The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced Friday that it is breaking with tradition and awarding its International Emmy Founders Award to a real politician who is currently in office....
They went out of their way to create a new concept for an award just to adulate Cuomo.
"The Governor's 111 daily briefings worked so well because he effectively created television shows, with characters, plot lines, and stories of success and failure," the academy's president and CEO, Bruce Paisner, explained in a statement announcing the decision....
When you go to the URL for the statement, you can't read the full text with all its original effusiveness. You just see this, dated yesterday:
The International Academy announced today that in light of the New York Attorney General’s report, and Andrew Cuomo’s subsequent resignation as Governor, it is rescinding his special 2020 International Emmy® Award. His name and any reference to his receiving the award will be eliminated from International Academy materials going forward.
I was going to dig the original statement out of the usually reliable Wayback Machine but look — it only records what happened there yesterday:
The Wayback Machine becomes the Memory Hole! So does Google's "cache." Hey, keepers of the web, don't help these award-givers hide their embarrassment. Preserve history for us!
I wanted to get to the original statement to see the full text of the sentence that called Andrew Cuomo "masterful." Why would a man think he could do the things Cuomo is accused of doing? He's responsible for whatever he did, even if other people encouraged and enabled him, but I want to express disdain for the ostensible adults who gave a politician an award for being "masterful."
Think about it what it means to praise a politician for being "masterful" in his use of media to massage minds and to control behavior. Let me help you by quoting from the OED's definitions for "masterful":
Having a master's character or disposition; accustomed to or insisting upon having one's own way; imperious, wilful, overbearing. Of an action: high-handed, despotic... Having the qualities of a master; powerful and able to control others; commanding, vigorous in rule....
If a politician is the master, we the people are the slaves.
ADDED: The ceremony presentation is still available — because it's in Cuomo's own YouTube account. Enjoy the tongue bath:
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Andrew Cuomo? Who's he? Never heard his name mentioned, anywhere
LONG LIVE BIG BROTHER!!
Episode 2000 of Althouse finally becomes a conservative. Followed by more disappointment. Alas,'tis our fate.
Althouse, “Why would a man think he could do the things Cuomo is accused of doing?”
Begley, “Why would the Taliban think they could do the things their are accused of doing? Answer: There is still evil in the world.”
Exactly why normal Americans are laughing at the elites. This was as big a joke as Saint Obama "winning" the Noble Peace Prize just for being elected while black.
In this case "being masterful" means "not being Donald Trump", which is the actual reason they gave him the award. In other words, they made up a reason so they could compare and contrast a politician they liked with one they didn't. It's virtue signaling with an "important" award.
When are the historical revisionists and censors coming for Harvey Weinstein's many awards?
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005544/awards
Textbook Newspeak. We are living in the Brazil (1985) universe.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/
I suppose it is no surprise that an award, given solely for political reasons, may be rescinded solely for political reasons, especially when the giving organizations is frivolous and serves as an arm of Minitrue.
Still, if I were a successful television performer or producer, I would look at the Emmy on my mantle and realize that I only have it because I toe the correct political line. Clearly, talent had little to do with it.
Here is the pertinent Emmy segment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAL7z4cvPuU
I knew the WayBack Machine was compromised when they claimed that they had abandoned work on a search feature because it was not feasible and the reason they gave was utterly lame. The real problem with a search feature on the WayBack Machine is that it would compromise Big Tech's control over the narrative.
Rest assured a search feature exists for the right people.
"Think about it what it means to praise a politician for being "masterful" in his use of media to massage minds and to control behavior..."
Manipulation in the quest for ever more power and control is an obsession with the political left, their raison d'etre. What's surprising is they did not think to co-op awards shows earlier...
Yesterday there was one of those classic manipulate protest/press conferences in South Miami where a large batch of 'doctors' 'walked out' in protest of Florida's unwillingness to comply with leftie-logic covid control. MSDNC reported the walkout as fact, interviewing these actors pretending to be doctors- Isn't it illegal to impersonate a doctor? They were as legit as those 'doctors' standing behind Obama when he was wheeling out Obamacare...
We are being carpet bombed by these invented experts with fake credentials we're expected to accept as higher authorities as they supersede the rule of law for their agendas.
If we let it happen it empowers them to it more often and with greater intensity...
This goes to show you--the flaky left is so emo, so unstable; they really want their own Big Daddy like Trump and they project their perverse desires on Trump's followers.
Remember when some of them speculated that Trump slept with Ivanka? That's how weird they are. They wanted Cuomo to be their daddy and they'd give him anything to urge him on.
And we're the nutcases?
The original is still there:
https://www.iemmys.tv/new-york-governor-andrew-m-cuomo-to-receive-2020-international-emmy-founders-award/
What is it with progressives and their overwhelming desire to rewrite history, even as events are fresh in our minds. I’m amazed how fast technology is evolving to oppress Americans instead of providing freedom and information, the two prophecies of tech that are really curses threatening to invalidate the Bill of Rights. These are perilous times. And we have no executive heading our government. We just have a guy who will read whatever his slavemasters tell him to say.
