Zal maar
weer beginnen met te zeggen dat het er niet toe doet of je wel of
niet gelooft in de Coronavaccinaties, daar het volgende artikel van
Glenn Greenwald alles heeft te maken met die vaccinatie gecombineerd met corruptie
en machtsmisbruik.
Greenwald
vertelt eerst over andere gevallen waarin bestuurders hun macht
misbruikten t.b.v. het virus, zoals in Brazilië waar een aantal hoge hufters uit het
bedrijfsleven het bij de hoogst corrupte fascistische regering
Bolsonaro voor elkaar kreeg dat ze hun eigen privé
hoeveelheid aan vaccins kregen, dus ook voor hun gezinsleden en
verdere familie, een schandaal dat nu fiks de aandacht zou
trekken in dat land…. (overigens zoals je wellicht weet: ook hier schandalen genoeg betreffende de Coronacrisis en ook dat ‘op hoog niveau!’)
In de VS
is onlangs naar buiten gekomen dat een groep jonge congresleden,
terwijl er schaarste was, zich vaccins hebben laten toedienen
(belangrijk als je erin gelooft, wat ik niet zou doen). Uiteraard een
schandaal van jewelste als je nagaat dat er ook in de VS schaarste is
aan vaccins….. (immers jongeren met een goede gezondheid hebben
nauwelijks last van het virus…..)
Maar zo
bont als de gouverneur van New York: Andrew Cuomo en zijn broer, CNN
presentator Chris Cuomo het hebben gemaakt is echt helemaal van de
gekke……. (al moet ik zeggen dat ik er fiks om heb moeten lachen,
de brutaliteit waarmee deze hypocriete schoften hebben gehandeld kan je
niet bedenken…….)
Hoge
figuren van het departement (ministerie) van gezondheid werden door
dr. Howard Zucker, het hoofd van het New York State Department of Health (NYSDH), aan het werk gezet: een deel van de familie,
inclusief z’n broer Chris en vrienden van Cuomo werden getest en
sommigen zelfs meerdere keren, zo ook Cuomo, terwijl er zoals gezegd een schaarste aan Coronatests was….. Het ging zover dat
deze test zelfs een paar keer onder politiebegeleiding naar het
laboratorium moesten worden gebracht, waar de medewerkers, die al
overwerkt waren, zelfs een keer moesten overwerken…… ha! ha! ha! ha!
Dit was
het nog lang niet, Greenwald noemt nog een paar ‘mooie voorbeelden’
van ronduit corrupt en ander misdadig gedrag…… De VS ten voeten
uit!!!
Het
meest lullige is wel dat de ‘beide heren’, dus de broers Cuomo al de
hele crisis het volk voorhouden zich aan de regels te houden en er
zelfs schande van te spreken als anderen zich er niet aanhielden,
zelfs op CNN…. Terwijl dezelfde Chris Cuomo er NB een aantal
keren zelf op is betrapt dat hij waar het verplicht was, geen
mondmasker droeg…….
Ook
toppunt van lulligheid was het commentaar van de top van CNN (vrij
vertaald dus alvast mijn excuus):
‘We
bemoeien ons normaal gesproken niet met de medische beslissingen van
ons personeel, echter het is niet verrassend dat in de eerste dagen
van een eens in de eeuw plaatsvindende (wereldwijd >> maar dat
is dubbelop) pandemie, toen Chris symptomen van het virus vertoonde
en bezorgd was voor mogelijke verspreiding, hij zich tot iedereen die hij
kende richtte voor advies en hulp, zoals ieder ander mens zou
doen…….’ (ha! ha! ha! ha)
Wat een
zootje, en dan zou de VS het land van de vrijen en het huis van de moedigen zijn……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Mensen
er valt nog veel meer te lachen, lees het artikel van Glenn
Greenwald!!
