<p>Fox News meteorologist <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/meteorologist-janice-dean-book-reviewers-wont-touch-my-new-book-because-i-work-for-fox-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Janice Dean</a> let CNN anchor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/female-co-hosts-tag-team-don-lemon-for-daring-to-defend-mens-soccer-team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Lemon</a> have a piece of her mind after he stepped over a line during Thursday morning&#8217;s broadcast, referring to 51-year-old former Governor Nikki Haley (R-S.C.) as &#8220;past her prime.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lemon was responding to a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/don-lemons-sexist-slam-of-nikki-haley-draws-sharp-rebuke-from-cnn-co-host/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">call from Haley</a>, who recently announced her plan to seek the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, suggesting that politicians over a certain age should take mental competency tests. &#8220;America is not past our prime. It’s just that our politicians are past theirs,&#8221; Haley said.</p>
<p>The CNN anchor then suggested that Haley should be careful what she wished for, arguing that because she was no longer in her &#8220;20s, 30s, and 40s,&#8221; the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations was also &#8220;past her prime&#8221; — and Dean, among others, had something to say about that.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don Lemon: &quot;Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry, when a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s, and 30s, and maybe 40s&quot;<a href="https://t.co/5sgFzBzmut">pic.twitter.com/5sgFzBzmut</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1626253329780047873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just saying what the facts are,&#8221; Lemon insisted over the objections of co-host Poppy Harlow. &#8220;Google it. Everybody at home, when is a woman in her prime? It says 20s, 30s and 40s.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">I just &#8216;googled&#8217; and found out that I&#8217;m a year older than </span><span class="r-18u37iz">@NikkiHaley</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">. According to </span><span class="r-18u37iz">@donlemon </span>all women aged 50 and up are &#8216;past our prime!&#8217; I&#8217;d argue we&#8217;re just getting started!&#8221; Dean tweeted in response.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I just &quot;googled&quot; and found out that I&#39;m a year older than <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NikkiHaley</a>. </p>
<p>According to <a href="https://twitter.com/donlemon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@donlemon</a> all women aged 50 and up are &quot;past our prime!&quot;</p>
<p>I&#39;d argue we&#39;re just getting started!</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1626221252892561412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Dean went on to suggest that Haley ought to use the CNN clip in her advertising going forward, adding, &#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Just heard </span><span class="r-18u37iz">@donlemon </span>said <span class="r-18u37iz">@NikkiHaley </span>is &#8216;past her prime&#8217; as a woman. And then when challenged he said: &#8216;just google it!&#8217; And <span class="r-18u37iz">@CNN </span>wonders why they are hemorrhaging viewers &#8230; @NikkiHaley should use this clip in her advertising campaign. What a gift from @CNN.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NikkiHaley</a> should use this clip in her advertising campaign.  What a gift from <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1626211690118524931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Fox Business host David Asman <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidAsmanfox/status/1626213657700098052" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> that former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in her 50s and 60s when she served, adding, &#8220;Mrs. Thatcher began her historic 11-year run as PM in her 54th year.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Leftist misogyny: Imagine, the year is 2015, and </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Don Lemon</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> is saying the exact same thing about Hillary Clinton &#8230;,&#8221; Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) commented.</span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Leftist misogyny:</p>
<p>Imagine, the year is 2015, and Don Lemon is saying the exact same thing about Hillary Clinton…. <a href="https://t.co/UBAB4u5vsR">https://t.co/UBAB4u5vsR</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1626246302672584709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">In a related story, </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Don Lemon</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> is 56 and older than Nikki Haley, who he says is past her prime. It&#8217;s an utter mystery why almost no one is watching this masterpiece of a morning show hastily put together by Chris Licht,&#8221; The Hill&#8217;s media and politics columnist Joe Concha <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1626228220705267717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.</span></p>
<p>Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald took a different approach, saying that Lemon&#8217;s sexist and derisive commentary — and the conflict it created with his female co-hosts — was the only thing making the CNN morning show watchable.</p>
<p>&#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The absolute, utter, visceral resentment that </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Don Lemon</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> has for his co-hosts for ruining his spotlight — and the contempt they return to him as a result — is one of the first entertaining things CNN has broadcast in years. I honestly can&#8217;t get enough,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1626245351974883329" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.</span></p>


Tim Tebow Visits “Fox & Friends”

‘We’re Just Getting Started!’: Janice Dean Blows Up Don Lemon Over Sexist Dig At Nikki Haley

Janice Dean Blows Up Don Lemon Over Sexist Dig At Nikki Haley

Don Lemon

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<p>Meteorologist <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/janice-dean-gives-thankful-praise-after-cuomo-announces-resignation-god-bless-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Janice Dean</a> said Sunday that multiple outlets had refused to review her new book, &#8220;I Am the Storm,&#8221; because she worked for Fox News.</p>
<p><a href="https://dailywire.com/news/janice-dean-responds-to-cuomo-bros-plan-to-discredit-fox-weather-b/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dean</a> noted that among the outlets that had refused her latest book was Publishers Weekly — which had reviewed her previous books.</p>
<p>&#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Was just told that all the major publications that review books declined to review </span><span class="r-18u37iz">#IAmtheStorm</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> because of where I work. This included </span><span class="r-18u37iz">@PublishersWkly </span>which has reviewed all of my other books,&#8221; she tweeted.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Also was told that <a href="https://twitter.com/BNBuzz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BNBuzz</a> ordered books for some stores but never put any out. “A distribution issue.”</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1619985022844567552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Dean said that she had also been informed that while major book retailer Barnes &amp; Noble had ordered hard copies of her book for some of their locations, they had not put them out on display. The reasoning that was given, she said, was simply &#8220;distribution issues.&#8221;</p>
<p>But as Dean noted, things only got worse from there. &#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">And </span><span class="r-18u37iz">@amazon </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">put my price point on </span><span class="r-18u37iz">#IAmtheStorm</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"> at the highest $$ with no discount for a week which apparently unheard of. So yeah, I was screwed from the very beginning,&#8221; she said, adding one caveat: &#8220;(P.S. I have all of this in writing.)&#8221;</span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">(PS: I have all of this in writing)</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1619986453601325057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Dean confirmed to The Daily Wire that her publicist had pitched all of the major trades and none had reviewed the book.</p>
<p>She also shared the news via Instagram, saying that it was especially disheartening given that the book was about people facing great odds and overcoming incredible challenges.</p>
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<p>&#8220;The theme of the book is striving to overcome the odds, which is fitting considering how difficult it&#8217;s been competing with people who don&#8217;t want these stories out there,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Charlie Gasparino responded to her post in a comment, saying that he had been treated in similar fashion when his own book was published.</p>
<p>&#8220;I can attest to this treatment; when I came to fox and wrote a mainstream book about financial fraud I was told some major newspapers passed on reviewing it because I was a &#8216;Fox guy,’” he said.</p>
<p>The majority of the responses were encouraging, however, and Dean shared another post thanking everyone for standing by her.</p>
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<p>“You all have made me feel so much better. Many of your comments have brought tears to my eyes. I wrote #IAmtheStorm to inspire and give hope. All the stories are about real life heroes that deserve their own books someday. If you can borrow it from a library or pass it along once you’ve read it to someone else to spread the sunshine that would make me so happy. Thank you all so much. I’m grateful and humbled,&#8221; she said.</p>


