Conservative media observers chewed out CNN’s Chris Cuomo in response to his apparent suggestion that Greta Thunberg should be immune to public scrutiny.
On Thursday, Cuomo shared the Washington Post’s reporting on how U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin mocked Thunberg for the speech she gave to world leaders at Davos. When asked about Thunberg, Mnuchin suggested that the teen climate awareness activist should go study economics before bothering politicians about climate science.
“After she goes and studies economics in college she can go back and explain that to us,” Mnuchin said.
Mnuchin’s remarks might not be all that surprising after how many times President Donald Trump has disparaged Thunberg, but it still prompted Cuomo to ask the Twitterverse a question:
Why do these trumpers think it is ok to go at a kid? https://t.co/RYY2IrJPL3
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) January 23, 2020
In the end, Cuomo got an answer, though it might not have been the one he was looking for. While some people answered that Thunberg is a public figure and therefore subject to scrutiny, most critics reminded Cuomo that CNN just settled a lawsuit with Nick Sandmann for their inaccurate coverage of the Covington Catholic High School student.
Are you kidding me?https://t.co/v18aj9KrgT
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) January 23, 2020
Your network had to pay a settlement to a 17-year-old for smearing him as a racist for smirking
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/1220474657175769089
Chris, your network literally just settled with a Covington High School kid after you smeared him. https://t.co/iVyov1LDRy
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) January 23, 2020
I guess getting a child to stand up and promote the left’s stupid policies is supposed to protect them from legitimate criticism. But, then again, they think someone that commits extortion is exempt from responsibility if they become a Democrat candidate.
Reading that Twitter thread was so much fun.
But Fredo remains oblivious.
This is a Brainwashed Child Cuomo is still a pathetic little Wuss.Sandman is the vitim of Cuomo’s lies and has the right to take Cuomo down a few steps of the ladder and drop him to the bottom
Nazi Germany under the propaganda ministry of Joseph Goebbels. wonder if she is going to get her tubes tied to prevent over population of the world. idiot communist mouthpiece.
Hitler,Stalin,Mao,Ho Chi Mihn and Obama all used kids as Propeganda for the effect