Andrew Cuomo addresses the controversy "Fredo" of his brother Chris

Governor Andrew Cuomo said Monday he had only seen "parts" of the mafia classic "The Godfather" – while he was tearing up a journalist for daring to criticize his brother's crisis after being called a of his characters.

"I can not tell you how many times people came to me and said," In "The Godfather", who are you, what is your character, what character are you? "Cuomo said on the WAMC radio.

"I've seen excerpts," said the governor, referring to the legendary 1972 film starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino.

But his father, the former governor, Mario Cuomo, "would not look," said Cuomo.

"My father did not want to watch the film because he was anti-Italian," said the governor.

Last week, Casey Seiler, editor-in-chief of the Albany Times Union, criticized Andrew and his younger brother Chris, a CNN presenter, for what he called their misinterpretation of the terms for Italian.

Chris Cuomo had already been filmed earlier this month in a profane tirade against a rowdy who called him "Fredo".

Chris said "The godfather's character," Fredo – the ineffective son of mafia boss Vito Corleone – was as shocking to Italo-Americans as the keyword for African Americans.

Seiler wrote in his article: "If Fredo Corleone is indeed of Italian origin, his name is commonly used as an insult to the member of a kind of family dynasty considered the most useless. This jape cuts across ethnic groups. ''

The editor also said that last year, Andrew himself incorrectly stated that the slou "wop" was referring to Italian immigrants entering the United States via Ellis Island "undocumented".

Seiler wrote: "Subsequently, Cuomo stopped offering this story lesson, maybe because it's not true: as anyone with Google says and five seconds," wop "comes from guappo, the Italian word for guy or dandy. "

Andrew answered slyly on Monday: "I was told that" wop "meant" undocumented. "My dad told me that.

Seiler says, "Well, if Google" wop ", it says something else. "First, you did not have a Google in the 1940s in southern Jamaica," where Mario was born.