Pickleball Coach Nancy Ehrola Visits “FOX & Friends”

Meteorologist Janice Dean: Book Reviewers Won’t Touch My New Book Because I Work For Fox News

Meteorologist Janice Dean: Book Reviewers Won't Touch My New Book Because I Work For Fox News

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Fox News

<p>Reacting to the atmospheric change on Twitter since the advent of the Elon Musk era, Fox News Meteorologist Janice Dean, whose relentless and determined pursuit of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for his nursing home scandal made her a beloved figure among conservatives but also a target of leftists, celebrated on Thursday, “People have been much nicer on twitter the last few days. Many of the trolls have crawled back into their caves.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">People have been much nicer on twitter the last few days. Many of the trolls have crawled back into their caves.</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1519617690389950468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In June 2020, Dean, whose husband tragically lost both his parents to COVID-19, slammed CNN for a nine-minute interview with Cuomo in which they never asked him about the state’s prior policy on returning nursing home residents to their homes even if they had the virus.</p>
<p>Dean tweeted, “@CNN doesn’t ask @NYGovCuomo about nursing home deaths. Shame on @PoppyHarlowCNN and @jimsciutto. Bravo to @SRuhle on @MSNBC for being a journalist.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>⁩ Doesn&#39;t Ask ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYGovCuomo</a>⁩ About Nursing Home Deaths. Shame on ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/PoppyHarlowCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PoppyHarlowCNN</a>⁩ and ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/jimsciutto?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jimsciutto</a>⁩. Bravo to ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/SRuhle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SRuhle</a>⁩ on ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a>⁩ for being a Journalist.  <a href="https://t.co/6lBLYRGF8L">https://t.co/6lBLYRGF8L</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1275142308921585664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>She followed by tweeting, “How hard is it to ask the question about 6,000+ New York seniors that were sitting ducks thanks to @NYGov Cuomo’s order to contaminate nursing homes with Covid positive patients? What if it was 6,000 kids? Would that make a difference? It shouldn’t. Do your job @CNN.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">How hard is it to ask the question about 6,000+ New York seniors that were sitting ducks thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYGovCuomo</a>’s order to  contaminate nursing homes with Covid positive patients? What if it was 6,000 kids? Would that make a difference? It shouldn’t. Do your job <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1275143363625472002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Dean continued, “Actually I amend this tweet. I don’t think @NYGovCuomo has EVER been asked the nursing home death question on @CNN. So Jim and Poppy would’ve broken new ground over there had they asked it.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Actually I amend this tweet. I don’t think <a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYGovCuomo</a> has EVER been asked the nursing home death question on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> So Jim and Poppy would’ve broken new ground over there had they asked it.</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1275150244603473922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In October 2020, appearing on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show, Cuomo discussed his new book, “American Crisis,&#8221; that spoke of his &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Crisis-Leadership-COVID-19-Pandemic/dp/0593239261/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&amp;keywords=american+crisis&amp;qid=1602516685&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-3">hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward</a>.&#8221; During the interview, Cuomo likened the COVID-19 pandemic to a sporting event, claiming, “The game isn’t over.”</p>
<p>Cuomo’s comments enraged Dean, who fired on Twitter: “Profiting on the deaths of over 30,000 New Yorkers. … Also, the governor refers to the pandemic and the deaths of our loved ones (as) ‘a game.’”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Also, the governor refers to the pandemic and the deaths of our loved ones “a game.”</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1315638004061474818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In December 2020, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cuomo-santas-going-to-be-very-good-to-me-i-worked-hard-this-year-dean-fires-to-help-kill-seniors-jobs-new-york-state/">speaking at a press conference</a>, Cuomo, seemingly unconscious of how many New Yorkers had died from the virus during his tenure, stated:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>There’s going to be a time when people turn around and say, “Why did 57 people die and why did we have more people die than anywhere else?” You don’t want to answer that question, and the answer can’t be because we played politics.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Then he turned to how great his holiday was going to be, boasting; “So. A healthy holiday, and I’m going to have a great one.  Santa’s going to be very good to me; I can tell. I worked hard this year.”</p>
<p>Cuomo’s blithe statement triggered a blunt reply from Dean, who fired back, “Worked hard to help kill seniors, jobs and New York State in general?”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Worked hard to help kill seniors, jobs and New York State in general?</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1341067695404539904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 21, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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‘Many Of The Trolls Have Crawled Back Into Their Caves’: Janice Dean Celebrates Musk Era On Twitter

