Chris Cuomo’s career is DEAD TO ME!

CNN said Saturday that anchor Chris Cuomo has been "terminated" by the network, "effective immediately."

The announcement came after an outside law firm was retained to review information about exactly how Cuomo aided his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, when the then-governor was accused of sexual harassment.

CNN said in a statement: "Chris Cuomo was suspended earlier this week pending further evaluation of new information that came to light about his involvement with his brother's defense. We retained a respected law firm to conduct the review, and have terminated him, effective immediately."

"While in the process of that review, additional information has come to light," CNN's statement added. "Despite the termination, we will investigate as appropriate."

While the contours of Chris Cuomo's involvement with the governor's office were reported several months ago, the specifics were detailed in a massive document dump on Monday. The documents -- released by New York Attorney General Letitia James after an investigation into the governor -- showed that Chris Cuomo, while working as one of CNN's top anchors, was also effectively working as an unpaid aide to the governor. The cozy and improper nature of the relationship was conveyed through text messages obtained by James' office. The texts between the anchor and several aides and allies of the governor revealed that Chris Cuomo sought to use his connections in the press to help prepare Andrew Cuomo's team as accusers started to make their stories public.

On the day his brother resigned, back in August, Chris Cuomo told viewers that "this situation is unlike anything I could have imagined." He pointed out that he never reported on the sexual harassment scandal or tried to interfere in CNN's coverage. And he acknowledged that he "tried to be there for my brother" when the scandal erupted.

"I'm not an adviser. I'm a brother. I wasn't in control of anything. I was there to listen and offer my take," he said. CNN management showed support for Cuomo, and "Cuomo Prime Time," often the network's highest-rated show, stayed on the air throughout the controversy.

But as "Reliable Sources" reported at the time, some CNN staffers were angry at Cuomo and his violations of journalistic norms. The dissent only intensified after James' office released the text messages, sworn testimony and other raw materials from her investigation into the ex-governor.

When the documents were released on Monday, CNN management said the "thousands of pages of additional transcripts and exhibits" would be reviewed "over the next several days."

Then on Tuesday evening, CNN indicated that the contents were serious enough to merit a suspension.

"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."

Cuomo initially declined to comment. He said on his radio show on Wednesday that the suspension was "embarrassing" but understandable. He also said he never wanted to "compromise any of my colleagues" and said he would respect the process.

According to Saturday's announcement, the process included an outside law firm, a fact that was not previously known.

With information in the texts and documents pointing to a serious breach of CNN standards, Cuomo was notified of his termination on Saturday. The CNN statement on Saturday also referred to "additional information [that] has come to light" during the review of the document dump. A CNN spokesperson declined to share any further detail about the information.

Ah, courtesy of CNN’s Jeff Zucker, the man who gave Donald Trump his career.

Whatevs, I never watched his show, not even once.

I still don’t understand how Zucker has evaded any responsibility.

Covfefe.

R1, just post the link, you don't need to cut and paste such lengthy blocks of unattributed text.

He claims to be a libertarian but opposes all LGBT rights.

^Wrong thread.

Two unemployed Cuomos.

The brothers should do a roadtrip show but drive across Siberia. Or do a special Cuomo Ice Road Truckers season.

He'll get a book deal, so calm down.

Temp job over at MSNBC in the 11PM slot.

He and Roxanne Gay should do the weather from Antarctica.

I don’t know how he thought he could get away with this considering those terrible ratings. They probably wanted somebody else in there anyway and he gave them the perfect excuse.

Three active threads on this, here's a link to the first one

Those terrible ratings were the best on the network.

Good riddance.

But D! Who's going to love D Lemon now?

Chris, you in danger, gurl.

"The Fall of the House of Cuomo" will be the movie. Mark Wahlberg will play Andrew.

The horrid brother went...teee hee hee - what an ego that guy had!

Titus Burgess for Don Lemon in The Fall of the House of Cuomo

Inspired casting, R21!

There might be earlier threads but this one has the best title.

it's a fabulous title, yes.

Chris and Mario: Dumb and Dumber

Chris and Andrew: Dumb and Dumber

Soon, he and his brother will unleash The Device upon the unsuspecting city, in vengeance for their abandonment! You were warned, New York!

