Handy Andy Cuomo must return money received for pandemic book

Former Democratic governor Andrew "Handy Andy" Cuomo killed thousands of elderly nursing home bound New Yorkers when he mandated that nursing homes must accept Covid patients released from hospitals. Next he wrote a book about the wonderful job he did handling the pandemic and the left just ate it up with the help of his brother, Chris "Fredo" Cuomo, who had worked for CNN at the time and has since been fired for helping his brother, but not fired for helping himself to female butt cheeks without permission from their owners. [Not surprisingly, that's also how "Handy Andy" got his sobriquet from this writer.]

On Tuesday, the former governor has been ordered by New York's ethics commission [yes, they actually have one] to forgo millions of dollars paid to him by a publisher to write a book about his response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Cuomo's lawyer called the committee's action unconstitutional a vowed to fight for his cut.

Cuomo was told to turn over proceeds earned from his self-congratulatory book "American Crisis' Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic"  within 30 days under a resolution approved by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics. The order came a month after they voted to rescind the ethics approval they had given the disgraced governor before he signed the book deal amounting to $5.1 million.

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The book, or should we call it a novel, was published in October 2020 before Cuomo was forced to resign after 11 allegations of sexual harassment bubbled up to the surface.

Cuomo has confessed that state employees helped him write his book, including editing the manuscript. He claims they volunteered but junior and senior staff members told investigators they were asked to work on the book during their work hours, tasks that included transcribing dictations, printing and delivering documents, dealing with agents and publishers and attending meetings.

Now that the former governor is out of work, he will need all that money to pay his legal expenses and for the purchase of giant Q-Tips for "that thing that sits on his beautiful face."

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Halperin's book sells 502 copies, probably to family

Former MSNBC political analyst and woman-groping scumcrumpet, Mark Halperin, wrote a how-to book with lots of words. If you count the hours spent writing the book, add to that the time to do research for the book [perhaps a half hour], Halperin may have made $1.45 an hour for all the hard work he put into the book.

Hardly pizza money.

The book, "How to Beat Trump: America's Top Political Strategists On What It Will Take" sold a mere 502 copies, evidently, mostly to family and an enthusiastic friend.

The description of the book on Amazon claims, "more than 100 million anxious Americans want to know: how can Donald Trump be beaten in 2020 and evicted from the White House?" It should have instead boasted: "more than 500 clueless Americans want to know how anyone on the far-left can defeat Donald J. Trump in 2020?"

Of course, the answer is simple, but the book pretends that it's complicated. All the Democrats have to do to beat Trump is to not be crazy.

Of the 502 purchasers of the novel, six bothered to review the book on Amazon. Suffice it to say, the reviews were not as glowing as Halperin's face tends to get after groping an unsuspecting women.

One reviewer who goes by the handle Ball Student wrote, "He'd be better off avoiding speculation and sticking to areas he has extensive experience in: groping female employees." This was apparently in reference to the allegations of sexual harassment and assault from 12 women who came forth publicly to accuse Halperin of sexual harassment or assault. He publicly denied the allegations but a dozen people with believable stories may be telling the truth. He also refused to apologized to his alleged victims because an apology is an admission of guilt.

Former Comedy News Network (CNN) producer Eleanor McManus, who also said she was victimized by Halperin, criticized Regan Arts for signing him to a book deal despite his refusal to apologize.

"He has yet to take responsibility for his actions by apologizing to his victims or demonstrating genuine contrition," McManus said. "Giving him a book once again puts him in a position of authority and that is a slap to all the women that he has victimized."

Nothing But Compromised News (NBC News) terminated "the Gun Slinger" in light of the allegations. He has since started his own political blog and one can imagine that it has at least 502 followers.

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Trump responds to Comey: 'untruthful slime ball'

Self-righteous sanctimonious Comey

Fired FBI director James Brien Comey has written a tell-all memoir in which he body-shames President Trump and attacks the color of his skin. 

President Trump on Friday fired back at Comey on Twitter over his upcoming book, calling him an "untruthful slime ball."

[Slime balls: globe-shaped coagulated fat generally found in culinary grease pits that eminate and emitic odor. e.g., "Fired FBI Director James Comey is a slime ball."]

Comey will be going on tour after his book is released.

Comey body-shamed Trump over his height, skin color and hair, but due to the fact that Trump is a Republican, there was no push-back by the Democrats for the attack that they would have otherwise called disgusting.

President Trump tweeted:

"James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH."

But of course, that wasn't the end to Trump's tweets:

"His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst 'botch jobs' of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey."

