Tag: Anderson Cooper

Mike Lindell threatens to sue Anderson Cooper over brutal CNN interview

A little while back, Minnesota pillow-slinger, Trump cheerleader, and white guy blues aficionado Mike Lindell went on CNN to discuss oleandrin, a supplement he and a company called Phoenix Biotechnology are pushing as a cure for COVID-19.

Oleandrin is derived from oleander, a very pretty but highly toxic flowering shrub. It has been observed in some studies to have interesting effects on heart rate, which might, with time and careful, peer-reviewed study, prove to be useful in the treatment of some heart conditions.

However, the narrow sliver of potential between ineffectual amounts of oleandrin and a lethal dose is making experts a little wary about properly vetting its usage; it is, in fact, the very compound that makes oleander so lethal. Continue reading.

‘Wow!’ CNN’s Anderson Cooper is appalled by the real reason Trump went to St. John’s Church

AlterNet logoOn Monday evening, President Donald Trump appeared to cause mass disruption and chaos as federal police cleared peaceful protesters with forceful tactics outside the White House ahead of his walk to the nearby St. John’s Church.

And when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins told Anderson Cooper on air of the reported reason behind this move, the host was shocked and appalled.

“Sources are telling my colleague Kevin Liptak that, in part, the reason the president made this trip outside the gates of the White House — a really rare trip, where you do not often see the president walk out of the front door of the White House, walk across Lafayette Square, to St. John’s — was driven, in part, that he was upset by coverage of the fact that he had been rushed to the underground bunker on Friday night during the protests that you saw breaking out here, in front of the White House,” she said. Continue reading.

White House press secretary whines after CNN’s Anderson Cooper ridiculed her outrageous lies

AlterNet logoDonald Trump promised to bring the best and brightest with him to the White House, but instead has delivered a long line of upward-failing orcs. Shortly after the impeachment inquiry was announced, the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, told reporters that yes, the Trump administration “held up the money” for aid to Ukraine in a quid pro quo deal for an investigation into the Biden family, and that everybody should just “get over it.” Since then, the White House has done what it does most of the time: scramble to spin, spin, spin.

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, whose work history has more red flags than an Olympic slalom event, has never held a single press conference, but she has found the time to speak with Fox News hosts on occasion. CNN’s Anderson Cooper took Grisham to task on his show on Friday during a segment called “The RidicuList.” Cooper pointed out that Grisham has not held a single official news briefing and then went on to discuss Grisham’s strange appearance defending Mick Mulvaney’s statement. As with all Trump mouthpieces, Grisham went to Fox & Friends and blamed the evil media, saying it had gotten itself “in a tizzy” over nothing.

In a clip that can be seen below, Cooper mocked Grisham and asked the audience whether everybody who worked for Trump “had to debase themselves and lie like he does.” He hooked on to a certain talking point that Grisham has echoed a few times on Fox News—that press conferences and media availabilities with White House officials are “theater.” The talking point is a perfect one for the Trump administration, as it’s dismissive of the media while absolving White House officials of lying. She also said that press conferences were “about people wanting to be on TV and making names for themselves.”

View the complete October 21 article by Walter Einenkel from Daily Kos on the AlterNet website here.

‘Part of the stench’: CNN’s Anderson Cooper skewers Mike Pence for ‘awkwardly chuckling’ at talk of neglected migrant kids

AlterNet logoWhile Presiden Donald Trump has been trying to drum up fears about a crisis driven by waves of immigrants trying to invade the United States, the real crisis is a humanitarian one that forced many asylum seekers from Central America to leave their homes in the first place. And that humanitarian crisis continues on American soil in the camps and detention centers where children and others are being held in horrendous conditions, as many recent reports have documented.

CNN”s Anderson Cooper reflected on the crisis and the administration’s attempts to shift the blame to others on his show Tuesday night.

He noted that, in one powerful piece by the New York Times documenting the unsanitary and unsafe conditions of the migrants are forced to live in, Director of Columbia Law School’s Immigrant Rights Clinic Elora Mukherjee said, “There is a stench.” The children at these facilities were unable to clean themselves, she explained, though Cooper noted that the “stench” is also a metaphor for the administration’s disastrous handling of the situation.

View the complete June 26 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet website here.

Jeffrey Toobin to his former professor Alan Dershowitz: ‘What’s happened to you?’

The following article by Derek Hawkins was posted on the Washington Post website March 22, 2018:

Back in June 2017, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh spent many minutes on his radio show extolling Alan Dershowitz, the renowned defense lawyer and Harvard Law School professor, for taking “100 percent Trumpist” positions on the Trump administration’s legal tangles.

“I don’t know what has happened to Professor Dershowitz,” Limbaugh said of the famed civil libertarian. “But whatever it is, I like it.” Continue reading “Jeffrey Toobin to his former professor Alan Dershowitz: ‘What’s happened to you?’”

Trump Says He’s The ‘Least Racist Person.’ Anderson Cooper Has A Reality Check.

The following article by Ed Mazza was posted on the Huffington Post website January 15, 2018:

The CNN host uses the president’s own words against him.

In response to reports that Donald Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole” countries in a meeting with lawmakers last week, the president once again claimed he was the “least racist person.” But CNN’s Anderson Cooper wasn’t buying it.

On Monday night, Cooper used Trump’s own words to show the president’s history of racist comments going back long before he even took office.

Check it out in the clip above.