Andrew Cuomo: Shameless Exit

That was some farewell speech by Andrew Cuomo yesterday. Even to dedicated Cuomotextuals, the thing was a masterpiece of effrontery, arrogance, and Escher-style self-negating twists. The obfuscation! The blame-shifting! The conspiracy-theorizing! The denial! The sheer, sordid cheek of the thing! It was a positively Frankenian farewell.

In his 1998 confession, Bill Clinton complained, after lying for seven months about Monica Lewinsky, that the investigation into his lying had gone on too long (and cost too much money, which turned out to be equivalent to one copy of one tabloid newspaper per American —was there ever a federal outlay that was better value?). Cuomo set out to challenge The Big He in contempt for those who caught him.

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Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith is the film critic for the Wall Street Journal.

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That was some farewell speech by Andrew Cuomo yesterday. Even to dedicated Cuomotextuals, the thing was a masterpiece of effrontery, arrogance, and Escher-style self-negating twists. The obfuscation! The blame-shifting! The conspiracy-theorizing! The denial! The sheer, sordid cheek of the thing! It was a positively Frankenian farewell.

In his 1998 confession, Bill Clinton complained, after lying for seven months about Monica Lewinsky, that the investigation into his lying had gone on too long (and cost too much money, which turned out to be equivalent to one copy of one tabloid newspaper per American —was there ever a federal outlay that was better value?). Cuomo set out to challenge The Big He in contempt for those who caught him.