Andrew Cuomo

Elon Musk

Leftists

Twitter

<p>On Wednesday, after New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli&#8217;s office released a report confirming that the state had severely undercounted the number of nursing home deaths in the early months of the 2020 COVID pandemic, New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul stated, “I want to continue working with the comptroller and find out every aspect of the pandemic — what was done right, what was done wrong, should we be in that same situation again.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fox News Meteorologist Janice Dean, who led the charge since mid-2020 against former New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo over his responsibility for the deaths, fired on Twitter, “I don’t believe her.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I don’t believe her. <a href="https://t.co/N5zNrL9WQZ">https://t.co/N5zNrL9WQZ</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1504215633696903177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Dean also tweeted, “It’s been almost two years. The media is finally catching on to @andrewcuomo’s atrocities in nursing homes and the coverup. Grateful to @TomDiNapoli for being on the side of the angels and reporting the truth in his state audit. @GovKathyHochul you need to stop being complicit.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">It’s been almost two years.  The media is finally catching on to <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewcuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@andrewcuomo</a>’s atrocities in nursing homes and the coverup. Grateful to <a href="https://twitter.com/TomDiNapoli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TomDiNapoli</a> for being on the side of the angels and reporting the truth in his state audit. <a href="https://twitter.com/GovKathyHochul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovKathyHochul</a> you need to stop being complicit. <a href="https://t.co/TvzrlCzKx3">pic.twitter.com/TvzrlCzKx3</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1504133732575371274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>“The findings of an audit conducted by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli&#8217;s office — determining New York state health officials under the Cuomo administration undercounted deaths by as much as 4,100 people — largely corroborated Attorney General Letitia James&#8217;s own probe, as well as documents released under open records requests,” <a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/ny-state-of-politics/2022/03/16/more-answers-sought-after-nursing-home-audit-is-released">Spectrum News 1</a> reported.</p>
<p>Republican state Sen. Sue Serino reacted, “The state was drastically undercounting these deaths in an effort to deceive New Yorkers, which is what they did, and the question still remains why.”</p>
<p>Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi dismissed the importance of the report and argued it was not newsworthy, saying, “As the number of out-of-facility deaths were reported last January, this is not news, however what is peculiar is the Comptroller’s release of this audit now — but no one has ever accused him of being above politics.”</p>
<p>But Assemblyman Ron Kim, who lost a family member to COVID, <a href="https://twitter.com/rontkim/status/1503872620785242114?s=21">countered</a>, “This is the third independent report to verify his misconduct. … His actions were never about protecting our most vulnerable, they were about pure egotism and self-enrichment at the cost of others’ lives.”</p>
<p>Kim had something else to say, adding, &#8220;We just want to go back and have an accurate read of the death toll numbers. Our families still don&#8217;t know if our loved ones and their deaths were actually counted.&#8221;</p>
<p>In October 2020, appearing on NBC&#8217;s “Today” show, Andrew Cuomo discussed his new book, “American Crisis,” that spoke of his “hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward.” During the interview, Cuomo likened the COVID pandemic of 2020 to a sporting event, claiming, “The game isn’t over.”</p>
<p>Cuomo’s comments enraged Dean, whose husband tragically lost both his parents to COVID-19; they were residents of assisted living facilities or nursing homes in New York. Dean fired on Twitter: “Profiting on the deaths of over 30,000 New Yorkers. … Also, the governor refers to the pandemic and the deaths of our loved ones (as) ‘a game.’”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Also, the governor refers to the pandemic and the deaths of our loved ones “a game.”</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1315638004061474818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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NY Gov: I Want To Find Out ‘What Was Done Wrong’ During Pandemic. Janice Dean Fires: ‘I Don’t Believe Her’

Kathy Hochul

<p>On Thursday evening, CNN’s Brian Stelter, host of “Reliable Sources,” admitted that the show’s podcast would inevitably discuss CNN Chief Jeff Zucker’s resignation this week as he tweeted, “The Reliable Sources team usually produces a podcast on Thursday afternoons. This week, the topic was obvious&#8230;” Stelter added, “Here&#8217;s a raw conversation about the CNN shakeup with two reporters inside the newsroom — @oliverdarcy and [me] — and two who are covering it from the outside — @sarafischer of Axios and @claireatki of Insider.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here&#39;s a raw conversation about the CNN shakeup with two reporters inside the newsroom — <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@oliverdarcy</a> and 🙋🏼‍♂️ — and two who are covering it from the outside — <a href="https://twitter.com/sarafischer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sarafischer</a> of Axios and <a href="https://twitter.com/claireatki?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@claireatki</a> of Insider <a href="https://t.co/EbQ24byi2l">https://t.co/EbQ24byi2l</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1489407834160828418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Fox News’ Janice Dean, who spearheaded criticism of former New York Democrat governor Andrew Cuomo for his nursing home policies that allegedly led to the deaths of hundreds and possibly thousands of elderly New Yorkers, including her in-laws, referenced the fact that Zucker and Cuomo’s brother Chris had helped gloss over Andrew Cuomo’s misdeeds. She fired, “Did you include the fact that your boss and his GF were actively helping out Andrew Cuomo cover up thousands of nursing home deaths?”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Did you include the fact that your boss and his GF were actively helping out Andrew Cuomo cover up thousands of nursing home deaths? <a href="https://t.co/uOLNetXMeM">https://t.co/uOLNetXMeM</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1489419233217941505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In the wake of Zucker’s resignation, the New York Post editorial board wrote an opinion piece titled, “<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/02/03/jeff-zuckers-real-crime-helping-andrew-cuomo/">Jeff Zucker’s real crime? Helping Andrew Cuomo</a>.” They stated:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Zucker helped lead the public laundering of Cuomo’s disastrous COVID policies, which saw the pandemic rip through New York as the governor piled restriction on useless restriction, closed schools and shoved elderly people with COVID into nursing homes (afterward hiding numbers on the deaths that resulted).</em></p>
<p><em>Via Chris Cuomo’s now-infamous softball interviews (conducted with the aid of a giant Q-Tip)<strong>,</strong><strong> </strong>Zucker helped wash Andrew’s reputation clean enough to make him a hashtagged sex object,<strong> </strong>putative future presidential contender<strong> </strong>and multimillion-dollar book-advance earner.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>They added, “Add in the allegations <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/02/03/jeff-zucker-allison-gollusts-cozy-ties-with-andrew-cuomo-deeper-than-previously-known/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=news_alert&amp;utm_content=20220203&amp;lctg=60c37da7dba83e59146f67bc&amp;utm_term=NYP%20-%20News%20Alerts">that Zucker was himself coaching</a> the then-gov on what to say in his daily COVID briefings (another part of what made Andrew a star).”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jeff-zucker-cnn-investigation-affair-cuomo-1294608/">Rolling Stone</a> reported that source informed them tan investigation of Zucker and the woman with whom he had an affair, CNN’s top communications executive, Allison Gollust, found they had had advised Andrew Cuomo from the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The source says the investigation suggests Zucker and Gollust were advising the governor at the beginning of the Covid pandemic in ways not dissimilar to what led to Chris Cuomo’s dismissal. As Andrew sparred on a daily basis with then-President Trump over Covid messaging, the couple provided the governor with talking points on how to respond to the president’s criticisms of the New York crisis. They also booked the governor to appear on the network exclusively, which became a ratings boon for CNN, with Chris Cuomo doing the interviewing. Cuomo and Gollust’s conduct, too, would appear to mark an ethical breach for executives acting on behalf of an impartial news outlet.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Tim Gleason, a journalism professor at the University of Oregon, told Rolling Stone, “The autonomy of a news organization requires it to not be engaged in any sort of direct activity with any political actor. &#8230; If they’re advising a politician [while] presumably reporting on activity that that politician is engaged in, that’s duplicitous and deceptive and a disservice to the audience of a news organization.”</p>


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CNN’s Stelter: We Will Discuss Zucker’s Resignation. Janice Dean: Try Discussing Zucker Covering Up Nursing Home Deaths, Andrew Cuomo’s Role.