Comey was fired in May of 2017. He didn't resign due to his ethical and moral differences from President Trump. He was fired. 

Excerpts of the book surfaced on Thursday.

In a Friday morning interview with ABC's George Dellaraccataccapoulis Stephanopoulos [a former communications director for Bill Clinton and current 'unbiased' fake news reporter] Comey hawked his salacious claims in the unverified dossier about Trump, that the president has denied.

"I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don't know whether the current president of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013," Comey told Clinton's shill. "It's possible, but I don't know."

I don't know whether James Comey had Hillary Clinton pee on him to get her case of the illegal email server dropped, but it's possible. I just don't know.

There's also nothing to prove that after the Stephanopoulos-Comey interview, it ended in threesome with a poodle, but it's possible.

According to book excerpts, Comey even questions the strength of Trump's marriage to Melania, after saying that Trump asked him to investigate obscene claims about his behavior with Russian prostitutes.

"It bothered [President Trump] if there was 'even a one percent chance' his wife, Melania, thought it was true," the pompous incompetent wrote, according to the New York Post. He later wrote: "In what kind of marriage, to what kind of man, does a spouse conclude there is only a 99 percent chance her husband didn't do that?"

To further prove Comey's pettiness, he went after Trump's physical attributes, saying the president was shorter than he expected (Comey stands 6-foot-8-inches) and that his tie was "too long" and under his eyes there were "bright white half moons" suggesting they came from tanning goggles. He also made a conscious effort to check Trump's hand size [perhaps to make a genitalia comparison] and said it was "smaller than mine, but did not seem unusually so."

So freaking what?

James 'Chatty Cathy' Comey is no different than Crooked Hillary Clinton. He led the FBI with indignity and dishonor and his book is proof of that, especially proven in this lie: "You will always get honesty from me."


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James Comey to write more than memos

James Comey former FBI Director who was fired by President Trump, is writing a book. It's going to be about his experience in public service and brief time in the Trump administration, and hopefully will be finished before he has to spend any time in prison for leaking classified information.

Comey has been meeting with publishers and editors in New York and is being represented by Keith Urbahn and Matt Latimer of the literary agency Javelin. 

The book will go to auction in the coming weeks and all the major publishing houses are interested in acquiring it, Latimer said.

This will not be a tell-all memoir, but an exploration of the Boy Scout principles that have guided Comey and whispered in his ear to leak his classified memos to a 'friend' and have him leak it to the press.

He will also discuss Hillary Clinton's illegal private email server and how he took it upon himself to absolve her of the crime she committed. 

Also among the pile of balderdash will be his recent entanglement with President Trump of the much publicized inquiry into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, in spite of the fact that FBI investigations are not to be made public.

Perhaps Comey saw a book on the horizon.

"It's a book about leadership and his search for truth, informed by lessons and experiences he's had throughout his career . . . " Latimer said without laughing.  . . . "including his recent experiences in the Trump administration.  It will speak to a broader desire in our country for more ethical leadership," he said, obviously referring to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's lack of ethics.

Latimer's agency also represents Tucker Carlson and Hillary Clinton election helper Donna Brazile.

Hopefully, the book will not give away anymore classified tidbits that Comey has already made public.



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Hillary flat broke, working on another memoir & speaking tour

Nobody likes to see a former First Lady and Secretary of State down on her luck. It was bad enough when she and Bill left the Oral Office. Sure, he lost a lot when he had to go--the wine, the women, the spotlight except when he was with the women, but Hillary had it bad too.

No money. They didn't even have  two mansions to rub together. It was horrible.

Luckily for Bill, he always could find two things to rub together, but with Hillary, it was a different story.

After two miserable losses in her bid to become THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! [sorry, I was pretending I was hearing her scream] she has to stoop to the level of having to write yet another boring book of bull disks just to put food on the table and go on speaking tours and show the world how she can make "crazy eyes."

Yes, Hillary Rodham Clinton, grandmother and the "World's Worst Candidate Ever" is writing another book and will embark on her barking tour sometime this year.

Publishing house Simon & Schuster [which may gain the reputation of becoming "Simon and Shyster" after Hillary publishes with them] announced that her forthcoming novel will be comprised of personal essays "inspired by the hundred of quotations she has been collecting for decades" possibly from Wikipedia. 

The book will contain glorified "stories from her life," up to and unfortunately including the 2016 election, as well as "reflections on the future."

Perhaps they'll make a movie from the book. I hope they don't leave anything out, but legally, she's going to need to do just that.