I wonder what his brother has to say about this.

Also he will do a podcast next.

Did his brother ask for his help in this manner?

Between this and Lady Gaga’s terrible Gucci performance, they have brought so much shame to Italians.

I bet Jake Tapper is sporting major wood tonight.

Chris could start an OnlyFans.

Christmas will swing between mania and rage at the Cuomo household.

This does bring with it the collateral benefit of subduing that giggling fangurl LaDonna Lemone. Seriously, going forward we won't have to endure those pathetic love you mans they indulge in every night. The ice between him and Anderson is evident and if Tapper takes over I can't see him indulging a floor show like Don.

Thank you whatever force in the universe delivered this two fer.

Quite big tits.

He and his bro should take their “Sisters, Sisters” act on the road.

His hat in R34: "NO LIMIT". Guess there are limits on you, buddy.

Why is he dressed as an undertaker/waiter in OP’s pic?

Ally.

Somewhere, Anderson is gloating.

He’s a vulgarian.

Or bloating, if he took in a lot of air during this afternoon's Puerto Rican delights.

NY❤️Cuomos.

Do not mess with Mario's and Mathilda's boys.

He should sue for racial discrimination.

I'll comfort Chris.

First with my tongue in his hairy ass, and then on his feet.

And then his cock, anywhere he wants.

People are mixed bags. He supported equality for gays and, at times, had a good sense of humor about himself.

He should never have even been in a position to have access to info (at CNN) about Andrew's accusers. This is CNN's fault as well.

My impression is that Chris was so used to being at the front of the line, so used to his pretty privilege, that he saw nothing wrong in what he was doing. I.e., working with Andrew's team on discrediting / neutralizing accusers.

They took Toobin back so Chris may have a chance...

I know one thing, Don Lemon is a hot, drunken mess wherever he is tonight, his poor fiancé!

Chris still has his radio show on SIRIUS, but how much does that pay, unless you're Howard Stern?

R49... they publicly (and somewhat menacingly) fired him. Unnamed misconduct is implied. He is not coming back.

His collapse is complete.

I bet he goes back to law. $$$$.

Using work resources to look up intel on your family’s enemies. I thought he was smart.

R2, Donald Trump was famous long before the Apprentice.

His TV news career and probably his TV career in general are ovah. I guess the best you can call him is a loyal brother, but Andrew fell anyway (which anyone with a brain could see coming for many months). Hope he’s invested wisely.

I didn't realize how far apart in age they are, 11 years or so. That's a huge age difference.

Andrew Cuomo is to blame for this, too, for not insisting to his brother that he not perform one act on his behalf, whether privately or personally.

AC didn't watch out for his little brother.

Of course, that he didn't is so telling of the impunity they both were used to.

meant to write whether privately or professionally.

[quote] I bet Jake Tapper is sporting major wood tonight.

Oh you absolutely fuck’n know he is. He probably can’t contain his arousal.

[quote] I'll comfort Chris. First with my tongue in his hairy ass, and then on his feet. And then his cock, anywhere he wants.

R34 Yeah, he does have nice cum gutters.

I can't lie, Chris' COVID coverage was prime television in 2020. His classy Trump bashing was the main popular push that made Biden win, more than likely. But his show was already sinking like a stone, and with the Guido Andrew scandal going on it was only a matter of time. I have bets he's got big uncut Italian pinga, though. No wonder Don Lemon licked his chops at him whenever he could.

Sympathy for Mama Matilda, two sons publicly humiliated simultaneously.

Dancing With the Stars

Men Over 30

Jake Tapper whoring for that 9pm slot.

At some point soon there is going to be a huge shift and all these people who are getting fired for stupid reasons will have the last laugh.

R65, God bless you.

Chances Chris will go to MSNBC?

R53, Yeah Trump had a modicum of fame, but it was nothing compared to how it was post-The Apprentice. And of course Trump shat on everyone who got him there. And fwiw, I will never understand how Zucker never developed a stench for his part. Yet he was able to fire Chris Cuomo for protecting his brother.

Didn't Anderson have a 2-hour slot before Chris took over the second hour? Maybe Coop will return to having that.

I couldn't loath Chris anymore. He even flexes dumb.