Jeff Zucker

<p>Albany District Attorney David Soares announced Tuesday that despite being &#8220;deeply troubled&#8221; by workplace sexual harassment allegations like those leveled against former Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, his office would not be criminally prosecuting <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/making-deals-with-the-devil-janice-dean-rips-manhattan-da-for-closing-investigation-into-cuomo-nursing-home-deaths/">Cuomo</a>.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Statement from ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/DavidSoaresNY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DavidSoaresNY</a>⁩</p>
<p>⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/andrewcuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@andrewcuomo</a>⁩ will not be criminally prosecuted <a href="https://t.co/3LYay7ECaf">pic.twitter.com/3LYay7ECaf</a></p>
<p>— Zack Fink (@ZackFinkNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZackFinkNews/status/1478400990214860807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The Albany County DA&#8217;s Office released a full statement on the matter:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Albany County District Attorney David Soares announced today that a thorough and independent review of the investigation into the allegations against Governor Andrew Cuomo has concluded.</em></p>
<p><em>“While many have an opinion regarding the allegations against the former Governor, the Albany County DA’s Office is the only one who has a burden to prove the elements of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt. While we found the complainant in this case cooperative and credible, after review of all the available evidence we have concluded that we cannot meet our burden at trial. As such we have notified the Court that we are declining to prosecute this matter and requesting the charges filed by the Albany County Sheriff be dismissed.”</em></p>
<p><em>“I, like most New Yorkers, remain deeply troubled by allegations like the ones at issue here. Such conduct has no place in government or in any workplace. Although avenues for criminal prosecution in these cases are sometimes limited, I encourage victims of workplace harassment and abuse to continue to come forward and bring these issues to light so that these important discussions can continued,” commented District Attorney Soares.</em></p>
<p><em>The decision to discontinue criminal prosecution is unrelated to any possible civil liability, which is beyond the scope of a District Attorney’s jurisdiction.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Soares did draw a distinction between criminal prosecution and civil prosecution, noting that it was beyond his office&#8217;s jurisdiction to make a determination regarding potential civil cases against the former governor.</p>
<p>The news comes just days after it was announced that the probe into Cuomo&#8217;s actions throughout the COVID-19 pandemic — particularly with regard to nursing home policies that allowed COVID-19 positive patients to be admitted — had ended, and the former governor would not be prosecuted in that matter either.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">A lawyer for the administration of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a probe into its handling of Covid-19 in nursing homes has ended <a href="https://t.co/ehyazJgWrp">https://t.co/ehyazJgWrp</a></p>
<p>— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1478150459961532421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Fox News meteorologist <a href="https://dailywire.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=325287&amp;action=edit">Janice Dean</a>, who lost both her mother-in-law and father-in-law to COVID-19 in New York nursing homes, immediately suggested that Cuomo had made &#8220;deals&#8221; to keep himself out of prison.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">‘Making Deals With The Devil’: Janice Dean Rips Manhattan DA For Closing Investigation Into Cuomo, Nursing Home Deaths <a href="https://t.co/C3dYovfZ4d">https://t.co/C3dYovfZ4d</a> <a href="https://t.co/haLEmufUmZ">pic.twitter.com/haLEmufUmZ</a></p>
<p>— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1478392933766287364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Also worth mentioning and deserves attention: It was Cuomo’s lawyer (and then his henchmen Rich Azzopardi) who announced the Manhattan DA’s nursing home probe was over. Not the DA’s office under </span><span class="r-18u37iz">@AlvinBraggNYC </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">who still has &#8216;no comment,'&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1478397536239030281">Dean noted</a>.</span></p>
<p>&#8220;Andrew Cuomo made lots of deals before he left office. He still has bags of money and leftover power to burn,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1478405944816160771">she said</a>. &#8220;…not to mention very weak lawmakers who have no spine or moral compass.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Here a list of all the DA’s (so far) that have been dropping cases against Andrew Cuomo despite “credible” and “deeply troubling” evidence: </span><span class="r-18u37iz">@WestchesterDA, </span><span class="r-18u37iz">@NassauDA, </span><span class="r-18u37iz">@AlvinBraggNYC, </span><span class="r-18u37iz">@DavidSoaresNY,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1478419409475719170">she added</a>.</span></p>
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Governor Andrew Cuomo holds press briefing and makes

‘We Cannot Meet Our Burden At Trial’: Albany DA Won’t Prosecute Andrew Cuomo For Sexual Harassment

Sexual Misconduct

<p>On Monday, an attorney who represented former New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive chamber revealed that the Manhattan district attorney’s office had closed its investigation into how Cuomo’s administration handled Covid-19 in nursing homes. Fox Meteorologist Janice Dean, the most vociferous and trenchant critic of Cuomo for his policies after her husband&#8217;s parents died in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, fired on Twitter:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The new Manhattan DA is excusing our former corrupt governor of several charges he was facing regarding nursing homes and sexual assault. There are still investigations underway with FBI, DOJ eastern district and AG but there’s no doubt they’re making deals with the devil.</em></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The new Manhattan DA is excusing our former corrupt governor of several charges he was facing regarding nursing homes and sexual assault. There are still investigations underway with FBI, DOJ eastern district and AG but there’s no doubt they’re making deals with the devil.</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1478319978122293249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The attorney who represented Cuomo’s executive chamber, Elkan Abramowitz, said the head of the Manhattan district attorney’s elder-care unit contacted him.</p>
<p>Abramowitz said, “I was told that after a thorough investigation—as we have said all along—there was no evidence to suggest that any laws were broken,” <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/manhattan-da-ends-andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-probe-11641250710">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported, noting the various investigations that had been launched into the nursing home scandal, including the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights bureau asking for death data from state-run nursing homes in August 2020; a further investigation by another DOJ division that examined private nursing homes, and federal prosecutors based in Brooklyn seeking <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/nursing-home-death-data-was-sought-from-cuomo-by-u-s-prosecutors-11613699774?mod=article_inline">nursing-home death data</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-cuomo-quarantine-florida-new-york-nursing-homes">Fox News</a> noted in June 2020 that over 6,200 elderly residents might have died from COVID-19 in New York nursing homes according to <a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/diseases/covid-19/fatalities_nursing_home_acf.pdf">state health department statistics</a>. Months prior, on March 25, 2020, the New York Department of Health issued an advisory that stated nursing homes had to accept residents returning from hospitals whether or not they had a diagnosis of COVID-19. The <a href="https://skillednursingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/DOH_COVID19__NHAdmissionsReadmissions__032520_1585166684475_0.pdf">advisory</a> stated:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>During this global health emergency, all NHs must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs. Residents are deemed appropriate for return to a NH upon a determination by the hospital physician or designee that the resident is medically stable for return.  </em></p>
<p><em>Hospital discharge planners </em><strong><em>must </em></strong><em>confirm to the NH, by telephone, that the resident is medically stable for discharge. Comprehensive discharge instructions must be provided by the hospital prior to the transport of a resident to the NH.</em></p>
<p><em>No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-finally-reverses-order-forcing-nursing-homes-to-take-covid-patients-demands-testing-for-care-workers">reported</a> on May 10, 2020, that a report from New York state authorities showed that “at least 4,813 residents with confirmed or presumed cases of COVID-19 have died at 351 of New York’s 613 nursing homes since March 1, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration’s new list,” according to <a href="https://time.com/5832141/new-york-nursing-home-death-toll/">Time Magazine</a>.</p>
<p>The Journal noted that state officials “<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuomo-advisers-altered-report-on-covid-19-nursing-home-deaths-11614910855?mod=article_inline">withheld data</a> on the full number of Covid-19 deaths among nursing-home residents, and aides to Mr. Cuomo successfully pushed to use a lower tally in a Health Department report on the matter. Republican and Democratic lawmakers criticized Mr. Cuomo for suppressing the death toll while negotiating a $5.1 million contract to write a memoir about his experience during the pandemic.”</p>


