Sometimes you have to laugh at the idiocy that lives among us. Like the fact that there’s a real person out there who believes CNN’s Chris Cuomo is a “superhero” because he is doing such a great job as a newsman.

This may be reason enough to shut down Twitter:

Cumo actually responded, because he loves getting his ego stroked, underneath the faux deflection, of course:

“Protection your right to information.” Who knew Cuomo or CNN had our backs like that?

Twitchy found some great responses on Twitter:

“The universe will now collapse into a Black Hole of Irony.”

“You must really miss the eight years of sleep you and your fellow ‘brave’ journalists got 2008-2016.”

“Omg media populated with brave people? Let me interrupt the self congratulation and change the word media and insert military. That's brave.”

This writer's personal favorite was:

Here are a few follow-up questions for the "brave" but beaten-down journalist:

Does a “superhero” say if a 12-year-old girl doesn’t want to see a penis in the locker room, she’s just not tolerant enough? Because Chris Cuomo did.

Would a “superhero” praise the communist Castro regime for “lifting everyone up?” Because Chris Cuomo did.

Superheroes defeat bad guys. Chris Cuomo feels bad when bad guys die. Like when almost the entire world was thrilled that Osama Bin Laden was shot dead, Cuomo was brooding with the terrorists: “I don’t like the idea of anybody having to lose their life.”

Hero he is not: