At the beginning of his News Nation primetime series “Cuomo”, Chris Cuomo began with a giant pitch to the audience about himself as a person and his show as a place for “regular” voters. – whom he identified as people who were not affiliated with it. of the two major parties.
And while he only vaguely acknowledged the circumstances of his exit from CNN, he said that over the months, “I’m different,” and promised “to be more transparent about my head, on the issues we cover.” “
Cuomo pitched his show as a place to break out of the cycle he purposefully called “division” and exposed “sports” that he said were “damaging our politics and society.” Is.” And naturally, he presented himself as an antidote, offering a position beyond all that, he said repeatedly, would take both Democrats and Republicans into account.
The monologue at times captured the quality of apparent false equivalence, as he discussed the many controversies of note that plague the American landscape, in which, unquestionably, right-wing actors play a larger role in the negative than left-wing participants. . Those issues included gun control and political violence. Although he did say that he would not pretend to issues what he noted is a “50/50” split.
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Shakespeare once wrote in ‘The Tempest,’ ‘The past is a prelude,'” he said. “So it’s with me, to be here with you tonight. And I believe that. I’ve learned lessons, good and bad, over the past several months. I’ve trusted my family, my friends, my therapist.”
“And thankfully,” he continued, “it has happened that what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. I’ve been humbled in a way that I’ve never been before, and I go on to do better in this way.” Hungry that I’ve never been before. So this show is going to be different from what I’ve done before, because I’m different.”
“And I’ve spent a lot of time watching and listening on the sidelines. It’s clear to me that we need people in my position to do more. To just play or referee the game that plagues our politics and society.” Not to. ie expose the game. Show when it’s played. Show how it’s being played. And also, to be more transparent about the issues we cover, my head Where is it,” he continued.
“I also have a newfound appreciation for how unique my position is. Most of the people in my business know politics from the outside. I know it from the inside,” Cuomo said, as he wrote in his biography of Powerhouse New York. Governor Mario Cuomo’s son.
This makes him an eyewitness, he said, “the interaction between politics and government, and the interplay between the media and those in power, in a way few people in my position have.”
Cuomo introduced News Nation as a place that isn’t in “group think”, and the audience – “regular people, not the fringes”, who he said are the “majority” – are the point. “News Nation refers to you, America,” he later said, adding that this majority “is not about the left and the right, you’re justified.”
Cuomo ran through several of the day’s issues, he said, display the issues he was describing. For example school shootings, immigration and even college loans. He also specifically came down on Republicans for participating in politics to create division rather than solving problems, an issue he said can be found even among Democrats.
Cuomo also slammed the media for failing to focus on the things that really matter, or for ceasing to follow up on something important that is no longer sensationalized.
“I’m not going to follow the pack,” he said. “I’m gonna bust the game.”