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Anderson Cooper's three-week-old daytime talk show "Anderson" is already generating buzz - and this week's show snafu is one for the books. A teenager who was meant to appear on the show as part of a segment on the teenage mind is reportedly in a coma after taking a spill on a skateboard - while filming himself for the show. "As part of our routine process, we ask guests for video footage and photos," a rep for the show said in a statement. "[But] we did not provide the family with a camera." The youngster was reportedly encouraged to "film...

Divers all over South Florida were probably drooling last night while watching the huge lionfish that appeared in the 60 Minutes broadcast about Cuba's Jardines de la Reina coral reef off that island's southern shore. The reason is that the state of Florida has declared open season on the invasive lionfish, introduced from Asia, which is known to devastate marine life on coral reefs. Fortunately lionfish flesh is quite tasty and its population has been kept in check in Florida by hungry divers with spearguns. Not so in Cuba. As you can see in the video at the 15 second mark and...

Anderson Cooper just reported that Penn State is exempt from public disclosure. So the real question is, WTF is really going on in LIBERAL Pennsyvania?

At 12 minutes 30 seconds into this video at the Western GOP Debate, Las Vegas, NV, started a question that Newt Gingrich gave the most important and best answer in the whole debate. ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR AND DEBATE MODERATOR: And welcome back to the CNN GOP debate live from the Venetian in Las Vegas. Let's continue. We've got an e-mail question that was left at cnnpolitics.com. This is from a Mike Richards who says: "With the controversy surrounding Robert Jeffress, is it acceptable to let the issue of a candidate's faith shape the debate?" Senator Santorum, this is...

Go to www.washingtontimes.com/campaign-2012/live-blog/ and follow the Washington Times editorial staff post their impressions of the debate. The live blog begins at 7:30pm EST.

What makes Republican candidates for President agree to a debate moderated by CNN’s notoriously liberal host Anderson Cooper? Beside rank stupidity, it is hard to think of a reason. Imagine a debate among the Democratic presidential candidates in which Sean Hannity, Michael Barone and Laura Ingraham asked the questions; it will never happen because the Democrats don’t feel the need to pander to the conservative media the way Republicans are willing to pander to the establishment press. And here is what Republicans get when they do pander. A debate moderated by the same Anderson Cooper whose vulgar jocularity with David...

Anderson Cooper's three-week-old daytime talk show "Anderson" is already generating buzz - and this week's show snafu is one for the books. A teenager who was meant to appear on the show as part of a segment on the teenage mind is reportedly in a coma after taking a spill on a skateboard - while filming himself for the show. "As part of our routine process, we ask guests for video footage and photos," a rep for the show said in a statement. "[But] we did not provide the family with a camera." The youngster was reportedly encouraged to "film...

No video yet online. Great reporting, this is a must see. Replays at 10:00p.m. Eastern Time. Will post link to video when available.

On Wednesday night, Anderson Cooper took some time to address how Michele Bachmann‘s recent comment about the danger of the HPV vaccine — relaying a story about a Tampa woman who supposedly shared that her daughter had developed mental retardation following the vaccination — fits in with other misleading and incorrect comments she had made in the recent past.Said Cooper: Now it’s certainly not a new phenomenon for politicians to stretch the truth and manipulate facts. But Bachmann is spreading an all-out falsehood here — a dangerous falsehood at that. It’s not the first time she’s done this by any...

WTF?! I've been watching CNN's Anderson Cooper's Pro-Gay stories over the past couple of nights regarding Gay to Straight, Straight to Gay, yada, yada yada, conservative bad, liberal good, crap.Anderson doesn't "appear" Gay, but WTF?!

CNN journo ANDERSON COOPER’s famous momGLORIA VANDERBILT is pushing him to marry his boyfriend – so she can get another grandchild, The ENQUIRER has learned. Fashion designer Gloria helped the CNN anchor, 44, mend his crumbling relationship with club ownerBenjamin Maisini, 38, amid quarrels over their taxing work schedules. “Anderson and Ben are in love, but they were on the verge of breaking up,” an insider told The ENQUIRER. “Between Anderson’s dangerous work assignments and Ben’s crazy hours at the club, the guys reached an impasse.” That’s when Anderson’s 87-year-old mom who’s best known for her 1980s jeans line worked...

