CNN anchor Chris Cuomo decided it was a good idea to compare irresponsible journalism to a racial slur. On Michael Smerconish’s SiriusXM POTUS Politics show, the topic of Donald Trump came up, and like most conversations about America's current president, the topic of his tweets was the center of discussion. 

Trump sent some shots through the ether at Cuomo about a talk he had with Senator Richard Blumenthal. 

Mr. Cuomo was deeply pained by this 140 character attack launched by his nation's leader. And this is what he said on live radio in response: “I see being called ‘fake news’ as the equivalent of the N-word for journalists, the equivalent of calling an Italian any of the ugly words that people have for that ethnicity…That’s what ‘fake news’ is to a journalist. It is an ugly insult, and you better be right if you’re going to charge a journalist with lying on purpose. And the president was not right here.”

Obviously, this was not going to be received well by the general public, because…they're so far from being the same. The very same afternoon after his radio appearance, Mr. Cuomo came to the same conclusion and made the only decision that could be made – he apologized. 

Chris Cuomo thought it was one way, but then discovered it was not that way, after all. Although, Mr. Trump's words may have hurt his feelings, as well as being baseless or untrue, in no way can they compare with the use of any racial slur, ever. Hopefully no such comparisons will be made in the future, however, this is America. 

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