Chris Cuomo’s executive producer felt so threatened by the perpetually furious CNN talker that she asked to leave the show for safer climes.
Like brother Andrew, the disgraced former governor of New York, Cuomo has serious anger management problems, as his public rages well show. But in those cases, Cuomo threatened men.
In this case, the New York Post has reported, the target of this leftist blabbermouth’s legendary temper was a woman. She is Melanie Buck, the former executive producer of his eponymous Prime Time program.
Get Me Outta Here
Cuomo was already reeling from revelations that he harassed a producer at ABC when he worked there. Shelley Ross, as The New American reported last week, alleged that Cuomo grabbed her buttocks at a party.
Buck “begged to leave his show after the pair clashed over ‘significant differences,’” the Post reported. “Multiple sources [said] she found the hot-headed host’s behavior threatening.”
Another producer replaced Buck just before Cuomo “melodramatically returned to the world from his basement in the Hamptons following weeks of COVID-19 quarantine.”
During that supposed quarantine, Cuomo lost his temper when a cyclist spotted him outside and asked why he was breaking his brother’s strict quarantine rule. Cuomo erupted in fury.
Yet now we know Cuomo doesn’t reserve his boiling anger just for the hoi polloi. He even attacks fellow media elites.
“A CNN insider confirmed Buck went to CNN boss Jeff Zucker and asked to be taken off Cuomo’s show and moved to another department, which he agreed to,” the Post reported:
The insider denied rumors that Buck was given a significant pay-off to stay silent over her spat with the agitable anchor.
More than one source told us of Buck, “She felt threatened.”
Buck exclusively told Page Six in a statement via CNN, “I spent two years as EP on Chris’ show and I’m proud to have led it to #1 at CNN.
“We ultimately had significant differences, and I asked to leave the show. I have moved on and am looking forward to my latest role with CNN+.”
Understandably, a professional woman such as Buck wouldn’t want to be seen as fearful of a man, even one who advertises his manly physical virtues on social media.
Threatened Bar Patron
That aside, Buck was probably wise to depart, and probably knew it, particularly after she saw what Cuomo said to the 65-year-old cyclist on Long Island, who wanted to know what Cuomo was doing outside given big brother Andrew’s China-Virus quarantine order.
“Who the hell are you?! I can do what I want!” Cuomo replied.
“He just ranted, screaming, ‘I’ll find out who you are!’” the cyclist said.
“I said to him, ‘Your brother is the coronavirus czar, and you’re not even following his rules — unnecessary travel,’” the cyclist said. That infuriated the privileged white man even more.
“This is not the end of this,” Cuomo warned the cyclist. “You’ll deal with this later. We will meet again.”
And that wasn’t the first time Cuomo breathed hot threats of violence.
At a bar when a patron called him “Fredo” — the name of Michael Corleone’s older, stupid, weaker brother in The Godfather tales — Cuomo lost it.
“I’ll f***ing ruin your s**t,” Cuomo told him. “I’ll f***ing throw you down these stairs like a f***ing punk.”
At least he didn’t threaten a Moe Greene special.
Last week, Ross, Cuomo’s former boss, detailed his not-so-funny joke.
Writing in the New York Times, Ross described Cuomo’s fanny-grab at a going-away party for a colleague:
“I can do this now that you’re no longer my boss,” he said to me with a kind of cocky arrogance. “No you can’t,” I said, pushing him off me at the chest while stepping back, revealing my husband, who had seen the entire episode at close range. We quickly left.
Cuomo confessed publicly to the assault. Ross wrote that she doesn’t want Cuomo fired. Rather, she wants him to broadcast a series on sexual harassment in the workplace.
When CNN will discipline the out-of-control host is unknown.
Cuomo attacked President Trump’s moral character regularly for four years on his program.
H/T: Breitbart
