One thing about primary season: everybody’s super keyed up to win the nomination. It seems every day, there’s another entry for the Douchebag of the Week award, one more qualified than the next. Today’s most recent entry is New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a guy who you’d have thought would know better than to put his foot quite so forcibly in his mouth:
“It’s not a TV crazed race. Frankly you can’t buy your way into it,” Cuomo said, according to Albany Times Union reporter Rick Karlin. He then added, “You can’t shuck and jive at a press conference. All those moves you can make with the press don’t work when you’re in someone’s living room.”
Over the course of several years of life,Tom Belknap and frequently been called upon to shut the hell up. But since at least 2004 when this blog first began, he's stuck by his mentor, George Carlin, and never, ever, ever done so. Covering politics in Rochester has been a passion since watching his grandfather yell at the television whenever Ronald Reagan was on. Covering science and technology has been a passion ever since he laid his tiny fifth-grader fingers on a Radio Shack computer in Mr. Price's class.