Hair jokes were in no short supply at last night's Comedy Central roast of Donald Trump, but the quip that had the audience shocked was when CNN icon Larry King made fun of his former co-worker Anderson Cooper's sexuality. Pretending he was still hosting his now-defunct talk show, King took calls from viewers throughout the country and then tossed to Anderson, whose '360' followed his 'Live' show every night for years. "Anderson Cooper is coming up next. Let's see what SHE'S up to," Larry said to the packed house. Anderson, who never talks about his sexuality in public, has been...

WOO! HOO! Break out the victory champagne! Anderson Cooper has "surged" in the cable news ratings to an "amazing" 16th place. Why, he even beat out the ratings caboose of MSNBC known as Ed Schultz. The way the Hufffington Post carried on with thick helpings of hype, you would have thought that Cooper had just beaten Fox News' top rated Bill O'Reilly instead of the dismal Ed Show. A very hopeful Huffington Post begins its article by posing this question:

The Rape of a Reporter by Ari Bussel In the News: LARA LOGAN’S ASSAULT DETAILED IN LONDON TIMES : What happened to CBS News’ Lara Logan in Tahrir Square? She suffered a “brutal and sustained sexual assault,” according to the network, and over the weekend the Times of London offered the first details on exactly what she went through: A source tells the paper Logan was stripped of her clothing by a crowd of 200 men, punched, slapped, and then pinched in a way that left red marks all over her body. She was also whipped with flagpoles and taunted...

Anderson Cooper: Keeping Them Honest - from Wikipedia: 'Finding it hard to get his foot in the door of on-air reporting, Cooper decided to enlist the help of a friend in making a fake press pass. At the time, Cooper was working as a fact checker for the small news agency Channel One which produces a youth-oriented news program that is broadcast to many junior high and high schools in the United States. Cooper then entered Myanmar on his own with his forged press pass and met with students fighting the Burmese government.' What comes up if you Google 'hypocrite'?

Well, halfway into the Obama administration, and the birther movement will not go away...

Anderson Cooper has left the country. The CNN anchor, who was reportedly attacked by pro-government forces while covering the demonstrations across Egypt, is the latest in a rash of reporters to leave the country, where protests continue."It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to leave Egypt," he tweeted. "CNN continues to have many teams in place. It was a hard decision to leave." Cooper, like a number of journalists in the region, was reportedly attacked by pro-Mubarak forces. A pair of New York Times journalists were reportedly held in an Egyptian prison overnight and numerous other journalists...

Anderson Cooper of CNN has clearly been one of the most active journalists in Egypt over the course of the past weeks, having done his best to report on the streets and also in the midst of near-constant violence. He has been punched on many accusations, had a car he was in destroyed, and at one point he was even trapped inside of an undisclosed building in order to keep both and his crew safe. So with all of this in mind, Cooper's announcement Sunday should not come as too great of a surprise. Here is what Anderson had to...

The tension in the streets of Cairo has not changed, with CNN's Anderson Cooper reporting the vehicle he and his CNN crew were traveling in was set upon and attacked. "Situation on ground in #egypt very tense. Vehicle I was in attacked. My window smashed. All ok," the AC 360 host reported via Twitter just about 12:45 Thursday. Cooper spent most of Wednesday night reporting from an undisclosed ......posted using frpa

Swedish reporters are held by Egyptian Army, accused of being Mossad spies; 4 Israelis arrested; Anderson Cooper is beaten up. Pro-government protesters and Egyptian military have attacked reporters from numerous media sources around the world during Wednesday's riots in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Two Swedish reporters were held for hours on Wednesday by Egyptian soldiers accusing them of being Mossad spies, the reporters' employer, daily newspaper Aftonbladet, reported. The soldiers reportedly attacked the reporters, spitting in their faces and threatening to kill them. Four Israeli journalists were arrested by Egyptian military police in Cairo on Wednesday. Three of those arrested work...

CNN's Anderson Cooper and his camera crew were attacked and repeatedly punched by pro-government forces near Tahrir Square in Cairo today. "My team were set upon by the crowd," Cooper said on CNN this morning via telephone from the safety of a hotel balcony. "There was no rhyme or reason to it—it was just people looking for a fight, looking to make a point, and punching us." 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." Bonus Video! Video:Leave Our...