Cuomo Dean

‘Making Deals With The Devil’: Janice Dean Rips Manhattan DA For Closing Investigation Into Cuomo, Nursing Home Deaths

Nursing Homes

<p>On Tuesday night, CNN political commentator Chris Cillizza delightedly tweeted that he had gotten two packages of COVID-19 tests as a “post-Christmas gift to myself.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Post-Christmas gift to myself <a href="https://t.co/BiDmAu6sCI">pic.twitter.com/BiDmAu6sCI</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCillizza/status/1476015541252935684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>That triggered Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean, whose distaste for CNN personalities had already been evidenced by her harsh criticism of former CNN host Chris Cuomo, to fire back, “People are fighting on streets of New York to get these tests but this guy shows off. Gross.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">People are fighting on streets of New York to get these tests but this guy shows off. Gross. <a href="https://t.co/KxHPG72QNE">https://t.co/KxHPG72QNE</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1476211580463460359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>“It reminds me of Andrew Cuomo giving out VIP (and very rare) Covid tests to his friends and family (who also worked at CNN) while prohibiting nursing homes to test Covid patients. It’s unbelievably awful,” she snapped.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">It reminds me of Andrew Cuomo giving out VIP (and very rare) Covid tests to his friends and family (who also worked at CNN) while prohibiting nursing homes to test Covid patients.  It’s unbelievably awful.</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1476213460635725834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>To complete the trifecta, Dean ironically pointed out a CNN story from December 23 showing New Yorkers lined up in the cold to try to obtain COVID-19 tests.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">From <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cnn</a> <a href="https://t.co/u1H2he448D">https://t.co/u1H2he448D</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1476215959232864264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In their <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html">story</a>, CNN stated, “Long lines were seen this week in New York City, Boston and Miami, as well as Ohio and Minnesota. At the same time, CVS Health and Walgreens &#8212; the two largest pharmaceutical chain stores in the US &#8212; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/business/cvs-walgreens-covid-test-limit/index.html">are limiting</a> the number of at-home Covid kits customers can buy due to significant demand, they announced.”</p>
<p>The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/report-ex-cnn-anchor-chris-cuomo-and-andrew-cuomos-aide-plotted-to-discredit-fox-news-janice-dean/">reported</a> on December 10:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Fox News’ Janice Dean scared ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York and his recently unemployed brother Chris so badly because of her work in exposing the New York governor&#8217;s mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis that the two allegedly plotted together with the help of Andrew&#8217;s aide to &#8220;discredit&#8221; the Fox News weather anchor, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/chris-cuomo-melissa-derosa-plotted-to-discredit-fox-news-janice-dean-sources.html">according</a> to CNBC.</em></p>
<p><em>On Friday, CNBC reported that according to sources who wished to remain anonymous, the governor&#8217;s aide Melissa DeRosa was instructed to work with Chris to smear Dean as nothing more than a &#8220;right-wing commentator,&#8221; but it&#8217;s unclear whether or not they actually did.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>CNBC wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Melissa DeRosa, who had served as secretary to the governor, was among the Cuomo aides who ripped Dean behind the scenes and sought to craft a public messaging strategy that would paint the Fox News personality as merely a right-wing commentator, people familiar with the effort told CNBC. Dean’s criticism of Cuomo stemmed mainly from the 2020 deaths of her husband’s parents, whom she said died of Covid in their elder-care facilities.</em></p>
<p><em>It remains unclear if DeRosa or Cuomo’s team ever went ahead with initiating such a plan. </em><em>Andrew Cuomo himself was present during some of the strategy sessions during which Dean was mentioned, one of the people said. These sessions mainly focused on the governor’s response to Covid.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>In September, Dean blasted Chris Cuomo after revelations surfaced that he had sexually harassed a former boss, Shelly Ross, in 2005. She first cited Ross’s article in The New York Times in which she spoke of the harassment, saying, “This is a very powerful opinion piece. I commend Shelly Ross for having the courage to write it.” Then she continued, “I’m not as hopeful that Chris Cuomo will change, though.  He advised his brother about his sexual harassment accusations and his employer allowed it. I also think this is a pattern of behavior, and I hope if he’s done this to other women (which I’ve heard he has) they now have the courage to come forward.”</p>


Dean/Cillizza

While People Wait, CNN’s Cillizza Brags He Got Home COVID Tests. Janice Dean Flattens Him.

