Posted on 09/17/2018 7:56:42 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday unloaded on Twitter users, including Donald Trump Jr., spreading conspiracy theories about his coverage of Hurricane Florence.
Cooper said that in recent days, conspiracy theorists including President Trump's son, have shared a photo from his coverage of 2008’s Hurricane Ike and falsely claimed that it shows him exaggerating the depths of floodwaters in Hurricane Florence.
“I usually let conspiracy theorists go unanswered,” Cooper said, and referenced a number of online conspiracy theories accusing him of faking reporting on the Sandy Hook shootings and in Haiti.
In a nearly 10-minute segment live on CNN, Cooper debunked the theories by playing old CNN clips and explaining the make-up of the shot and the hurricane’s damage.
“I’ve covered hurricanes for about 14 years and it really does make me sad to think that anyone would believe that I would try to fake something or overly dramatize a disaster,” Cooper said.
Cooper hit Trump Jr. over his big-game hunting, which has repeatedly drawn criticism from wildlife advocates.
“I know he considers himself an outdoorsman and pays a lot of money to be led to wildlife in Africa that he then kills,” Cooper said. “But I’m not sure if he’s ever actually been to a hurricane or a flood.”
“I didn’t see him down in North Carolina the last few days helping out, lending a hand,” Cooper continued. “But I’m sure he was busy doing something important besides just tweeting lies.”
He went on to detail the “behind-the-scenes” of the shot, which shows a CNN cameraman standing ankle-deep in floodwaters, while Cooper stands in deeper waters a few feet away.
“The idea that I am kneeling in water to make it look deep is frankly, idiotic,” Cooper said, before playing a clip showing him walking into the deeper water.
Cooper ended the segment by pointing out that the person filming Cooper in the photo, longtime CNN audio tech Doug Thomas, died in September 2017, further proving that the footage was not taken during Florence.
“We miss him every day,” Cooper said.
The CNN anchor specifically tore into Trump Jr., who tweeted the 2008 photo and accused Cooper of “lying” to try to make his father, the president, “look bad.”
Oh.
I thought he was going to deny the Satan worshiping thing.
I guess not.
Anderson on his knees...
How, Ordinary....
Protest the truth much Andy??
Real “Fruit” from the family tree
Thanks for the reminder...I need to make a CNN meme.
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Cooper probably unloaded himself while he was standing in those flood waters.
LOL!
Maybe Anderson was on his knees showing how it would be if his boyfriend was there?
Gay propaganda geniuses, Kirk and Pil, of “After the Ball”(A gay brainwashing tract) say homosexuals make the best conmen.
When I saw that pick there were no captions saying he was kneeling nor that it was a recent photo- and there doesn’t need to be- it’s obvious Cooper is trying to exaggerate a flood event of some kind, some where, by standing in a ditch where people would not normally stand even in nice weather.
When I saw that pick there were no captions saying he was kneeling nor that it was a recent photo- and there doesn’t need to be- it’s obvious Cooper is trying to exaggerate a flood event of some kind, some where, by standing in a ditch where people would not normally stand even in nice weather.
There are CATTAILS growing where he is standing... a species known for growing in water.
Their disorder is enough to disqualify anything they say.
Cooper was one of many who were lying about the flooding. FOX showed a snake “swimming” past their reporter. Funny thing, it stopped dead still just past him. In reality the water was so shallow, the snake had crawled past the guy and you could see the street markings.
Some guys just belong in a ditch.
‘Anderson Cooper unloads…”
Ewwwwwwww
Anderson Cooper unloads a gerbil.
“or overly dramatize a disaster” What do you think you were doing hanging around in a ditch? This poof is so full of it.
In the photo, you can see the yellow line on the road where the camera man and sound man are standing. Why is AC in the ditch? There is supposed to be water in the ditch when it rains.
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