That is not the correct URL for the statement. The article links to the original URL, https://www.iemmys.tv/new-york-governor-andrew-m-cuomo-to-receive-2020-international-emmy-founders-award/. When you visit there today, it redirects you to the "statement-from-the..." URL you tried.
The original URL still exists in the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.iemmys.tv/new-york-governor-andrew-m-cuomo-to-receive-2020-international-emmy-founders-award/
Just one more example of how utterly worthless our elites have become.
If a politician is the master, we the people are the slaves.
That is what this is all about.
Trump put the people above the politicians. The politicians and their corporate owners couldn't abide this.
There are a fair number of people who want to be slaves as well as long as they get to be above the Trump supporters. For them relative position over others is more important than overall position.
They cannot have a system where the power actually derives from the governed.
That is why they turned to voter fraud.
Hollywood and leftist neo-Stalinism (with a dash of money whore Biden-Pelosi family mob boss) love them some golden statues.
By show biz standards, Cuomo's transgressions weren't so awful. The Emmy people are setting a bad precedent here. Should the Oscar people rescind the awards for Woody Allen and Kevin Spacey?.....The fact that Cuomo was such an ogre and yet was able to project the image of a folksy, family man makes his performance that much much impressive. Show biz is all about creating an illusion, and Cuomo was truly adept at it. Woody Allen never played an action hero, and Kevin Spacey never played a gentle, sensitive romantic lead. Cuomo showed far more range and credibility in the role he chose to play. The Emmy people should vote an oak leaf cluster for his award.
The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
"Sciences"?
Politicians are performers. We must reward the bullshit on the left, at every turn.
I think Biden deserves an Emmy for his ability to read what someone else writes... not bad for a man who needs an ice cream cone and a nap, and barely knows where he is.
The emperor had no clothes. All of his sycophants can ESAD.
Why’d they give Cuomotose an Emmy? Why did most of Hollywood become addicted to cocaine in the 70s and 80s?
Because they could.
So are politicians public servants? Or masters?
One in love with Emmy,
Always in Love with Emmy.
Ever and ever fascinated by it, sets your heart afire to stay.
Poor ol' Andrew. One day an award winning journalist because you have a powerful Brother. Then the brother loses favor, and poof your award is gone. Sads. Live by Nepotism, Die by Nepotism.
Maybe they can reroute the award to Mr. Potoato Head. Jeff Zucker's mini me.
'If a politician is the master, we the people are the slaves.'
"Welcome to the party, pal."
-- John McClane
His sexual harassing was well known by November. Even the leftist shill late night talk show hosts knew by then.
The neo-Stalinists erase history almost as fast as they manufacture reality.
The Emmy is for acting. Making the fake seem real. He acted informed, astute, decisive. All a fake. Lots of us called out the 8 year old reciting memorized lines. But the left was acting too. Citing their lines from the remake of the emperors clothes.
If Cuomo’s Emery is being rescinded because of sexual harassment, how many other Hollywood types can we expect this to happen to?
Master is a bad word now. It triggers people. So now, instead of a master bedroom in realty listings its an "owner's bedroom" and instead of a master branch in a software repository you have a "main branch." Also, computer's with two disk drives switched from master and slave to primary and secondary years ago. I sometimes wonder what they are going to do about masters degrees. By the way, all of the "people of color" I know think this is ridiculous.
The Sonny and Fredo Show was an act and amongst a certain demographic quite popular. He earned the award. He should keep it.
To be fair, I'm sure they meant it in the sense of "having mastered the medium." My objection to the whole thing is that either he did or he did not master the medium. The fact that he is a bad person does not change that. So, as usual, societal elitists use their supposed professional awards to virtue signal.
It appears to me that only people with no actual principles and no confidence in their professional capabilities, or should I say "credentials," do this.
What is it with progressives and their overwhelming desire to rewrite history, even as events are fresh in our minds.
But see, it goes to 11. Or, alternatively, the Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
If technology says it didn't happen, then it didn't happen.
Andrew Cuomo won an Emmy to show up Donald Trump. Sort of like Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize to show up George W. Bush.
I never saw a Cuomo press conference. In Ohio we had the Dewine and Dr. Amy show. They didn't get an Emmy that I know of but did get this video: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=deWINE+AND+AMY&docid=607989278440641908&mid=293CFFFEA94DD62A3C7A293CFFFEA94DD62A3C7A&view=detail&FORM=VIRE
The first I heard about Cuomo's Emmy being rescinded was when I saw a tweet by Cynthia Nixon: "The difference between me and Andrew Cuomo? Neither of us is governor, but I still have my Emmy(s)."
So many things that are obviously a bad idea, or just stupid, are later revealed to be bad ideas or stupid.
rehajm: "We are being carpet bombed by these invented experts with fake credentials we're expected to accept as higher authorities as they supersede the rule of law for their agendas."
We are also being carpet bombed on blogs by self-proclaimed "lifelong republicans" whobare nothing more than hardcore far left and sometimes openly pro-marxist (See Reid Hoffman and "LLR's")
Well, it turned out that Cuomo was creating stories of success and failure the whole time!
