Althouse: "He said, 'Who the hell are you?! I can do what I want!'... He just ranted, screaming, 'I’ll find out who you are!'"

April 15, 2020

"He said, 'Who the hell are you?! I can do what I want!'... He just ranted, screaming, 'I’ll find out who you are!'"

"I said to him, 'Your brother is the coronavirus czar, and you’re not even following his rules — unnecessary travel'... He just began to boil more. He said, "This is not the end of this. You’ll deal with this later. We will meet again." If that’s not a threat, I don’t know what is... I hate bullies."

Said the fat-tire biker identified as "David," quoted in "‘I hate bullies’: Bicyclist verbally attacked by Chris Cuomo fires back" (NY Post).

David is a resident of the town, and he was able to accuse Cuomo of "unnecessary travel," because there is no residence built on the property Cuomo owns there, just a steel frame. And Cuomo was — according to David — hanging out with his wife, another woman and 3 kids. That's not following the rules!

65 comments:

Fernandinande said...: he was able to accuse Cuomo of "unnecessary travel,"

"Whatever it was, you could be certain that every word of it was pure orthodoxy, pure Ingsoc."; 4/15/20, 12:59 PM
Dave Begley said...: Looks like Fredo will get the death penalty. He's out fishing on a boat and then just disappears. "You're my brother and I love you. But don't ever go against the family."; 4/15/20, 1:01 PM
Left Bank of the Charles said...: More of a Sonny than a Fredo.; 4/15/20, 1:03 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Stay home, save lives, Fredo!; 4/15/20, 1:05 PM
Nonapod said...: Don't you see? Fredo is far above us plebes. He's very important. He's a celebrity and the brother of the Governor after all. The rules shouldn't apply to him obviously. If he gives you Covid-19 you should just be honored to die by his hand.; 4/15/20, 1:08 PM
Lucid-Ideas said...: This is much more complicated. More nuanced. See, when you live in a human ant colony the way New Yorkers do you instinctively become a giant ass when people happen to intersect with what you're doing as you climb over each other on whichever mission the dots-and-dashes told you to go on. Fredo can't be faulted for his behavior, it's 2nd nature. It's insect politics.; 4/15/20, 1:08 PM
Fernandinande said...: "You wanted a good time; 'they', meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it; you broke the rules as best you could. She seemed to think it just as natural that 'they' should want to rob you of your pleasures as that you should want to avoid being caught. She hated the Party, and said so in the crudest words, but she made no general criticism of it."; 4/15/20, 1:08 PM
TreeJoe said...: Chris Cuomo just comes across as a jackass here and many other times.

Let's assume the details of the confrontation are in dispute - though Cuomo's own words tend to support the Biker's retelling.

There's no dispute Cuomo has Covid-19 and was out and about with others. Wtf is that about. He's not even protecting his own family let alone friends and the public?; 4/15/20, 1:09 PM
YoungHegelian said...: Once again, our betters get caught red-handed stiffing the rules that us rubes have to live by.

Some animals are more equal than others...; 4/15/20, 1:09 PM
Fernandinande said...: Here's one -

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."; 4/15/20, 1:10 PM
Eric said...: In all likelihood Fredo got the virus by not following the rules, so what's the risk to him now? Risk to others? Yeah, that's a concern.; 4/15/20, 1:12 PM
Gem Quincyite said...: Rule #4 and #5 apply in this case..
(rules for radicals); 4/15/20, 1:12 PM
gilbar said...: this is Ridiculous
No One, and i mean, NO ONE; EVER thought, thinks, or Will think that rules are for the elite
The democrat elite are Our GODS! We are LUCKY, that they Allow us to exist; in THEIR WORLD
ALL HAIL OUR DEMOCRAT ELITE! THEY ARE OUR GODS!; 4/15/20, 1:12 PM
Beth B said...: But don't call him Fredo...; 4/15/20, 1:13 PM
Nonapod said...: Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot hairstylist is absolutely essential

as are Bill de Blasio's gym visits.

We're so lucky to be blessed with such sage leadership in this time of crisis. Huzzah to our betters!; 4/15/20, 1:17 PM
Sebastian said...: "This is not the end of this. You’ll deal with this later. We will meet again." If that’s not a threat, I don’t know what is... I hate bullies.""

