Anderson Cooper: Hey, sorry for that “teabagging” joke but you kind of asked for it
posted at 6:18 pm on May 19, 2009 by Allahpundit
Saith Coop, “I think it’s an incorrect statement to say I was, in any way, trying to disparage legitimate protests.” Really? Watch the clip from last month and decide for yourself. The most telling moment here comes about halfway through when he defends himself by insisting the phrase was, after all, “used and adopted” by tea partiers. I admit to not having paid laserlike attention to how the parties were promoted but I don’t recall many protesters referring to themselves as “teabaggers” or their activities as “teabagging.” They mailed teabags to Obama and other politicians but that’s as close as it got to innuendo, which isn’t very close at all. Am I misremembering or is Cooper simply inventing facts to defect blame? Click the image to watch.
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I don’t recall that terminology benig adopted by protesters either, except ironically.
DaveS on May 19, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Here’s an even better question: Do we really actually CARE what AC180 thinks?
JamesLee on May 19, 2009 at 6:20 PM
No thanks.
Snowed In on May 19, 2009 at 6:20 PM
But he is just soooooo coooool…
d1carter on May 19, 2009 at 6:21 PM
No, I do not recall “teabagging” being used by anyone actually participating in the protests or mailing tead bag.
But Ander surely is douche bagging that explantion.
myrenovations on May 19, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Media decided to discount the entire movement in order to make their crude childish jokes. It is not their job to decide the entertainment value of American citizens. I hope they ignore them at their own peril. Considering their ratings my hopes might be realized. Faster please.
Cindy Munford on May 19, 2009 at 6:22 PM
I’d say the real teabagging will begin in November 2012, but the likeliest winner is not correctly equipped for it.
Sekhmet on May 19, 2009 at 6:22 PM
I don’t care to watch him. He turns my stomach.
I attended our local tea party, and no one I spoke to referred to tea-bagging in any shape, fashion or form.
hachiban on May 19, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Apparently I only typed in Ander when I clearly meant Anderson.
myrenovations on May 19, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Like, SO COOL!
KEWLI!
All the journalism majors on campus have near orgasmic experiences at the slightest mention of his name.
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 6:24 PM
This from a person who actually enjoys being teabagged. Eh, what ya gonna do…
TheBigOldDog on May 19, 2009 at 6:24 PM
At the very least, AC seemed to know you can’t talk well while teabagging…. speaking from personal experience one has to assume?
Hog Wild on May 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM
**SMACK**
Stop before you get teabagged.
upinak on May 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Has anyone had a Susan Roesgen sighting of late?
JammieWearingFool on May 19, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I mean, he is so super-duper awwwesome cause he is in the teabagging club.
Liar!
Branch Rickey on May 19, 2009 at 6:26 PM
OMG, I so don’t care.
Leftists with their “teabagging” jokes were acting exactly like toddlers saying “doodoo” and “peepee” because they think it’s baa-aa-aa-ad. Precisely on that intellectual level.
It is, however, pretty funny that Cooper feels bound to exhale so much CO2 “explaining” himself. May all his “explanations” be for such minor reasons.
J.E. Dyer on May 19, 2009 at 6:27 PM
You are a man?
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Another mealy-mouthed, douche trying to avoid taking responsibility for his irresponsible reporting. CNN & MSNBC are dying slow, painful, self-inflicted deaths…and I am enjoying watching it so much…DIE! DIE! DIE!
JAM on May 19, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Has Anderson Cooper come out of the closet yet?
2Brave2Bscared on May 19, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Hard to see her unless you watch CNN but I am hoping they are sending her to Civics classes so she can get a clue where all these largesses that she is so fond of come from.
Cindy Munford on May 19, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Allahpundit: Am I misremembering or is Cooper simply inventing facts to defect blame?
We all misremember at times, but you aren’t in this case.
However, on a routine basis, members of the MSM seems to invent facts or selectively refer to facts, in order to promote themselves and their agenda.
