CNN's Anderson Cooper Losing It -- LIVE!!!

CNN -- live ^ | September 2, 2005 | self - vanity

[Poundstone]

Anybody watching Anderson Cooper now? He's losing it publicly, blasting Sen. Landrieu, saying she doesn't understand the pain of the New Orleans survivors. He seems traumatized by having witnessed a couple of dead bodies in the streets. Cooper seems like he's descending into madness.

[Don_Ret_USAF]

Better yet have the FCC pull they license to broadcast. Ouch that hurt!!!

[Mo1]

She is doing more of the blame game

This is annoying and giving me a bleeping headache

[TAP ONLINE]

>Then maybe CNN and Fox need to pull them out of there and make them take a few days off, because it sounds to me like they're both on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that, given what they're dealing with, but they're not going to be capable of doing their jobs if they fall apart.>

I'd agree to that. I have a slight sense of what they feel.(lost all once, business, home, belongings, livelihood in a fire)But my townspeople were there and we had shelter and love that very night. This, however is very, very different. And remember they are only seeing what occurs in front of them, death destruction and delay. I was in SC when Andrew was supposed to hit. Fleeing people from Charleston poured into our restaurant with no cash (credit card and ATM's were off) and no place to stay or means to buy gas. Feeding many for free and ice cream's around for the children, we did what we could. But Andrew went farther north, and we were spared, but simmering under all of this was a terror, that could have turned violent. People felt abandoned by their government. Lied to and ignored. It was quite a time.

[TVenn]

Who are you angry at?

The response was completely appropriate.

Sen. Landrieu was thanking this politician and that politician for great service when Cooper was witnessing firsthand conditions that did not justify the praise she was handing out.

Doctors and nurses are watching their ICU and critically ill patients die while they are stranded in a hospital 3 days after the event. They don't have water. They don't have food.They don't have electricty for lights.

I am angry at the utter and complete incompetence of our state and federal politicians. They get paid to do a job. They are not doing their job.

Instead they go on CNN and congradulate each othe for their incompetence.

Cooper had every right to be outraged.

[ErnBatavia]

but the snide, anti-Bush comments from morning to night are beyond copeable

I'm with you there....late morning our time, they had some witch as an anchor who was almost hysterical about some upcoming press conferences, champing at the bit about hoping some questioner would blast the administration.

(...and she needn't have worried - they did)

[kcvl]

Mary Landrieu : "There is plenty of blame to go around".

Yes, and it starts with YOUR ENTIRE CRIMINAL FAMILY!!! How many years have you had to FIX the problem, Mary?!!!

[surrey]

Finis Shellnutt trapped in his apartment telling O'Reilly about the looting. Finis is/was married to Jennifer Flowers.

[Archidamus]

LOL!!

I wish I had seen that.

[Martin Tell]

Good post. We have all become such sheep, waiting around for the authorities to tell us what to do instead of taking charge of our own destinies.

I hoped that in the wake of 9/11 (and especially Flight 93) folks would have learned the wisdom of taking matters into their own hands, but I suppose not.

Sunday night I saw on TV that huge line of people waiting to get into the Superdome, and it looked to me like they were going to jail. I think I would have taken my chances in my home - with Katrina, looters and all.

[JimDingle]

And brother in law to Web Hubble.

[gusopol3]

phase 1: Monday A.M.: Category 4 hurricane strikes with rapidly rising water, wind, death and destruction. Phase 2: early Tuesday A.M. , levees break, with slowly rising water, more destruction, but very few deaths. Politicians not to blame for Phase 1; Phase 2: long decades of inadequate risk assessment/response by people ranging from the humblest apartment dweller to many Presidents for many decades. And what when San Fran suffers what we all know is coming?

[cricket]

"Same way with Shep Smith on Fox. These guys need to be pulled out of the area. They are contributing to the panic."

I think Shep is doing a great job. . .an incredible job, in fact. . .

. . .and why would he be contributing to the panic, since the majority of these victims have not been able to watch tv in the first place and so have not seen him. . .or any of the coverage thus far.

As for Anderson, he is not in Shep's league, period.

[Labyrinthos]

What's a "CNN?" Is that like a UFO?

[Lancey Howard]

Now Cathy why would he blast Bush?

Well, it was Bush, after all, who has disrespected the "mainstream" newsrooms by refusing to fire Karl Rove, and it was Rove who unleashed hurrican Katrina for the sole purpose of knocking Cindy Sheehan off the front page.

[higgmeister]

Who is Anderson Cooper and what are you doing watching
a Communist News Network media moonbat?

[Mo1]

I'm thinking that is why Mary didn't jump at the opportunity that Paula gave her to bash Bush

Mary knows not to play politics at this time

[processing please hold]

It is our state politicans fault. I finally agree with the dolt.

[montomike]

I think he was saying that Shep smokes White Owls!

[JimDingle]

Would you rather have Geraldo down there being overly dramatic and pretending he is underattack or come down with a waterborn disease?

[Texasforever]

I think Shep is doing a great job. . .an incredible job, in fact. .

He has no business in a disaster area if he can't control his emotions.