ABC 'World News Tonight' gives Cruz Cancun fiasco four times more coverage than Cuomo nursing home s

The thing is, Cruz didn't even think how he could help his constituents. His first instinct was to run away and abandon them. Unlike Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro, who is trying to help.

Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro Calls for State and Federal Investigations into Power Outages (msn.com)

Texas needs to pick better leaders than Cruz, Abbott, Perry, et al.

 

Yeah, we liberals have never had any use for A.C. I think he got a lot of coverage in the media in the last year mainly for doing his daily coronavirus briefings while Trump was playing golf.

 

Cruz's biggest mistake was he wimped out to the media and now they smell blood. He should have simply released a statement that said he was on a planned vacation with his family and there was nothing he could do in his role as a senator that would have helped the situation. By purchasing a stand by ticket at the last minute to return home and then claiming he was just there to drop off his daughter made things worse because it puts his credibility in doubt.

 

It's not about the media ignoring the scandal(which is truly hard to ignore if any person has a conscience). It's about pressuring the Biden Administration to actually prosecute this guy. People always kept saying Trump had "blood on his hands", well what is this?

I would say that knowing that people are going to die from this disease, knowing they're the most prone to getting it and sticking them in some "live coffin" of a home is even more blood on their hands(PA and others pursued the same policy.).

The fact is, there are several actions that were taken to make the crisis worse than it needed to be and all for political profit.

 

Hey how come Fox News stopped covering the Biden laptop scandal? I was told they were going to blow the roof off the story!

 

Cuomo was old news and Cruz was current news !!

 

Are you unfamiliar w/ the expression, strike when the iron's hot? The Cruz story is very time-specific. If the MSM is still talking about the Cruz story in a week, in two weeks, in a month, then you would have a good point; but the media will be, shortly, moving on from the story, as from the incompetence of the Texas GOP to have not made the preparations to avoid this problem in the first place, which isn't even getting the Cruz coverage (it's worth noting that the leaders of the City of El Paso were sensible enough, after the last serious winter incident, a decade ago, to hook up with the Western Power Grid, so did not experience the outages of the rest of the state, which depends on the Texas grid).The media likes the simplicity of the Cruz story. Why this would bother you, is a mystery, because any political ramifications for Cruz will only depend on the reaction of Texans (many of whom had no power to watch the coverage, at first). This will not remain national news for long.

The Cuomo story, on the other hand, is a slow-burner, and has already expanded from the initial mistake, to coverage of a potential effort by Cuomo's administration to hide this, in the way they kept statistics. Now the story is growing to be about Cuomo's reaction, since the nursing home news has broken. This is a more multi-dimensional story, and begins with Cuomo's saying that he had based his decision on initial guidance from the CDC about contagiousness of individuals who were at a certain point in their infections. This story began getting coverage BEFORE the Cruz story, and will still be getting media attention AFTER the Cruz story has faded. To complain about the difference being overly-hard on Cruz & overly-easy on Cuomo, only makes it seem that you don't understand how news coverage works; or else, that your objections are pure partisanship.

 

What Cuomo did is 10000x worse than Cruz. This vacation was just bad optics. He technically can’t give anyone power or fix anything. He can’t do anything of true value that he didnt already do. It just looks bad. He didn’t hurt anyone. He didn't break any laws. He didn’t lie or cheat. He just was insensitive.

Cuomo hid people dying because of politics and threatened people if they revealed the truth. That’s ****ing horrible and has to be against the law.

 

The Ted Cruz story is nothing but a Liberal NOTHINGBURGER and NOBODY! Died, because he flew to Cancun for 10 Hours, but if any of us had an Elderly Mother or Father in a New York Nursing Home that Died alone with immense Suffering, you'd have a definite reason to be OUTRAGED, because Cuomo instead of sending Covid-19 infected People to the Red Cross USNS Comfort docked in New York, which had 1000 Beds, but instead only had 20 Coronavirus Patients sent there for Political Reasons, over 15,000 people died. Either Governor Cuomo is the Most Ignorant Stupid person in the World or he's a Sociopath that sentenced these Elderly to Death just to prevent Donald Trump from gaining any Political Points, by sending the USNS Comfort and Thousands of Ventilators to New York. There were also Field Hospitals in New York that were largely unused and instead Andrew Cuomo send the Covid-19 infected to kill the Elderly. This Story should be getting NO STOP! coverage and the Governor sent to Prison.

https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/many-field-hospitals-went-largely-unused-will-be-shut-down

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-usns-comfort.html

 

They did, go back and listen to the interviews with the former business associate and now it's under a criminal investigation of the Biden family and associates. And yes the Congress should be investigating don't you think, the Dems were all about investigating the President when it was Trump, even based on Clinton/DNC bought and paid for phony dossiers. There's actual bank records and emails and yes hard drives here. Did you think it had gone away?

