(OPINION) ETH – It appears that CNN’s host Chris Cuomo took a shot at Senator. Marco Rubio’s faith on Monday night, after he referred to him as “Mr. Bible Boy” and saying “he’s got a Bible quote for every moment, he just never speaks truth to power or acts on any of it.”
Cuomo along with fellow CNN host Don Lemon entered a dialogue where Lemon was seen moving his wedding ring to his pinky finger to impersonate a combination of President Trump and a stereotypical mob boss to mock the recently leaked phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Lemon then praised Raffensperger as a “man of faith.” “I learned about it tonight as I was watching CNN, he is a man of faith and he’s relying on his faith and that’s why he could sit there and, just, very stoically say, ‘I’m sorry Mr. President, you’re wrong,’” Lemon said. According to Fox News: “Cuomo chimed in,
“It’s one of the rare examples where the clips don’t do it justice because, you see in that entire hour, he is just going from desperation to desperation. He never offers one legitimate piece of proof for this secretary of state to act on,” and he just gets more and more threatening.”
Lemon called the tape the “craziest thing” he’s ever heard and condemned anyone who continues to stand by the president’s claims of widespread election fraud. “I think you nail what we have to focus on also. Look, Trump, I believe, will be remembered as the worst. We’ve never seen anybody abuse the office the way he has — not in our lifetime.
But the people, those who remain, the Kevin McCarthys, the people in the House, the people in the Senate,” Cuomo said as Lemon added, “embarrassing, embarrassing.” Lemon later referred to Marco Rubio as”Little Marco,” and then Cuomo took a shot at his faith.
“Mr. Bible Boy. You know, he’s got a Bible quote for every moment, he just never speaks truth to power or acts on any of it in the interest of his own state or of this country,” Cuomo said. Rubio fired back after this story was initially published, tweeting a response to Cuomo. “The verses I tweet are usually the ones chosen by the Catholic Church for that days mass,” Rubio wrote. “But the fact he thinks words written thousands of years ago are relevant to current events proves the Bible isn’t just a book, it’s the word of God. AMEN.”