Chris Cillizza

<p>Fox News Channel meteorologist Janice Dean announced she has filed official inquiries with the state of New York to find out if Chris Cuomo plotted with the governor’s staff to discredit “this Fox weather b***h” after she highlighted the deadly effects of the state’s COVID-19 policies on nursing home patients.</p>
<p>Dean, whose husband lost both his parents to COVID-19 inside long-term care facilities, became an indefatigable opponent of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fall-of-andrew-cuomo-how-an-empire-built-on-fear-came-crashing-down">Governor Andrew Cuomo (D)</a>’s edict forcing nursing homes to admit patients who tested positive for COVID-19.</p>
<p>Sources <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/10/chris-cuomo-allegedly-blasted-janice-dean-as-that-fox-weather-bitch/">told</a> the New York Post late Friday that then-CNN host Chris Cuomo sent a text message to his brother’s secretary, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10298431/Andrew-Cuomos-allies-plotted-discredit-Foxs-Janice-Dean-criticizing-handling-pandemic.html">Melissa DeRosa</a>, saying that he wanted to go after “this Fox weather b***h……Any help painting her as a far right crazy?”</p>
<p>Dean told “Fox and Friends” host Brian Kilmeade on Monday morning that she was “not surprised at all, because early on I heard from a good source, who knows the family very well, to watch my back. This was before any of the real press coverage, the hundreds of op-eds I wrote, all of the appearances that I did on Fox News. He told me ‘watch your back.’”</p>
<p>Dean said ad hominem attacks and smear campaigns are the Cuomo family’s modus operandi. “This is how these guys react,” Dean said. “They don’t try to solve anything: They just attack the person that’s coming after them.”</p>
<p>Dean announced she is filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests “to find out if my name or my family’s name is in any of those official documents, because I want to know if there was a smear campaign against me.”</p>
<p>She said she also wondered if any of Chris Cuomo’s media-stifling communications appeared “on CNN letterhead.”</p>
<p>Dean had typically restricted her on-air comments to the weather until last year, after Governor Cuomo required nursing homes to admit patients who tested positive for COVID-19, then reportedly covered up the ensuing death toll.</p>
<p>On March 25, 2020, Cuomo issued a <a href="https://dmna.ny.gov/covid19/docs/all/DOH_COVID19%20_NHAdmissionsReadmissions_%20032520.pdf">directive</a> stating, “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.” Other Democratic governors —including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/are-the-doj-and-media-letting-gretchen-whitmer-get-away-with-covid-19-nursing-home-deaths">Gretchen Whitmer </a>(Michigan), Tom Wolf (Pennsylvania), and Phil Murphy (New Jersey) — enacted similar measures.</p>
<p>While the Cuomo administration originally announced only <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/timeline-andrew-cuomos-scandalous-covid-19-response">6,600</a> nursing home deaths from the virus, the Department of Health released revised figures in February stating <a href="https://www.wwnytv.com/2021/02/11/ny-health-nursing-home-residents-die-covid/">more than 15,000 people</a> died from COVID-19 in nursing homes and other related facilities. That accounts for more than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/covid-19-killed-14-of-new-yorks-nursing-home-population">14%</a> of New York’s “pre-pandemic nursing home population,” <a href="https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/the-states-revised-nursing-home-death-toll/">according</a> to  <a href="https://www.empirecenter.org/">The Empire Center</a>, the state’s free-market, nonpartisan think tank.</p>
<p>The figure includes Dean’s father-in-law, 83-year-old Mickey Newman — who died in Brooklyn’s Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center on March 29, 2020 — and her mother-in-law, 79-year-old Dee Newman who died on April 13, 2020, at the Long Island Living Center.</p>
<p>Governor Cuomo resigned in the face of mounting sexual harassment allegations, while CNN fired Chris Cuomo for his role in helping his brother cover up the allegations, as well as a separate legal complaint that Chris had also committed sexual harassment.</p>
<p>Fox News said that Chris Cuomo has refused comment on the latest allegations, but the family has denied that they tried to smear Dean, who has been seen as an effective opponent. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-ex-cnn-anchor-chris-cuomo-and-andrew-cuomos-aide-plotted-to-discredit-fox-news-janice-dean">reported</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>A spokesperson for the governor named Rich Azzopardi denied these allegations, saying, “We had no ‘strategy sessions’ about Janice Dean and to the extent that the press office had to respond to something she said, it was handled by the press office and did not rise to the level of something the governor would be engaged with.”</em></p>
<p><em>Earlier this year, Azzopardi himself tried to “discredit” Dean after being asked about her efforts to expose COVID-19 malpractice in the Empire State. “Last I checked [Dean is] not a credible source on anything except maybe the weather,” he told media.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Azzopardi later <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/chris-cuomo-melissa-derosa-plotted-to-discredit-fox-news-janice-dean-sources.html">told</a> CNBC, “I have no knowledge of this ever happening and you must ask, why then did the [New York state] Attorney General [Letitia James] not put anything about it in her report or ask any of the relevant people about it?”</p>
<p>“I already know the answer to that,” Dean said on Monday morning. “The report was about sexual harassment, not about nursing homes.”</p>
<p>“No one’s denying anything, by the way,” Dean noted.</p>
<p>She said that Rich Azzopardi, “Cuomo’s henchman,” personally attacked “not only me but my sister-in-law on Twitter, saying ‘get a life’ and called us a ‘death cult.’ So, this was already in motion.”</p>
<p>Dean vowed over the weekend to continue to demand a reckoning over the lives cost by Governor Cuomo’s COVID-19 order. &#8220;The story for me has always been about trying to find answers and accountability as to what happened in New York nursing homes in the spring of 2020 and why Cuomo and his administration tried to cover it up,&#8221; Dean wrote on Twitter on Sunday. &#8220;It’s a shame that many tried to dig up information to try and demean me through my profession (&#8216;weather girl&#8217;) where I work (Fox News) and who I voted for. Sadly, it wasn’t just the Cuomo team, but blue checks and reporters scouring through tweets and articles I’ve written in the past to support their own beliefs and a political narrative.&#8221;</p>
<p>“This won’t stop my mission on behalf of thousands of families, but it has opened my eyes to how the powerful will do anything to protect themselves, those around them, and to what lengths they will go to silence the people who question their motivations and deadly decisions,” she concluded.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The story for me has always been about trying to find answers and accountability as to what happened in New York nursing homes in the spring of 2020 and why Cuomo and his administration tried to cover it up. It’s a shame that many tried to dig up information to try and demean</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1470007986382905351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This won’t stop my mission on behalf of thousands of families, but it has opened my eyes to how the powerful will do anything to protect themselves, those around them, and to what lengths they will go to silence the people who question their motivations and deadly decisions.</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1470007988324810757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Dean noted Monday that Andrew Cuomo has never faced any consequences for his actions exposing vulnerable senior citizens to COVID-infected patients.</p>
<p>“I’m going to continue to hold these people accountable,” Dean said.</p>
<p>You can watch the full segment below.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">‘Not surprised at all’: <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JaniceDean</a> speaks out following reports Cuomo team plotted to discredit her <a href="https://t.co/5gUwfxQMRB">pic.twitter.com/5gUwfxQMRB</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) <a href="https://twitter.com/kilmeade/status/1470385118372114436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire</em>.</p>


Janice Dean Responds To Cuomo Bros’ Plan To Discredit ‘Fox Weather B****’