With progs, it's never the end of this. They'll always deal with opposition "later." They will always meet us again. Bullying is their MO.

"And Cuomo was — according to David — hanging out with his wife, another woman and 3 kids. That's not following the rules!"

Rules, schmules. Rules are for little people. The point of progressivism is to make the rules, not follow them.

If we had an actual quarantine, this would be less likely happen.; 4/15/20, 1:19 PM
DanTheMan said...: The threat of "I'll find out who you are!" is the interesting one to me.

The assumption is that once he finds out, he's going to do something awful. Like using the vast resources of CNN to destroy an individual's privacy.; 4/15/20, 1:20 PM
Night Owl said...: There's no dispute Cuomo has Covid-19 and was out and about with others. Wtf is that about. He's not even protecting his own family let alone friends and the public?

Hmm. Maybe he doesn't believe the disease is as serious as he and his cohorts in the media are telling us it is. It's like global warming; our "betters" want us to panic about rising sea-levels while they buy ocean-front property. We're supposed to cower at home while Cuomo is out strolling in the Hamptons.

My bull-shit detector is going off.; 4/15/20, 1:20 PM
D.D. Driver said...: Aren't the fat tire people extremely dedicated cyclists? So how exactly is jackass loser fitting? Like marathoners and cross-fit weirdos, the fat tire people seem obsessive and crazy, but losers?; 4/15/20, 1:21 PM
Martha said...: I for one am not convinced Chris Cuomo really has/had COVID-19.

He looked too healthy during his broadcasts from his basement quarantine even as he described raging fever and shaking chills and loss of 15 lb. Then there was the chest X-ray Cuomo claimed showed Coronavirus floating around. The chest x-ray was normal.

So when Cuomo was recognized out and about with kids, wife, and female friend his fake Coronavirus story was exposed.; 4/15/20, 1:26 PM
PM said...: I couldn't be more tired of people not minding their own business.; 4/15/20, 1:31 PM
J2 said...: I too need to know more about why fat-tire bikes are apparently disparageable.; 4/15/20, 1:43 PM
Ken B said...: I incline to the Martha theory, based mostly on my priors about Cuomo and CNN. “Look at me” followed by “my experience as a victim of this disease”. The incentives are high, the scruples low.; 4/15/20, 1:44 PM
Gahrie said...: That's not following the rules!

Silly rabbit.... rules are for the little people.; 4/15/20, 1:52 PM
Fernandinande said...: “I hate bullies,” David said.

That's funny because he is also a bully. The other guy is a noxious jerk, but I'd rather live next door to him than this David character.; 4/15/20, 1:53 PM
Birkel said...: Enforce the stupid - and in many cases unconstitutional - rules with blind power.

That is the best way forward to get the rules overturned.
I would like to return to the rule of law.
Passed by legislatures.
Signed by executives.
And challenged in courts, if individual liberty is constrained unduly.; 4/15/20, 1:54 PM
Janetchick said...: I agree with Martha theory too. I looked up when he announced he had tested positive for it and that was March 31, so he should have been quarantined on April 13. What’s even weirder I saw article in USA Today, today, which states “Cuomo has been isolated in his family’s basement for the 15 days since he tested positive for Covid-19”. Guess those news folks don’t read the news.

I’m not fond of busybodies but I would wonder about seeing someone I knew had Covid 19 out and about. I probably would not say anything. I’m a silent seether, non confrontational.; 4/15/20, 1:59 PM
Janetchick said...: Oh, and Cuomo says in interview that he has not gone 72 hours without fever, which is the way to get sprung from quarantine after 7 day minimum of isolation.; 4/15/20, 2:06 PM
Tomcc said...: Paraphrasing Henry Kissinger- I hope they both lose.
"Andrew", "Yes, Chris?", "I've got an idea about a tax on fat tire bikes..."; 4/15/20, 2:14 PM
Lurker21 said...: David is a bit of a "Karen," n'est-ce pas?

