No, lie, cheat, distort, DEFEND YOUR BEHAVIOR, and then say it never happened. If it never happened, why defend your behavior? If your behavior was fine, why expunge it?
Instead he was an old,disheveled,gravelly voiced,unattractive,inarticulate,grand standing bozo that asked a nonsensical question.
Furthermore,Cooper chose to prolong this poor speciman's minutes of "face time" by giving him the mike after the question had been dealt with quite adequately and the old coot went blithering on. I bet every gay and gay sympathizer got word to CNN to deep six the whole encounter.
If he had been appealing,they would have let it stand and toughed it out. As it was,it was to the Republicans benefit had they kept it. If Republicans were smart they would demand that it be put back in.
If I were a Democrat or a homosexual I would demand that Cooper be fired for making such a dumb,transparent move and aiding the enemy so to speak.