Remember last spring and early summer? When New York’s catastrophic mismanagement of the Covid pandemic led to a national scandal that humiliated Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill “Squiggy” DiBlasio?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course not. The media tamped it down. With a contentious election already underway, Big Media and Big Left didn’t want any splatter getting on the Democrat nominee, whoever that was going to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it was horrible; both New Yorks, state and city, had death rates that still dwarf the rest of the country. Over 10% of all nursing home residents died in a matter of mere weeks. The city was a charnel house. One nursing home left a few dozen bodies in a n un-refrigerated U-Haul, and hospitals were, as related by an endless stream of morose NPR stories, overwhelmed (even as a Navy hospital ship rode, almost empty, at anchor in the harbor, lest President Trump garner any <\/em>credit whatsoever). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Big Left rallied around the inept Cuomo, spending nine months treating him as a saint walking among us, as an epidemiological Omar Bradley smiting the viral foe from the field, plumping up the sales for Cuomo’s absurd public health “how to” book, putting him up for an Emmy Award for his televised appearances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Until the inauguration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that Democrat are in charge, Cuomo’s stock has fallen faster than GameStop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Seems weird?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not at all. Cuomo is not popular on the hard left that is currently in vogue in DC. He’s too centrist<\/em>. The progressive wing of the party hates him – and Mayor Squiggy has aspirations in Albany and (absurd as it seems) DC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two theories, not mutually exclusive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n All The Facts That Fit The Narrative<\/strong>: It’s verging on being a Berg’s Law – modern media “fact checking” is largely a matter of making sure Democrats get all the credit for the true stuff. Cuomo was a hero – until Big Left wanted him out of the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Which is not in any way discontiguous with the other theory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Try To Find A Pickaxe In Albany. I Dare You<\/strong>: I think it’s a purge on the left. The “progressive” wing, which controls everything in DC (including, let’s be honest, the “Moderate” Biden – wants their slightly-too-moderate bete noir<\/em> out of the way. While Cuomo’s presidential odds were likely slim and none, he certainly has a powerful bully pulpit within the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well – had <\/em>one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This past week, in my observation, has been almost perfectly stage-managed – with the news of the whistleblower coming out while the Governor was in an audience with Biden<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Why? I addition to being a “moderate” (yep, you read that right – Cuomo is like Phyllis Kahn) wart on the Democrat party’s butt that can be excised, making room for more acceptable “Progressives” for the nation’s third-or-fourth-most powerful, but certainly most prestigious, governorship, it also allows Democrats to claim the “credit” for getting “justice” for all the seniors that died…<\/p>\n\n\n\n …even though conservatives owned the story from the beginning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Like Stalin ordering Trotsky’s murder, this purge – with able assistance from the media that is giving itself leg and lip cramps kissing Biden’s ass – serves all sorts of purposes for Big Left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Badda bing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Remember last spring and early summer? When New York’s catastrophic mismanagement of the Covid pandemic led to a national scandal that humiliated Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill “Squiggy” DiBlasio? Of course not. The media tamped it down. 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