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Anderson Pooper? CNN Anchor Scat-Slashes Paid Pro-Trump Contributor on Air
Newsbusters.org ^ | May 20, 2017 | Tim Graham

Posted on 05/20/2017 9:09:32 AM PDT by Kaslin

This week, the Media Research Center posted a study of one CNN day showing that the network is obsessed with President Trump and the overwhelming majority of CNN’s experts opining on Trump are highly negative. CNN’s rare allowance of pro-Trump voices often come from commentators they pay to defend Trump. So why insult them when that’s what you pay them to do?

On his primetime show AC360 Friday night, Anderson Cooper interrupted one of Jeffrey Lord's defenses of Trump -- saying he doesn't care what Trump tells the Russians -- by saying "if he took a dump on his desk, you would defend it." Lord laughed, and just kept making his point. Earth to Cooper: You’re paying him to defend Trump. If he didn’t defend Trump, he’d be violating his reason for appearing. And he’s also paid to be insulted as a stooge. But how crude does this paid-contributor combat have to sink? Is this a ratings stunt?

The average Trump voter out in the country would not have laughed. They would have offered him a cruder insult. Or they would have punched him. (I might have said “You let Kathy Griffin kiss your crotch on television after she said "I'm going to tickle your sack," so maybe you shouldn’t lecture about dignity on TV.”)

Cooper tried to soften his sleazy attack: “I mean, I don’t know what he would do that you would not defend,” the CNN host told Lord. “I mean, you’re a loyal guy, I think that speaks well of you.” He apologized a few minutes later: "I was a little crude before, I apologize. I like having your voice on here, and I think you're an important voice to have." Lord replied: "No offense taken." [As you may have noticed, Lord writes a Saturday column for NewsBusters, and did so before getting the CNN deal.]

Cooper also apologized on Twitter: “I regret the crude sentence I spoke earlier tonight and followed it up by apologizing on air. It was unprofessional. I am genuinely sorry.”

The inherent problem with the paid pro-Trump contributor is that CNN hosts are itching to make them defend what they think is indefensible. They wouldn’t force a Clintonista like Paul Begala or Donna Brazile to defend anything they thought was indefensible by Clinton. They’d all gloss over it. They certainly wouldn’t go looking for anonymous sources to report the claim that Bill or Hillary was calling people nut jobs (or worse, like oh, “f---ing Jew bastard,” in Hillary’s case.) They certainly wouldn’t tell Begala or Carville that if Clinton pooped on their desk, they’d defend it.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: andersoncooper360; andersonpooper; andrsoncooper; clintonnewsnetwork; cnn; cooper; homosexualagenda; jeffreylord; media; msm; presidenttrump; trashtv
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1 posted on 05/20/2017 9:09:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

This is a “journalist” in 2017


2 posted on 05/20/2017 9:12:16 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: Kaslin

The fascinating point, is to find when does the MSM disagree with the DNC. Absolutely never. A true telltale sign of bias.


3 posted on 05/20/2017 9:14:27 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: headstamp 2

Journalist?

No, they do it for the money, they are now Press-titutes.


4 posted on 05/20/2017 9:16:59 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Titus-Maximus

Criticisms of the Muslim Boy King: 0

Criticisms of the Wicked Witch of the Foundation: 0

Criticisms of our truly patriotic President: 10,000 per day


5 posted on 05/20/2017 9:21:03 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump++)
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To: Kaslin
Homos have a “feces fetish”. It's all about the poop.
6 posted on 05/20/2017 9:22:05 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: Kaslin

CNN is 97 percent negative in their Trump coverage, but even Fox News is 53 percent negative.


7 posted on 05/20/2017 9:22:09 AM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, every Democrat is a communist.)
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To: Kaslin
James Woods went after Anderson Cooper with a brazenly homophobic tweet about Cooper's now infamous eye roll.

The actor posted a GIF of Anderson rolling his eyes during an interview with Kellyanne Conway a few days ago. He captioned it ... "As his butt plug dislodges during a newscast."



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8 posted on 05/20/2017 9:24:23 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Kaslin

Since A. Cooper is a sodomite fudgepacker, I don’t expect anything straightforward or honorable from him. I’m never disappointed.


9 posted on 05/20/2017 9:36:18 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Known as the Father of modern agriculture)
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.

Enabling, parent companies: Disney, Comcast, Time Warner, CBS


10 posted on 05/20/2017 9:40:29 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric
America's once vaunted "Fourth Estate" has become our presently reviled "Fifth Column." Off with their heads. They are now a subversive propagandist element committed to destroying our duly elected president.

Just as the "First Amendment" doesn't protect yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater, neither does it protect deliberately deceitful insurrectionist propaganda. The penalty should be death by public hanging.

Short of that, we can always start a rope-'n'-pitchfork brigade, and take matters into our own very capable hands...

...the pigs will either change their M.O. or we will change them. I'm fine with just letting that threat hang in the ether for the next few days.

11 posted on 05/20/2017 9:50:48 AM PDT by Gargantua ("Still not tired of winning---beeyotch!" ;^)
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To: ForYourChildren

He looks like he’s sitting on one of his probes.


12 posted on 05/20/2017 10:18:08 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Kaslin

I guess Mrs. Vanderbilt’s money and privilege didn’t impart any manners on Mr. Pooper, oh I’m sorry Mr. Anderson Cooper.


13 posted on 05/20/2017 10:29:08 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas
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To: Kaslin

Anderson Cooper has diarrhea of the mouth.


14 posted on 05/20/2017 11:04:31 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Kaslin

I always refer to him as Anderson stick it in my pooper.


15 posted on 05/20/2017 12:08:07 PM PDT by POWG
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To: Kaslin

Anderson allowed his special fascination with anuses to get in the way of his journalistic judgment.....


16 posted on 05/20/2017 9:33:54 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Kaslin

My response would be ... Well yes, I’d defend it, after all, it is HIS desk Anderson!


17 posted on 05/20/2017 11:04:10 PM PDT by zencycler
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