Glenn
Greenwald <greenwald@substack.com>
CNN’s
Defense of Chris Cuomo’s Special COVID Privileges is Grotesque
How
can a media outlet credibly claim to denounce abuse of power by
political officials when they defend and glorify their own anchor’s
participation in it?
CNN
host Chris Cuomo (l) “interviews” his brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo
(D-NY), on CNN, May 6, 2021
Ever
since the COVID pandemic subsumed
most countries on the planet, there have been numerous scandals and
controversies relating to those who corruptly obtain medical
privileges and other exemptions unavailable to ordinary citizens.
These scandals typically arise when someone uses their wealth, power
or connections to jump in front of others for access to potentially
life-saving procedures or medications or grant themselves and their
friends license to ignore what everyone else must endure.
Right
now in Brazil, for instance, there is a
burgeoning scandal
from reports that a group of businesspeople with ties to the
government arranged to purchase their own private stash of vaccines
for use for themselves, families and friends in violation of the law.
In the U.S., people were outraged when very young
members of Congress
were among the first to receive the vaccine (though the law permitted
them to do so); those young Congressmembers justified their
line-jumping on the ground that they were doing so selflessly to
encourage others. Meanwhile, other members of Congress refused
this privilege
on the ground, as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) put it, that it is
“shameful” for young lawmakers to believe they “are more
important” than workers. Repeatedly in the U.S., politicians were
caught
exempting themselves
from lockdown orders they were imposing on everyone else.
But
those pale in comparison to the abuse of power by Gov. Andrew Cuomo
(D-NY) and his brother, CNN host Chris Cuomo, as reported on
Wednesday by The
Albany-Times Union
and The
Washington Post.
“High-level members of the state Department of Health were directed
last year by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Health Commissioner Dr. Howard
Zucker to conduct prioritized coronavirus testing on the governor’s
relatives as well as influential people with ties to the
administration,” reported the Times-Union.
“Members of Cuomo’s family including his brother, his mother and at
least one of his sisters were also tested by top health department
officials — some several times,” it added.
In
particular, Gov. Cuomo abused state resources to ensure that his
then-49-year-old brother, Chris, received fast COVID testing at a
time when tests were very scarce. “The CNN anchor was swabbed by a
top New York Department of Health doctor, who visited his Hamptons
home to collect samples from him and his family,” The
Post
reported. The article also contains these damning details:
The
same doctor who tested Chris Cuomo, Eleanor Adams, now a top adviser
to the state health commissioner, also was enlisted to test multiple
other Cuomo family members….The coronavirus test specimens were
then rushed — at times driven by state police troopers — to the
Wadsworth Center, a state public health lab in Albany, where they
were processed immediately, the people said. At times, employees in
the state health laboratory were kept past their shifts until late
into the night to process results of those close to Cuomo, two people
said.
All
of this commandeering of state resources to provide the CNN host with
very specialized medical attention occurred while “media reports
were full of accounts from New Yorkers desperate to get tested —
including some with symptoms and recent travel history who were
turned away because of scarcity.”
For
more than a year now, CNN’s promotion of “interviews” conducted
by Chris Cuomo of
his own brother
— in which the CNN host repeatedly heaped lavish praise on Gov.
Cuomo and even hyped him as a presidential contender while the
Governor was corruptly and possibly criminally covering
up COVID deaths
— was one of the most glaring breaches of journalistic ethics
imaginable. It was not cute or charming. It was corrupt. And it
aggressively deceived CNN’s audience. That they knew it was corrupt
was evidenced by the CNN host’s recent
announcement
that he would not cover his brother’s recent scandals: what
conceivable framework makes it journalistically permissible for a
news host to shower his own brother with praise, but then not cover
his scandals?
But
now Chris Cuomo is directly involved in a serious abuse of power
scandal by his brother: in fact, he’s the prime beneficiary of that
scandal. He sought special medical favors from his brother, depriving
other sick people more in need of it than he, by exploiting the fact
that his brother is Governor and thus rules the state. That’s a
scandal by any measure — one involving not only the Governor but
also the CNN host.