Chris Cuomo

COVID

<p>Fox News’ Janice Dean scared ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York and his recently unemployed brother Chris so badly because of her work in exposing the New York governor&#8217;s mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis that the two allegedly plotted together with the help of Andrew&#8217;s aide to &#8220;discredit&#8221; the Fox News weather anchor, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/chris-cuomo-melissa-derosa-plotted-to-discredit-fox-news-janice-dean-sources.html">according</a> to CNBC.</p>
<p>On Friday, CNBC reported that according to sources who wished to remain anonymous, the governor&#8217;s aide Melissa DeRosa was instructed to work with Chris to smear Dean as nothing more than a &#8220;right-wing commentator,&#8221; but it&#8217;s unclear whether or not they actually did:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Melissa DeRosa, who had served as secretary to the governor, was among the Cuomo aides who ripped Dean behind the scenes and sought to craft a public messaging strategy that would paint the Fox News personality as merely a right-wing commentator, people familiar with the effort told CNBC. Dean’s criticism of Cuomo stemmed mainly from the 2020 deaths of her husband’s parents, whom she said died of Covid in their elder-care facilities.</em></p>
<p><em>It remains unclear if DeRosa or Cuomo’s team ever went ahead with initiating such a plan.</em></p>
<p><em>Andrew Cuomo himself was present during some of the strategy sessions during which Dean was mentioned, one of the people said. These sessions mainly focused on the governor’s response to Covid.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>A spokesperson for the governor named Rich Azzopardi denied these allegations, saying, &#8220;We had no ‘strategy sessions’ about Janice Dean and to the extent that the press office had to respond to something she said, it was handled by the press office and did not rise to the level of something the governor would be engaged with.&#8221;</p>
<p>Earlier this year, Azzopardi himself tried to &#8220;discredit&#8221; Dean after being asked about her efforts to expose COVID-19 malpractice in the Empire State. &#8220;Last I checked [Dean is] not a credible source on anything except maybe the weather,&#8221; he told media.</p>
<p>Dean&#8217;s parents-in-law died from COVID-19 after the New York governor forced patients with confirmed cases of the virus to stay within elderly nursing homes. Dean issued a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/chris-cuomo-melissa-derosa-plotted-to-discredit-fox-news-janice-dean-sources.html">blistering response</a>, slamming the governor, his brother, and his spokesperson:</p>
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<p><em>As I have said from day one, this was never about politics. I watched first-hand how the governor’s office treated grieving families trying to get answers about the March 25<sup>th</sup> 2020 executive order to admit over 9,000 Covid positive patients into nursing homes. </em></p>
<p><em>Instead of addressing our concerns or expressing their condolences, Cuomo’s spokesperson Rich Azzopardi called us a “death cult” and told my sister in law to “get a life” not long after both her parents died.</em></p>
<p><em>Over the last year and a half I have seen victims of Andrew Cuomo and those demanding accountability demeaned and smeared in the press and on social media.</em></p>
<p><em> In January of this year, Azzopardi was particularly misogynistic by responding to my inquiries and reporting as “not a credible source on anything except maybe the weather.”</em></p>
<p><em>So while I am not surprised to hear that the Cuomo’s administration alongside his brother Chris Cuomo were doing the same with me, I am glad these details are coming to light.</em></p>
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<p>As noted by CNBC, New York&#8217;s “[S]tate Attorney General released a report earlier this year that said Cuomo’s administration had undercounted by thousands of coronavirus-related deaths of state nursing home residents.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Cuomo admitted that their lack of public transparency on nursing home deaths was a mistake,&#8221; CNBC added. &#8220;He also said his office was concerned about Trump’s Department of Justice possibly initiating a politically biased investigation.&#8221;</p>
<p>As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-chris-cuomo-releases-statement-responding-to-cnn-firing-him">reported</a>, the governor&#8217;s brother was fired from CNN last Saturday after the network discovered that their former anchor of &#8220;Cuomo Primetime&#8221; was more actively involved in the governor&#8217;s public relations strategy to discredit women who accused him of sexual harassment than it had realized.</p>


Andrew Cuomo and Chris Cuomo

Report: Ex-CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo And Andrew Cuomo’s Aide Plotted To ‘Discredit’ Fox News’ Janice Dean

<p>After Meghan McCain, former co-host of ABC’s “The View,” discussed the hostile environment of the show that she experienced before she ultimately left and Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean sympathized with her, actor Billy Baldwin mocked Dean, tweeting, “Now do Fox News.” That prompted Dean to punch back twice as hard at Baldwin as she fired, “Awww are you still angry about your buddy @andrewcuomo having to leave? Poor thing.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Now do Fox News… <a href="https://t.co/dC9VMzgxwS">https://t.co/dC9VMzgxwS</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillyBaldwin/status/1450476557995167744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Awww are you still angry about your buddy <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewcuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@andrewcuomo</a> having to leave? Poor thing. <a href="https://t.co/ECvc1LjGeL">https://t.co/ECvc1LjGeL</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1450477424240578562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In May 2021, Baldwin tweeted, “I have known the entire Cuomo family since the 1980s. I have tremendous respect &amp; admiration for every single one of them. Don’t you think, after 40 years as a New York public servant, he deserves and has earned the right to an investigation before everybody rushes to judgment?”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I have known the entire Cuomo family since the 1980s.<br />I have tremendous respect &amp; admiration for every single one of them.</p>
<p>Don’t you think, after 40 years as a New York public servant, he deserves and has earned the right to an investigation before everybody rushes to judgment?</p>
<p>&mdash; Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillyBaldwin/status/1370806317745639427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Dean sympathized with McCain after McCain’s interview with Ramin Setoodeh of Variety, writing, “I saw @meghan McCain go through this in real time. It made me sick and angry to see the torture she went through on a daily basis. There’s no question @TheView was a toxic work environment that made it impossible for Meghan to thrive.”</p>
<p>“They should balance the show with other opinions,” Dean continued. “And treat each other with respect. Until then, the token ‘conservative’ woman will be a punching bag until she leaves or gets fired. I used to love @theView. Now I can’t watch one single minute of it.”</p>
<p>“And one more thing. I am so proud of @Meghan McCain. She has an important voice in this crazy time we’re living in. A kind friend, wonderful daughter, wife, sister and mom. She has been there for me in some dark moments and I’m lucky to have her in my life,” Dean concluded.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">And one more thing. I am so proud of <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MeghanMcCain</a>. She has an important voice in this crazy time we’re living in. A kind friend, wonderful daughter, wife, sister and mom. She has been there for me is some dark moments and I’m lucky to have her in my life. ♥️</p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1450468516642099216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/meghan-mccain-the-view-exit-joy-behar-whoopi-goldberg-1235092148/">Variety</a> reported that on her second day back after maternity leave, having given birth to her daughter Liberty in September 2020, McCain was suffering from postpartum anxiety, frightened that someone would kidnap her or hurt her daughter, and was “terrified about being on TV again.” Variety continued, “During a political debate that day, McCain made a joke about how Joy Behar, the show’s resident liberal, must have missed her when she was gone. Behar scowled at her. ‘I did not miss you,’ Behar said. ‘Zero!’”</p>
<p>In her upcoming <a href="https://www.audible.com/badrepublican">audio memoir</a>, “Bad Republican,” McCain <a href="applewebdata://A703B604-CA79-446B-AC4E-9E232F2602E4/v">states</a> of Behar’s actions after McCain came back after maternity leave, “Joy seemed to smell that vulnerability like a shark smells blood in the water, and she took after it.”</p>
<p>McCain left the show in August of 2021.</p>
<p>She told Variety:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>People were not comfortable around me. I was there less than a month when the first article came out about me, about what a disappointment I was and my nickname backstage was “Elsa the ice princess” [from “Frozen”]. My dad was dying of glioblastoma. I got permission from the network to take every other Friday off to go home to Arizona and help him get treatment. If I was cold, with this giant show with a group of strangers, I was trying to do well. </em></p>
<p><em>There were never bad stories leaked about anyone else, and there was certainly bad behavior that could have leaked. Do you think all those women are peaches and cream in the morning? Are you f***ing kidding me? But it was always like, “Megan is …” I thought it was unfair.</em></p></blockquote>