Loxodonta on May 19, 2009 at 6:29 PM
His creepiness level got higher after the teabagging comment. There’s only so much that hair and eyes can do. The creepy perv thing is way too strong now. Ugh. Haven’t set eyes on him since I saw him remark about “teabagging,” and I have no future plans involving him.
UnEasyRider on May 19, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Anderson is just so overwhelmed by his own kewli-ness that he has no idea what’s going on anymore.
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Maybe Andy the Teabagger Cooper should worry about his ratings instead of trying to regain his youth by sucking up to witless college students.
Just a thought.
Wondering that too. Don’t watch the godless swine; so wouldn’t know.
Branch Rickey on May 19, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Watching CNN is like watching a Pravda Channel.
A lot of BS and nothing that makes sense.
old trooper2 on May 19, 2009 at 6:32 PM
You saw my pic.. How drunk were you?
upinak on May 19, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Hey, hey, I’m not the one threatening teabagging.
I’m just sayin’!
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Anderson Cooper has all the makings of a great CNN correspondent, the prematurely grey hair, the furrowed brow, the studied pensive look, the saliva-covered scrotum.
Ted Torgerson on May 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM
You are much kinder than I am; I am hoping the send her to the Ganges to go for a swim and report on it. Told you are way kinder than I am Cindy. :^)
Branch Rickey on May 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM
I did some internet research on the topic.
…
I don’t wanna talk about it.
Joe Caps on May 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM
She was back on 5/8 covering the Drew Peterson story. Maybe CNN was hoping she could be wife number five or whatever he’s up to now.
rw on May 19, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Who is this guy?
watson007 on May 19, 2009 at 6:35 PM
I didn’t say I would do it! I don’t have the equipment!
upinak on May 19, 2009 at 6:38 PM
As a tea drinker,I shudder at the meaning of tea bagging!
canopfor on May 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM
So Cooper’s a liar. No surprise there.
JammieWearingFool on May 19, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I don’t know, and I don’t care. The only thing she’s useful for is a lap dance.
Ryan Gandy on May 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Suuurrreeeeee
Alaskans — I always knew something was afoul about them.
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 6:40 PM
I still don’t know the meaning, nor do I want to.
Loxodonta on May 19, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Allah, shame on you beating up on a girl like that.
radjah shelduck on May 19, 2009 at 6:40 PM
If this buffoon’s immediate family stops watching him, his ratings would start with a decimel point. The leftwing nutjobs just don’t get it. If nobody watches your show, are you really on the air? The MSM says the libs are in control, ratings say otherwise.
volsense on May 19, 2009 at 6:40 PM
You probably don’t want to.
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Give her the classes first, we don’t want punish stupid if it can be overcome. If she is willfully stupid, then swim she must.
Cindy Munford on May 19, 2009 at 6:41 PM
+infinity squared
Snowed In on May 19, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Oh I can figure out some ways. Trust me oh Blantant one!
upinak on May 19, 2009 at 6:41 PM
he’s so full of it.
hey, anderson: i’d rather be a teabag than a D**CHEBAG!
homesickamerican on May 19, 2009 at 6:43 PM
If I could type in white, and have a secret magic font for the definition of teabagging…
I soo would
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 6:43 PM
LOL, like I said, you are much kinder than I am :)
Branch Rickey on May 19, 2009 at 6:43 PM
nor do I want to.
Loxondonta on May 19,2009 at 6:40PM.
Loxondonta: And I don’t either,finally we agree,Lox:):):)
canopfor on May 19, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Is there a similiar meaning for coffee drinkers?
canopfor on May 19, 2009 at 6:46 PM
I trust you check your email
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 6:46 PM
I was posting about this topic earlier and was searching for any news or commentary about her and found nothing since last month. I know she purportedly went on vacation but was wondering if she resurfaced yet.
I don’t watch CNN so I wouldn’t catch her doing any reports.
JammieWearingFool on May 19, 2009 at 6:47 PM
I guess I should check it now.
upinak on May 19, 2009 at 6:47 PM
OK, so I missed it.