The anchor was "punched 10 times in the head," CNN producer Steve Brusk Tweeted. Anderson Cooper was attacked in Egypt Wednesday. CNN producer Steve Brusk Tweeted, "Anderson said he was punched 10 times in the head as pro-Mubarak mob surrounded him and his crew trying to cover demonstration."

Anderson Cooper is giving Michele Bachmann an F in U.S. history. The CNN host slammed the Minnesota Republican congresswoman's recent remarks about diversity in America, including claims that the Founding Fathers "worked tirelessly until slavery was no more" and skin color "didn't matter" in the early days of democracy. During his "Keeping Them Honest" segment on Monday night, Cooper said Bachmann simply "airbrushed herself some new history," adding the U.S. representative's remarks are "either a deliberate rewriting of our history or signs that she has a shaky grasp" on what really happened. Bachmann, a rising Tea Party star who is...

Michael Moore and Anderson Cooper had a conversation on why some 20 percent of people don’t believe Barack Obama was born in the United States in which Moore thinks ‘mental illness’ lies at the center of it. Moore also stated that race plays a factor because “it’s difficult for them to accept that a black man is President of the United States.”

What’s wrong with incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner’s emotional transparency ? Nothing according to CNN’s Anderson Cooper. On the December 14 broadcast of Cooper’s “AC 360” program, Cooper took on the objections from the women of “The View,” who with the exception of Elisabeth Hasselbeck disapproved on Boehner’s habit of crying. “Our honor goes tonight to ‘The View’ ladies, who let me make clear, I’m a big fan of, but I was surprised and disappointed to learn that they apparently don’t like to see a grown man cry, or at least not a grown Republican politician cry,” Cooper...

Anderson Cooper and Lady Gaga don't seem to have much in common, but CNN's silver fox reveals he and the outrageous pop star recently got up close and personal, and all it took was a little Irish whiskey. Cooper, who interviewed the singer for an upcoming segment for "60 Minutes," says Gaga got him so liquored up on one of their meetings that he actually struggled to do his job."I was really interested to meet Lady Gaga. She's obviously a fascinating person," he told The Insider. "We actually ended up [one] day in a pub in London drinking Jameson, which...

It's been two years since the presidential election and America's left is still suffering the symptoms of Palinitis. It's in their heads and their hearts. It's the subject of continual opinion pieces and news stories. It seems you can't watch any of the usual suspect leftwing broadcasters such as MSNBC and CNN, or listen (if you can stomach it) on NPR without seeing evidence of the disease.   Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has gotten under their collective skins and they cannot seem to find the cure. The latest to suffer the effects of Palinitis is CNN's own Anderson...

Director Ron Howard’s upcoming comedy “The Dilemma” came under fire after a trailer was released featuring the film's star Vince Vaughn’s character referring to electric cars as “gay.” CNN host Anderson Cooper appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and denounced the language, the joke soon disappeared from the film’s trailer. But an insider tells Pop Tarts it wasn’t Anderson-on-"Ellen" that initiated the change. “The decision to change the trailer came two to three weeks prior to Anderson Cooper’s appearance on ‘Ellen’ after learning some people were offended, as well corresponding with GLAAD (The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,)" said...

A trailer for Vince Vaughn's new film The Dilemma is being recut after GLAAD called it insensitive. In the clip, Vaughn, who plays an automotive consultant, says, "Ladies and gentleman, electric cars are gay." "The use of the word 'gay' in this trailer as a slur is unnecessary and does nothing more than send a message of intolerance about our community to viewers," GLAAD president Jarret Barrios said in a statement. For its part, Universal says it is replacing the trailer. "The teaser trailer for 'The Dilemma' was not intended to cause anyone discomfort," the company said in its own...

Here is video of Florida Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson being hammered by CNN’s Anderson Cooper over his pathetic ad against his GOP opponent Dan Webster in which Grayson called him, “Taliban Dan.” Grayson tried to defend the essential content of the ad, while admitting they have now allowed the ad to die. But Anderson Cooper was relentless in calling Grayson out for the way he cut what Webster said in order to make it say something entirely opposite what he was actually saying. Cooper also called Grayson out for another ad in which he attacks Webster for not serving in...