What’s
even more remarkable is that on May 6 — just weeks after Gov. Cuomo
provided special COVID testing and treatment for him — Chris Cuomo
“interviewed” his brother and began the interviewing by noting
that New
York State lacks the resources to
provide COVID testing to the public at large. So not only did they
conceal that they had both just used state resources to get Chris
that scarce testing, but they both acknowledged that there was a
resource shortage to serve the general public, even as Gov. Cuomo was
lavishing those resources on his own family. Just watch the first
minute here:
Even
worse, Cuomo spoke openly on CNN about his COVID diagnosis and what
he was doing for it. But he concealed from the public the fact that
the Governor of New York arranged for him to have special treatment
and state-funded access to tests that were unavailable to most of the
public. Indeed, Cuomo has been repeatedly caught lying over CNN’s
airwaves about his COVID condition — such as when he was caught
outside arguing
with a cyclist
while he claimed he was in quarantine with COVID, and another time
when he was shaming people on air for not using masks while he was
being warned
by his own building
that he would be fined if he continued to circulate there without a
mask. But now something far worse is revealed: that he was the
beneficiary of exactly the kind of abuse of power that journalists
(at least in theory) exist to expose.
And
yet CNN — which has spent the year relentlessly shaming anyone who
is even slightly off-key when it comes to COVID — is defending
and even glorifying
what their host did in corruptly obtaining for himself medical care
unavailable to the broader public. This is the statement the cable
network provided to media outlets through its spokesman Matt Dornic:
We
generally do not get involved in the medical decisions of our
employees. However, it is not surprising that in the earliest days of
a once-in-a-century global pandemic, when Chris was showing symptoms
and was concerned about possible spread, he turned to anyone he could
for advice and assistance, as any human being would.
Ponder
what they are saying. It is unsurprising
that someone in Chris Cuomo’s position would want special
privileges. Of
course
it’s unsurprising: everyone has a motive for wanting special
privileges for themselves. The same exact defense CNN offered here
could be made if Chris Cuomo had instead bribed state officials to
provide him special medical treatment unavailable to the general
public, or if he had broken into the home of another sick person to
steal their medication that he could not obtain for himself. It would
be understandable
that a person with COVID would want to do this, in the sense that it
is a rational motive. But the fact that Cuomo had a rational motive
for doing this does not make it less corrupt, unethical or amoral.
There are all sorts of things that it may be “understandable” for
us to want for ourselves that the law, morality and/or ethics
nonetheless prevents us from obtaining.
CNN’s
attempt to cast this as an invasion of Cuomo’s private medical
decisions is insultingly dishonest. Nobody cares about this because
they are interested in what took place in the intimate setting
between Cuomo and his physician. The issue — obviously — is that
this person who CNN presents as a “journalist” clearly abused his
influence and power, along with his brother, by using state resources
for his own benefit and jumping in front of a line that almost
certainly deprived people more in need of getting COVID tests at a
time when they were scarce. The issue is not Cuomo’s medical
privacy but the abuse of power in which he participated with his
brother, the Governor of New York.
The
hubris here on the part of the Cuomos is tawdry but, for them,
completely unsurprising. This entitlement complex is what one might
expect from two boys who grew up as the children of a popular and
powerful governor whose wealth and fame are due to their last name: a
good reason for the taboo against nepotism and dynastic politics,
which so often produces abuse of power. But CNN’s behavior is
something else entirely.
How
can a news outlet credibly claim to denounce and expose abuse of
power by political officials when they defend
the participation in such corruption by their own on-air talent? CNN
is telling the public that they see nothing wrong with their rich and
well-connected anchors exploiting public resources or connections to
powerful politicians to corruptly obtain medical treatment at the
expense of everyone else. That is as grotesque as it is damaging to
CNN’s brand.
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Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving, krijg het niet op orde.