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CNN’s Chris “Fredo” Cuomo was particularly unhinged during Thursday’s PrimeTime as he invoked the fictional and mentally ill anchorman, Howard Beale (played by actor Peter Finch in the 1976 film Network) to demand his audience be “outraged” by the President Trump’s “hoax” of a response to the coronavirus. As part of Cuomo’s plan to tap into Trump and Republican Party’s “fear of consequence,” he seemed to encourage voter fraud.
“You want your kids in school? You want to get back to work for real? Demand those in power do their damn jobs,” he explained. “How? You have to get angry about what's happening. You must be outraged by the obvious. I know you are.”
Cuomo insisted that “good conscience will not move these men and women to do the right thing for us.” Teeing up a clip from an iconic scene from the movie, he suggested “one of the great movies captured where we are right now.”
Ignoring the fact that the Beale character was a mentally disturbed man who heard voices and was abused by his network for ratings and money, Fredo played an edited version of his “mad as Hell” speech.
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