 

Did any of the liberal news networks call out Chuck Schumer (or Kirsten Gillibrand) for disappearing from New York during the summer riots?

 

Nope! sure didn't hear that one, Wonder Why! Oh! wait a second, maybe it's because they're DEMOCRATS

 

Not a peep!

How about, where was all the coverage of Nancy Pelosi breaking the Metal Detector Rule she set up in the first place and is trying to fine Republicans for doing exactly what she did?

We could do this all day. lol

 

"No one is above the law"(until they are.)

 

To start, I have to say, there was NOTHING in your 1st link about nursing homes. The article was about unused Covid field hospitals, worldwide. The NYT article of your 2nd link seemed similar (though only allows me a paragraph or so before it wants me to buy a subscription, in order to continue).

It should be clear, to anyone who isn't a colossus of stupidity & ignorance, themself, that Andrew Cuomo is neither ignorant, generally, nor stupid, at all (much less, "the MOST...in the World"). That you would believe that the only other option is that he is a Sociopath, speaks more about your own lack of knowledge & malfunctioning power of reason: Cuomo was not trying to kill people. My needing to write that is making me doubt the wisdom of even bothering to try to answer you.

Of course, Cuomo wasn't knowledgeable about a NEW illness, of which even the experts lacked a full understanding. Which is why he relied on expert advice. He says that his decision was based on CDC guidance, at that juncture. I may have misstated the specific belief at the time: it might possibly have been about the risk of re-infection of those who'd already had the disease. At any rate, the move seemed sensible to Cuomo, based on that advice, which turned out to be wrong. It was a case of a sincere human being, in a novel circumstance, making a mistake. If you are SO concerned with health threats to the Elderly, brought about by political missteps, tell me, how many seniors lost their lives because Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was reluctant to impose any regulations at all, even about masks?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Now, as to your thread's other topic, Ted Cruz. There are things that a Senator can do to help in an emergency situation as has been taking place in Texas. Senators have deep networks of powerful people to employ, they can speak directly with FEMA, to marshall resources, highlight problems to federal officials, & liaison between different levels of government.

If you are one of those who feels that the media typically focuses too much attention on New York, these Cuomo vs. Cruz stories will show you, if you reserve your snap judgement, that this extra attention cuts both ways.

 

You said Cuomo wasn't knowledgeable about a NEW illness, Well! neither was President Trump and Liberals have been blaming him for everything to do with this Pandemic, while seemingly giving their own Democratic Heros a Free Pass. When Trump decided to Ban Travel to the United States from China, Democrats piled on him like a Ton of Bricks calling him Racist and Xenophobic, When Trump sent the Red Cross Mercy Ship to New York, Andrew Cuomo didn't use it, When Trump enacted the Defense Production Act to have THOUSANDS of Ventilators built by American Car Manufactures to be sent to New York, because Andrew Cuomo was begging for them, the Governor then decided he didn't need nearly as many of them. I look at this Horrible Pandemic and all the Democratic Governors and Mayors at the beginning of last year who ignored Trump and encouraged Tourists to visit their Cities and spread the Infection around the Country, like a Person trying to Herd a bunch of Cats, because everything he tried to do, they decided to do the opposite, because of their Hatred and Distain they had for him. Well! now it's Bidens turn and we can continue the Finger Pointing all over again.

President Biden has Murdered 85,549 Americans, since he became President. The Rules set by Democrats for Trump are now the same for Biden.

 

Uh, the Cuomo scandal changes every minute! Now the FBI are involved!

 

People shouldn't be able to just get away with making a mistake.

Seniors in nursing homes in Florida?

You think that the right argues that the media focuses TOO MUCH attention on New York? Regarding COVID?

 

You mean barely covering the Andrew Cuomo story compared to the Cruz Story?

 

Just because it is the newer story, this justifies it getting four times the coverage of a scandal which involves the FBI?

 

Great.

If crimes were committed, give 'im da chair...

Andrew, we hardly knew ye...

 

Hey, check out OAN and Newsmax.

I am sure that they are giving this Epic News story (that the entire survival of Western Civilization hinges on) more coverage than the initial reports of 9/11.

 

How could he have stayed and helped them when there are emergency outages of electricity, roads are closing, stores are closing, people are being told they will be trapped in their homes. He is not a part of the Texas Emergency Management or utilities boards. He would be more in the way. Now FEMA may move in if such assistance is requested but things are getting back to normal now, power is back to normal stores are restocking and open.

 

Nobody is saying that there is zero coverage of Cuomo.

 

Doesn't matter if it's newer. By that standard, if a terrorist attack took place in the US, and then the Cruz story broke after, the media should pay more attention to Cruz. The fact is the Cuomo story is BY FAR more serious, even involving the FBI!