While trying to catch up on the news of the day before heading into work today, I ran into an interesting bit of analysis form Michael Thau over at RedState. He posits the sexual harrasment and bullying charges levied against Andrew Cuomo are a distraction.
After thinking about it for a few minutes, I can’t say that he’s wrong. . .
One of the questions Thau asks is why now? The first accuser to come forward, Lindsey Boylan, claims the harrasment happened in 2018. Why wait three years? Why come forward at the exact moment Cuomo find himself under serious fire for his handling of the WuFlu in nursing homes?
Whether it was intentional timing or not, the effect has been pronounced. In the time since the accusations made national news, google searches about the Cuomo nursing home scandal have dropped precipitously.
As Thau says in his article, that sort of seems odd seeing as we’re still in the middle of the pandemic. The timing also seems suspiciously providential to Cuomo given the fact both the US Attorney General and the FBI are looking into his handling of the chinese coronavirus.
I find it interesting that there are three other governors with a ‘D’ after their names that had similar nursing home policies that led to thousands of deaths. The governors of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan, all prominent dems, forced nursing homes to take covid positive patients.
I’ll leave you with an exit question, and this thought crossed my mind previously; are the democrats offering up Andy as a sacrificial lamb to protect the others?