Just heard that Anderson Cooper is Gloria Vanderbilt's son.

[shance]

I assume this is so?

Wow.

I bet he has a lot in common with the families and kids who have enlisted in the military in the hopes and expectation of getting a higher education and/or other opportunities that they have to achieve from the military because they don't come from unlimited wealth. Subsequently, I bet he has alot in common with those mothers and father s who's children were sent into this war and were killed.

What an appropriate person to go to Crawford and speak with real Americans and the mothers of their deceased sons and daughters.

[democracyindanger]

1. Daughter?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. He is.. her daughter???

[senseandsensibility]

3. daughter?

Is that a joke? Aside from that, I can't stand the guy. He is as lightweight as *, and as out of touch.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. Anderson Cooper is Gloria Vanderbilt's gay son!

ETA: Not that there's anything wrong with it!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

17. so he has her jeans?

[shance]

25. Caesar are you are being a sassy pants?

or would that be a sassy jeans........



hardy har back** :)

[TheDebbieDee]

32. Yes, he has her genes. And he will have her money, too.....

as soon as she buys the farm.

Not that Gloria Vanderbilt has a thing for farm animals or anything. Just saying.

[shance]

5. LOL! Grammerical slip there.

n/t

[Mr_Spock]

6. LMAO - daughter!! He is somewhat effeminate I must say...

:rofl: I just thought he was gay, I didn't know he was a woman!! :rofl:

[TomInTib]

7. So who was the mother? n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

9. He wants to become someone's mother!

And probably will!

EDIT: Well he is Bushco's Whore, theres no doubt about that after tonight's show.

[Howardx]

8. figures

another elite turd telling the regular folks what to think.

[Virginian]

12. Hey, hold on, I voted for one of those.

Money does not necessarily mean out of touch.
I am discussing principle, not person. I have no idea if Anderson Cooper is out of touch, I enjoyed him when he hosted "The Mole." I don't watch him because I have other things to watch in that time slot. I have no idea if he slants the news.

[shance]

18. Then what is your point other than to agitate?

Whats your point in posting if you think Anderson is a fair and accurate journalist. His coverage today was very slanted and insulting.

If you don't watch then why are you posting?

[Virginian]

37. Your generalization made it sound like ALL rich are disconnected.

As I stated above, I responded on principle, not on person. I happen to admire some wealthy people. I think that wealth does not negate character. If it did, I wouldn't want Kennedy, Kerry, Edwards or Mark Warner in power. Some wealthy people are in touch, very in touch. Some less affluent are out of touch, too... Just look at uninformed Bush voter.

PS: I am NOT wealthy.

[Howardx]

21. im sure he is very "in touch"

with what matters to the elite in this country, im equally as sure he is completely out of touch with the ordinary people in this country who never had the breaks he so obviously has had.

[Tace]

10. I Don't Watch The Guy, Or Know His Politics...

But I understand that he's a brilliant guy... not an "airhead."

[DURHAM D]

11. I think the most important thing about AC is that he is on the

best dressed list. That pretty much says it all.

[shance]

14. It seems to say alot about the priorities of this country as well.

Very distorted and not sane. Take a look at magazines and print ads. Illusion and air brush.

Physical allure, money and greed have taken virtually total precedent over the things that should matter and must matter in a healthy civilization.

That, in my opinion is why our country is headed south.

[DURHAM D]

24. Well we have been south before. I was born during WWII and

after those post war years our government spent a lot of money on propaganda to push women back into their proper place, making them insane. Almost every woman who is around my age would describe our own mothers as being completely schiozoid. First they were trained to be helpless and marry a man who will provide a good living. Then they were told to take a job to support the war effort and get your man back home. They the guys came home - the women were fired and told her get their hair done, lose weight, keep the kids and house clean and no matter what assume the position of "Peace at any price".

I look forward to the future, no matter what, and would never want to relive the 50s, 60s or 70s.

[shance]

29. You are expressing so much of what I saw and experienced

growing up. I saw a number of women, mothers withdraw into alcohol and pills and when we were young we just thought they were really depressed and/or "ill" or of course "crazy".

I think they were broken spiritually and lost. Isnt that what addiction is primarily? I would imagine the same can happen for men as well, however this culture, as most culture validates males more than it does females, unless women are being sexualized then they pretty much become irrelevant after their 'sexy' years.

Thanks for posting. Very insightful what you wrote.

[longship]

13. I can never remember

whether his name is Anderson Cooper or Cooper Anderson, the same with all those news guys with fake last-name-as-first-name names.

I find Anderson Cooper to be extremely pretentious. I can't stand to watch him.

