Pictures and Video of Anderson Cooper helping injured boy - graphic pics

[Kadie]

video here...

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/18/anderson-in-the-midst-of-looting-chaos/?hpt=T2

[pnorman]

1. Thanks for that find!

n/t

[JI7]

2. i just saw this on TV , the kid just seemed to be in shock or something

i hope he is ok and we find out what happened with him. i'm glad Anderson tried to do what he could . but the whole thing is just sad.

[Wilms]

3. There's a rule in journalism that you cover the story...you don't become part of it.

And some rules you break from time to time because it's the right thing to do.

Good on this guy.

[razorman]

6. That rule is one reason I don't think I would make a good journalist.

[CherokeeDem]

4. I Think CNN just found a candidate for their Heroes of 2010

Nice to see someone who really gives a damn. Cooper showed a tremendous amount of courage, especially as a non-Haitian becoming involved in a mob scene. Good guy.

Sanjay Gupta did quite well as well. My mother told me that she saw an interview with him today, I think,and the reporter asked him if he considered himself a reporter or a doctor in these situations...he said a doctor somewhat incredulously. I also heard that he performed neurosurgery on a child in Haiti.

A bit different than standing on the tarmac and looking into the camera.



Sorry, spellcheck doesn't pick up everything.

[MadMaddie]

5. Damn! Where are the troops?

Thank goodness Anderson was there to help the boy.

[marshall]

9. The troops are squabbling over who's in charge

It's obvious somebody has to take charge, but France and some other countries are saying the US is taking too big a role. If that is their opinion then they ought to get in there and help out themselves!

[chrisa]

20. Our military cannot police Haiti

As far as I know, that's not their mission. Shooting even a bullet would cause an international incident.

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. They were on the way

better question where was the UN Blue Helmets and the local cops? Spread WAY THIN.

[tridim]

7. That was a very brave act. Stay safe Anderson.

It's strange how real blood looks nothing like Hollywood blood.

[tnlefty]

8. Thanks for the thread, Kadie...

and thanks for your efforts AC 360.

[Kadie]

15. .

You are welcome tnlefty.

[Parker CA]

10. Some real bravery getting right in the middle if that crazy situation. Very impressed.

[flamingdem]

11. Wow. I take back any criticism of him, he's risking his safety for others nt

[FedUpWithIt All]

12. Someone led the boy away. Nobody knows what became of him. I hope they get him treatment.

:cry:

That is a bad head injury.

[Lorien]

14. A concussion is nothing to mess around with

I hope they found a way to get him some real medical care (not at all easy, obviously).

[EmeraldCityGrl]

13. Anderson Cooper has done a remarkable job.

People have been really critical of the coverage calling it exploitive, but this guy gives a shit
and I can't think of anyone I'd rather have reporting this particular story.

[Raschel]

24. I agree. He's been excellent.

[TxRider]

16. I saw that yesterday, he dropped his camera

On a pile of boxes and went off with the kid.

Not something I expected to see, but certainly what I would have done. Though I would have likely taken off my shirt to use to try to stop the bleeding from the kids head.

[Maru Kitteh]

29. If AC had done that some here would have accused him of flashing beefcake. Not kidding.

BTW, I saw the segment and he did grab some kind of cloth for the kids head.

It might help rest some people's minds to know that the kid is probably OK. Even very small head wounds bleed A LOT. I mean A LOT. So it's usually not as bad as it looks initially.

[Robb]

17. Wow.

Pays to stay in shape, that kid's not too tiny. Good on Cooper.

[Kadie]

18. Has anyone found out if the boy is ok?

Has CNN done an update?

[4_TN_TITANS]

19. The son of Gary Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt???

Some people really do get it, regardless of their roots. He hasn't had to work a day in his life, but does this stuff out of moral obligation.

[lukasahero]

21. Ok, I had no idea

Now I'm even more impressed.

:wow:

[Kadie]

23. His father is Wyatt Emory Cooper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Cooper

[SoCalDem]

25. His dad was not Gary Cooper

from wiki:

Early life and education

Anderson Hays Cooper was born on June 3, 1967, in New York City, the younger son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist, designer, writer, and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, great-great-grandaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt of the prominent Vanderbilt shipping fortune.

Cooper's media experience began early. As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus for Harper's Bazaar.<1><2> At the age of three, Cooper was a guest on The Tonight Show on September 17, 1970, appearing with his mother.<3> From age 10 to 13, Cooper modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Macy's.<4>

Cooper's father suffered a series of heart attacks, and died January 5, 1978, while undergoing open-heart surgery at the age of 50. This is said to have affected the young Cooper "enormously." He has said, in retrospect, "I think I’m a lot like my father in several ways," including "that we look a lot alike and that we have a similar sense of humor and a love of storytelling." Cooper considers his father's book Families to be "sort of a guide on...how he would have wanted me to live my life and the choices he would have wanted me to make. And so I feel very connected to him."<4>

During the second semester of his senior year at The Dalton School, at age 17, Cooper went to southern Africa in a "13-ton British Army truck" during which time he contracted malaria and required hospitalization in Kenya. Describing the experience, Cooper wrote "Africa was a place to forget and be forgotten in."<4><5>

Cooper's older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, committed suicide on July 22, 1988, at age 23, by jumping from the 14th-floor terrace of Vanderbilt's New York City penthouse apartment. Gloria Vanderbilt later wrote about her son's death in the book A Mother's Story, in which she expresses her belief that the suicide was caused by a psychotic episode induced by an allergy to the anti-asthma prescription drug salbutamol. Anderson cites Carter's suicide for sparking his interest in journalism. "Loss is a theme that I think a lot about, and it’s something in my work that I dwell on. I think when you experience any kind of loss, especially the kind I did, you have questions about survival: Why do some people thrive in situations that others can’t tolerate? Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own?"<4>

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. Noblesse Oblige

[Cass]

22. Wow. I hope that boy will be alright; Anderson Cooper really did a heroic thing

here by jumping into the fray to help this boy.

The CNN coverage of Haiti has been outstanding and the CNN reporters on the ground are doing an incredible job.

[Maru Kitteh]

28. I happen to believe firmly that AC is one of the few out there that is the real deal.

Hat's off.

I like him because he's not a shrieking carnival barker for either the left or the right.

[Gin]

30. I like him too...he has done a good job covering the aftermath

what he did with that boy was courageous and kind and human.

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