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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere goes any respect I had left for Anderson Cooper
He's defending the CNN town hall. Sounds like Licht demanded he go out and cover for CNN.
Link to tweet

onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)I was hoping he would resign. He can eff off too.
Skittles
(163,576 posts)WE'VE BEEN LISTENING TO THAT BLUBBERING ORANGE FASCIST FUCKWAD FOR, LIKE, A FUCKING DECADE NOW.....GIVE IT A FUCKING BREAK
Bev54
(12,389 posts)But do you think giving him a Forum in front of an audience he picked is journalism?
Johonny
(23,417 posts)In American politics you could have missed Trump (the former president) message these last 7 years! I mean, is there any one man in politics who just about every American knows their opinion on any insane topic it's Donald Trump. He makes Trump sound like a black lives matter or Trans rights activist, instead of the single most covered politician of our life time. A privilege CNN once again proved he doesn't deserve because all he does is lie, self promote, and threaten to do deeply unconstitutional things. Anderson can go fuck himself and his BS soapbox he's pretending to preach from. Nothing, nothing Trump said last night was new or have we been sheltered away from. Nothing. We've seen this movie before. It's been jammed down our throats.
Tetrachloride
(8,666 posts)Dranks Coors. Got his cuckoo clock cleaned by Licht.
Wanted to keep his chair.
Spine took a walk.
NoMoreRepugs
(11,229 posts)my Democracy a bad thing?
FalloutShelter
(13,276 posts)No matter what happens to Americans
Anderson will be okay.
They can feel a-okay with platforming that monster and lecture us on being in our silo.
Fucking condescending and soul dead.
LakeArenal
(29,941 posts)That is all there is.
IcyPeas
(23,471 posts)Abolishinist
(2,433 posts)"Its not an issue of agreeing or disagreeing. We arent talking about different approaches to policy or platform. Its not about staying in a silo
this is about giving a platform to someone who used his reach to incite a violent attack on our Capitol in an effort to subvert the will of the people & install himself as a dictator".
Cooper should cut back his schedule to his once-a-year, giggly drunken New Year's Eve celebration.
Scrivener7
(55,440 posts)Why do we STILL need to be telling them this??
Takket
(22,940 posts)coverage.
Silent Type
(9,029 posts)unblock
(55,023 posts)
The media has long been quite selective in which candidates it covers and which viewpoints it promotes and so on.
A democrat with a fraction of Donnie's scandals would never get this kind of attention. They'd be declared politically DOA and ignored.
Ms. Toad
(36,695 posts)There is a significant difference between listening only to those we agree with and giving a free recruiting platform to a dangerous lying narcisissitic abusive bully.
You'd pretty much have to be dead not to know what he's saying. The media can't seem to ignore him. They don't need to go beyond that to promoting him.
RockRaven
(17,165 posts)Hard pass for me. Cable news is trash, full stop.
debm55
(44,382 posts)I hope Jim continues to tell it like it is. The rest of CNN is gone for me.
Johonny
(23,417 posts)Elections to listen to Trump rant. LOL. Trump the American in least need of a free soap box is the man Anderson thinks we've been too sheltered from hearing his message. CNN is a joke.
BigmanPigman
(52,895 posts)Apparently, he did not take my advice or input. Same goes for Licht. Writing letters and boycotting are not doing the trick (yet). We need big names and advertisers to boycott. $$$$$ talks, not opinions of viewers.
debm55
(44,382 posts)BigmanPigman
(52,895 posts)They can't twist that into their agenda, at least not yet. I've boycotted them for many months and informed my Dem family and friends about the change in their "news" program. They are becoming an "entertainment/news network" like Fux.
debm55
(44,382 posts)Cha
(309,868 posts)Gaslit Shit!
Fucking ".. listening to people(?) you don't agree with?!!
How Stupid does he think his audience is? No fucking cigar, Coop.. not even a a 1/2 way decent try.
Skittles
(163,576 posts)apparently Anderson received the main assignment; I am very disappointed he agreed.
debm55
(44,382 posts)And it was the same shit on CNN, Wednesday night. Almost word for word.
Cha
(309,868 posts)his audience.
Wonder how many viewers he saved with that condescending crap?
I've read about his rallies here and, of course, they were Nazi Hate Fests meant to pump up Putin's Puppet.
debm55
(44,382 posts)I heard him--it was all the again. There were no actual plans. Always talked about what he did good for the country--which was nothing.
Scrivener7
(55,440 posts)I'm really done with CNN.
There is no virtue to giving that man a platform. Not for the network and not for the watcher. And the sad thing is that they know it.
And Anderson Cooper shaking his finger at us for objecting doesn't change that fact.
Phoenix61
(18,293 posts)All his money and privilege wont save him if Trump gets in the WH.
BigmanPigman
(52,895 posts)Are they buddies still or did Chris and Don have a falling out over CNN?
debm55
(44,382 posts)during the Covid helped me.
BigmanPigman
(52,895 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,921 posts)His comments are obviously cut short.
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NowISeetheLight
(3,996 posts)Yes people wont just go away. But you dont need to cater to them, pack an audience with cult followers, and give them a platform.
GoodRaisin
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Its having better ways to spend my time. We know who he and his followers are. Theyve told us before. Its not like hes new or anything.
Go ahead, show all the shit you want to show. Help put the pig back in office, just dont complain about him anymore when your country falls apart. Fuck you and fuck your network.
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eShirl
(19,262 posts)How many times is enough for him?
betsuni
(27,792 posts)You can actually get involved."
I agree with Anderson.
tavernier
(13,640 posts)And part of my power is to deny the republican billionaires the right to spread their horse shit propaganda into my home. I hope my silo is tall enough to break through the stench.
Oh, and Cooper? Buh bye.