Update. Of course it has.
Here’s another.
A man in NY yesterday approached CNN's Chris Cuomo and called him "Fredo"
Cuomo: "You're going to have a problem"
Man: "What are you going to do about it?"
Cuomo: "I'll fuckin ruin your shit. I'll fucking throw you down these stairs"
Credit: "THAT'S THE POINT with Brandon" pic.twitter.com/4iWwzaSQpF
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 13, 2019
Language advisory.
Tucker! I know you’re fishing with your son and all but we need you on air. NOW. There’s mocking to be done.
Don’t fret, Steyn will have it handled.
Bitch please, from now on everyone will call you Fredo.
Fredo.
Oh and they will sell coffee mugs and t-shirts with your face and the word Fredo on it.
Fredo.
You got that right, he slipped on a banana peel and landed head-first into the Streisand Effect! Mario Cuomo’s
retarded son could not have a better job if he went into a tattoo parlor and had Fredo tattoed across his
forehead!
Call it, Fredo.
Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZuAfjP2sgI&feature=youtu.be
He’s obviously a very serious journalist. Seriously how is this guy and Don lemon on tv?
Simple, they are needed so NPCs (like our UnMe) know where to find their talking points.
Fredo should have been on Jersey Shore with the other guappo punks.
“Boy, that escalated quickly!”
Roid Rage?
Cuomo had the top rated CNN show for July. It was 24th among all cable news shows, behind 14 Fox News and 10 MSNBC shows. Fox could run a test pattern and beat Cuomo.
“top rated CNN show for July.”
Roughly equivalent to: the most handsome hunchback in a brothel’s coatroom.
There is a bigger story here folks. Note the official CNN response. As far as they are concerned it is ok to threaten violence over words. Alright then Fredos, you picked the rules of engagement.
If Cuomo talked to me like that he would already be thrown down the stairs along with swift kick in the ass.
Fredo Coward.
“This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s terms of service”
Translation…
“This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s strict adherence to the leftist narrative.”
I love this, and I love that he is so triggered by it, and, yeah, what Colonista said: The New Rules have flipped sticks and stones with nicknames.
But is “Fredo” really a common slur, like “the N-word”? I’ve never heard that, but I’m not a dago.
When Rush calls Chris “Fredo” he is referring to the fact that father Mario and big brother Andrew are big machers: NY Governors both, Andrew after a career as NY AG, HUD Secretary, etc. Chris is a talking newshead on basic cable. That’s why he’s Fredo to Vito and Michael.
Not only is he a snowflake, he doesn’t get the reference. What an angry Wop.
People have now dug up several occasions where people have used the so called slur on air on CNN, including on Cuomo’s show. Specifically, Ana Navarro referred to Donald Trump Jr as Fredo while on Cuomo’s show, and he said nothing. Other examples at the link
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/08/13/cnn-vp-defends-supports-chris-cuomos-reaction-to-ethnic-slur-of-fredo-then-it-gets-awkward-for-cnn/
Nice. Your second sentence wins the internet for today.
And here I thought dagos were Spaniards.
“I thought dagos were Spaniards”
Correct but I had to check. Nowadays there are so few Wops (slur for Italian) nobody even thinks about them. Demographically they’re sliding towards extinction but when there’s only 2 left in the world you can bet they’ll still manage to get into an argument.
My bad; an Italian may be addressed as a dago.
https://archive.org/stream/foreigners-around-the-world/foreigners-around-the-world_djvu.txt
is there a web site I can check to keep all the ethnic/racist/wtfever slurs straight?
what a friggin mine field it is eh?
at what point do the layers of outrage set a record level? is that the final step towards the end times?
at least we get a laugh out of it.
Anyone have an alternate link?
Go on to Google and type in the byline I put below. It’s on Business Insider which is the first link
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CNN’s Chris Cuomo gets into a shouting match with a man who called him ‘Fredo’
Man on man is this Fredo Cuomo a hot-tempered foul-mouthed tough guy dago!
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If you watch the video you’ll see why liberals and leftists are so adamant about banning guns.
Liberals and leftists want to ban guns because they know in their hearts that because they themselves are so quick to a hot temper that they feel guns should be banned because if they had a gun in their hand they would shoot somebody right away.
And leftist and liberals believe that everybody has the same temperament as they do and so that is why leftists and liberals fear people who own guns.
Fredo is a RACIST! slur? That’s news to me. And I’ll bet it’s news to Francis Ford Coppola too …
Oh, and the Cuomo family have really “suffered” from anti-Italian RACISM! haven’t they? Heck, soon … they’ll be asking for reparations
It ain’t the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I’m smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb… I’m smart and I want respect!
Fake News Cuomo will never be known by a name other than Fredo. The heckler was a genius.
He can’t be Fredo. Fredo is the current prime minister of canada.