Fat-tire bikes, like all bikes I guess, can either be moderately priced or expensive. Some are even electric. I wonder a little whether the guy was riding the $249 model or the $2499 model, and also whether David was wearing a helmet (probably) and a mask (probably), but I can live without knowing the answers.; 4/15/20, 2:23 PM
robother said...: "I'm not a COVID virus victim, but I play one on TV." That's probably Occam's solution to this whole thing. Now, about that radio interview where he didn't mean what he didn't say. Pleading in the alternative: its not just for lawyers anymore.; 4/15/20, 2:25 PM
Ken B said...: Didn’t David see a man breaking the law? I get the distinct impression that if most people here saw Adam Schiff breaking the law they'd speak up.; 4/15/20, 2:29 PM
RobinGoodfellow said...: Blogger Martha said...
I for one am not convinced Chris Cuomo really has/had COVID-19.

Most people with the virus are asymptomatic.; 4/15/20, 2:34 PM
Earnest Prole said...: I can't speak for Chris Cuomo but all my travel to my second property is essential, and if some man-child rode up on his Sissy-Bar Schwinn and started hassling me, I'd respond much the same way.; 4/15/20, 2:43 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: more likely he tested positive for steroids

...hence his frequent 'roid-rage' incidents; 4/15/20, 2:45 PM
DanTheMan said...: >>Enforce the stupid - and in many cases unconstitutional - rules with blind power.

"Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it."; 4/15/20, 2:48 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Fredo is a faker.; 4/15/20, 2:53 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: I didn't think Fredo could come out looking worse after the initial reports but he does take asshoe to a HOLE new level.; 4/15/20, 2:54 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Again that doctor from NBC lost her job after violating self-quarantine for Ebola and there was no national emergency. And CNN is doing nothing to punish Fredo? They don't believe their own bullshit and no one else does either.; 4/15/20, 2:58 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Maybe Fredo's problem was that someone turned him into a newt, he was just confused about what he had.; 4/15/20, 2:59 PM
Buckwheathikes said...: Chris Cuomo does not, and never has, had Caronavirus.

Do you really think his wife would let him get into a car with children if he really had this disease?

It's all a Fake News stunt, folks.; 4/15/20, 3:06 PM
MayBee said...: I expect Chris Cuomo will soon be checking into rehab, and I wish him the best.; 4/15/20, 3:37 PM
MD Greene said...: If I saw someone whom I understood to be under quarantine for Covid, what else could I do? Would it be fair to expect the police to cuff him and put him in the back of the squad car?

Damn right I'd yell at him, from a good distance. I'd also take a picture and email it to my neighbors.

Of course, if he were a celebrity, he could call me names and smear me all over the country. That would be entirely fair, right?; 4/15/20, 3:39 PM
Martha said...: RobinGoodfellow is right —most people with the virus are asymptomatic.

But Chris Cuomo went into great detail about how much he suffered while infected with Coronavirus—fever of 103 degrees, shivering so severe he chipped a tooth, hallucinations, weight loss of 15 lb. Cuomo was describing his symptoms live and in real time, an unprecedented move among network anchors, all the while looking more like TV anchor than a sick man.; 4/15/20, 3:50 PM
Drago said...: Fernandistein: "That's funny because he is also a bully. The other guy is a noxious jerk, but I'd rather live next door to him than this David character."

Bad news. Those 2 guys are the same guy. You'd lose either way.; 4/15/20, 3:58 PM
Heartless Aztec said...: Good for Fredo. Narcs are the worst.; 4/15/20, 4:46 PM
Ken B said...: “Chris Cuomo does not, and never has, had Caronavirus.
Do you really think his wife would let him get into a car with children if he really had this disease?”

But if he claims he has it he’s still under the isolation order. So he's a double douche that way.

But I do think this is a fraud, a kind of “stolen valor”. Gets attention now, gets to 0lay the “I had it card” later.

Bet he didn’t take chloroquine.; 4/15/20, 4:57 PM
Buckwheathikes said...: The good news is that antibody tests are coming, so we'll soon be able to PROVE that he never had it.

Then he's going to have to GET it to avoid that test.

That's when the fun starts.; 4/15/20, 5:03 PM
Ken B said...: I don’t assume we will ever see his test results.; 4/15/20, 5:05 PM
Drago said...: Ken B: "I don’t assume we will ever see his test results."

Correct. Or he'll just lie.; 4/15/20, 5:19 PM
Fernandinande said...: Those 2 guys are the same guy. You'd lose either way.

Glad to say I don't live near anyone who is like either one of them!