Katie Couric for the 9:00 PM slot on CNN.

I'm available.

A new development.

What will C. Cuomo do with the wardrobe of black ties and black suits?

I’m glad the Mutual Admiration Society moments with Lemon are over. Expressing bro love for a colleague once or twice is fine. Witnessing them during almost every broadcast was repetitive and offensive.

Chris' breath has the scent of mortadella.

He won’t be back, if only because it’s time for some new talent in cable news anyway.

I read he has never passed the New York bar, R51.

So no law career for him. He strikes me as too stoopdid to pass the bar anyway.

Dumb himbo.

He can flip and go to Newsmax or OANN. The pivot works when you’ve lost all mainstream credibility.

I doubt that's true, r76. He has been a registered attorney with the New York State Court system since 1996. I can't direct link to the page, but click on "Legal Profession" and then "Attorney Search" to look him up.

What does the C. stand for?

Well, I did read it in the comments to an article in the National Review, R78!

Accessed on Twitter!

CNN's Brian Stelter reported last night that Smerconish may temporarily take over Cuomo's time slot.

You keep telling yourself that R65.

If only people would keep this in mind in the future. They won't.

It's mortifying to recall that everyone lusted after Michael Avenatti, a grade-A asshole, because he attacked Donald Trump, without ever considering that it takes one to face off with one on his own degrading terms. Of course, it turned out Avenatti was the other side of the same coin as Trump.

Then along comes COVID, and Andrew Cuomo becomes a blustering hero to everyone because he is a blowhard who seems sensible for a while. Of course, he was never anything more than a corrupt wealthy politician. News outlets went from publishing headlines about "Cuomosexuals" idolizing the man to publishing accusations of him being yet another creepy groper and down he goes.

But! But! His brother remains a good guy! Except no, not really. And down he goes.

Politicians and pundits are not good people as a rule. There are exceptions to every rule, but by and large people who succeed in both professions are megalomaniacs who have insanely self-aggrandizing views of themselves and who have things handed to them by making commands and demands of things they believe they deserve. So it goes. People look at them and believe these people earn what they have through intellect and savvy, but what it usually boils down to is that they are grown-up toddlers who never outgrew the life stage of demanding everything they want and throwing tantrums until people give in to their demands.

People like Cuomo make it at places like CNN because they are the rule, not the exception, among on-air personalities. Narcissists, all of them, who are self-entitled and who make demands and are given what they want. They break rules because they believe they are entitled to anything they desire no matter the inconveniences of policies, rules or laws. Lemon is no different, Brian Williams is no different, most pundits at MSNBC, FOX, CNN, and most politicians everywhere operate the same ways.

Smerconish is one hot daddy.

The finishing touch to all of this would be for the Cuomo Bridge to be renamed back to The Tappan Zee Bridge.

Smercomish has zero charisma but he is less agenda driven. So he has guests on that don't just parrot the other talking heads on CNN.

What is FREDO going to do with his life now?

Let's hope that he didn't live it up like that ex Today show host DICK Matt Lauer who had to sell his $40 million house in the Hamptons.

His last Instagram post was "walking into vacation like..."

Like...don't bother coming back, Brah.

It's amazing that Alex Baldwin and the Cuomos are screwed while Trump has not payed for his sins. I think Trump is shreweder and of course benefits from Republicans being old school about sexual harrassment. I think that's another reason males are turning away from the Democratic Party (not just white ones either.)

...shrewder

Former presidents and people who are billionaires/convince the world they are billionaires are above the law.

They just are. We need to be more realistic about this country. Some people are above and beyond the law: all former presidents, all billionaires, most millionaires, all Supreme Court justices, most federal lawmakers. Those people are granted natural immunity whether or not anyone will acknowledge it. Trump will not pay for his crimes in any way in the United States of America. If you're holding onto hope, let it go.

What r92 said.

And, the only satisfaction I get from the whole sickening Trump thing is that I'm convinced his wife and children wish with all their cold hearts he'd drop dead but that gelatinous mass of shit cells just. won't. die.

If MSNBC were smart they would hire him for the Brian Williams spot. I'd watch.

I wouldn't. I actually like Brian Williams's onscreen presence and demeanor. I find him comforting somehow. Both Cuomos to me are obnoxious blowhards.