As questions abound about why Asher Brown, a 13-year-old public school student in Houston, might have taken his own life, CNN's Anderson Cooper and the gay lobby have both rushed in to capitalize on one of the boy's grieving parents' many claims, that the cause of his death is bullying by students because he was gay. Key points of information are being ignored in the mad rush to point to anti-gay bullying and to the school's alleged failure to address it. State legislators' phones are already lighting up as the gay lobby uses Asher Brown to petition for legislation not...

CNN has extended its contract with “AC360″ anchor Anderson Cooper, keeping him on the network long-term. The contract extension comes as Cooper signed a deal with Telepictures and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution to host a daily syndicated talk show. In all likelihood, the extension came as Cooper and CNN reworked his contract to allow him to do the syndie series. “I am pleased that Anderson Cooper has extended his relationship with CNN and will be with us for years to come,” said CNN Worldwide president Jim Walton in a statement. “I am also pleased to congratulate Anderson on his...

On Friday night, Anderson Cooper conducted a must-see interview with congressional candidate Renee Ellmers, the North Carolina Republican who is running the most baldly anti-Muslim advertisement of the year. This was the ad we told you about last week that refers to the organizers of Park51, "the Muslims," and "terrorists" interchangeably. In the interview (via TPM's Eric Kleefeld), Cooper challenges Ellmers on her conflation of Muslims and terrorists. She responds: "[T]hat is certainly not what I'm intending to say. I am not intending to say that all Muslims are terrorists." She floats the idea that the organizers of Park51 are...

Liberal talk show hosts sound off on President Barack Obama’s elitist attitude, claiming he hates black people because he was to be the head black man in America. In fact, he doesn’t even want to be black. No really. Viewer advisory F-Bomb used in video

CNN's Joe Johns suprisingly highlighted Charles Sherrod's racially-charged comments about stopping "the white man and his uncle tom's from stealing our elections" during a segment on Thursday's Anderson Cooper 360... Anchor Anderson Cooper, after devoting some time faulting himself for not pressing Mrs. Sherrod after she labeled conservative Andrew Breitbart a "vicious" racist during a July 22 interview, introduced the correspondent's report "There's also a new aspect to the Shirley Sherrod story...Questions about her and her husband, Charles...keep popping up on some conservative blogs. The questions center around why and how Shirley Sherrod got appointed to her old job at...

Shirley Sherrod: "I think that he [Breitbart] would like to get us struck back in the times of slavery. That's where I think he would like to see all black people end up again." Anderson Cooper: "You think he's racist." Sherrod: "I do."

Larry King's leaving is not the only problem at CNN. The cable news network is plagued by high-profile departures, low ratings and - TheWrap has learned - widespread resentment among producers and anchors. The succession war set off by King leaving is only likely to heighten the tension even further. Speaking on background, one CNN on-air personality told TheWrap that most of the anchors were jealous that Anderson Cooper sucked up resources by going to Haiti and the Gulf of Mexico, leaving them unable to build their profiles at the network. Meanwhile, multiple insiders at CNN have told TheWrap that...

I was watching a report on CNN's Anderson Cooper a few minutes ago about an ATF undercover agent who blew the whistle on a planned illegal wiretap and has since been penalized with do-nothing desk duty.CNN gave him a camera so he could film himself at work for five days doing nothing.At one moment (around 11:38 a.m. EDT), the agent says he is watching his computer and pans the camera over to what looks like the Latest Posts page at Free Republic.Did anyone else notice this and could someone make a screen grab when the show repeats overnight?BTW, I'm not...

This is just plain nuts. Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, a highly-decorated Army surgeon, with 18-years of service behind him, is willingly throwing his career and reputation away, because be believes in the birther conspiracy nonsense that President Obama is not a natural born citizen. The Army has instituted court martial proceedings against him for refusing to obey deployment orders to Afghanistan, which Lakin says are illegal orders from an illegal alien. The birther doctor appeared on CNN’s Anderson Cooper’s 360 program Friday evening with his lawyer. And the interview soon turn heated, as Cooper attempted to inject some fact-based reality...