JammieWearingFool on May 19, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Excellent:
I shall now call his show “Prissy Little Queen 360″ – because if he’s going to act with such maturity, I’ll extend the same courtesy to him.
mjk on May 19, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Eh, leave the poor girl alone… he’s clearly just projecting anyway. What he used as a derogatory term is what he practices at night in Central Park regularly.
RightWinged on May 19, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Like I need that image in my head so close to dinnertime.
Snowed In on May 19, 2009 at 6:50 PM
OT: Another quake in LA!!!
baldilocks on May 19, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Does Cooper have the required equipment for teabagging? I’ve always thought he was a perfectly engineered android.
Fortunata on May 19, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Well, ever since Skynet began research into organic robots, they’ve been able to develop Jenn-Italia for their droids.
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Cooper and Chrissy and Keith all secretly want to be teabagged by Obama(Michelle).
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on May 19, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Rosie sneezed?
:)
Branch Rickey on May 19, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Baldi, but you are alive and have the INTERNET still!
The alive part is important though.
upinak on May 19, 2009 at 6:53 PM
OT:
baldilocks on May 19,2009 at 6:50PM.
baldilocks: Are you in Los Angels?:)
canopfor on May 19, 2009 at 6:54 PM
I was talking to my mom in LA on Sunday when that one hit. USGS says 4.1 for this one.
rw on May 19, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Thanks Cooper I thought we were just racist readnecks!! thanks for clearing this up!!
Dire Straits on May 19, 2009 at 6:55 PM
I thought the results of the ballot questions wouldn’t be in until much later.
Loxodonta on May 19, 2009 at 6:55 PM
LOL so wrong!
upinak on May 19, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Sorry. Trying to find my humor. Lost it yesterday.
Loxodonta on May 19, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Si, señor.
Ha ha! ‘No’ on everything!
baldilocks on May 19, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Hee. True story this: when one of the energy companies in Europe was making websites they hit on the idea of using their name “Powergen” followed by the name of the European country they were operating in. Red faces all round when they got to PowergenItalia…
Fortunata on May 19, 2009 at 7:01 PM
LOL
Check this, there is a girl in one of the local towns who is actually JENN ITALIA.
IDK WHAT THE HELL THE RENTS WERE THINKING!!!!!!!
Second story — guys in our class back in HS got the Economics/AP gov. teacher to say “camel toe” over the school PA system. He had no idea what it meant
Just like Loxodonta and teabagging
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 7:02 PM
I think Cooper isn’t really lying here. Clearly he doesn’t believe his adored teabaggers are legitimate – not in the face of his big gov’t hero Bambi that is…
Upstater85 on May 19, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Am I misremembering or is Cooper simply inventing facts to defect blame?
Possibly neither. TPers didn’t use the phrase but lots and lots of lefties kept saying they did. It’s entirely possible this alleged journalist actually believes this falsehood is true.
That’s hardly news, though.
Dodd on May 19, 2009 at 7:03 PM
I heard of girls named Candy Barr and Sherry Pitt… Not as bad as yours though.
Upstater85 on May 19, 2009 at 7:04 PM
I just say to myself
WHAT THE F
WHAT THE F
And all the poor Mike Hunts out there..
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Ah hahaha
Upstater85 on May 19, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Back in school, I worked with a girl named Jennifer Hoar. You would have thought that somebody in that family would have changed the last name at some point. The guys would have to be a heckuva catch to get a woman to take that last name.
rw on May 19, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Do you, Mike Hunt, take Jenn Italia to be your lawfully wedded wife?
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 7:08 PM
I wonder if she was a “local” CNN reporter in Chicago. Even if you totally agreed with CNN’s premise on the tea parties, she did not come off well, so maybe she’s gone.
Cindy Munford on May 19, 2009 at 7:10 PM
LOL rw
Jen Hoar
I love it
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 7:11 PM
water carrying knucklehead I say
NY Conservative on May 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM
In my department there’s a guy who’s last name is
Gelantalis
Yeah, maybe it’s just me, but whenever I see this name I think of a Jello Commercial and __________
Upstater85 on May 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM
“Hoare” is a perfectly good English name. Here at UT Austin we have benefactor named Hogg, who named his daughter “Ima”. :p
Fortunata on May 19, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Ryder Harde
blatantblue on May 19, 2009 at 7:20 PM
I would’ve thought the Amazon rather than the Ganges. You know all those cute little fishies in that tropical paradise.
chemman on May 19, 2009 at 7:22 PM
As an organizer, I never knew what “tea bagging” was, until I was told.