MSNBC wouldn’t touch him with a ten foot pole. He’s been outed as a sex pest like his brother and is permanently tainted.

r69 Anderson has a kid now, very doubtful that the wants another hour. John Berman anchors for Anderson a lot of the time now too.

He's rich and has a big fat Italian dick. If he were smart, he would just disappear like Matt Lauer did and hook up off the radar for the rest of his life. But he is an attention- and power-hungry narcissist like his brother and so he certainly will not leave the public eye by choice. He'll be back.

The kind of odd thing to me is that he isn't a journalist at all. He's an attorney. And his job was not researching and reporting, but taking many millions of dollars for reading scripts written by his staff writers that represent his opinions. So I am not really sure how he can be held to the same standards as those of a reporter, and I can kind of understand why he would be bewildered that what he did was wrong. No one ever held him to journalistic ethics before; they paid him to say what he wanted to say.

Payed

Oh, dear.

He and Andrew are counting their abundant offshore cash and getting ready for a long family vacation on their yachts.

Andrew still has millions of dollars in his campaign war chest.

I used to like Chris, but I began to see through his act a few months ago and realized that both Cuomo boys are just a couple of bullies. I’d say that Mario would be ashamed, except he was probably a bully too. I never really bought Mario’s act.

[quote]John Berman anchors for Anderson a lot of the time now too.

Actually that's good. And Berman's good. I bet he's desperate to get away from the dead zone that the morning show has become since they saddled him with Brunching Keebler Elf. That show really hit gold when they sent Cuomo to the evening. He and Camerota were a terrific pairing. They should move them both to the nine hour. Alyson and Victor don't really gel either. But I bet nine goes to Tapper.

The only people who like Tapper are you homosexuals here with daddy fantasies, who want to fuck his smug ass. All other viewers find him annoying!

I've met Jake Tapper and he looks a hell of a lot older and less attractive in person, but of on-air political journalists, he's among the few I find tolerable.

That Twitter post confirms the insane levels of douchebaggery. Ciao asshole.

Cuomo is the definitive jerk.

I bet he’s a pocket key-jangler.

Jake Tapper does not have a personality for prime time.

Brooke!!!

YAAAAS, Brooke!

I'm available, CNN.

Chrissie always looks like she's smelled something bad. An eerily self-important type, nepotism is delightful of course. I can see them doing light beer commercials in the eighties, grinning widely. Is obviously paranoid, the eyes speak volumes. His face would make an excellent Halloween mask , but not for children.

I did a search of the NY bar website (linked). There's a Christopher Charles Cuomo who took the oath in 1996.

Now I know I'm cynical SOB, but Brooke of the Bad Hair(original suicide blonde formula??), seems to be saying..Beg me to come back CNN, BEG, on bended knee w. a big fat check in hand. & maybe. I mean all these brilliant woman of every color want me to be the nw improved Cuomo Cunt.

Why'd she quit if she wants to come back so soon?

She says in the video that she has moved on and doesn't want to come back but that she wants to see a woman in primetime. Jeez.

R105

Do tell…is Jake an asshole in real life ??

My fellow gays you just don't have enough female friends. Brooke is typical. This is called 'Bait & Switch'. Tried & true lady honey trap.

So Brooke wants wimmin….more wimmin….

Chris Cuomo's career is dead. Good.

[quote]She says in the video that she has moved on and doesn't want to come back but that she wants to see a woman in primetime.

They could move Erin Burnett up to 9 from 7. I think she does a great job.

The Van Jones Show

^ Oh, winner... winner... chicken dinner.

That's not an unlikely call at all.

Why Van Jones when they've already got Don Lemon?

This is why:

Plot Thickens!

[quote] They could move Erin Burnett up to 9 from 7.

She can't. She's going to Dubai!

Bye, douche-bro-Cuomo. Time to hire another liberal leaning anchor who is not loud, boisterous, preachy, smarmy, and well, you know…. not douchey..

Fred and Andy boy should do us all a favor by holding hands jumping off the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge.

You bitches may hate it but it was the NY Post that raised the alarm early on about Andy placing Covid patients in nursing homes.

Other early critics on the governor in general were from the left, the Working Families Party and the Greens.