ABC Claims Cuomo’s Harassment Was a ‘Joke,’ CBS and NBC Move Pass

Nicholas Fondacaro | February 25, 2021
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It took 24 hours for ABC News to finally give the sexual harassment claims against corrupt New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) any airtime on their network. On Thursday’s World News Tonight, when did they finally report on the claims, they took the accuser out of context and claimed Cuomo had “joked” about wanting to “play strip poker” with the female accuser.

And after only covering it that morning, CBS News and NBC News were done giving the story oxygen and ignored it on their evening newscasts. Instead of giving the sexual harassment claims any airtime, NBC Nightly News copied what ABC did the previous evening and talked about an airliner that reported a UFO.

Spending only 39 seconds on the harassment accusations, ABC correspondent Erielle Reshef bundled them in with an update on the Cuomo’s nursing home deaths scandal. “It comes amid new allegations of sexual harassment against Cuomo by former staffer Lindsey Boylan,” she told viewers.

Speaking about Boylan’s published account of that happened, Reshef appeared to mischaracterized what Boylan wrote and claimed she said the Governor was joking with one of his advances. She also touted the defense Cuomo was getting.

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