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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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Wasn't this cupcake injured in some other sort of international on-the-job accident??

Maybe he should insist on receiving hazard pay whenever he leaves the confines of the CNN studio...

1 posted on 12/04/2012 1:35:36 PM PST by Beaten Valve
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To: Beaten Valve

How’s he going to locate 0bama’s rear end?


2 posted on 12/04/2012 1:36:42 PM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: LyinLibs

His sniffer still works, don’t it?!! ;-)


3 posted on 12/04/2012 1:38:05 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Beaten Valve

Too many things I could say...


4 posted on 12/04/2012 1:39:32 PM PST by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: Beaten Valve

It would be nice if something like scales fell from his eyes, but that would take a miracle.


5 posted on 12/04/2012 1:40:12 PM PST by henkster ("The people who count the votes decide everything." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: Beaten Valve

6 posted on 12/04/2012 1:40:42 PM PST by SparkyBass
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To: Beaten Valve

Sure looks like he was not wearing sun glasses. Not too smart to spend the day on the water without eye protection.


9 posted on 12/04/2012 1:44:37 PM PST by CdMGuy
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To: Beaten Valve

Has anybody checked if there’s hair on his palms?

SnakeDoc


10 posted on 12/04/2012 1:45:32 PM PST by SnakeDoctor (Texas survived one Obama term, and we'll survive another. The rest of you are screwed.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Or he was staring two right in the eye and couldn’t make up his mind.


11 posted on 12/04/2012 1:45:42 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Beaten Valve

He was cockeyed.


12 posted on 12/04/2012 1:46:16 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Beaten Valve

Saw this jerk on Jeopardy.

Even with Celebrity Creampuff Questions he came across as a total ass.


13 posted on 12/04/2012 1:46:30 PM PST by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: Beaten Valve

I am so staying away from the self-writing jokes. I’d get banned. Yet again.

But I do hope he has a full recovery. The tosser.


14 posted on 12/04/2012 1:46:33 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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They're called sunglasses, Cooper! Get some!



(Hey, you sure you didn't get poked in the eye with something?)
15 posted on 12/04/2012 1:46:49 PM PST by servo1969
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To: Beaten Valve

Got some seafoam in his eyes.

Or something like that.


16 posted on 12/04/2012 1:47:05 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: henkster

You’ll shoot your eye out.


17 posted on 12/04/2012 1:47:16 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Beaten Valve

Anchor’s Eyes Burned in Horrific Golden Showers Mishap.


18 posted on 12/04/2012 1:47:24 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Beaten Valve

Hirsute tea bags can scratch the heck out of a cornea.


19 posted on 12/04/2012 1:51:02 PM PST by Cyman
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To: Beaten Valve

The blindness will pass, the braindead is forever.


20 posted on 12/04/2012 1:53:07 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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