| Cuomo Under Fire New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has come under intense scrutiny in the past few weeks over serious questions about nursing home deaths, between a report from the New York AG’s office saying deaths were seriously undercounted and more recent claims from a Cuomo aide about withholding data on the death toll. During his press conference Monday, the governor claimed he was going to “clarify facts” on the matter.
Fox's Janice Dean was not impressed.
MSNBC's Ari Melber was not impressed.
The Daily Show's Trevor Noah was not impressed.
NY State Senator Alessandra Biaggi (D) was not impressed.
Pots and Kettles
Veteran 60 Minutes producer Ira Rosen claimed on Tuesday that while working for the White House, Steve Bannon said that Donald Trump was suffering from “early stage dementia.”
Good Republican
Meghan McCain slammed the media for their perception and framing of Republicans in the aftermath of the second impeachment trial.
"The problem I have is the only way to become a good Republican is to become a Democrat, according to the media," said McCain. "I don’t know what to do anymore."
The Bachelorette CNN’s Don Lemon sat down with Rachel Lindsay, the first and only Black woman to be cast as The Bachelorette lead, to address the recent racism controversy involving the franchise’s host Chris Harrison and Season 25 contestant Rachael Kirkconnell.
‘Extraordinarily Online’ During a segment with George Will on the future of the Republican party, Chuck Todd called out some Republican senators he described as being “extraordinarily online.” Todd and Will were discussing the schism within the GOP over the impeachment trial when Todd remarked, “I feel like the phenomenon can be translated into these activists. And you see it with certain senators.”
Spontaneous Prevarication Fox News’ Pete Hegseth falsely claimed that former President Trump was spontaneously greeted by supporters who gathered to see him return from a Presidents Day golf outing in West Palm Beach, Florida. The comments from Hegseth came as Fox & Friends discussed the latest Gallup poll showing most Republicans think America needs a third mainstream political party. The show then aired footage of Trump’s motorcade as it passed a crowd of people cheering for him on Presidents Day. “That was not a planned event,” Hegseth said of the planned event.
“That was spontaneous on Presidents Day for Donald Trump," he said about the arranged gathering.
Dr. Fauci Defends VP Kamala Harris’ ‘Starting From Scratch’ Comments — Because She Was Not Wrong OPINION White House Covid honcho Dr. Anthony Fauci defended Vice President Kamala Harris over her remarks about the coronavirus vaccine distribution plan, which were widely and falsely reported as contradicting earlier statements by Fauci. On Tuesday morning’s edition of CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto, Sciutto wrapped up his interview with Fauci by asking “Kamala Harris spoke to HBO Axios over the weekend, and… she used this phrase again, ‘We’re starting from scratch, and I wonder if you agree with that, did the vaccination plan come January 20th of this year, that you were starting from the beginning there, or there was something in place that just needed improvements?” “What I think the vice president is referring to is that the actual plan of getting the vaccine doses into people’s arms was really rather vague,” Fauci said. “I mean it was not a well-coordinated plan.”
What VP Harris said was exactly as Fauci described to Sciutto, and not at all in conflict with Fauci’s earlier quote, despite... [Read the rest from Mediaite's Tommy Christopher] 6.5.0 | 