"The Governor's 111 daily briefings worked so well because he effectively created television shows, with characters, plot lines, and stories of success and failure," the academy's president and CEO, Bruce Paisner, explained in a statement announcing the decision....
Yep, he "masterfully" hid the fact that his policies led to over 10,000 completely avoidable deaths of vulnerable people. No sure why they wanted to celebrate that.
But I guess when you're a morally wretched, politically obsessed monster whose sole focus is "beat Trump", then killing 10,000+ people is just a statistic.
When you go to the URL for the statement, you can't read the full text with all its original effusiveness. You just see this, dated yesterday:
The International Academy announced today that in light of the New York Attorney General’s report, and Andrew Cuomo’s subsequent resignation as Governor, it is rescinding his special 2020 International Emmy® Award. His name and any reference to his receiving the award will be eliminated from International Academy materials going forward.
IOW, "watch us memory hole our behavior, now that we got what we wanted."
It's fortunate that it's been years since I've cared about anything these scum have to say. So ignoring them is no loss
Althouse, “Why would a man think he could do the things Cuomo is accused of doing?”
Because he's a Democrat, and the "social elite" deliberately and willingly let Democrats get away with murder in order to advance their political agenda
The Wayback Machine no longer functions in its stated purpose. The internet isn't forever- the censors and history rewriters have gained full control.
Who controls the past controls the future. ~Orwell, 1984
Ron Winkleheimer,
I wonder what's going to happen to "motherboard," myself. Pregnant-person-board?
Master's degrees are a problem, aren't they? I mean, you can't be a "master" of a dorm any more; why should you be able to be a "master" of a subject? Never mind that this entire line of thought throws out the whole apprentice/journeyman/master system of the Middle Ages and assumes that if you are a "master," you are necessarily a master of slaves.
Massa Andy, he done fucked up. Yowsa.
"We live under an almost solid dome of propaganda now. The cracks and apertures where truth shines through are like stars in a planetarium. They make interesting patterns but they are merely suggestive of a cosmos beyond our ken. It’s a struggle to remember it’s really there"
-today from the Twitterverse
iowan2 writes, "The Emmy is for acting."
Only some Emmys are for acting. There is a whole category known informally as "Broadcast Journalism" that awards Emmys for lying.
So they've rescinded Handy Andy's lying trophy. That'll larn 'em. The moral: get your jollies by murdering geezers. Nobody gives a flying fuck -- nobody who counts, that is. But bring up the topic of sausage in mixed company and you're up shit creek.
"Why would a man think he could do the things Cuomo is accused of doing?"
Of course the answer is he thinks he cold do those things because when men like him do those things they are never punished criminally or politically. The fun is compiled when not only to they do those things and get away with it, but in the aftermath their are politically motivated there to defend them in public.
The smarter, more compelling question is why do so many women defend guys like Cuomo?
Why would a man think he could do the things Cuomo is accused of doing?
Probably because he expected (not without reason) to get a pass from affluent, white, liberal women due to Intersectionality and solidarity and that sort of thing. The Nina Burleigh effect, if you will.
Perhaps the fact that he didn’t get away with it means that affluent, white, liberal women are starting to grow up, and intend to demand good governance from the Democrats they elect, though I’m very suspicious that we’re merely looking at a form of kabuki play wherein the Democrat machine removes a potential 2024 challenger for Kamala Harris.
BTW, I believe Tara Reid. So there’s another Democrat politician who successfully got away with harassment.
Lock Him Up!
Meanwhile;
New NY Gov. Kathy Hochul adds 12,000 deaths to COVID death count
Quaestor at 11:56 for the win.
Cuomo should put out a statement that he rejects their rescindment. A month ago it was true that he won the award. Today it is still true that he won the award. They can't go back in time and not issue it. Too late - no take backs.
LEAVE ANDREW MILHOUSE CUOMO ALONE! JUST LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!
Outside of some heavy bomber commanders--the generals--it's hard to think of an American besides Rachel Carson who's killed so many people, since the Civil War.
And "masterful" is required in romance novels. Got to mean something, since it can't mean nothing.l
Literacy ain't what she used to be. The word the NPR copywriter needed is "masterly," meaning much the same as "masterful" but without the connotation of bully-boy high-handedness.
(Masterly looks like an adverb but is an adjective, on the order of "lovely," "gingerly," "likely," and others. Best practice is to use it to modify the deed, not the doer; not: "Cuomo was masterly...," but rather: "Cuomo's dash for cover was masterly....")
My own usage guides are in storage, but I think you can read about it in Fowler if not also Follett; and maybe in Adrian Room's Dictionary of Distinguishables.
'Too late - no take backs.'
He's been gypped...no Indian-giving.
I'll go ahead and cancel myself : )
How about a Grammy for Spoken Word Fiction?
Howard said...
Lock Him Up!
Wow, so even Howard is willing to turn on a Dem who's passed his expiration date?
Or are you just a Harris fan who was worried Cuomo would turf her out?
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