[devilgrrl]

15. But you don't understand! He had a tough childhood.

You know, those bumpy limo rides through midtown Manhattan to prep school, summer camp in the Hamptons, spring break in the Azores.... you have no idea how awful it is for kids like him.

:sarcasm:

[FlashHarry]

16. He did rip the other MSM for "all Hollaway, all the time."

Did you see his clip over at MediaMatters? Lightweight, to be sure -- but perhaps on our side?

[Bumblebee]

19. Yes, he is and there are things to be admired about him still, like

the fact that he refuses to hide that he is gay. I do not think jokes about him being a daughter are appropriate -- they are actually offensive. He sometimes does rise to the occasion and asks good questions. Today he was, for most part, absolutely dismal.

[shance]

22. However he acknowledges his sexuality is certainly fine and accepted by

me. I thought it was tremendously courageous of Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O Donnell to openly take a stand. I don't ever remember Mr. Cooper taking a public stand on his being gay. Perhaps he has. However, a refusal to hide he is gay. What does that mean?

BTW, with regard to the "daughter" usage, that was a mistake. It was by no means intentional.

[Bumblebee]

26. He is openly gay -- but not as vocal about it as either Ellen or Rosie,

that's true. I just didn't think it was appropriate to deride a gay man as someone's "daughter."

[shance]

30. It was as I said, a mistake, Bumble. However, you assume calling someone

female is 'deriding'?


Why is it "deriding" to make a simple mistake and use the wrong gender terminology?

[Bumblebee]

35. Because calling a gay man who may strike some as effeminate

"a daughter" is just not cool. Enough said.

[Bumblebee]

28. PS I know you did not mean to insult him-- just came out poorly :)

[KoKo]

20. Here's some info on him:

In a gossipy tribute to romance's irresistible lure, celebrity heiress Vanderbilt coyly recalls the many loves of her life. Though Vanderbilt offers a psychological explanation for her constant quest for love, it seems more a perfunctory aside than a major revelation in this paean to the susceptible heart. Some of the material has been covered in her other work (A Mother's Story, 1996, etc.): her happy but too-short marriage to Wyatt Cooper, who fathered her son, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, Wyatt's early death, and the suicide of their other son Carter. Other sections are part of the public record concerning someone who's been a headline-maker since childhood in the 1930s, when Aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney went to court claiming that Gloria's mother was unfit (there were rumors of lesbian attachments) and won, becoming Gloria's legal guardian. Her absent mother had a lasting impact, admits Vanderbilt: "The love of my life was my mother. My search for love has and always will be to revive the dream of . . . obtaining the perfect mother to love me unerringly and unceasingly." And it is this search, always energetic, always optimistic, she now chronicles. The list of men in her life is long and often illustrious. They include husbands Pat DeCicco, Leopold Stokowski, and Sidney Lumet; Howard Hughes, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, and Roald Dahl (amusingly misspelled throughout as "Raoul"). Except for the one to Cooper, her marriages proved to be mistakes: DeCicco was abusive; Stokowski was cold and self-absorbed; Lumet wanted children and at the time she didn't, being too busy with her acting career. Her lovers have also often disappointed, but Vanderbilt is still as dewy-eyed aboutromance as any dreamy adolescent, asserting that there's always a chance of meeting someone who will transform her life and that dreams often do come true. They certainly have for Vanderbilt, more often than not. More surface than substance.

[shance]

31. Thanks KoKo.

Interesting info.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

23. FWIW he actually has done some of the most dangerous reporting

of any of the cable news "personalities". He's been in a lot of hot/war spots.

[Bumblebee]

27. and just came back from Niger.

[shance]

33. I know Anderson Cooper has anchored some good segments,

however, I believe there is a glaring bias in the coverage by many, in which they portray themselves as being 'fair and balanced' when it in many respects there coverage can be almost an inquisition against those who are doing good, and promoting what needs to be promoted which is the truth and what is taking place in this country.

I think if CNN or other networks want to try and paint Cindy as 'radical' or wrong, which we know to be inaccurate, is it not accurate to consider such sources to have their own bias?

What concerns me is how the networks and their anchors often portray themselves to be objective when they are not at all being objective, in fact they are painting a very inaccurate, distorted picture. In all accounts they have an agenda of their own, like what is being observed on network television towards Camp Casey.

[w8liftinglady]

34. I wonder why he is selling his soul?

..especially if He is openly gay.The RW hates gays,and would prefer they be segregated from the rest of the world.I just wonder if he had some pressure placed on him to report as such...

[Bumblebee]

36. Sure he did. If it had been entirely up to him, it would have been

a different segment, I strongly suspect.

[Moderator]

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