Major media members described Senator Ted Cruz’s ill-timed vacation in Cancun amid the climate crisis plaguing his home state of Texas, as a “scandal” comparable to the growing legal problems that New York’s Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo is facing. facing because of the alleged cover-up of deaths in nursing homes in your state.
Over the weekend, The New York Times ran the headline, “Cruz and Cuomo face scandal. Trump can’t save them,” detailing how the news cycle once dominated by the now former president cannot divert attention from others. political controversies. The story mixed Cruz’s aborted escape with Cuomo’s handling of asylums.
“For much of the past six years, former President Donald J. Trump dominated the political conversation, sparking days of outrage, accusations and destruction of the general news cycle with almost all tweets. The audacious behavior of other politicians has often lost in the middle of Mr. .Trump’s obsessive desire to dominate coverage, “wrote the Times on Saturday. “Well, the former president is now almost silent, leaving a Trump-sized void in our national conversation that President Biden has little desire to fill. That was a rude awakening for some other politicians, who were suddenly involved in a controversy that was not quickly included in a deluge of news from Trump. ”
“Saturday Night Live” lampooned Cruz and Cuomo during the show’s debut last weekend. The sketch featured the senator and governor, played by Aidy Bryant and Pete Davidson, respectively, trying to do damage control on a talk show hosted by Britney Spears.
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On Sunday, ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl similarly compared the two “scandals” by anchoring “This Week”, suggesting that both had just emerged, despite the fact that criticism of Cuomo’s now famous order to place patients positive for COVID in nursing homes started last spring when the order was enacted.
“This week, we also had our first post-Trump political scandals; Ted Cruz’s misguided trip to Cancún and the allegations of cover-up and deadly mismanagement that Andrew Cuomo faced,” Karl told viewers as he teased the next panel discussion.
ABC ‘WORLD NEWS TONIGHT’ GIVES CROSS CANCUN FIASCO FOUR TIMES MORE COVERAGE THAN CUOMO NURSING HOME SCANDAL
Last Thursday, ABC’s “World News Tonight” devoted nearly four times as much airtime to Cruz’s stay as the FBI and DOJ investigations into the Cuomo administration, devoting nearly four minutes to the Republican senator and only 55 seconds to the Democratic governor in trouble.
That same evening, CNN and MSNBC’s prime time coverage was equally dominated by the Texan. A whopping 46 minutes were devoted to Cruz’s vacation, while less than three minutes were spent covering the prominent New Yorker.
On Friday, Politico’s Playbook highlighted Cruz’s optical fiasco as proof that the “era of political scandal” is alive and well, despite the turmoil that the Cuomo government has faced in recent weeks.
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“Many observers wondered if the era of political scandal would have died – if supporters on both sides were so defined by the hatred of their rival political tribe that they would let their own leaders get away with almost anything,” he said. “And then a bearded man who looked like Cruz was photographed with a wheeled bag at the United counter at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, ready to board a plane to Cancún.”
A Politico tweet promoting the Playbook said: “Many political observers wondered if the era of political scandal had died. Ted Cruz proved this week that he did not.”