CNN Anchorman Chris Cuomo apparently doesn't like being called Frado.

Cuomo says the phrase is an insult meant to imply that he's the dumbest member of a powerful

Italian family with a father who raised them from poverty to the heights of influence

and a brother who inherited that mantle and became a representative of evil.

And therefore, Frado is a racial slur.

When Cuomo was recently approached by a right-wing troll who called him Frado, he lost his temper

and launched into a foul mouth rant, threatening the troll with violence, and saying he

wanted to ensure that the troll and all his friends were massacred in a groundbreaking

cinematic montage during the baptism of his nephew.

After the incident, Cuomo released a statement through family lawyer Tom Hagen saying,

quote, calling me Frado is an insult.

Unlike Frado, I can handle things and I'm smart.

Not like everybody says like dumb, I'm smart, and I want some respect.

Unquote.

A spokesman for CNN defended Cuomo's outburst saying, quote, normally, when a newsman

unleashes denigrating invective at a person simply because that person disagrees with him

politically, the newsmen would be fired.

But here at CNN, that's our entire business model.

Unquote.

Conservative commentator Sean Hannity also defended Cuomo saying, quote, Chris was with

his wife and nine-year-old daughter when the troll approached him.

So obscenity-laced threats of physical violence and response to mild mockery were entirely

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