she was thanking people, not "handing out kudos." If you want to see someone handing out spurious, smarmy kudos about "incredible reporting, " etc., just watch Aaron Brown tonight or any night.
I know about Aaron Brown and his smarmy ways. This discussion is about Cooper and the stupid comments about how he isn't used to being in places of risk, unrest and instability, when he has.
He also made it plain during the Lebanese trip I referred to that the people felt they could rise up because of George W. Bush and the war in Iraq. He reported that over and over; the inane comments about his automatically being presumed as anti-Bush are baseless. (I am not saying he's pro-Bush, either, but he does not seek to report from the anti-angle as some here erroneously seem to think)