Fredo didn’t throw anyone down the stairs… Fredo clearly said he would do this. CNN’s Fredo is a liar. It’s what they do.
Cuomo doesn’t seem know his ethnic slurs. Gonna Fredo-Lay a Wopping on that heckler. Gonna throw him down the stairs… to make it look like an accident.
Cuomo needs to be taken fishing … without the kids
The twitterverse is awash with Cuomo and Fredo reports, even one with Cuomo Nostra agreeing he’s the family Fredo.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/13/chris-cuomo-once-referred-to-himself-as-fredo-in-radio-interview/
Not Italian, don’t know about the Fredo thing, but I can’t think of an Irish insult that isn’t true and, or would get me that upset.
Cuomo just labelled himself. Yes he has somewhat apologized for his conduct, but the wheels are already spinning.
The Trump team are having a field day, a great diversion from fending off daily racism accusations and attempts to overthrow.
My new Canadian son in law is 50-50% FOB N.Ireland and First Nations native … we both joke about his 100% chance of developing a drinking problem. I hope I haven’t offended you Sham.
You’ll probably be MOST offended that my new in-laws are NOT ‘Republic’ of Irelanders
Irish Canadian, never been to Ireland. Don’t follow their politics.
Born in England while my dad was serving there with RCAF. Came to Canada when I was 3.
An old favourite: there were two Irishmen on “That’s Incredible” years ago, one had a job and the other one didn’t drink.
Actually a Newfie told me his provincial version, but the line to the bar remains intact.
Nope, not offended, quite proud of my heritage and we how even survived or got things done through our alcoholic haze.
Besides if I’m offended, that’s my problem. That’s the only way it works. Instead we have neutered society to seek offense and safe spaces.
My son in law is not an excessive drinker, works hard, has a fabulous job, treats my (only) daughter superbly, has produced my first grandchild (due Jan. 4, 2020), and is a good bloke to hang out with. I could give a rip about his ethnicity … as a TRUE conservative … I only care about things that matter.
So you don’t get your Irish up? Actually, as English ethnic slurs went, I suppose that’s mild. They also referred to a criminal getting off Scot free, and a deadbeat Welsh on a bet.
Funny thing, when Hong Kong was under British rule, the locals referred to the British soldiers as “Red Fur.” (The original Chinese word meant animal (that is, non-human) hair. It actually was more insulting than Fur.) In retrospect, I suppose there must have been a lot of Irish in the British army stationed there.
Which is a more insulting Chinese slur?
Red Fur
or
Little potato
Hard to compare, since Red Fur was Hong Kong slang in Cantonese, and Little Potato is a homophone for Trudeau’s transliteration in Mandarin.
I think since the Chinese in general calls someone “Domesticated Creature” as a rank insult, you can say Red Fur is. But then the Cantonese use insults so freely, most of the time they don’t even think of what the literal meaning is. For example, they call each other “lousy spook” almost casually among friends, so calling foreigners “spook man” (gwailo) really doesn’t have the sting it ought to.
On the other hand, the Mandarin transliteration for Trudeau sounds like the northern slang for potato (dirt bean, literally), so the Chinese think it is cute to call him that. Plants are not as insulting as animals, girls are named after flowers in both English and Chinese after all. So I think it is meant to be an endearing term. But since you are talking about a mere potato, I would think that normally that would be like a nickname for a little kid, who would want to shed it when he grows up. But Trudeau hasn’t yet, so he probably would still like the name even if he knew all of that.
I post something silly … and get an intelligent, learned, answer. You continue to impress me OB! I am humbled by your intelligence, knowledge, and communication skills.
Because my first Employer was Japanese, and I became like one of their family … I only know a little Japanese slang … such as hakujin … which (as I was told) is something of a derogatory term for ‘white’ boys like me.
Just curious … do you speak both Mandarin and Cantonese? Can you write either? I expect English-Chinese bilinguals are (perhaps … were) in high demand. My son has a white friend (very, very smart kid) who went to China to teach English, and learned Chinese quite well. He made a boatload of $$$ while in China … tax free! before he was 30
I hope you don’t mind a long answer.
You overwhelm me with praise, which I don’t think is deserved based on what I have shown here.
American and Chinese linguists dispute over what is a language, especially as applied to Chinese.
I believe American (and other western) linguists have been very woke for a while, and consider language as oral based. They define as dialects only those which are mutually intelligible, otherwise they call them different languages. (So highland Scot and deep South may be different languages. I am sure they are hardly mutually intelligible.) They paint themselves into a corner what to call written Chinese, since all Chinese dialects/languages have the same written Chinese. I understand they have invented a new phrase, Chinese writing system.
Obviously I side with the Chinese linguists who consider Chinese a single language, with the same written language.