Here's a link to the Anderson Cooper 360 interview on tonight with Ltc Latkin. He's the Army doctor who has refused to deploy based on Obama's inelegibility for POTUS per article 2 of USCON.

CNN, one of the mainstream media outlets that have either belittled or ignored the question of Barack Obama's eligibility to be president since before the 2008 election, tonight gave the topic a primetime spotlight as Anderson Cooper defended the computer-generated online image of a Certificate of Live Birth that lists a 1961 Hawaii birth for the president. Cooper invited onto his "360" program Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, an Army doctor who is facing court-martial because he has told the military he will not follow orders unless Obama can document his eligibility to be commander-in-chief. The questions he is raising are...

ABC News’ Jake Tapper took heat from “some liberal bloggers” when he contrasted President Obama’s call for civility in politics with Obama’s use of the term “tea-bagger” in a November interview for Jonathan Alter’s new book. At issue was Tapper’s failure to point out that the term was originally coined by the Tea Party movement, which he addressed in an update. WaPo’s Dave Weigel, meanwhile, traces the movement’s attempt to frame the term as a slur. It’s time to correct the record once and for all. Let me first address the criticism of Tapper’s story. The fact that the Tea...

Anderson Cooper asks Bill Maher, "Why is Islam the one religion about which so many in America and the West censor themselves when it comes to talking about or making fun of, is it just fear?" Maher answered, "Yeah, absolutely, because they're violent. They threaten us, and they are threatening, they bring that desert stuff to our world." The rest of the interview will be aired tonight on AC360.

Anderson Cooper needs to be arrested and sent to Gitmo. I'm glad I don't get CNN! This dimwit said that Hawaii doesn't have Obama's original birth certificate(we know that) as it was transferred to an electronic server, Scumbag Cooper said. Anyone that's researched this issue knows that is NOT the case. Hawaii officials have already said they maintain Obama's original vital records, on file, and WOULD release them with OBAMA'S consent. What Hawaii has on file is an Act-96 application type form(s), most likely some adoption amendment type record attached, via Indonesian Citizen Lolo Soetoro...

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Ever hear the phrase "rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?" That perfect depiction of a futile effort came to mind when I read that CNN is going to add a live studio audience to Anderson Cooper's primetime news program. Two shows with the new audience and "talk format" will be taped in mid-April and are being called "specials" to keep expectations down. But the special format will likely become the permanent format if there is an improvement in ratings.

Anderson Cooper may be a respected newsperson, but the CNN anchor didn't display his extensive knowledge of trivia on Thursday night's "Celebrity Jeopardy!" In a competition with actress Aisha Tyler and comedian Cheech Marin, Cooper tied for second (or, depending on how you look at it, last) place with Tyler, after Marin beat them both. With a final score that totaled $0, Cooper missed questions about world leaders, geography, and literature (among other topics). By the time "Final Jeopardy" came around, he was so stumped by a question about the author of "The Wizard of Oz" that his screen displayed...

Another CNNer went on Celebrity Jeopardy! today. Anderson Cooper was on with Cheech Marin and Aisha Tyler. We're told AC360 is going to feature his appearance tonight. Spoiler alert after the jump...

In mid-2011, Katie Couric's five-year contract at CBS News will expire, and network executives appear to be exploring a "Plan B" if she departs after her oft-rocky tenure in the anchor's chair. According to the New York Times, that backup plan could very well be CNN host Anderson Cooper, who reportedly met with CBS execs months ago about anchor opportunities at the network. The Times got the information from a pair of "TV veterans informed of the meeting." However, a spokesperson for CNN denies a meeting ever occurred and claim in a statement to EW that Cooper "is not engaged...

March 1, 2010 Anderson Cooper Said to Meet With CBS News Executives By BRIAN STELTER Do CBS News executives have their sights set on Anderson Cooper? Mr. Cooper, a prime time CNN anchor, already contributes to “60 Minutes,” the prestigious CBS newsmagazine. And the relationship could expand. Monday’s New York Times reports: CBS executives, mindful that Katie Couric’s contract expires in a little over a year, have talked to Anderson Cooper of CNN about an anchor job, according to two TV veterans informed of the meeting. The meeting took place months ago, well before Mr. Cooper was dispatched to cover...