[lbryce]

This video of Anderson Cooper getting beaten up was broadcast on CNN yesterday.

I watched the video very carefully specifically to spot Anderson Cooper somewhere in the video which I in fact did.

For those, like myself, aching for a "Rocky" type flurry of punches, blood gushing down Anderson Cooper's bludgeoned face, forget it.

For the first 1:07 there's nothing to see other than men pushing, shoving ,shouting, a very palpable sense of fury coming from the mob, sounds of body blows are heard, frightening grunt noises.

The first indication that it was him indeed who is getting part of the comeuppance he deserves, when you hear at a male voice at 1:06 or say, saying, "Calm down! Calm down!" followed by an American accented voice saying "Inshallah"! "Inshalllah"! (God Willing) going murky again when you finally get to actually see, recognize his face at about 1:27. What surprised me most of all is that at 1:27 when Anderson first appears he seems in good spirits, doing a rope-a-dope dance of sorts, backing away,then abruptly rushing forward, exhorting his attackers to. "Come back!" "Come back!"

While the video of the attack ends of 1:50 the video cuts to the newsroom last until 3:48. Bear in mind that this was broadcast yesterday in the morning soon after the attack occurred.

[al baby]

I heard they kneed him in the mini cooper too

[choctaw man]

Oh boo hoo hoo. Poor little investigative report just doin’ his job to get the truth out there to the masses...and the awful street people pushed him and called him names...oh boo hoo....lol

[Arm_Bears]

And this is bad why?

[Freddd]

I watch it to see him get a thumpin for calling the American citizenry the vulgar homosexual term ‘teabaggers’ and laughing when others did, and for calling American citizens Islamaphobes...

Yep musta been a Tea Partier thumpin him in the head. angry white mobs wasn’t it???

[choctaw man]

What if the USA (Obama) set all this (uprising) in motion?
Michael Savage is setting the stage for this right now on his radio program.
His manuscript is on his website.
You must read this…

[GeronL]

He is staging these things isn’t he?

Attack 33? yea right

[abigail2]

And the Tea Party are terrorists...

[humblegunner]

According to a Twitter post from George Hale, the English editor of the Ma'an news agency, who cited a CNN "manager," Cooper was punched "10 times in the head."

I reckon folks who quote Twitter need to be punched "10 times in the head."

[catfish1957]

If he was getting hit he would have been sobbing like a little baby. Tough this guy he is not.

Staged, lights, camera, action......

[fish hawk]

Punched ten times in the head. Oh my! he can’t afford to lose any more brain cells.

[Huntress]

How does he know the thugs are Pro-Mubarak?

[TSgt]

Did he break a nail?

[jakerobins]

I blame Pee Wee Herman and Andy Sandberg Also SNL for this violence against AC...they glorified it on SNL!! Shame on NBC... LOL...

A clip of the show...

http://www.hulu.com/watch/207601/saturday-night-live-digital-short-andy-and-pee-wees-night-out

[drpix]

"Punched 10 times?" Not in that video.

They may have "bitch slapped" him 10 times but punches would have caused a pause in his walk and continuous pleas.

He's seen rougher stuff at San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair

[Joe 6-pack]

Either somebody threw a water bottle at the camera or Anderson wet himself.

Cooper's probably just trolling, hoping to re-enact the Turkish prison scene in Lawrence of Arabia.

[Gapplega]

Poor baby, i guess it’s time to call Mommie Gloria Vanderbilt. He shouldn’t have swished into a war zone. The real world is a little different from the Upper West Side or Chelsea.