McCain Dean

Janice Dean Offers Solace To McCain For Hostile ‘The View’ Environment. Billy Baldwin Mocks Dean. Dean KOs Baldwin.

Meghan McCain

The View

<p>After the release of former Today Show co-host Katie Couric’s new book, “Going There,” in which she trashes people left and right, and the report that Couric had tried to humiliate her colleague Ashleigh Banfield at the 2000 Olympics, Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean blasted her on Twitter, writing, “I take it back. I was going to give her a chance, but @katiecouric is a mean girl. We talk about terrible men in this industry but we need to shine a light on the females who tear down women too. They should be shamed. No one should buy her book.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I take it back. ⁦I was going to give her a chance, but <a href="https://twitter.com/katiecouric?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@katiecouric</a>⁩ is a mean girl. We talk about terrible men in this industry, but we need to shine a light on the females who tear down women too. They should be shamed. No one should buy her book. <a href="https://t.co/GNTrL9ggc2">https://t.co/GNTrL9ggc2</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1445652975624413189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>“Couric humiliated Banfield when she made her wait outside while Couric finished up an interview, continued to leave Banfield cooling her heels while Couric&#8217;s then nine-year-old daughter interviewed a guest for her school paper, and then mocked Banfield after she was scolded for asking an &#8216;off-limits&#8217; question during an interview with Olympic Gold medalist Michael Johnson,” the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10058345/How-Katie-Couric-humiliated-Ashleigh-Banfield-2000-Sydney-Olympics.html">Daily Mail</a> reported, adding, “The producer reportedly told Banfield to &#8216;sit outside the studio door on this chair.&#8217; The chair belonged to the show&#8217;s security guard who looked on mortified. The producer then looked at the production assistant and said, &#8216;It&#8217;s ok, you can come in, but she has to sit outside,&#8217; referring to Banfield.”</p>
<p>Couric reportedly elicited laughter by saying, “I hope it wasn&#8217;t too mean having her kicked out of here.”</p>
<p>After Banfield asked Johnson about drug use by athletes at the Olympics, triggering his anger, Couric reportedly said to those around her, “What is she doing? Who does she think she is? This is so embarrassing for me and for the TODAY Show.”</p>
<p>A reported NBC insider told the Daily Mail:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Here was America&#8217;s so called sweetheart, showing she was no supporter of her colleague or another woman and she openly took joy in the fact that she&#8217;d at first blocked Ashleigh from being on set, then had her child do this pathetic school project interview with Michael and then she relished in Michael&#8217;s response when he stopped the interview at the point Ashleigh asked the most important question.</em></p>
<p><em>Ashleigh Banfield was the only journalist in the room that day. While Katie Couric sold her fake perky dark soul for access to Michael Johnson, Ashleigh attempted to ask the question that was pertinent to what was happening at the Sydney Olympics. And she was vindicated years later when Johnson handed back one of the gold medals he won in Sydney for the 4x400m relay because his team mate had in fact used performance enhancing drugs behind his back.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>In her book, Couric notes that she was cognizant “someone younger and cuter was always around the corner … For a minute there, Ashleigh Banfield was the next big thing; I&#8217;d heard her father was telling anyone who&#8217;d listen that she was going to replace me. In that environment, mentorship sometimes felt like self-sabotage.”</p>
<p>Piers Morgan <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10057599/PIERS-MORGAN-Katie-Courics-women-trashing-book-reveals-hypocrisy.html">reacted</a> to Couric’s new book by stating, “She reveals herself to be a nasty piece of work who chews up female colleagues and competitors like a hungry hippo gorging on watermelon.”</p>
<p>The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/katie-courics-pro-gun-control-documentary-unfairly-aaron-bandler/">reported</a> in 2016:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>A pro-gun control documentary produced and narrated by Katie Couric edited an interview with a gun rights organization in an attempt to portray them in an unfair light.</em></p>
<p><em>The documentary, Under the Gun, focuses on victims of gun violence as well as families of those who lost loved ones to gun violence that lobby for further gun control. In the scene that has come under scrutiny, Couric is interviewing members of the pro-gun Virginia Citizens Defense League. In the clip, Couric asks: &#8220;If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?&#8221; She is met with stunned silence from the organization, as they look sullen with a lack of eye contact, seemingly embarrassed that their argument had been defeated.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>But the <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/audio-shows-katie-couric-gun-documentary-deceptively-edited-interview-pro-gun-activists/?platform=hootsuite">Washington Free Beacon</a> reported, “However, raw audio of the interview between Katie Couric and the activists provided to the Washington Free Beacon shows the scene was deceptively edited. Instead of silence, Couric’s question is met immediately with answers from the activists. A back and forth between a number of the league’s members and Couric over the issue of background checks proceeds for more than four minutes after the original question is asked.”</p>
<p><em>A previous version of this article misspelled the name of Couric&#8217;s colleague. She is Ashleigh Banfield, not Ashley Banfield. </em></p>


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