Posted on 01/22/2014 9:24:45 AM PST by Nachum
On Friday, as I noted on Saturday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told public radio's Susan Arbetter that "extreme conservatives" – that is, people who are pro-life, understand the clear meaning of the Second Amendment, or wish to keep marriage as it has traditionally been defined – "have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are." Note well that Cuomo's remarks are still not news at the Associated Press's national site.
On Sunday, Cuomo's people sent and released an "open letter" containing a very inaccurate transcription of the original interview accusing the New York Post's Aaron Short of being "entirely reckless with facts and the truth" in his report ("Gov. Cuomo to conservatives: Leave NY!"). As I demonstrated on Monday, the only reasonable interpretation of what Cuomo said is that Republican Party members who hold any one of the three positions noted in the previous paragraph "have no place in the state of New York." In the past several days, the matter has escalated. The Post has continued to cover the story – that's what newspapers are supposed to do – while, in an extraordinary move, the Counsel to the Governor has entered the fray with what can only be interpreted as threatening language.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Dear Governor,
After much reflection and due consideration we would like to take this moment to let you know how much we appreciate your style, wit, and complete lack of self restraint. Keep it up. You make excellent writing material.
Signed,
The editors of the New York Post....
My husband and I WERE going to go to NY and the Hamptons this summer, but not now we aren’t.
I’d visit New York if they held a tar and feathering party for Cuomo which culminated in riding him out of Albany on a rail.
Who you gonna believe, Cuomo or your lying ears?
The first response of liberals when they put their foot in their mouths is to threaten those who call them on their stupidity.
I thank God every day that I do not have to live in the northeastern part of this country.
The LA media market has lately been bombarded with advertising stating that if you bring your business to NY it would be able to operate tax free for 10 years.
Yeah. Invest millions on the words of a sleazoids who’ll end up stealing it.
I’m remembering this image of this angry little German man with an odd mustache telling Jews to leave Germany or there would be problems for them. Somehow they were not worthy of living in Germany?
Sounds like an ad campaign begging for a response no?
The absolutely wonderful irony of Cuomo’s statements are that in the end, it will be Che de Blasio who will end up battling, and causing the most problems for him. The big progressives who run crony-capitalist Wall Street and NY State’s one-party, Democrat government cleared the path for their junior, upstart, bratty communist cousin to find a way into Gracie Mansion in NY City. Now they will have to deal with him.
21 days into the new People’s Republic of NY City and de Blasio and Cuomo are already on a collision course over taxes, Pre-K, snow-plowing and the “war on the rich.” Any problems in NY City, especially financial, will be felt in Albany, and no doubt the Post will not let him forget it - and Cuomo will not be pleased.
Let’s hope they both lose.
Any person who is forced out of New York by Cuomo will come to realize, eventually, that Cuomo did him a huge favor.
Contact the New York Post
Letters to the Editor: letters@nypost.com
SAMPLE COMMENT Kudos to Aaron Short-—his Cuomo story was great journalism-—the type we expect from a top shelf newspaper like the NY Post.
Let Cuomo’s office know!
The biggest insult is to all the NYers, especially the non-NYC, who are NOT liberals. it insults them both by the fact they are not liberal, and that they aren’t the big city people which some NYers seem to think is all there is to NY state.
Same here in Austin. What a waste of money - as if any thinking, successful person would move their company from Austin to the socialist utopia of NY! Laughable!
Actually, aside from reflecting Cuomo’s true feelings, I think his statements were meant to boost his creds with the Che de Blasio wing of the Dem party, which seems to have taken over the party. He’s telling them that he may have a few more modest ideas on income redistribution and confiscatory taxes, but not to worry: he hates those “right-to-life, pro-assault weapon, anti-gay” GOPers just as much as de Blasio does.
BTW, he didn’t even say “anti-abortion,” which is what he keeps trying to make people believe now, but “right-to-life” as a term of condemnation.
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