But by the western definition, English is my fourth language, and Mandarin fifth. My Chinese ethnicity is Hakka, which was what I was taught first. I also learned to speak a country dialect of Cantonese called Toishan with my maternal grandmother, who lived with us. When we moved to Canton (now Guangzhou) and I went to school, I learned Cantonese. I actually started to learn English in the fourth grade, before Mandarin in what corresponds to junior high.
To complicate matters, it is not one written language any more. The Chicom introduced a simplified version, ostensibly to make literacy easier, but really to insidiously impose censorship of old literature. In two generations, no one in China could read them in the traditional version. On the other hand, if you can read the traditional version, it is not that difficult to pick up on the simplified version. I can read the latter, getting stuck only once in a while.
I have forgotten Hakka now, except for a few phrases. I can make an effort to speak Toishan. Some tell me I do alright, others tell me I do terribly. I am fluent in Cantonese. After all, I have to be able to speak one of them. As with most people from Guangdong province, I speak Mandarin badly. Modern written Chinese is mainly based on Mandarin, so I would understand completely a transcript of a conversation, but have difficulty in ordinary conversation. (If you read Chinese, it is actually easy to learn if I bother. The Chinese serials all have subtitles of the conversation, which I can follow completely by looking at the subtitles.) My best language, however, both spoken and written, is English.
My second choice for a major was English literature. It was very close between that and physics. My claim to fame is that I can write classical poetry in both English (mostly iambic tetrameter, some sonnets, blank verse) and Chinese (a la Tang style, commonly called “Tang poetry.”) If I am to be remembered by one thing I have accomplished in life, I would wish it to be my English poetry. However, I think I am getting better with my Tang poetry.
I would not choose to live in China under threat of a loaded pistol, but one could teach English in Taiwan. My wife can absolutely do it. Her Mandarin is almost perfect, definitely good enough to teach English with. I am not sure about mine. I suppose I could do it if push comes to shove.
P.S. Chinese character styles have changed several times in the course of history. The one in use has been used since at least the Tang dynasty (c. 600-900 A.D.) Some people tell me Cantonese pronunciation is actually closer to what was spoken then. Obviously I won’t know. But if so, I could ride a time machine back then and be fluent. Think about that.
Thanks OB … you helped educate this American who was not steeped in multiple cultures. It was all Dick and Jane for me. You should share some of your poetry.
Oh I would love to share my patriotic poems for this site, except I would just like to make sure I keep the rights of authorship, since I have never bothered to copyright them.
I tried to email Kate to ask her if posting on her time stamped site counts as evidence of authorship, but somehow I cannot get my email account accepted.
Can you ask her? Failing that, can you ask her to email me your email address?
OldBruin, if you need to make or get a proof of authorship, mail a copy to yourself and don’t open it. I advise writing a list of the contents on the back, and see if you can get them to stamp across the seal. As long as the seal is intact, the postal stamp is proof of date.
Date stamp by post office is a legal precedent in Canada, might he worth checking to see if it applies where you are.
Cuomo, referring to himself as Fredo, via Breitbart and Curtis Silwa, of course! …
“In a January 2010 interview with Curtis Sliwa on AM 970, Cuomo was questioned about his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and his optimism to run for governor of the state as a Democrat.In the interview, Sliwa said he had nicknamed the family “la Cuomo nostra.”
“There is a group of people – politicos – who always hint they might run, but not necessarily plunge all the way, and they are members of la Cuomo,” Sliwa stated.
“Who am I then, Fredo?” Cuomo asked Sliwa in response.
“Yes, exactly,” Sliwa affirmed. “So you better be careful that your brother Andrew doesn’t kiss you on both cheeks and then all of a sudden they take you out on the middle of the lake and where’s Chris?”
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/08/13/cnns-chris-cuomo-referred-to-himself-as-fredo-in-2010-radio-interview/
There is that, and the fact that Chris Cuomo had previously apologized for equating mere personal insults with the N-word. And also other lefties had referred to President Trump’s children as Fredo, as in “too bad both his sons are Fredos.” Obviously, the connotation is almost only that of the lesser of two brothers, of whatever ethnicity, rather than a specific ethnic slur.
Of course, blacks call each other the N-word all the time, but don’t a honky dare to do it. So Cuomo would accept Fredo from a leftie, but not a Trump supporter. Still, the way he absolutely went off the rail would disqualify him from any further comment about Trump’s, or any other conservative’s, temperament.
I think Chris, now forever known as Fredo, sensed the man he was yelling at was 1) a gentleman and 2) a Trump supporter and what we see in that clip is all his pent-up hostility against Trump supporters. The only thing that drives the left that insane is Trump and Hillary losing the election, it certainly isn’t being called Fredo.
FRODO!
I thought they were calling him a hobbit or something, but apparently it’s a reference to a mafia-approved propaganda movie…
What a bunch of clowns…
CNN’s version of an enlightened tolerant citizen.