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In reply to the discussion: Anderson Cooper is most definitely in the bag for the Republicans, [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)what has become of the MSM, he's infotainment. But he's good at pretending to be a journalist. Eg, many of us emailed and tweeted him about his silence on the OWS movement but he refused to comment. He waited to cover the Arab Spring which many of us had been following before the US media, except for a few war correspondents, finally got around to it AFTER the US finally realized the people were going to prevail in Egypt. Remember Joe Biden stating that Mubarak was a 'good friend and ally of the US'? CNN took their cue from the US Government and didn't begin covering it until the Government finally realized that things were going to change regardless of how they felt about it.
At that point, Anderson Cooper did some great coverage, he is genuinely good at this kind of coverage and was one of the best places to go on the US media for coverage of the Egyptian Revolution, AFTER he got the go-ahead. However, when the US people joined the Arab Spring and also went into the streets, he completely ignored it.
I don't think he's a rabid right winger by any means. I do think he supports social justice generally speaking but he definitely is not a Liberal. It's interesting to see that people view him as a Liberal.