Anderson Cooper Goes Cory Booker on Obama Campaign Spokesman

NewsBusters ^ | May 22, 2012 | P.J. Gladnick

[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:

[ColdOne]

I saw this last evening. It was a hoot.

[jonno]

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

Agreed. Cooper - though he apparently tried - did a poor job of adequately framing the administration's hypocrisy and failed to pin the guy to the mat.