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Anderson Cooper Goes Cory Booker on Obama Campaign Spokesman
NewsBusters ^ | May 22, 2012 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 05/22/2012 7:31:49 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

One almost has to feel sorry for Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.  He showed up on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 yesterday probably expecting the type of softball questions that MSNBC hosts would toss at him. Instead, Anderson Cooper took a page from Cory Booker's criticism of  "nauseating" attacks on private equity firms such as Bain Capital and kept asking LaBolt how the Obama campaign can criticize Bain while simultaneously raising funds from the same type of companies.

The clearly unprepared LaBolt spent the interview filibustering with a flurry of words that were designed not to answer the questions about the obvious fundraising hypocrisy by the Obama campaign. Watch LaBolt as he filibusters his way to the end of the interview without giving any answers:

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andersoncooper; baincapital; corybooker; obama
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The Obama campaign spokesman might as well have been reading off soup can labels.
1 posted on 05/22/2012 7:32:02 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

I agree with Newt Ginrich. CNN has gotten to where it is more “fair and balanced” than FOX News. I still think the “fair-haired boy” of FOX, Bill O’Reilly, loves Obama and will probably vote for him.


2 posted on 05/22/2012 7:38:05 AM PDT by no dems (TED CRUZ: A PROVEN CONSERVATIVE FOR U.S. SENATE FROM TEXAS.)
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To: PJ-Comix

John Gibson played a clip on his radio show last week with Anderson grilling a MoveOn.org guy the same way. How can this be? Someone must be on vacation at CNN for journalism to break out twice in one month...


3 posted on 05/22/2012 7:38:05 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: PJ-Comix

The Obama campaign needs to start worrying abouth their candidates popularity when the media shills, as obnoxiously partisan as they are, start slipping off the bandwagon.


4 posted on 05/22/2012 7:39:35 AM PDT by skeeter
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On the other hand, they may just be setting themselves up for an epic attack on the GOP down the homestretch.

At this point its hard to believe they care more about their integrity than they do their ideology.

5 posted on 05/22/2012 7:41:53 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: LostInBayport

Anderson Cooper has occasional lapses of sanity.


6 posted on 05/22/2012 7:42:12 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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People don't want to believe it, but News is just kabuki theater. I suspect the powers that be are getting ready to change figureheads.
7 posted on 05/22/2012 7:43:52 AM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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To: PJ-Comix

The MSM have made recent pathetic , weaselly attempts to to backtrack from their perpetual adoration of Zero in a futile, transparent attempt to salvage some credibility.
Sorry,media-holes, you have destroyed your ‘profession’ and much of our Republic because of your ideological and personality cult devotion to this leftist grifter.
You are forever joined at the hip with him and are responsible for creating and enabling him and his regime.
It’s over for you.
Next.


8 posted on 05/22/2012 7:43:55 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: PJ-Comix

It is singularly amusing to watch one liberal trying to apply logic and reason in his questions to another liberal.

In my mind, it is the age-old equivalent of one trying to fellate oneself....hahahahahahahahah!


9 posted on 05/22/2012 7:43:55 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: PJ-Comix

I agree with Newt Ginrich. CNN has gotten to where it is more “fair and balanced” than FOX News. I still think the “fair-haired boy” of FOX, Bill O’Reilly, loves Obama and will probably vote for him.


10 posted on 05/22/2012 7:44:53 AM PDT by no dems (TED CRUZ: A PROVEN CONSERVATIVE FOR U.S. SENATE FROM TEXAS.)
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To: no dems

BOR likes Bam cuz he came on his show.

He would slobber over Charles Manson...if he came on his show. :-)


11 posted on 05/22/2012 7:45:18 AM PDT by Mountain Mary (One Nation Under God..."There I said it" ... Great One...)
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Bill O’Reilly, loves Obama and will probably vote for him

First and foremost, Bill O'Reilly loves Bill O'Reilly. I'll bet he writes his own name in every time he votes.

12 posted on 05/22/2012 7:46:11 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I carrying this lantern? you ask. I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I sense the boat is beginning a turn. Maybe not back to center where it never was but the heading seems to be changing away from the Obama camp these days....too many things finding themselves in the news from unexpected places...the Newark Mayor, some dem operatives, a book biography. A few more and this guy is toast because no one likes to see their dreams vanquished by a scam artist. Kind of like when the stockbroker calls with a cannot miss stock. The first time it happens and the stock tanks, one says I made a mistake I guess. The second time, no more calls accepted.

“Capt Obamahad, there are some torpedoes heading this way, what are your orders”....”ah, well, cough cough, well, you know, ah ah I think I have already answered ah cough cough well, you know, perhaps we can either steer to eh, ah left or ah is it well cough right.”

“Captain, is it port or starboard you want” Well, that is a complicated and ah ah, cough cough, you know ah not easily answered ah hex cough cough at this time because ah cough ah eh eh, well...the previous Captain did not eh how well you know leave me a plan”.

Glug Glug


13 posted on 05/22/2012 7:46:58 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: no dems

O’Reilly is a businessman first and foremost and what he is selling is ratings which translate into dollars for him. His fence straddling and contradictions such as appearing strongly Conservative one day and a kool aid drinker the next is done to keep the maximum amount of viewers.


14 posted on 05/22/2012 7:47:13 AM PDT by galloway15
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To: PJ-Comix
I think Mr Cooper can see the ratings writing on the wall...

Mike

15 posted on 05/22/2012 7:49:22 AM PDT by MichaelP (The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools ~HS)
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To: LostInBayport

Even liberals, and in this case, a gay liberal, don’t like it when you mess with their money..........


16 posted on 05/22/2012 7:49:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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To: skeeter

The temporary integrity is just a decoy to get ratings. They will return to their old ways when the “one” gives the command.


17 posted on 05/22/2012 7:51:49 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: Leaning Right

Right, BOR adores BOR.

Last night Laura Ingraham was sitting in for him so I decided to watch the show. Low and behold we get BOR calling in. I was about the change the channel when he blirts out “all we get from this guy is a song and dance, he never answers a question”. My question for him do you or don’t your support the OWS, YES OR NO”. He says he will have a segment on Obamahab’s positions tonight. I may even watch as I think BOR has been reading the tea leaves, not the ones about Soetoro, the ones about his declining watchers.


18 posted on 05/22/2012 7:53:00 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: Red Badger

Too much of America is buying what this guy is trying to pass off. That’s the problem.


19 posted on 05/22/2012 7:54:19 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Mountain Mary

Maybe Bill O’Reilly loves Obama because he bought one of his “The Factor” tchotchkes.


20 posted on 05/22/2012 7:56:39 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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