Chris Cuomo caught on video flying into rage after man calls him ‘Fredo’
"He could end up sleeping with the fishes for using that name.
“Punk-ass bitches from the right call me ‘Fredo.’ My name is Chris Cuomo, I’m an anchor on CNN,” the newsman says in the video, which was shared on Twitter Monday evening.A man sent cable news host Chris Cuomo into a flying rage when he called the anchor “Fredo” — an apparent insult referencing Fredo Corleone, the ineffective son of Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.”
“ 'Fredo is from ‘The Godfather,’ he was a weak brother and the use of it to an Italian is disparaging,” he continues.
"The 49-year-old anchor tells the man that the name “Fredo” is as offensive to Italian Americans as the N-word is to African Americans.
" 'Don’t f–king insult me like that,” the Queens native fumes. “You call me ‘Fredo,’ it’s like I call you punk bitch, you like that?”
"The man in the video insists that he believed the anchor’s real name was Fredo.
"But Cuomo, a dad of three, doesn’t buy it." . . .
Chris Cuomo Once Referred to Himself as Fredo on NY City Radio Show
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air had this to say: . . . "This person wanted to start some s*** with Cuomo and got more than he bargained for. Cuomo’s not the only one who should be embarrassed by this video going viral.
- RACIST: Fredo
- NOT RACIST: White terror, white fragility, white supremacy, white privilege, white nationalist, deplorable.
- This is CNN.
"However, it’s clearly an embarrassment for Cuomo and CNN too, especially in equating “Fredo” to the N-word for Italians. There are a few derogatory terms for Italian-Americans as a group but none of them really rise to the level of the “N-word,” and Fredo isn’t a group insult in the first place. Its Godfather reference has nothing to do with Italianness; it refers to stupidity and incompetence in a sibling, offspring, or within an organization. (In fact, I’ve used it that way myself on occasion.)
