A second Emmy would not be good enough for that performance. Only an Oscar will do. After all, it takes an uncommon actor to pretend to be telling the truth and nothing but the truth when you are telling everything but the truth.
Gov. Cuomo’s latest bid to tame the cascading waves of criticism over his handling of the nursing home catastrophe was so riddled with falsehoods and misinformation that it’s hard to know what he was thinking. Does he really believe he’s viewed as a trustworthy person whose word is taken at face value in Albany and beyond?
If so, then he must stop listening to his CNN brother and the people paid to say what he wants to hear. Because there aren’t a lot of buyers for his B.S., even among fellow Democrats, many of whom are in open revolt against him.
The most obvious takeaway from Monday’s act is that Cuomo still accepts zero responsibility for the 15,000 deaths in nursing homes and similar facilities. His only feint toward self-criticism is that he didn’t get information out fast enough. That “void,” he said “was filed with skepticism, cynicism and conspiracy theories which furthered confusion.”
This is a tired political trick, insisting the only issue is one of public relations and messaging. In fact, it was Cuomo himself who created the cynicism and conspiracy theories.
Recall that he labeled all criticism of the nursing home disaster pure “politics” and blamed God, The Post, Donald Trump, federal health officials, nursing home operators, their staffs, grieving families and anybody else — except himself.
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