HYPOCRISY IS THE TRIBUTE THAT VICE PAYS TO VIRTUE: “Hours after apologizing for lecturing public-radio reporter Karen DeWitt about sexual harassment, Gov. Cuomo held his birthday fund-raising party — with ex-President Bill Clinton as the star guest. Oops.”

Plus:

New York’s own Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has made “believing the women” her core issue. She led the carefully orchestrated denunciations that forced out Sen. Al Franken, and she’s even continued standing by the Columbia University “Mattress Girl” long after the woman’s claims were totally debunked by her own text messages.

But Gillibrand wound up having to partly walk back her slam of Bill Clinton. After she said he should have resigned the presidency over his intrinsically exploitative affair with a White House intern, Clintonite Philippe Reines slammed her for ingratitude — noting that the Clintons helped her rise to her current high office.

And Gillibrand dutifully backed off — clarifying that, if the nation had today’s awareness back then, Clinton’s conduct would’ve been inexcusable. Got it?

She’s awful, even by the low standards of Senators from New York.