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Anderson Cooper Temporarily Blinded During Trip To Portugal
TV Newser ^ | Dev 4, 2012 | Alex Werpin

Posted on 12/04/2012 1:35:35 PM PST by Beaten Valve

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was in Portugal last week shooting a story for CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” and he ended up being temporarily blinded for 36 hours.

He recounts the harrowing experience on his daytime talk show “Anderson Live.” In a nutshell, he was shooting out at sea, and sunlight reflecting off of the water burned his retina:

“I wake up in the middle of the night and it feels like my eyes are on fire, my eyeballs and I think oh maybe I have sand in my eyes or something. I douse my eyes with water. Anyway, it turns out I have sunburned my eyeballs and I go blind. I went blind for 36 hours.”

He took the picture above after visiting the doctor.

Video after the jump.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andersoncooper; andersonpooper; cnn; lavendermafia; pinkeye
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To: Beaten Valve

I’ve never heard of such a thing.

So why weren’t all pirates blind?

How did England conquer the world with a blind navy?


21 posted on 12/04/2012 1:53:22 PM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: Beaten Valve; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

Dang me, and I thought that being blind was a prerequisite for a anchorman job!


22 posted on 12/04/2012 1:53:30 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Beaten Valve
oh maybe I have sand in my eyes
From being out at sea?
23 posted on 12/04/2012 1:53:48 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Beaten Valve

I guess he didn’t stop ...


24 posted on 12/04/2012 1:55:09 PM PST by x
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To: LyinLibs

Blind..... what’s that old saying about going blind?


25 posted on 12/04/2012 1:55:09 PM PST by fivecatsandadog (Reality ruins everything.)
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To: Beaten Valve

Wouldn’t wish this on anyone. Accidentally did it to myself years ago while welding. Feels like teaspoons of sand were dumped in each eye!


26 posted on 12/04/2012 1:56:03 PM PST by tired&retired
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To: Slings and Arrows

You are sooooo bad!!!!!


27 posted on 12/04/2012 1:56:30 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Beaten Valve

happened to me once when I was a kid —forgot my goggles but skied all day anyway, a super bright day.

Horrrrible pain, I had to be totally immobile for 2 days or so.

I was scared as hell.


28 posted on 12/04/2012 1:57:25 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Beaten Valve

sorry to hear about the physical ailment but there is a lot of reality to which Anderson seems permanently blind as well.


29 posted on 12/04/2012 1:59:10 PM PST by NonValueAdded (If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
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To: fivecatsandadog
what’s that old saying about going blind?

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband." - Michel de Montaigne

30 posted on 12/04/2012 2:00:28 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Beaten Valve
Next time, wear your sunglasses.


32 posted on 12/04/2012 2:02:40 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Beaten Valve

unlike a catcher or an umpire he does not wear the requisite mask to protect himself from errant balls hitting him in the face.


33 posted on 12/04/2012 2:04:26 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Beaten Valve

I was always told by my grandfather that this would happen if I played with myself too often


34 posted on 12/04/2012 2:04:41 PM PST by dirtymac (Now is the for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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To: Beaten Valve

The responses to this thread are hilarious!


35 posted on 12/04/2012 2:05:17 PM PST by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Beaten Valve

Dear children,

If a blind man leads a blind man, they both fall into a pit. ~ Love, God.


36 posted on 12/04/2012 2:07:42 PM PST by Truth2012
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To: Beaten Valve

Has the Left blamed it on Bush (or recent Repubs) yet?


37 posted on 12/04/2012 2:07:48 PM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Beaten Valve
Yeah, it was just a matter of time:


38 posted on 12/04/2012 2:08:58 PM PST by Slyfox (The key to Marxism is medicine - V. Lenin)
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To: donna

There’s a vast difference between amateur and professional seaman.

(Arr!)


39 posted on 12/04/2012 2:09:09 PM PST by Salamander (If animals could speak, mankind would weep.)
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To: Beaten Valve
Maybe he finally saw Kathy Griffin naked:


40 posted on 12/04/2012 2:09:31 PM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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