Andrew Cuomo’s Fall From Grace Shames Corporate Media Outlets

Almost as much as it does him.

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and MTA Chairman and CEO Thomas Prendergast rode an E train from Chambers St. to 34 St.-Penn Station on Thu., September 25, 2014 to assure New Yorkers that all security precautions are being taken, and that the subway system is safe amid reports of unspecified threats. Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit.

To the shock of political observers and the media commentariat, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned in disgrace this week after the publication of a New York AG’s report in which Cuomo’s history of sexual harassment and retaliation was laid bare.

To the consternation of the entire Democratic Party establishment, and the chagrin of a great many Hollywood celebrities and news media personalities who dubbed themselves “Cuomosexuals” last year, Andrew Cuomo’s spectacular fall from grace is currently in the crosshairs of every political journalist on the beat.

Andrew Cuomo is leaving office in two weeks, probably forever. In his wake, he is leaving top aides with poisonous ties to a toxic work environment they helped create and perpetuate and a mass media complex badly shamed by this whole sorry episode.

It isn’t lost on anyone that the New York Times is, when it comes to Andrew Cuomo- even now- taking extraordinary pains in editorialization they didn’t bother with for Donald Trump. Trump, the New York Times was fond of pointing out, was and is a power-mad dictator with designs on dismantling the very fabric of society and life as we know it.