Now you, Anderson Cooper can take your place within the dustbin of history along with your fellow left wing ‘journalists’ who have collectively lost your credibility and dishonored yourselves; your readership, your following, your credentials and your future. You have also cost your employers their viability in the market.
Enjoy your hair. That’s about all you have left now, isn’t it?
Key West Reader on May 19, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Worked with a guy who named his boy, “Orangelo”.
Big celebration at the office.
I could not help but think… Damn… Orange Jello? I kept it to myself.
Key West Reader on May 19, 2009 at 7:25 PM
You sure that is his hair?
Men are so weird about it…
upinak on May 19, 2009 at 7:26 PM
Conceiving in ways we never want to know about!
upinak on May 19, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Hey, sorry for your bottom dweller ratings but hey you earned it!
But cheer up your ahead of the gutter snipes on MSNBC!
BTW, AC, is this why CNN is paying Fox to advertise your show? Blahhhhh
Categorized | Cable, Cable News
Anderson Cooper’s ratings slide on CNN
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/05/12/anderson-coopers-ratings-slide-on-cnn/18557
FOXN ON THE RECORD W/GRETA 10:00P -11:00P M______ 478
CNN ANDERSON COOPER 360 10:00P -11:00P M______ 268
MSNB COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN 10:00P -11:00P M______ 259
FOXN THE OREILLY FACTOR 11:00P -12:00A M______ 558
CNN ANDERSON COOPER 360 11:00P -12:00A M______ 202
MSNB RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11:00P -12:00A M______ 135
DSchoen on May 19, 2009 at 7:27 PM
I thought the results….
Loxondonta on May 19,2009 at 6:55PM.
Loxondonta: You is bad,lol,hehe:)
canopfor on May 19, 2009 at 7:28 PM
You are right, ::sea kittens:: are much more CNNish :)
Branch Rickey on May 19, 2009 at 7:29 PM
AC knows he’s BSing here. Nobody but the media and the left referred to these protesters as “teabaggers”. Nobody.
holygoat on May 19, 2009 at 7:32 PM
I’m guessing Upstater85 has it right here. It’s easy to parse Cooper’s statement by making the simple assumption that the Tea Party protests were not “legitimate protests” in AC’s eyes… thus, he wasn’t in any way disparaging legitimate protests, he was disparaging and mocking illegitimate ones.
VekTor on May 19, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Speaking realistically, I don’t really care. After watching the video, he was obviously in an “alternative progressive forum” and he continued to laugh, insult, balk at and impugn the Tea Party movement.
It’s okay… I don’t care if it’s his hair or not. What remains at issue is his credibility as a “journalist”.
An FCC investigation is warranted as to his intentions, integrity, honesty, truthfulness and unbiasness.
Key West Reader on May 19, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Key it isn’t going to happen. You and I both know this.
upinak on May 19, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Let’s see now, went to Yale, son of Gloria Vanderbilt, #2 most powerful gay man according to Out Magazine, yeah I think Comrade Coop knows all about teabagging. Actually I think he is more of a douchebag than a teabag.
fastandloud1 on May 19, 2009 at 7:34 PM
——–
There is a building at the Univ. of Georgia, Butts – Mehre, which the students nicknamed, “Butt-Smear”
Branch Rickey on May 19, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Don’t start.
O Canada, thanks for Stein!
Loxodonta on May 19, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Anderson who?
GarandFan on May 19, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Never underestimate the power and the People that are known as The Tea Party Movement.
We’ve been slandered, libeled and villified. We won’t be silent. Stay tuned. This is a National movement.
Warm regards,
Key West Reader on May 19, 2009 at 7:38 PM
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