Once in a while, the liberal media cranks out a surprise. The surprise of February 2021 is how they have turned on one of their favorite sons - NY Governor Andrew Cuomo. It took a while, almost the better part of a year for them to gravitate to the position that maybe he did something wrong by sending covid-positive patients into nursing homes ... and then did something worse by trying to cover it up.
After the first shots were fired about nursing home covid deaths being tied to his executive order, Andy tried various ways to deflect the criticism. His first attempt at blaming Trump for it didn't really grow wings and take off, so in his second attempt to deflect being the target of a probe, he had his own state-run health department issue an investigative report. Of course, this report absolved him of all blame.
Duh. When your boss (or any boss) tells you he wants an investigative report, what they mean is they want a report that blames somebody or something else - - and it's also handy if it absolves them of any wrongdoing too. That's a well-known part of a political patronage system that doles out jobs and holds the keys to continued employment and advancement.
Is there anybody stupid enough to really believe the felch dispensed by his own Department of Health? Please step forward, I have some dog really good stocks I'd like to sell you.
Of course, the mainstream media (MSM) sat on this story all last year because .. well, there was an election and they couldn't fling mud at one of their own blessed because they needed it to fling at what they view as the reincarnation of Satan ... and it's pretty obvious where the dung they hurled landed.
Then, the NY Attorney General (a close ally of Cuomo) revealed the nursing home deaths were grossly under reported. A newspaper reporter sued under the freedom of information act and noticed a huge discrepancy between nursing home reports of death and NY DOH reports and brought this to the attention of the AG. To her credit, she refused to be part of the cover up and went public.
As this news took off, another bombshell landed squarely in Cuomo's camp. A communication between one of his staff members and the Democrat leadership in Albany surfaced. Melissa DeRosa, a staffer that sits at Andy's right hand revealed that the real numbers were squelched in fear that it would make Cuomo look bad while giving the Republicans ammunition to politically fight with. It's pretty clear now - a cover up had been going on for the better part of last year.
But I still have faith in Andrew Cuomo to slough it off by coming up with a fall guy (or fall girl) to take the blame for whatever PC term he dubs this scandal now boiling and scalding his administration. The only question is, who will this fall person be? What crony-puppet will they dredge up to sacrifice to redirect the blame from Andrew Cuomo?
Here's a list of possibilities:
- Melissa DeRosa, whose days in Albany are probably already measured on a short stick for blabbing about it anyway...
- Dr. Howard Zucker, the NY Commissioner of Health who heads the DOH that falsified the numbers in the first place... or
- Some relatively-unknown low-level pawn in the administration who will be willing to take the blame ... and who knows what deal will be cut behind closed doors to make this happen, or
- Scooter Libby. He was the fall guy for VP Dick Cheney; he took the blame and was later pardoned. I hear he's tanned, rested and ready. Ok, scratch out Scooter. He's already done one fall-guy tour and in politics, you only get to be a fall guy once in your life.
