'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host discusses Cuomo's job performance as New York governor
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Good evening and
welcome to
Tucker Carlson tonight,
man, the world is changing fast.
We say that often because its
true
its kaleidoscopic
every morning we wake up in a
brand new country and its hard
to keep track of the change,
because there are so few mile
markers
but Heres one heres, one
measure of the change.
It was less than a year ago that
millions of us gathered around
our electronic hearts in
anticipation of Andrew Cuomo
receiving a coveted Emmy
award Jim ever that night,
even by the standards of
fraudulent. As a rule, all
editions do not accept Emmy
awards that would require
admitting that they are actors
but Andrew Cuomo postmodernist.
He is had no problem.
Hes been playing a character
from the godfather for decades.
You are the highlight clips that
they played as Andrew Cuomo
received his statuette
flatten the curve flat
liquor. We talk about social
distancing,
New York is been getting the
short end of the stick for this
federal government from day. One
right across the board
lets stop just for one moment:
the partisanship
flatten the curve
flatten the curve flatten the
curve,
its iconic
its like go ahead and make my
day or may the force be with
you.
We will never forget it. It will
live on forever in our common
culture.
As you can see why Andrew Cuomo
won best performance by a
sitting governor such passion
such intensity,
the delivery seemed almost
lifelike in its sincerity, talk
about method acting
for. Second, you can all most
imagine enter running a large
american state sitting in his
office in the capitol building
making Compex policy decisions
about whatever they make complex
policy decisions about barking,
urgent orders to aid like a
governor.
It was a remarkable performance.
In fact, looking back that night
at the Emmys last November was
the effigy of Andrew Cuomos
Career and you could have lived
on it for years, dining out
mining, the memories of his hated
playing progressively smaller
venues. Doing an annual fan show
in San Diego,
but he chose not to
Andrew Cuomo, is wiser than that
hes bigger
humor members. Well, what happened
to Marlon Brando when the
godfather series ended the long
decline?
If so, today, Andrew Cuomo quit TH
business, he left at the top of
his game Heres his
announcement
wasting energy on
distractions is the last thing
that state government should be
doing, and I cannot be the cause
of that
New York. Tough means New York
loving and I love New York, and
I love you and everything I
have ever done has been
motivated by that love, and I
would never want to be unhelpful
in any way, and I think that,
given the circumstances, the
best way I can help now is, if I
step aside and let government
get back to governing
hes, so tough hes
running away
hes, so tough hes quitting
with word that claim a lot
recently
and watching that tape. It is
possible. We have sold
Andrew Cuomo Short,
we told you his enemy in
November was the high point of
his career, but in fact what
you meant just saw may have
been the single greatest
performance of his life
im resigning, not because I
killed all those old people in
nursing homes. No
because my closeness advisor
went to federal person for
corruption,
nothing to do with it,
not because I have a soupy
creepy personally. By the way, it
is an entirely possible that I
am a made member of the mafia,
not at all
im resigning from my job,
because I love the state of
New York.
If, ladies and gentlemen thats,
what love does
it resigns?
Pretty remarkable?
Could Al Pacino have delivered
those lines with a straight
face,
not a chance?
Instead of enjoying it, they
media missed the art of it. They
took it seriously. They thought
it was real.
Today, theyre telling you that
Andrew Cuomos resignation is a
watershed moment, its a win
forth, the Metoo movement, a
somber, remind reminder on CNN.
They got complete the carrot
away, as they often do,
and particularly self hating
male anchor. Is there any other
kind over? There was so
awestruck by Andrew Cuomos
speech that he immediately
yielded the floor to the ladies
coming to his female colleagues.
It would be wrong. He said, for
a man to weigh in on news this
great
thats how toxic Andrew Cuomo is
buried. Andrew Cuomo is a living
investment to men everywhere,
even newsreaders, who
periodically identify as men on
CNN
thats. What theyre telling you
now far be it for us on the
show to defend Andrew Cuomo.
It is awful
weve said that for years and we havent changed our view.
Havent changed our view,
but still it might be worth
asking obvious questions before
we move onto the next victim.
For example, if enter was
harassing someone he women
enjoying the state capital in
New York. How can we just
learned hes been doing it?
Andrew Cuomo has been in office
for almost eleven years.
Watts of people say now they
knew he was a creep.
They knew before they certainly
didnt.
They told us that enter was
God like
in case you dont, remember it.
We have the tape
Governor Cuomo out there day
after day after day, everything
Trump isnt, honest, direct,
brave,
even lifelong Republicans,
tell me they look at Cuomo. They
are, like God, theres a leader
for those of you who have
been wondering why New York
governor, enter Cuomo has been
garnering, the nickname Americas
governor. I think he saw it
right there.
He is conveying incredible
strength in the face of this
pandemic
may be, Trump is just a little
bit mad. The governor Cuomo has
become a kind of acting
president.
I hope you are able to
appreciate what you did in your
state and what it means for the
rest of the country now and
what it will always mean to
those who love and care, but you,
the most
turns out noted
feminist icon, Joe Scarborough
liked the cut of Andrew Cuomos
JIB
and honestly, that should have
been a tip right there.