I'd forgotten the one guy was Fredo because I was supposed to be picking up someone who had just gotten a *shot in her eyeball* for macular, instead of ranting on the insect-net.; 4/15/20, 5:22 PM
Vance said...: Remember, peasants, the elite don't have to obey the laws you do. That's why they are elite!

It's criminal to ask our "betters" to follow the same laws that we do!

Just ask Inga.; 4/15/20, 5:26 PM
cubanbob said...: "And Cuomo was — according to David — hanging out with his wife, another woman and 3 kids. That's not following the rules!"

Well I never imagined that Fredo could be out assholed but in this instance he was. Dave the fat biker has just made Fredo look almost reasonable in comparision.; 4/15/20, 5:40 PM
JaimeRoberto said...: Has anyone actually seen Cuomo's chipped tooth?; 4/15/20, 5:48 PM
Big Mike said...: @Althouse, by the way you and over sixty million other voters voted in 2016, you signaled to the Cuomo brothers and many other Democrats that there are three sets of rules: one for Trump and other prominent Republicans, a slightly less stringent set for ordinary people (non-politicians), and “if it feels good, do it” for prominent Democrats. Isn’t it a little late to worry about all this now?; 4/15/20, 5:54 PM
Maillard Reactionary said...: F!ck the rules that only apply to me. I'm done with them.

Cuomo is a putz. Oh excuse me, I mean Fredo is a putz. Although, sadly, unlikely to meet a fate similar to that of the cinematic Fredo. Because this is reality, not the movies. Nobody would pay money to go through this.

Fernandistein appropriately quotes Ben Franklin (one of my favorite 18th Century characters) at 1:10 PM. How quickly we forget hard lessons learned in the past, how long we (or our grandchildren) will regret our current folly.; 4/15/20, 6:38 PM
SweatBee said...: "Most people with the virus are asymptomatic."

Depends on your age group. I believe most kids are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms, but overall the percentage is lower.

Even so, Cuomo has been on TV telling us about his alleged raging symptoms ("I shook so hard from the chills that I chipped my expensive dental work!").; 4/15/20, 7:01 PM
Milwaukie guy said...: You people are too nice. I have no idea about this David guy, but if I saw Fredo swanning around I would definitely drop the dime on him. Fredo is asshoe.; 4/15/20, 7:02 PM
Wally Kalbacken said...: Who is aware of any independent evidence that Chris Cuomo was actually COVID-19 positive? .... Other than the fact that he claims to have been.; 4/15/20, 8:38 PM
Buckwheathikes said...: Oh wait ... now, once Chris Cuomo was caught out with his wife and kids by the fat tire bike dude, now she reports that she too has the herps.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/us/chris-cuomo-wife-coronavirus/index.html

That's convenient. Only yesterday, she was fine. Now, at almost midnight, she's reporting that she too has the herps.

I strongly think that Chris needs to get her on camera at 8pm to detail her misery.; 4/15/20, 9:17 PM
Buckwheathikes said...: "Kids are still healthy but this shook us at our literal core,"

So, Dad, who was out battling on empty lots with fat tire bike dudes, and mom, who had to have driven out there with him, are now both INFECTED.

Time to take their kids away from them, you know, to stop the spread, and protect them.; 4/15/20, 9:20 PM
Gk1 said...: "any independent evidence that Chris Cuomo was actually COVID-19 positive?" Nope not that I have seen. Other than taking Chris at his word and histrionic performances on t.v I have not seen a doctors report. The fact Chris was skylarking around at another vacation home this weekend tells us how sick he really feels.; 4/15/20, 10:15 PM
Darkisland said...: I've got not problem with the biker.

Fredo harangues is every day on the tube. In my case mostly 2nd hand via blogs like this.

If I ever get a chance you betcha I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind.

Especially if I see him flouting the rules like this. But even if just on an elevator.

Just because he harangues me from a tv and it is mostly 1 way doesn't mean it shouldn't be 2 way if I get a chance.

Good on the biker dude. Well done.

And fuck you, Fredo.

John Henry; 4/15/20, 11:23 PM
Andy said...: Is it ok for me to be disgusted with everybody involved except for the children.; 4/15/20, 11:58 PM
Clyde said...: “Rules are for the little people.”; 4/16/20, 4:31 AM