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Lap of luxury for Anderson Cooper
New York Post ^ | 10-29-09

Posted on 10/30/2009 10:08:29 AM PDT by Snickering Hound

Edited on 10/30/2009 10:11:41 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Anderson Cooper has been consoling himself over falling ratings by living it up in Jaipur, India, at one of the world's most opulent hotels.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: andersoncooper; cnn
He's not gay.
1 posted on 10/30/2009 10:08:29 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

He makes Liberace look like John Wayne in comparison.


2 posted on 10/30/2009 10:09:29 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Yes, he is. Duh!


3 posted on 10/30/2009 10:09:32 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: Snickering Hound

“He’s not gay.”

He’s just a little extra happy.


4 posted on 10/30/2009 10:12:35 AM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
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To: Snickering Hound
Who?


5 posted on 10/30/2009 10:12:42 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Snickering Hound

His mom started Gloria Vanderbilt jeans, or some crap like that. The poofter is LOADED.


6 posted on 10/30/2009 10:12:44 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Snickering Hound

I assume it’s his money. If so, he can spend (or more accurately, waste) it however he wants.


7 posted on 10/30/2009 10:13:37 AM PDT by freespirited (Liberals are only liberal about sex & drugs. Otherwise, they want to control your life. --DHorowitz)
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To: gaijin

she is his mother


8 posted on 10/30/2009 10:13:41 AM PDT by Citizen Soldier (Just got up from Bedroomshire)
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To: Snickering Hound

If he is spending his own money, it is none of our business.... just sayin’.


9 posted on 10/30/2009 10:13:52 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: gaijin

He is an heir to the Vanderbilt fortune.


11 posted on 10/30/2009 10:14:29 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: gaijin

The article says his bath was loaded with BUBBLES AND RED ROSE PETALS..?

That makes Richard Simmons seem like John Wayne.

GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY


12 posted on 10/30/2009 10:15:39 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: LucyT
well, i don't really buy that. if someone makes a living in the public eye, then they open themselves up to a certain level of scrutiny, IMHO.

it's like the actors who scream that they want their privacy but then they want the spotlight and attention when they have a new movie out. sorry, you live by it, you die by it.

anderson really wants you to watch his show, but he only wants his celebrity to be on his terms. if you want a private life, then go live a private life.

13 posted on 10/30/2009 10:17:04 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Snickering Hound
An exceedingly rich homosexual who enjoys living in opulent hotels in India is the sort of "journalist" who claims that they understand what the average American thinks.

The same sort of "journalist" will be happy to tell you that Sarah Palin is a stupid redneck with extremist views and that no one should pay any attention to people like that.

14 posted on 10/30/2009 10:17:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: Snickering Hound
Anderson Cooper In Jaipur With Boyfriend Benjamin Maisani

Maisani is the owner of a bar called Eastern Bloc in East Village. This is the second time he has been spotted with Anderson. The last time they were seen together was in June. They were spotted biking together. According to Anderson, he prefers not to talk about his personal life as he feels that it might harm his career. He stresses that as a reporter, it is imperative for him to mingle with all sorts of people and that exposed details of his personal life might ruin his chances. Read more:

15 posted on 10/30/2009 10:17:16 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Snickering Hound
"filled with bubbles and sprinkled with red rose petals" Bwahaha! My question is: Who is Bubbles?
16 posted on 10/30/2009 10:18:16 AM PDT by gigster
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To: kcvl

Red Herring Anderson!

Being gay doesn’t harm your career...being a over the top liberal news reader/personality does!


17 posted on 10/30/2009 10:19:46 AM PDT by MNlurker
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To: Snickering Hound

Personally I don’t care if the boy sleeps with livestock, but $3200 a night ain’t no Motel Six. That’d keep me in beer and beef jerky for an entire week.


18 posted on 10/30/2009 10:22:24 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: kcvl
Anderson Cooper was spotted wearing this t-shirt:


19 posted on 10/30/2009 10:24:15 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Snickering Hound
Read more: Anderson Cooper In Jaipur With Boyfriend Benjamin Maisani

By Madhuri Dey

Oct. 30, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Anderson Cooper has been spotted with his boyfriend Benjamin Maisani in India, apparently to spend a vacation. It is common knowledge that the CNN reporter is gay, but he had never before been public with his personal life. No wonder, then, that the photographs taken of the two has cooked up quite a storm among the paparazzi.

