Anti-LGBT activist Michael Brown writes: Dear Anderson, Isn’t it an amazing feeling to be a father? To know that the precious little baby that you hold in your arms is, in a real sense, your own flesh and blood? That in a unique way, he carries part of you in his very life and soul? Yet when I saw the …
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From Anderson Cooper’s Instagram account: I want to share with you some joyful news. On Monday, I became a father. This is Wyatt Cooper. He is three days old. He is named after my father, who died when I was ten. I hope I can be as good a dad as he was. My son’s middle name is Morgan. It’s …
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CNN reports: Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Friday declared himself a “political prisoner” in a contentious interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper over the substantial evidence prosecutors used to convict him on a host of public corruption charges. Blagojevich’s sentence was commuted earlier this week by President Donald Trump after the Democrat and former “Celebrity Apprentice” contestant had served eight …
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From the Hollywood Reporter: Gloria Vanderbilt, who was thrust into the spotlight as a child heiress before going on to establish herself as an actress, artist, author, fashion icon and socialite, has died. She was 95. Vanderbilt, whose life included a nasty battle for her custody when she was 10, a string of high-profile relationships that began when she was …
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The Washington Post reports: Anderson Cooper spent the last 10 minutes of his show on Monday night responding to a critic: the president’s son. On Sunday, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out a photo of Cooper standing in waist-deep water during a hurricane, with a caption suggesting that the CNN anchor was lying to make the president look bad. Trump Jr. …
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Raw Story reports: USA Today’s Kirsten Powers told the panel, “I don’t know which Trump supporter I was sitting with, and we were all told that we were insane that we thought Michael Cohen was lying.” “We were all told we were completely crazy,” she continued, facing Trump supporters Jason Miller and Paris Dennard. “And honestly, I think you’re doing …
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GOP Rep. Jim Jordan, who is reportedly jockeying to become House Speaker, appeared on Anderson Cooper’s show last night to defend Trump against James Comey’s declaration that Glorious Leader is “morally unfit” to be president. When Cooper asked if he agrees with Comey that Trump “lies a lot,” Jordan weaseled and deflected, turning the question back against Comey, Andrew McCabe, …
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Sean Hannity is extremely triggered by Anderson Cooper: At the top of his program Monday night, Fox News’ Sean Hannity absolutely tore into CNN’s Anderson Cooper for his two blockbuster interviews with former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal and adult film star Stormy Daniels. And Hannity took some pointed personal shots at the CNN host while criticizing the interviews. Stating that …
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Buzzfeed News reports: Lawyers associated with President Donald Trump are considering legal action to stop “60 Minutes” from airing an interview with Stephanie Clifford, the adult film performer and director who goes by Stormy Daniels, BuzzFeed News has learned. “We understand from well placed sources they are preparing to file for a legal injunction to prevent it from airing,” a …
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USA Today reports: Revelers in New York’s Times Square could face the coldest New Year’s Eve celebration in more than 50 years as a brutal wave of arctic air tightens its iron grip on much of the nation. “We are predicting 11 degrees at midnight in Times Square that will feel like minus-10 degrees,” warned AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Paul Walker. …
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In a Daily Beast interview that’s mostly about Kathy Griffin’s very public feud with celebrity lawyer Lisa Bloom, we get this tidbit: When Kevin Frazier of Entertainment Tonight asked her whether she had spoken to Anderson Cooper, her longtime friend, co-host, and comic foil on CNN’s New Year’s Eve show, she shook her head, cried, and managed to blurt how …
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The Washington Post reports: “Saturday Night Live” may have found its most uncharitable caricature of someone in President Trump’s orbit this weekend, featuring Kellyanne Conway as the scary clown from Stephen King’s recently revitalized film, “It.” The real butt of the joke, though, is cable news. In the highly cinematic, prerecorded sketch, CNN’s Anderson Cooper (played by Alex Moffat) stumbles …
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The Associated Press reports: Kathy Griffin has lost her job co-hosting New Year’s Eve on CNN after she posted online a bloody image that resembled President Donald Trump. The network tweeted Wednesday afternoon that it has terminated its agreement with the comedian. CNN, whose New Year’s Eve coverage Griffin has co-hosted for a decade, called the images “disgusting and offensive” …
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New York Magazine reports: Conway responded to the eye-roll on Thursday during an appearance on Fox & Friends. And naturally, she linked it to sexism. “Hillary Clinton is in search of sexism as a lame excuse for why her disastrous candidacy and campaign lost six months ago,” she said. “[But] I face sexism a lot of times when I show …
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Raw Story reports: CNN’s Anderson Cooper wasn’t happy with President Donald Trump’s habit need to spread false information. On Monday’s “AC360,” Cooper warned that believing Trump’s “fake facts” could desensitize Americans to the truth that former Secretary Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. “I don’t even know that I need to say this, he did not beat Hillary Clinton in …
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Salon reports: Anderson Cooper has to distance himself in some way from President Donald Trump on social media. “I just don’t want to have that drama in my life,” he said Monday night on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” The CNN anchor said he was in Arizona over the weekend filming for “60 Minutes” and had his phone turned …
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The Huffington Post reports: Donald Trump may dismiss CNN as “fake news,” but Anderson Cooper says the new president can’t get enough of the network. “He watches CNN all the time, this is not in dispute at all,” the journalist said on Tuesday’s broadcast of “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” “He has texted about people I am interviewing while I …
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Anderson was NOT having it. Mediaite reports: Kellyanne Conway and Anderson Cooper got into a massive heated back-and-forth tonight [last night] over CNN’s report last night on Trump being briefed about supposed “compromising” information against him. Cooper expressed his frustration that Sean Spicer appeared to be conflating CNN’s report with BuzzFeed’s, which included a dossier on that alleged Russian disinformation, …
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The second presidential debate begins at 9PM Eastern from St. Louis with moderators Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz. Tonight’s event is town hall-style with questions provided in advance from allegedly undecided voters. Embedded below are the official live-streams from NBC, CBS, and C-SPAN as well as a bootleg stream of the pre-debate coverage on CNN. Fix a cocktail and join …
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Media Matters has the transcript: “Notice it just came out today, the debate commission said yes, his mic was cutting in and out. It was getting faded down. And it was not being broadcast to the audience so that they could cheer. Ladies and gentlemen, that was 100 percent setup. Just like Lester Holt and the hand signals and Lester …
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