Many saw Chris Cuomo and CNN has hard left-wingers that would attack the right at every chance.

Chris Cuomo says he and CNN are not to blame, it is you the viewers that should be blamed.

Fredo appeared on “Real Time with Bill Maher” as he continues to try and rehab his career after his firing from CNN. The ego driven host says that viewers who watch cable news for the toxicity of cable news.

“I think that is addressing the need of serving people’s interests,” he said. “We were faced with something that the media has never seen in this country before, where somebody weaponized the truth, and won pretty much every fight he got into, by ultimately blaming a system that people have rejected, including the media. And unprecedented risk is going to require an unprecedented effort. I don’t think it was about moving to opinion, meaning not relying on facts and analysis. But they had to take it on; I felt very much that way.”

Cuomo says spouting his opinion and rants on CNN were tough. “And it was rough. It is still rough for me to be seen as like an enemy of the former president, which is nonsense.”

During another point in the interview, Cuomo defended the nonsense that happens on cable news by blaming the viewers, saying, “You can’t expect the men and women in the media to not play a game that everybody else is playing.”

“You are watching because the game, you are allowing yourself to be put on teams or in tribes or any way you want to designate it,” Cuomo added. “But they’re supposed to somehow break away from that when it’s what you want? When it’s what resonates with you? No.”

Blaming the viewers for the hate and crap that comes from cable news (on all sides) might be the single worst excuse I have ever heard.

H/T Daily Wire