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Yeah but it's not like Trump was ever accused of sexually harassing women. Oh wait...

The double standard is so obvious it's painful. The problem is that the media knows the Democrats will do the right thing and in this case, it's to agree that Cuomo step down for obvious sexual transgressions. The Republicans on the other hand always put up a fight, regardless of how glaring the evidence, especially in the case of Trump. Geez, the Times and the WaPo are still defending Trump by not printing in their largest typeface on their front pages daily that Trump should be indicted immediately. Matt Gaetz, you stay, Cuomo, you go. Trump you stay, Al Franken, get out for good because of a photo taken while employed as a comedian.

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Don’t forget that at the same time the media was clutching its pearls when the accusations first arose involving Cuomo, Madison Cawthorn of NC was also accused of sexual harassment. Did the press cover both equally? Hell no. Cawthorn, like Jim Jordan before him, got a pass while they piled on Cuomo.

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I noticed that the calls for Cuomo's resignation began months ago, and I wondered aloud about why we heard nothing from most press outlets calling for Trump to resign when it became obvious that he was committing crimes as president. Then I started thinking about both Cuomo Clinton, and I realized why they clamored for both their resignations or impeachments - it's about sex. Both men are perceived as sexual predators who abused their political offices to prey on women. Then I realized that Trump has done exactly the same thing, using his wealth and celebrity status to assault at least a dozen women, and his presidential pulpit on Twitter to insult and humiliate them. But then, to avoid the "liberal media" label, the two Democrats are the ones to be pilloried, not the swine Trump. Ironically, the NY Times has written devastating pieces about Trump, particularly his financial malfeasance, but even then they have refrained from calling for him to resign.

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What a confusing website, I changed my password twice and still could not return to the comment I previously wrote so that I could post it.

Anyway - basically, the NY Times' cowardice toward Trump might simply be due to their amazing ability to publish report after report of Trump's crimes documented in some excellent investigative journalism while fearing him much more than they feared Clinton or fear Cuomo. Neither Democrat can rise to the level of malevolence that Trump has been living by all his life (and Fred Trump before him). In fact, fear has kept quite a few mainstream media outlets from reporting honestly about Trump, at the very least due to "liberal bias."

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To those who cling to the idea that the NYT has credibility left, this commentary shatters it. A glaring contrast and brilliantly constructed; thanks for once again highlighting its hypocrisy.

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What a contrast between the pearl clutching coverage of Bill Clinton and the "Oh well, that's Trump being Trump" attitude we've seen from 2015 through now. Clinton lied about Monica in a lawsuit that was politically motivated and funded, and the DC press got the vapors. In retrospect, the horror expressed about Clinton "embarrassing the presidency and the country" is quaint given the boatload of crap Trump dished (and dishes) out on a regular basis. The media gave George HW Bush a pass for being neck deep in Iran-Conrtra and then piled on Clinton, and now, after giving Trump a pass, the required pile on falls on Andrew Cuomo. As Eric Alterman has often put it, "WHAT liberal media?"

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I am prepared to take the heat for not joining in the calls for Cuomo to resign; if you think he's scum, don't vote for him, or wait for legal actions, not just a report from his political detractors. But am I the only one who noticed that in this entire piece, Eric never even mentioned Trump's far more damning and far more well-founded sexual assaults? I can understand it might be that those incidents weren't while he was in elected office, (the ones we know about, nobody ever interviewed every woman who worked for him, and just what were Hope Hicks' qualifications again?). Except for the unmitigated fact he ignored a court order to provide DNA (a simple cheek swab, not a sperm sample) that would have proved he didn't rape someone, while he was in charge of the Federal government?

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Call for Trump to resign? They couldn't even characterize his statements as lies for four years.

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Sorry, but this is ridiculous. There has never been any doubt as to where the NY Times stood regarding Trump. Their news items and editorials were quite critical of him from the beginning, and the paper supported both impeachments. If there is any particular reason they didn't specifically call on him to resign, it's probably because they knew it would be futile to do so.

At this point, the Times is merely holding Cuomo to his own conditions. When the allegations surfaced, he lectured the press about waiting until the investigation was completed. Well, now it has been.

There is no reason ANY Democrat should be defending Cuomo. This is not an Al Franken situation. Many of the women who have accused Cuomo were close aides for many, many years, and many had resolved never to come forward, but did so after Cuomo and his allies began trying to trash the reputations of those who initially did.

We on the left are (rightly) quick to point out whenever those on the right engage in "whataboutism." This is but another form of it!

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A couple of things about this.

I am less inclined to be critical of the editorial page on this one because the news side so completely blew it. But I'm more inclined to be critical of the editorial page because they fed off of each other. Here's what I mean. When Howell Raines ran the editorial page, he was contemptuous toward Clinton. When Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., met with Clinton, who complained about it, Sulzberger said, "We believe in tough love." Clinton said, "I've seen the tough. Where's the love?" But we forget a line from a long-ago Times editor, Frederick Birchall, who said, let me control the headlines and I won't care about the editorials. The Times made a mountain out of Whitewater, which didn't even rise to the level of a molehill.

And then, they did it again to Hillary Clinton in 2016, and put simply, only CNN, among supposed news-gathering organizations, may have done more to put Orange Hitler in the White House than The New York Times did. And that goes beyond the editorial page.

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Trump's lifelong mastery of bullying, with both a soft and a harsh tone, may have a role in this contradiction. I agree with the other subscribers who landed on fear of Trump's tirades. The Times didn't need to jump in this early, if at all. Cuomo's petard has got it covered. Eric, you have caught them out grandstanding. Again.

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Lol dems like u are fucking hilarious. You're really no better than MAGA hats when it comes to sexual harrassment and assault. Believe women UNLESS they speak out against someone I like. And btw Eric, if a major news organization came calling and offered u a job You'd jump at the chance so all this press is bad schtick u have going on is laughable.

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I lost brain cells reading this . If you want trump to be charged. Ask the women to file a police report and open a investigation ... Why are you guys so triggered and deflecting ? BuT TrUmp... Do you crackheads really believe if there was ACTUAL evidence against trump. You libtards wouldn't go full blast to exploit it ? LOL ... Nobody in the history of the world has had their lives looked at the way Trump has... I'll say it again for your triggered Libtards.... If you believe TRUMP is guilty. Tell the women to OPEN a Police Report. Dumbocrats have WH, House , Senate... Open a investigation ... What are you morons waiting for ? Oh yea its all hearsay and nonsense to smear trump ... You had nothing while he was in office and you have nothing now... But atleast articles like this we get to see how triggered you libtards are and how you deflect from Cuomo to TRUMP LOL... Pathetic Sad Losers

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No way in hell would the Screw York Times slam their beloved cash cow Trump!

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Not that it wasn’t a great piece. Thanks.

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