Greg Pollowitz at NRO Media Blog found CNN anchorman Anderson Cooper sat in as a host of Live With Regis and Kelly on Wednesday, and drew hoots and Internet notice by asking Jillian Harris, the latest star of the ABC reality show The Bachelorette, how many bachelors she er, took for a test drive before buying. She shot back: "Let’s talk about your sex life first, Anderson." (Video here.) Check out the exchange:
COOPER: How many did you actually hook up with?
HARRIS: Like...?
COOPER: Like how many did you actually sleep with? [Audience whoops in shock.] Oh, I'm shocked! I'm shocked! Wait a minute. Wait a minute!
HARRIS: Let’s talk about your sex life, first, Anderson.
COOPER, protesting: You greased up this guy in oil on national TV and you're shocked at that question?
HARRIS: It was aloe vera.
COOPER: I really don’t wanna know, but –
HARRIS: I kissed 10 guys, but only four with tongue. [Makes a jokey face.]
COOPER: You know what? I just threw up in my mouth a little.
If CNN president Jon Klein is such a stickler for being the network of "real news," why does he let Cooper sub on Regis and Kelly? Does he have to ask saucy questions that he wouldn’t answer? Pollowitz related this to Chuck Todd's blog lament that "actual journalists" are taking a back seat to ranters and entertainers.
For people who haven’t watched The Bachelor or The Bachelorette, when the field of 25 contestants is whittled down to four, the couples are offered a night in the "fantasy suite" (the audience is encouraged to imagine what happens during the sleepover).
In this season, Ed -- the man Jillian Harris actually picked to marry -- was humiliated by ABC when it was broadcast to the world that even after the on-air aloe vera rubdown, he was in need of a, well, a blue pill. So even if Cooper’s question is incredibly personal, that’s also where ABC makes its money on this "reality" show.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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July 31, 2009 - 05:42 ET by Cool ArrowShe should have asked about 10 year-old Cooper being paraded around Studio 54 by pedophile, Michael Jackson.
Hope is an excuse for doing nothing - Rush Limbaugh
She greased a guy with oil..
July 31, 2009 - 06:34 ET by allanfAnderson attacked her because she "greased a guy with oil". Yet Anderson derisively used the term "teabagging" to refer to tax protesters.
To me Anderson is more obscene of the two.
Silly....
July 31, 2009 - 06:03 ET by ForbusThat transcript reads like a bunch of brain-dead teenagers in heat.
"I just threw up in my mouth a little"
July 31, 2009 - 06:31 ET by SickofLibsA girl kissing a guy? Ewwww!
Cooper the pooper trooper
July 31, 2009 - 07:13 ET by nadadhimmiCooper the pooper trooper threw up in his mouth a little?, I guess he had to get that scrotum out of his mouth first. Yup, Cooper, and CNN suck
It must be sweeps week for blogs
July 31, 2009 - 07:38 ET by BlueCat57This must be sweeps weeks. Two sex related stories in a row. I haven't even made it to the end of the home page.
NB must be looking for a ratings boost.
I was just thinking that.
July 31, 2009 - 11:36 ET by WisdomI was just thinking that. Hopefully they don't fall victim to the beast that foxnews.com has, where they post gratuitous, pointless sexual stories right in their middle "Feature & Faces" section... every... single... day... so annoying. If I'm just looking to read the news, I don't need to see bikini shots. It's like what audience are they trying to gain there? That's why lately, I've been sticking to Drudge Report.
Well...
July 31, 2009 - 08:09 ET by FuzzlenutterWe already know he's extremely familiar with teabagging, don't we?
ChickaBOOMer: Anderson Cooper's Forked Tongue
July 31, 2009 - 08:19 ET by StewartIIIChickaBOOMer: Anderson Cooper's Forked Tongue
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2009/07/anderson-coopers-forked-tongue.html
Anderson "Sponge Bob" Cooper
July 31, 2009 - 08:41 ET by Barker"I just threw up in my mouth a little"
What happens in Cooper's mouth stays in Cooper's mouth.
The Batchlorette and
July 31, 2009 - 08:55 ET by Dan The Man 2The Batchlorette and its brother are about tittilation on TV. Of course I do like her comeback and she should have pressed it. My wife watches them and me by proxy. I always wonder why they dont have some short fat dumpy guy and some like companions and then see what happens.
These shows are for cheap thrills. A very poorly written "romance" novel for TV. What do women see in these shows, I say women because I don't see many guys actively watching such claptrap.
Self-Destruct Engaged
July 31, 2009 - 09:53 ET by slickwillie2001Rarely do we get to watch a career self-destruct on national TV. At one time a couple of years ago Cooper had a somewhat respectable reputation, but he seems bound and determined to piss it away. He could have been major network anchor material, which they desperately need. Now he is more like Rachel Maddow. Maybe because of the family fortune he doesn't really care about career because he doesn't have to.
On the other hand there is a psychological phenomenon seen in career management where mental problems with self-worth or self-hatred cause people to purposely sabotage their own careers. There was a book written on this a few years ago. Maybe that's his problem.
The Roots Show
July 31, 2009 - 13:33 ET by Chris NormanCNN tried to take the lightweight, cheesy, guy out of the sleeze and make him into a big shot dignified anchorman, but he keeps returning to his roots.
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
I understand why Anderson Cooper asked Jillian Harris
July 31, 2009 - 16:39 ET by Rush Fanabout her sex life. If you had watched the program closely, as I did, you would have seen the lust in Anderson's eyes when he was interviewing her. He was obviously "turned on".
Even a casual observer could easily tell that Anderson Cooper finds her very attractive, and his profuse sweating and heavy breathing while he talked to her were easy tell signs.
I have no doubt that Anderson wishes that he could have replaced one of the bachelors for just one night, so he and Jillian could spend a blissful night of lovemaking. Sadly, she is already spoken for.
Let's face it folks. Anderson Cooper may be a serious journalist, but he is also a man, with the same basic urges as any man. In fact, Anderson Cooper is known in some circles as not just a man, but a man's man. :-)
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Another degenerate queen.
August 1, 2009 - 05:43 ET by cwnelson79Cooper, how many men have you shoved your genitals into? How many men have used you like a human toilet? A woman kissing a man is not EWWW coopey, that is normal. A man kissing a man is EWW, coopster. This is the perverted logic of a homosexual. He has probably had more semen inside of him then a whole sperm donor clinic. And he is asking her about how many times she had normal sex with a man. Unlike the perverted sex he has had with a man. Why do companies let mentally ill people run shows?