects are being promised?

Whether Candace Owens was smart enough to have thought this through is debatable, but we should all take a few minutes and ask ourselves as a currently, fairly functional ideology, in the name of “inclusion” and embrace of the very identity politics we claim to abhor, do we really want people who may not share our core values being thrust into our midst by egotistical children who consider us pests stopping them from getting their way.