CNN anchor Chris Cuomo's profane confrontation with a conservative agitator who compared him to a character from "The Godfather" was the latest chapter in the Cuomo family's decades-long, public battle against Italian slurs and stereotypes.

Cuomo, the CNN anchor, was captured in a video posted Monday showing him angrily threatening a provocateur who called him "Fredo," a character portrayed as a weak son of the Mafia boss in the vaunted film.