Members of the mainstream media described Ted Cruz’s bad time holiday to Cancun in the midst of the weather crisis plaguing his home state of Texas as a “scandal” comparable to the growing legal misery inflicted on New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the facing. cover up deaths in nursing homes in its condition.
Over the weekend, The New York Times covered the headline, “Cruz and Cuomo Face Scandal. Trump Can’t Them Save,” outlining how the news cycle once dominated by the former president could not divert attention from others. political controversies. The story stunned Cruz’s aborted breakaway with Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes.
“For much of the past six years, former President Donald J. Trump has dominated the political conversation, which has ruined days of outrage, finger pointing and general news circulation. Almost every tweet. The cheeky behavior of other politicians has often been lost amid Mr. Trump’s obsessive desire to dominate the coverage, ‘the Times wrote on Saturday. “Well, the former president has now become almost silent, leaving a void of Trump in our national conversation that President Biden wants to fill little. It was a rude awakening for some other politicians, who suddenly entangled themselves in controversy did not quickly come under an avalanche of Trump news. ‘
‘Saturday Night Live’ glorified Cruz and Cuomo during the show’s cold openings this past weekend. The sketch features the senator and governor, played by Aidy Bryant and Pete Davidson respectively, trying to do damage control in a talk show hosted by Britney Spears.
POLITICO STATEMENT CRUZ LIVES ‘THE AGE OF POLITICAL SCANDAL’ LIVES AS CUOMO NURSING ENVIRONMENT
Jonathan Karl, correspondent of ABC News, on Sunday equated the two ‘scandals’ in the same way with the anchoring of ‘This Week’, which indicates that both have just emerged, despite criticism of Cuomo’s now famous instructed to place COVID-positive patients in nursing homes, began last spring. when the order was issued.
‘This week we also had our first political scandals after Trump; ‘the deceptive journey of Ted Cruz to Cancun and the allegations of covert and deadly mismanagement that Andrew Cuomo faced,’ Karl told viewers as he teased the upcoming panel discussion.
ABC ‘WORLD NEWS TONIGHT’ GIVES CRUZ CAN FIASCO FOUR TIMES MORE COVERAGE AS CUOMO NURSING HOME SCANDAL
Last Thursday, ABC’s “World News Tonight” devoted about four times as much airtime to Cruz’s stay as the FBI and DOJ investigations into the Cuomo government, which devoted nearly four minutes to the GOP senator and only 55 seconds to the troubled Democratic governor.
That same night, CNN and MSNBC’s first coverage was similarly dominated by the Texan. Only 46 minutes were devoted to Cruz’s vacation, while less than three minutes were given to the prominent New Yorker cover.
On Friday, Politico singled out Playbook Cruz’s optical failure as proof that the ‘era of political scandal’ is alive, despite the unrest facing the Cuomo government in recent weeks.
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“Many observers have questioned whether the era of political scandal was dead – if partisan parties on both sides were so defined by hatred of their rival political tribe that they would let their own leaders get away with just about anything,” it reads. “And then a bearded man who looks like he’s Cruz is taken down with a roller coaster at the United counter at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, ready to board a plane to Cancun.”
A tweet from Politico promoting the Playbook reads: ‘Many political observers have wondered if the era of political scandal was dead. Ted Cruz proved this week that it is not. ‘