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CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper Loses It, Curses In Anger During Rod Blagojevich Interview

Posted on 2/23/20 at 4:39 pm
Posted by SavageOrangeJug
Member since Oct 2005
19758 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 4:39 pm
Cooper has dropped all pretense of being an unbiased journalist.

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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper lost his cool during a Friday night interview with newly released former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

In a contentious interview, Cooper finally boiled over after hearing Blagojevich’s defense of his gubernatorial record and his criminal case. Blagojevich was convicted of trying to sell or trade the Illinois Senate seat that Barack Obama vacated when he became President. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison and began serving time in 2012, but recently had his sentence commuted by President Donald Trump.

“I bet if you were to ask Nelson Mandela whether he thought it was fair in the early ‘60s in South Africa, he would say what I’m saying today,” Blagojevich said.

Cooper countered, “I’ve just got to stop you. As someone who worked in South Africa and saw apartheid, the idea that you are comparing yourself to somebody who has actually been railroaded by an apartheid system is just nuts and, frankly offensive.”


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Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
41582 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 4:42 pm to
Blagojevich really is a piece of shite though
Posted by Ricardo
Member since Sep 2016
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Posted on 2/23/20 at 4:43 pm to
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This post was edited on 6/14/20 at 8:47 pm
Posted by xiv
Parody. #AdminsRule
Member since Feb 2004
39508 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 4:44 pm to
If Cooper can’t dunk on Blagojevich when he says he’s a political prisoner, what good is he?
Posted by TigerNAtux
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2007
18474 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 4:47 pm to
The fact that either one views Nelson Mandela as someone to admire...
Well, that speaks for itself.

Typical socialist.
Posted by OnTheGeaux
Har Tavor
Member since Oct 2009
3067 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 4:47 pm to
All prisoners are political prisoners.
Posted by Huge Richard
Member since Dec 2018
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Posted on 2/23/20 at 4:48 pm to
How is that “losing it”
Posted by 14&Counting
Dallas, TX
Member since Jul 2012
41416 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 4:48 pm to
Can't blame Cooper getting salty
Posted by Jay Quest
Once removed from Massachusetts
Member since Nov 2009
10683 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 4:48 pm to
quote:

Blagojevich really is a piece of shite though

So was Nelson Mandela so the comparison is apt.
Posted by L.A.
The Mojave Desert
Member since Aug 2003
65325 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 4:49 pm to
What can I say? Women tend to get emotional
Posted by Ag Zwin
Member since Mar 2016
25233 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 4:55 pm to
quote:

As someone who worked in South Africa and saw apartheid,


I think he should have stayed in prison, and AC is a pretentious, privileged brat.

TBS, you just know he loved being able to throw this out there as one of his “bona fides”.
Posted by GooseSix
Member since Jun 2012
21930 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 4:55 pm to
Cooper is an abomination to humans.
Posted by diat150
Louisiana
Member since Jun 2005
47195 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 5:04 pm to
Anderson cooper is the whitest man in america
Posted by Tiger Roux
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
5019 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 5:08 pm to
Well Rod did tee that one up for fancy pants.
Posted by HonoraryCoonass
Member since Jan 2005
19807 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 5:14 pm to
quote:

Cooper has dropped all pretense of being an unbiased journalist


Blagojevich was guilty as hell, and was rightly convicted and sent to jail. Certainly you aren’t suggesting Cooper should have conducted that interview under the pretense that Blagojevich was innocent just to appear unbiased?

Blagojevich was a dimocratix, too, when he was sent to jail.
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
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Posted on 2/23/20 at 5:15 pm to
Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
135513 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 5:18 pm to
quote:

CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper Loses It, Curses In Anger During Rod Blagojevich Interview
I don't watch AC, because he is horrible.

But if that is not the worst performance of Cooper's career by a large margin, the man should not be lead on a Slidell evening broadcast, much less CNN.
Posted by Langland
Trumplandia
Member since Apr 2014
15382 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 5:21 pm to
Anderson Cooper is gay.
Posted by dcbl
Good guys wear white hats.
Member since Sep 2013
31552 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 5:24 pm to
quote:

Can't blame Cooper getting salty

yeah, have to agree on this
Posted by RockyMtnTigerWDE
War Damn Eagle Dad!
Member since Oct 2010
108123 posts
Posted on 2/23/20 at 5:34 pm to
Why couldn’t cooper destroy him calmly and with facts? It just proves how the media works from a base of emotions that get in the way of their reporting.
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