Pandemic journal: Cuo’s Eldercide Was Worse
Although Gov. Cuomo’s “sexual misconduct and egregious mishandling of COVID-19 are both heinous,” it shouldn’t be “controversial to assert killing the elderly through incompetence” is more “depraved,” writes Robert Schmad at the Washington Examiner. Yet the media are “flipping the moral weight of the two wrongs.” New calls for Cuomo’s resignation after the state attorney general’s report barely mention his nursing-home scandals. Still, at least he is facing “some kind of reckoning.”
From the left: Chris Cuomo Must Go, Too
New York AG Letitia James released “a bombshell report Tuesday detailing multiple instances of sexual harassment” by Gov. Cuomo, yet, observes MSNBC columnist Laura Bassett, James also notes that “CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, the governor’s brother, was part of a small team of advisers who helped him respond to the allegations.” Chris even went “so far as to draft a statement” for Andrew in February. The governor “should resign immediately or be impeached,” but his brother, too, “should resign from covering politics or be fired.” After all, “it’s extremely inappropriate and unethical for a journalist to advise and craft the statements of a politician, regardless of family relation.” The two men have both “amassed massive power and influence, while betraying public trust.” Both “must go.”
Media watch: Hiding Dems’ Racist Roots
Dems claim “the GOP wants to whitewash American history” by barring critical race theory from schools, but they refuse to acknowledge their party “did more than any other institution in American life to preserve” slavery and “enforce Jim Crow,” observes RealClearInvestigations’ Mark Hemingway. Consider The New York Times’ 1619 Project. The project’s essays, which have become part of some schools’ curriculum, name the Democratic Party “only three times, in passing,” while the Republican Party, “the political entity formed to fight slavery,” is “excoriated as the 21st-century heir to 19th-century racist ideology.” History lesson for the left: Democratic southern states “specifically criticized the anti-slavery policies of President Lincoln’s Republican Party in their declarations of succession in the Civil War,” and as one historian notes, the Democratic Party’s “central purpose in the second half of the 19th century was specifically to prevent civil-rights legislation from being implemented.”
Conservative: The US Establishment vs. Hungary
The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher confesses that he “can’t think of anything in ages that has revealed the biases and bigotries of the American establishment like the reaction to Tucker Carlson’s current visit to Budapest.” Hungary under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the rare example of a country where conservatives have “successfully fought against wokeness and other aspects of the liberal globalist agenda,” not least the threat to sovereignty from the European Union. Yet “American commentators, who heretofore had not said much of anything about Hungary,” are “discovering, now that Tucker is here, that Hungary is a dictatorial hellhole that all right-thinking people must denounce. It is remarkable watching their denunciations of right-wing illiberalism in Hungary as I struggle to recall how and when they raised their voices against left-wing illiberalism conquering US institutions and transforming America into a country many of us struggle to recognize.”
Liberal: ‘Maddening’ Teacher-Union Haggling
Two reports last week confirmed what we already knew, Jonathan Chait reports at New York magazine: The result of remote schooling was “catastrophic damage.” Low-income and minority children suffered the most. And for what? “The awful thing is that 15 months of closed schools have brought with them hardly any public-health benefit.” Worse, the teachers unions don’t appear to be overly concerned with getting kids back in classrooms. “The mere possibility that some schools may be forced to haggle once again with the unions to reopen school in face of incontrovertible evidence of the need to do so is maddening enough. But the cherry on top of this sundae” is that the unions “have refused to support a vaccine mandate for teachers,” which seems “completely obvious from the standpoint of both public health and public education.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board