Andy Cohen’s savage rant on Bill de Blasio isn’t the real ‘crisis’ at CNN

Andy Cohen spoke out in pleasure for the departure of Mayor Invoice de Blasio.
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This is what CNN thinks tarnishes its model?

We at the moment are on Day 4 of the Andy Cohen disaster, the community’s execs and unnamed high staffers in excessive dudgeon over Cohen’s savage, drunken farewell to outgoing Mayor Invoice de Blasio.

Actually, CNN: Why the pearl-clutching? This can be a community that propped up Chris Cuomo by a number of scandals, not least of which included utilizing his place to smear his disgraced brother’s accusers.

Don Lemon, credibly accused of sexual assault, remains to be there, nonetheless getting drunk on-air each New Yr’s Eve.

The place’s the outrage?

And what of comedian Dulcé Sloan? She informed Lemon, on this similar broadcast, that her New Yr’s decision was, “No extra broke dick. No extra penis from a person that has no cash.”

There’s additionally Cuomo’s former information producer John Griffin, simply fired by the community after he was arrested on federal costs of soliciting younger ladies for intercourse — suspended at first.

Regardless of dithering over such disrepute, not less than CNN axed Griffin inside days, quite than permitting him to, you understand, tarnish the model for weeks. Or months.

Former CNN worker John Griffin was arrested and indicted in December in Vermont for trying to “induce minors to interact in illegal sexual exercise.”

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Don Lemon is going through a sexual assault allegation.

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And now a second former CNN producer, Rick Saleeby, is below investigation for critical allegations involving “juvenile victims” in Virginia.

Spoke for all New Yorkers

However none of that is as outrageous to CNN brass and high-level employees, it appears, as Cohen’s rant that “the one factor Democrats and Republicans can agree on is what a horrible mayor [de Blasio] has been. Sayonara, sucker!”

Andy Cohen’s rant is the least of CNN’s issues, writes Maureen Callahan.

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Please. That is what we in New York used to name a Bronx cheer.

Say what you'll about Andy Cohen, however he spoke for the majority of New Yorkers with that little outburst, and it felt like he channeled the id of town. He stated what this very newspaper has been saying since de Blasio took workplace.

As importantly: It was good TV!

For CNN to faux that they didn’t know who they had been getting is wealthy. Cohen’s job description may be summed up in a single phrase: Mess.

Andy Cohen stated each side of the aisle agreed on de Blasio’s NYC tenure.

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He’s the face of Bravo’s “Actual Housewives” franchise. His job is actually to create mess, domesticate it, commodify it and exploit it. He’s higher at it than anybody in actuality TV. He’s given CNN days of headlines and, let’s face it, a welcome distraction from the community’s very actual scandals.

Of the community’s very problematic staff, Cohen isn’t one in all them.