The race, lady, was a fan too.
In retrospect, those were pretty
clear signs. He should have
picked him up, but Heres the
most obvious sign
Americas, most prolific Harris,
never was a massive fan of
Andrew Cuomo.
Of course it was these guys all
know. Each others,
youre
governor of New York, is done. One
hell of a job
sort of a gold standard.
Look at what you have governors
like Cuomo, more out there
doing just keeping everybody
informed all day,
I think, is doing an incredible
job.
I think he has been the lead
horse here.
I talked infrequently hes a
friend.
I think is doing a great job. I
really mean it
hes a friend. I
really mean it.
They all meant it until just
about precisely December of
two thousand and twenty
thats. When a candidate from
Manhattan Bureau president, a
woman called Lindsay, Boylan
wrote a twitter thread that
accused Andrew Cuomo of
harassing her
sexual harassment.
The crime occurred more than two
years earlier in two thousand and eighteen, but we
hadnt heard about it.
If there is first question, why
did Lindsay Boylan wait two year
to tell us what happened
this guys, the governor of one of
the most important states in the
country? So why didnt she pipe
up before say before the Emmy
awards?
We cant know the answer to that,
but its clear she picked a
significant moment to share her
allegations on Twitter.
She went public most immediately
after the news media called the
presidential race for Joe Biden.
Oh,
could it be that the second that
call was made Andrew Cuomo had
outlived his usefulness and it
might be time to crush him and
move on to someone whos easier
to control.
If you think thats a conspiracy
theory, you dont live in
New York, where that kind of
thinking is common.
The state of New York has a long
history of palace, coups and many
of them, a disturbingly large
number originated in the
attorney generals office.
In fact, Andrew Cuomo once did
it.
He was the attorney general of
New York.
Remember that
he used his office to
investigate his boss at the
time Eliot Spitzer, the guy who
wore black socks
all coming back to you,
and then he became governor.
So this is the kind of thing
that happens in New York:
thats, not exec, with democracy
its like late autumn and but
its very common there
could that be whats happening
now.
The current attorney general of
New York as a woman called
Letitia James
James, does not hide her own
political emissions because he
no longer have to come and only
cares
earlier. This year she said that
AG. He thought it meant
attorney general. Actually, she
said it stands for aspiring
governor, which she is
even before she was elected to
her current office, which she has
missed used from day, one James
about to start a political
investigation against
Donald trumps businesses in
New York,
not because you have specific
evidence that they had broken
the law she didnt,
she didnt claim she did, but
because she didnt like him, she
sense followed through on that
promise.
Is that the kind of justice you
want?
So there are reasons to question
Letitia James Motives, to put
it mildly,
and those doubts become far more
pronounced. If you become one of
the three living Americans who
has actually read the one hundred and sixty five page
report that she just produced on
Andrew Cuomo, the report that
led to his resignation today,
the closer you read that report,
the more you are likely to
notice that large portions of it
are absurd.
They dont make sense
on page one hundred and forty eight for exam
Letitia James accuses
Andrew Cuomo of allowing senior
staff members who sit on his lap
at official functions
that sounds kind of creepy as
hell actually end. James Chloe
thought it was.
She was characterizing lap
sitting as evidence of a
hostile work environment
all right. But if you go back to
page one hundred and twenty two of the same report, you
will notice this line.
None of the senior staff
reported feeling uncomfortable
with his behavior,
so they liked sitting in
Andrew Cuomos lap
weird. But who are we to judge
Wheeler things are happening
right now.
How is this harassment?
How was this a violation of the
law?
Shes, the attorney general.
Her job is not to pass moral
judgment on the occupants of
high office in New York, but to
enforce the laws passed by the
legislature,
thats what she has the awesome
power to do that which she must
not under any circumstances,
misuse or else its a threat to
all of us, even those of us who
load Andrew Cuomo,
but the report- and you should
read it because its relevant
now is full of lines like that,
the kind of inconsistencies you
would expect, if you were
reading, say a political tract,
not a legal document,
but again it doesnt matter
now, because the report did its
job.
Now the race for a new governor
of New York is underway
boy that didnt take long
candidates are lining up to
unseat. The lieutenant Governor
Kathy Hochul
she is set to take over Cuomo is
gone.
Letitia James is first in line,
which is not the only one in
line
Al Sharpton is line, so is
Bill De Blasio.
They are both planning to run
for governor. We read
so do you see how this works?
Andrew Cuomo was an awful
governor.
It pains us to raise any voice
in his defense.
It was a vicious partisan. He
was a thug, but if we are being
honest, he was not completely
insane
it wasnt totally untethered
from reality.
He acknowledged some limits to
constitutional government.
He wasnt say Letitia James,
he wasnt Al Sharpton. He wasnt
even pause and catch a breath
there, because its so
horrifying. He wasnt even
bill De Blasio,
the most reckless and
incompetent human being ever to
hold elected office, a man who
single handedly discredits the
idea of self government.
These people, just being honest,
are worse than Andrew Cuomo,
but because someone sat in.
Transcript generated on 2021-08-10.