It has been assumed that Cooper and his boyfriend Maisani are staying at an expensive heritage hotel at Jaipur in Rajasthan, India. Photos of the two were taken while they were lounging at the Rambagh Palace Hotel, where the two are staying. An inside source reported to the New York Post that on the first night of their arrival, the two had hit upon the romantic idea of filling the bathtub in Anderson’s room with bubbles and sprinkling it with rose petals. It is reported that they have boarded the hotel at a whopping three thousand and two hundred dollars per night. The hotel was rated the most sophisticated hotel in the world by the Conde Nast Magazine and is also one of the most expensive ones.

Maisani is the owner of a bar called Eastern Bloc in East Village. This is the second time he has been spotted with Anderson. The last time they were seen together was in June. They were spotted biking together. According to Anderson, he prefers not to talk about his personal life as he feels that it might harm his career. He stresses that as a reporter, it is imperative for him to mingle with all sorts of people and that exposed details of his personal life might ruin his chances.

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Butt ,wait, there's more!

Benjamin Maisani owns the Eastern Bloc bar in New York City’s East Village, which is described by one reviewer on Yelp as “a true man meat bar” that is the “sexiest/hottest [gay] bar in Manhattan.” Gridskipper describes the bar as an “upscale gay bar with a welcoming, Soviet theme.”

20 posted on 10/30/2009 10:25:35 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Billthedrill

[1rudeboy forlornly stares at his paycheck stub]


21 posted on 10/30/2009 10:25:46 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Snickering Hound
From the comments section: Anderson Pooper-Scooper... Bwah ha ha...
22 posted on 10/30/2009 10:26:20 AM PDT by skikvt (Green is the new red.)
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To: Snickering Hound

He is extraordinarily rich in his own right.


23 posted on 10/30/2009 10:27:12 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: garyhope

“He’s not gay.”

He’s just a little extra happy.

Spot on - not that theres anything wrong with that.


24 posted on 10/30/2009 10:29:39 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Snickering Hound

What do ya bet there’s a side trip to Morocco? Just for the museums since he’s not gay.


25 posted on 10/30/2009 10:30:19 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: thefactor

Envy is an ugly characteristic.


26 posted on 10/30/2009 10:33:10 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: Snickering Hound

not Thailand?


27 posted on 10/30/2009 10:33:18 AM PDT by isom35
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To: Snickering Hound
Tea-bagging in India?

Isn't that against the law?

28 posted on 10/30/2009 10:33:29 AM PDT by roses of sharon (Call the NFL and welcome their new Commissioner, Al Sharpton.)
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Jaipur put thru the google translator came up teabagger.


29 posted on 10/30/2009 10:34:33 AM PDT by isom35
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To: Snickering Hound
He's not gay.

But his boyfriend is.

30 posted on 10/30/2009 10:34:50 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: gaijin
His mom started Gloria Vanderbilt jeans,

There's no way a boy could emerge straight from that house.

31 posted on 10/30/2009 10:35:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: LucyT
and who are you accusing of envy?

the people who report this sort of thing? that's their job.

the people who buy gossip magazines? then you might have a point.

32 posted on 10/30/2009 10:37:26 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: thefactor

He is worth billions, should he live in a shack? The real objection is an invasion of his privacy.


33 posted on 10/30/2009 10:47:50 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT
of course he should enjoy everything in life he chooses!

just don't be surprised if people try to take your picture.

anyway, i couldn't read the whole article so my sentiments might not apply to andersen.

this guy never had to work a day in his life. but he works very hard and i respect him for that. i have seen him walking the streets of manhattan more than a few times and have never bothered him. he seemed like a normal guy.

34 posted on 10/30/2009 10:57:48 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: gaijin

I believe Gloria Vanderbilt is broke.


35 posted on 10/30/2009 11:37:03 AM PDT by all the best
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To: AppyPappy

HAHAHAHAHAHA! You made my afternoon! HAHAHAHAHAHA!


36 posted on 10/30/2009 11:40:45 AM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Snickering Hound

Little known fact:

He named his television show after the number of people he hoped would watch it.


37 posted on 10/30/2009 1:53:11 PM PDT by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: all the best

38 posted on 10/30/2009 1:55:35 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Snickering Hound

The BF is the one in the elbowpad, sitting on the right. Currently...wresting, later...??

39 posted on 10/30/2009 1:57:39 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: equalitybeforethelaw

I’d like to be happier, but not gay. Too bad how the word “gay” has been co-opted to mean something else. It used to be a legitimate, useful and descripitive word.

But then that’s happened to so much of our language and words these days.


40 posted on 11/02/2009 10:27:56 AM PST by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
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