A recent addition to the annals of the “Liberals can dish it out, but can’t take it” department is the hilarious viral video of CNN’s Chris Cuomo, threatening a man on Shelter Island because the man dared to approach him and call him by the name “Fredo.”  Cuomo went nuts, and in so doing, proved that he doesn’t deserve to be referred to by that appellation.  All I can say is, “Fredo, you broke my heart.”  Some explanation is in order for those who may not have been aware of the Fredo nickname.  Fredo, of course, was the second son of Vito Corleone, affectionately known as The Godfather.  In the movie, Fredo is a not too bright, bumbling, incompetent boob, who is not trusted to handle important Family business.  In the film, Fredo sits idly by while his father is shot five times in the street, unable even to get his gun out of his pocket.  He then sits down on the curb, sobbing, “Papa!”  In short, Fredo is what the Sicilians would call a “citrulu,” literally translated as, a cucumber, but meaning someone who is dense, and possibly intellectually challenged, hence, a vegetable.  Chris Cuomo was given the nickname Fredo by none other than Rush Limbaugh, who, after a number of his stupid political pronouncements, declared Chris to be “the dumbest of all the Cuomo’s.”  The name stuck, and was taken up by others in the conservative media.  President Trump even got into the act, once describing Cuomo as “an unchained lunatic,” “perhaps the dumbest person in broadcasting.”  This all led up to the confrontation on Shelter Island.  A man approached Chris Cuomo and asked, “Hey Fredo, can I take a picture with you?”  Now, the man claims that he knew Cuomo only by the name “Fredo” and that he thought that really was his name, but that’s clearly nonsense.  Simply put, the guy was a wiseacre provocateur.  Cuomo, political commentator for CNN, and host of the CNN show Cuomo Prime Time, fancies himself a moderate voice of reason, “The only reason I do this job is to call bullshit on people and to be a witness to history.”  How noble.  Proving that we live in a world where there is an alternative universe, parallel to our own, in which there is an alternative reality, in January 2018, Rolling Stone magazine did a puff piece on Chris Cuomo, in which it touted him as, “CNN’s toughest news anchor.”  The Rolling Stone writer, clearly a denizen of the parallel universe where down is up and good is bad, wrote, “He’s brash, brusque and completely disinterested in partisan spin.”  This on CNN no less (and there is no less).  For its readers who recoil at the prospect of hearing two sides of an issue (no, not that!), the magazine went on to note that “CNN often goes out of its way to present both sides.”  Uh huh.  It’s true, CNN presents commentators from both sides.  Some say President Trump is a traitor who should be hanged, drawn and quartered, while others offer the opposing view that the President is merely a minor criminal, who ought to be imprisoned for the rest of his life.  But back to Fredo Cuomo.  On hearing the wiseacre call him “Fredo,” Cuomo erupted, telling the man he was going to have a problem.  The moderate voice of reason shouted, “I’ll fucking ruin your shit!  I’ll fucking throw you down these stairs!”  He called the guy “a punk-ass bitch.”  A measured response to be sure.  Then, in true progressive fashion, Cuomo cast himself as a victim.  He claimed that the name “Fredo” is an ethnic slur, the equivalent of “the N word” to Italians.  CNN immediately supported Cuomo, announcing that he “defended himself from a verbal attack with the use of an ethnic slur.”  Apparently asking a liberal a question is “an attack.”  But CNN, as a journalistic slur, must know about slurs.  It was all very dramatic, and also dumb.  I’m not sure there is a slur for Italians quite as vitriolic as the “N word,” but if there was, I suppose, guinea, dago, greaseball or wop might be a bit more insulting than “Fredo.”  Anyhow Chris, as the moderate voice of reason that you claim to be, wouldn’t the better response to the provocateur have been to simply walk away?  After all, it’s what you said Nick Sandman and the other Kentucky kids should have done when the old Indian starting banging his drum.  And for that matter, if it’s so insulting to be called “Fredo,” because it compares you with a mobster, do you really think acting like a more violent mobster than Fredo ever was was the best way to handle the situation?  What’s more, if “Fredo” is the equivalent of throwing around the N word, then why do you and your CNN cohorts use that word to descibe others?  CNN has called Donald Trump the “Fredo” to Valdimir Putin’s Don Corleone.  CNN has called Devin Nunes “Trump’s Fredo.”  On Chris Cuomo’s own show, Ana Navarro has called Donald Trump, Jr. “Fredo.”  Vanity Fair magazine (in which fairness is seldom encountered), has said that “Anyone connected with the Trump Administration is an absolute Fredo.”  So maybe a “Fredo” is just a weakling.  No matter.  The hypocrisy rolls on.  Chris Cuomo had no sympathy for conservatives like Sara Sanders, Pam Bondi or Ted Cruz, when obnoxious protestors hounded and drove them from public places.  But, some wiseacre dares to shout “Fredo” on a crowded island, and Cuomo becomes the Italian equivalent of Rosa Parks?  Give me a break.  Chris Cuomo’s performance on Shelter Island did prove two things.  First, he can dish it out, but he can’t take it.  And secondly, he’s much more aggresive and violent than Fredo Corleone ever was, so he shouldn’t be called “Fredo” anymore.  Since little things make him lose control of himself, maybe he now should be called “Sonny.”