Antifa Cuomo Hyped to Throw ‘Knuckles’, Equates Christianity to Bigotry

Nicholas Fondacaro | January 17, 2019
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During another rowdy transition between CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time and CNN Tonight on Wednesday, host Chris Cuomo once again embraced violence as a political tool. Of course, his eagerness to hand out “three knuckles” to racists and homophobes, who said “ugly” things to fellow CNN host and friend Don Lemon, came after he disgustingly conflated Christianity and Karen Pence with the controversial comments of Iowa Congressman Steve King (R).

After playing a clip of Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders blasting King’s comments as “abhorrent” and chastising the Democrats for not weeding out bad apples as Republicans do, Cuomo lashed out. “It wasn't an answer, and that's not acceptable,” he declared. “And there's no whataboutism on my watch, not here. When a president will not take the opportunity to condemn a message of white supremacy, choosing to do nothing here sends a message.

But Cuomo himself was sending a message that night by not touching on the growing tide of anti-Semitism among Democrats, most notably Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and the Women’s March. That’s not to mention the anti-Catholic bent of some Democratic Senators.

Completely ignoring how Congressional Republicans were moving to ostracize King, with such measures as pulling his committee assignments, Cuomo acted like nothing was happening and chastised Republicans:

The next time my brothers and sisters on the right say it's wrong to have people call them out about issues surrounding bigotry and intolerance, remember this moment. Remember what the President who heads your party refused to do. I won't forget. None of us can. This matters too much.

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