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Andrew Cuomo freaks out over a little hostile media coverage.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 23rd, 2013 at 11:00 AM  | 

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Via Instapundit, I’m getting the impression that Andrew Cuomo is apparently very good at turning small PR problems into bigger PR problems. Short version: guy in the state government (Mike Fayette) talks to the press (the Adirondack Daily Enterprise) when he apparently wasn’t supposed to. Fayette gets in trouble for it. Rather than get fired, he retires. So far, so… whatever, man. Only the Daily Enterprise on Wednesday published a story on the subject of Fayette’s forced retirement. And that’s when this story gets a little eyebrow-raising:

On Thursday, livid that an engineer in the Adirondacks was being portrayed as a victim of Mr. Cuomo’s penchant for control, a top aide to the governor, Howard B. Glaser, took to the airwaves. He read aloud Mr. Fayette’s disciplinary history, describing him as a troubled employee who had previously been penalized for having an improper relationship with a subordinate, misusing his work e-mail to send sexually explicit messages and using his state-assigned vehicle for personal errands.

I should note here that the Daily Enterprise has a circulation of 5,300; the New York Times claims one of 1.59 million daily. I should also note that the Daily Enterprise had mentioned Fayette’s past disciplinary problems as well, so this was not exactly new information. So I can only conclude that Howard Glaser apparently wanted the word to go out that Governor Cuomo is an incredibly thin-skinned politician who hates it when he doesn’t have absolute control over everything said about either him and/or his administration, and that Cuomo will lash out at anybody who dares cross him on that. Whether or not it actually gets the New York Times, of all things, to write even more unfavorable media pieces about him.

So noted – but, believe me: there are so many other things that we can and will talk about on a national level when it comes to Andrew Cuomo, should we have to. Starting with the magic words ‘adultery,’ ‘live-in girlfriend,’ and ‘Roman Catholic Church’…

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  • rerun19

    Talk about his affairs all you want, but it will be to no avail. The low information, government-dependant leeches don’t care about his personal life, and the mainstream media will ignore it entirely. Plus hispanics won’t understand it either.

  • Jack_Savage

    Hmmm….reading personnel files over the airwaves…
    I don’t think Mr. Glaser consulted the HR people over the propriety of his actions. Something tells me he will learn about that quickly, though.

  • bobmark

    True, but, this is a personal flaw to be watched and possibly exploited. Perhaps cuomo can reprise Howars Dean’s stirring performance in “I’m a Crazy Man the Sequel”. He did well with audition (gun control speech).

  • MoeLane

    Gather ’round, kids: what we have here is an unfortunate intersection of Bad Decisions. The first Bad Decision? Making what can be reasonably seen as being at least a prejudiced comment about Hispanics. The second Bad Decision? Having a posting history exclusively dedicated to whiny attacks on the GOP and conservatives. That pretty much ruled out giving the poster any possible benefit of the doubt.

    Ta.

  • http://www.TerriersOfTheRight.blogspot.com Flagstaff

    IANAL. If one reads this, do you know what New York law says about revealing the personnel file information of a state employee? Sounds like lawsuit material to me.

  • Tbone

    Coumo is an elitist. I don’t know why a dog turd would feel elite .

  • joshinca

    And on top of all of that Cuomo is an idiot.

  • gwalt

    If we could pick a media personality—- Stepphie, Todd, Gregory, Lauer, Williams— and go after them the way they go after Conservatives, we would tip the scales pretty quickly. Just calling them MSM or media doesn’t cut it.
    Name names, show faces on interstate billboards, newspaper ads and TV ads.
    The thin skinned above mentioned “news” aka propaganda puppets would self destruct from the light shined on them like cockroaches.

  • edintexas

    Mr. Fayette worked in the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), a nanny state equivalent of other state’s Wildlife/Fish and Game/etc. departments. Prince Andrew had the head of DEC get out and proclaim that the policy (that employees only speak to the press when specifically authorized to do so) was not Prince Andrew’s rule, but his own. Nothing like falling on the sword for the pric- er Prince.

  • The_Gadfly

    You forgot the Third Bad Decision: Using the pointy stick on the diary of a moderator who invented the RS the stylistic blam stick. I mean, that’s like trying a night hold up of the bar where the off duty cops hang out.

  • The_Gadfly

    While it is true that the Daily Enterprise circulation is a pittance compared to the NYT, I think the NYT is to Drudge as Daily Enterprise is to the NYT.

    Game over man. Game over.

  • clowngirl

    And he’s well to the left of Obama on gun control . (not what Obama would probably *like* to do but what he thinks is politically practiceable) Didn’t he even talk about possible confiscation at one point?

    Though come to think of it, that all might play well to some factions during a Democratic primary, and if he’s willing to go ultra negative against Hillary… I hope he runs!