NY Democrats coordinate attack on Cuomo critic -- for using Maxine Waters quote!

                                                                                    

 

It seemed a bit clueless when Nassau Democratic County executive Laura Curran on Jan. 28 tweeted an attack on the "Cuomo Watch"-- a twitter account critical of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. 

Doesn't Curran ever watch the news?

The tweet she was complaining about was obviously satirical: It was the very same words U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, had used at a rally in Los Angeles on June 2018 about the Trump administration.

Except Cuomo Watch substituted  "the Cuomo administration" for the words "that (Trump) Cabinet."

If that wasn't enough to emphasize the satire, the quote was attributed to "Maxine CuomoWatch."

But no, Curran, a strong Cuomo supporter, didn't get the joke. "No matter what your political party or beliefs, this is unacceptable," Curran tweeted.

She didn't  tweet that response to Waters when the Congresswoman encouraged supporters to confront Trump officials by saying, "Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere."

Water's comments came after several Trump administration officials had been confronted and harrassed at restaurants.

But Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone apparently didn't get the joke either.

That same evening of Jan. 28, Democrat Bellone, another Cuomo ally, attacked the Cuomo Watch satirical tweet.

                                                                           

Bellone not only called on Democrats and Republicans to denounce the threat of violence, he demanded Twitter  ban Cuomo Watch immediately. Imagine. A liberal Democrat calling for censorship. Didn't hear him say anything about Maxine Waters two years ago.

(While some call Cuomo Watch a troll account,  today it identified itself as a political watchdog account.)

But it wasn't just Curran and Bellone who solemnly protested satire. So did State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Long Beach Democrat, and State Sen. Anna Kaplan, a Great Neck Democrat. Both posted indignant outrage on Jan. 28.

Also expressing righteous anger about the tweet were State Senate Majority leader, Democrat Andrea Stewart-Cousins, State Assembly majority leader, Democrat Carl L. Heastie, and a slew of Democratic state senators and assembly members. All on the evening of Jan. 28.

Hmmmm. What happened on Jan. 28 that Democrats should suddenly rally around Cuomo?

Oh yes, New York Attorney General Letitia James, another Democrat, issued a scathing 76-page report on Cuomo's handling of coronavirus patients in nursing homes, saying nursing homes deaths had been undercounted by the Cuomo administration by as much as 50 percent.

Critics on Cuomo Watch had been saying that for months.

Pundits familiar with political chess say the coordinated Democratic attacks on Cuomo Watch were an attempt to deflect attention away from the AG's report.

One can only guess who coordinated those attacks.

But it is a bit reminiscent of 2018 when the U.S. Justice Department Inspector General released a 500- page report on Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.

The next day, all national Democrats were talking about were immigrant children in cages at the border -- a much more attention-catching, outrage-provoking subject. To this day, most people have no idea what the inspector general report said about emails.