Mark Steyn on Chris Cuomo Worrying for His Safety: ‘Most Narcissistic, Solipsistic Act of Navel-Gazing’

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CARLSON: [Laughs] "They seem to have come up with this remarkable standard. We are not releasing the guys name because of his safety, his physical safety, but we are going to release his name if he says something we don't like. People are calling up blackmail. I don't know if that is blackmail but it is weird for a news organization to, in effect, threaten or harm if somebody doesn't do what they say."
STEYN: "The name is either newsworthy or it is not, but he got the message, they contacted him, and he immediately takes on all of his Internet posts. I'm not a great believer in anonymity on the Internet. I get tired of being called out by some twerp who has, you know, some books name and an avatar from "Game of Thrones" but he thinks I'm not being manly enough on the Internet. I'm not a particular name of Internet anonymity. But this guy got the message. He understands that CNN is watching him, so that if he were to make another anti-CNN gif, another anti-CNN tweet, then they would release the fact that he has got a $500 lien on his home for unpaid property taxes or his car was seen last night parked outside madame fifi's bondage parlor. This is a ridiculously for a news organization to behave. But the threat of people -- the idea, by the way, of Chris Cuomo and others CNN anchor is a saying, oh, I'm so relieved. At last, there were physical threats to our safety, and at last, were all relieved because now we've got the goods on this guy and we can sleep at night and journalists are free to walk the street once more. Get lost you creeps. By the fifth anniversary of the Danish cartoons, I appeared on stage with five other people. Of those five other people I was in on stage with in Copenhagen for 45th anniversary of the Danish Mohammed cartoons, one was shot at point-blank range, the other had his events shot up and two people were killed, another was forced out of public life entirely, and the fourth had her family's restaurant firebombed. Those are real threats against media figures that go on in Europe right now. The idea that reworking a joke that everyone knows is a joke is a threat to Chris Cuomo's safety is the most narcissistic, solipsistic act of navel-gazing in a profession that is already so self obsessed nobody who isn't in the media can stand the media."