Homophobic Trump supporters attack Anderson Cooper with gay slurs

[KamaAina]

http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/anderson-cooper-homophobic-attacks-twitter/

Anderson Cooper is being targeted in homophobic attacks on Twitter following last night’s presidential debate.

The CNN anchor co-moderated the second face-off between Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz. Cooper and Raddatz asked tough, pointed questions of the candidates following two debates in which moderators were viewed as not interjecting enough. During the vice presidential debate between Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Gov. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the two men frequently talked over moderator Elaine Quijano.

Twitter responded to the hands-on approach in the worst way, calling Cooper a series of homophobic slurs during the debate. Many of the offending tweets, which are extremely graphic and NSFW, are embedded below. There are, however, many more exactly like them....

The CNN anchor, who came out publicly in 2012 following years of speculation, became the first openly gay man to host a presidential debate on Sunday night. Prior to the event, Trump criticized the choice of Cooper as a debate moderator, arguing that he was too “biased” to fairly emcee the contest.

Wait a minute. Anderson Cooper's gay?!

[underpants]

1. I assumed they'd go after Raddatz

Apparently I was wrong.

BTW - the CIA thing is based on Cooper having interned two summers in college and realizing that that wasn't what he wanted to do. It's legend and lore in their world that Anderson Cooper is a CIA operative.

[closeupready]

3. Gloria Steinem was also a CIA operative early on.

True.

[world wide wally]

7. Valerie Plame was… and we see what Cheney did to her

[closeupready]

2. He's smart enough to avoid social media entirely. No upside for him.

No upside for almost anyone IMO, but definitely not for him. So, he probably gives zero fucks.

But of course, keyboard warriors will continue to tweet insults at him, going at it at 3:00 a.m., furiously. Lots of funny gifs on Google Images ("Keyboard Warrior" + "Stephen forgets that he isn't on the internet&quot ...

[sarae]

4. And Hillary is supposed to apologize for rightfully calling these idiots deplorables??

Fuck them.

[world wide wally]

8. This! ^

[TheDebbieDee]

5. Gloria Vanderbilt is his Mom - Did you know that?

[Behind the Aegis]

9. I am shocked.

Homophobia: En vogue again.

Doubt many will even give two shits though.