"I can't wait to buy the book!"

"These are the words I live by," Clinton lied. "These quotes have helped me celebrate the good times and deepen my appreciation of all life has to offer. I hope by sharing these words and my thoughts about them, the essays will be meaningful for readers."

And unicorns alike.

I can't wait to read the chapters on Benghazi, Monica Lewinsky, Vince Foster, White Water, the private server, and oh, so much more. 

But I won't buy the book--the Clintons already have a lot more money than they deserve.

Funny, Bill should have written the book "Hard Choices," not Hillary.



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Jihad Joe--1st Chapter in my Novel

Chapter 1

New York City

   The mall overflowed with Christmas shoppers, teens looking to connect with other teens, husbands looking for gifts for their wives, women looking for something to get their man, and the mall lizards who hang out in malls to check out the action. Christmas music played in overhead speakers; an old, familiar, Nat King Cole tune about chestnuts roasting on an open fire.   The fast food joint was abuzz with laughter, conversation, and children making children sounds.  A young man sat alone at a table close to the order counter where four college kids served burgers and fries with soft drinks.  The young man wore an oversized yellow ski jacket and was sweating profusely, but ironically, it wasn't very hot in the restaurant.  Nobody noticed the young man moving his lips, talking to himself, nor that his hands were balled up into fists.  He looked benign, harmless, like the kind of young man who never dated, or had even spoken to a girl, and for whom smiling was painful.  

    At an adjacent table by the young man, a four year old blond haired girl in pink ski pants, furry snow boots, and white cotton sweater was eating a chocolate ice cream cone as Mommy wiped her busy face.  Her name was Samantha and she didn't know it, but her Daddy was at another store buying her a doll for Christmas while Mommy distracted her with love.

   Suddenly, the man in the yellow ski jacket stood up on the seat of his chair.  Samantha looked up at him and saw that he had a book in one hand and held it up above his head--it was a pretty book with a fancy design on the cover--and he held something on his chest in his other hand, and he began to shout, "Allahu Akbar!  Allahu Akbar!"  Then there was a bright light.

   Samantha was closest to the blast and was instantly decapitated as her mother's carotid artery was severed along with most of her neck.  They never felt a thing. In fact, they didn't have time to actually hear the blast when the suicide bomber pulled the detonator cord.  Carpentry nails and ball bearings flew faster than the speed of sound in every direction, taking out eyes and shredding through limbs of the food store customers.  The college kids behind the serving counter died more slowly as their internal organs were pierced by shrapnel. The screams of the injured were terrifying as people, covered in blood, ran for their lives.  But the worst was over for now and when the panic subsided and the smoke cleared, there were fourteen dead, twenty three wounded, and hundreds of Christmas shoppers terrified.  This religious act of faith, this act of jihad, was over in less than ten seconds.

   Muhannad and Aaqib wore cleaning crew uniforms as they waited patiently in the washroom when they heard the blast.  Within minutes the police, fire department, and EMS arrived.  A triage was quickly set up in the mall walkway where some of the victims being treated stared in shock at the carnage.  Pieces of the suicide bomber and his victims were scattered on the floor, walls, and the ceiling.  A frightened man ran to the carnage and saw his dead wife and decapitated child.  His screams were horrible and disturbing and an EMS worker had to sedate him.

   Muhannad tapped Aaqib on the shoulder and nodded toward the door to indicate that it was time; Mansoor had done his job and was already in Paradise.  The men ran out of the washroom and immediately began firing into the dazed crowd with AK47s.  “Allahu Akbar!  Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!”  They screamed as shots rang out; people began to fall, while some tried to run, only to be shot in the back.  “God is great!” Aaqib shouted in English as he shot a policeman several times in the face, just as he was about to fire on them.  This gave Aaqib a wonderful thrill, to kill an infidel for Allah. 

   Two more cops caught rounds in the torso and fell mortally wounded. The man who had lost his wife and child got up and charged at the terrorists and was shot in the chest and face at least a dozen times; he died before he hit the floor.

   

   Muhannad and Aaqib knew there wasn't much time before the odds would be against them once reinforcements arrived.  They ran to the end of the corridor, removed their coveralls, cleaning-crew uniforms, and grabbed hooded sweatshirts and ski jackets that were hidden in the emergency stairwell.  By the time they ran down the two flights of stairs and reached the street, they looked like a couple of middle class Middle Eastern youths out for fun in the city—and for them, this was fun. 

   Blending into the crowd was easy--the neighborhood was multicultural.

Jihad Joe: terrorism returns to New York.

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