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Anderson Cooper Temporarily Blinded During Trip To Portugal
TV Newser ^
| Dev 4, 2012
| Alex Werpin
Posted on 12/04/2012 1:35:35 PM PST by Beaten Valve
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was in Portugal last week shooting a story for CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” and he ended up being temporarily blinded for 36 hours.
He recounts the harrowing experience on his daytime talk show “Anderson Live.” In a nutshell, he was shooting out at sea, and sunlight reflecting off of the water burned his retina:
“I wake up in the middle of the night and it feels like my eyes are on fire, my eyeballs and I think oh maybe I have sand in my eyes or something. I douse my eyes with water. Anyway, it turns out I have sunburned my eyeballs and I go blind. I went blind for 36 hours.”
He took the picture above after visiting the doctor.
Video after the jump.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andersoncooper; andersonpooper; cnn; lavendermafia; pinkeye
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Wasn't this cupcake injured in some other sort of international on-the-job accident??
Maybe he should insist on receiving hazard pay whenever he leaves the confines of the CNN studio...
To: Beaten Valve
How’s he going to locate 0bama’s rear end?
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posted on
12/04/2012 1:36:42 PM PST
by
LyinLibs
(If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
To: LyinLibs
His sniffer still works, don’t it?!! ;-)
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posted on
12/04/2012 1:38:05 PM PST
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Beaten Valve
Too many things I could say...
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posted on
12/04/2012 1:39:32 PM PST
by
ejonesie22
(8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
To: Beaten Valve
It would be nice if something like scales fell from his eyes, but that would take a miracle.
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posted on
12/04/2012 1:40:12 PM PST
by
henkster
("The people who count the votes decide everything." -Joseph Stalin)
To: Beaten Valve
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To: Beaten Valve
Sure looks like he was not wearing sun glasses. Not too smart to spend the day on the water without eye protection.
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posted on
12/04/2012 1:44:37 PM PST
by
CdMGuy
To: Beaten Valve
Has anybody checked if there’s hair on his palms?
SnakeDoc
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posted on
12/04/2012 1:45:32 PM PST
by
SnakeDoctor
(Texas survived one Obama term, and we'll survive another. The rest of you are screwed.)
To: Red_Devil 232
Or he was staring two right in the eye and couldn’t make up his mind.
To: Beaten Valve
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posted on
12/04/2012 1:46:16 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Beaten Valve
Saw this jerk on Jeopardy.
Even with Celebrity Creampuff Questions he came across as a total ass.
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posted on
12/04/2012 1:46:30 PM PST
by
ZULU
(See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
To: Beaten Valve
I am so staying away from the self-writing jokes. I’d get banned. Yet again.
But I do hope he has a full recovery. The tosser.
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posted on
12/04/2012 1:46:33 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
To: Beaten Valve
They're called sunglasses, Cooper! Get some!
(Hey, you sure you didn't get poked in the eye with something?)
To: Beaten Valve
Got some seafoam in his eyes.
Or something like that.
To: henkster
You’ll shoot your eye out.
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posted on
12/04/2012 1:47:16 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Beaten Valve
Anchor’s Eyes Burned in Horrific Golden Showers Mishap.
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posted on
12/04/2012 1:47:24 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: Beaten Valve
Hirsute tea bags can scratch the heck out of a cornea.
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posted on
12/04/2012 1:51:02 PM PST
by
Cyman
To: Beaten Valve
The blindness will pass, the braindead is forever.
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posted on
12/04/2012 1:53:07 PM PST
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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