The righteous appear to have real difficulties with proper, politico-cultural compartmentalization.
Former governor Andrew Cuomo, bizarre back-scratcher and butt-fondler that he is, nevertheless managed to navigate not only New Yorkers but all Americans through the earliest, deadliest days of the pandemic with striking finesse. His daily press briefings were must-watch seminars in how to handle an unfolding crisis; they stood in conspicuous contrast to the brain-addled gibberish vomited each afternoon by you-know-who. For weeks, Mr. Cuomo was, essentially, the president of the United States, leading a frenzied public to softer, more comprehensible ground. Now this:
"Cuomo has been stripped of the honorary Emmy given to him for his Covid briefings last year. The Academy awarded Cuomo its Founders Award in November 'in recognition of his leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and his masterful use of television to inform and calm people around the world,' according to the press release issued at the time."
Cuomo's calm, masterful, informative briefings have simply been airbrushed from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' recorded history. Poof. Gone. Just like that. His roaming fingers, brutish manner and clichéd toxic masculinity were entirely unrelated to his brilliant, extemporaneous covid briefings. But the righteous say otherwise. Because they're self-righteous. The censors who aren't? They're merely cowardly — mooing along with the self-righteous herd, hoping to evade the scolding mob.
At the International Academy we see roughly the same mental affliction as that of the pharisees who tear down statues of U.S. Grant — advocate of the 15th Amendment, upholder of Radical Reconstruction — for having married, in 1848, the daughter of a slave-owning family. The list of spectacular disconnects goes on, as we're all-too familiar with.
"[Cuomo's] name and any reference to his receiving the award will be eliminated from International Academy materials going forward," said the NY pharisees in a statement. Also eliminated will be a significant part of pandemic history.