CNN Unanimously Approves of Anderson Cooper's Sexuality, Boasts He's Now 'Mainstream,' Not on the 'Wrong Side of History'
CNN is anything but the Centrist News Network on gay issues, and that’s certainly going to be true now that its twice-in-prime-time star Anderson Cooper is out of the closet. CNN’s Reliable Sources reviewed this issue on Sunday with three guests: two delighted gay journalists and TV critic Eric Deggans, who wrote on The Huffington Post that conservatives should be banned: “When does a news organization exclude the haters?”
Viewers were told Cooper came out because he was afraid to be on “the wrong side of history” when he would look “completely out of the mainstream.” So who would care whether Cooper can be seen as fair to two sides. “What two sides?” seems to be the company line:
HOWARD KURTZ: And, Eric Deggans, Anderson Cooper did everything he could to downplay this, not only announcing by e-mail by waiting until he was on assignment in Africa to go public. Yet it was still a big story, why?
ERIC DEGGANS, TAMPA BAY TIMES: Well, I think it's important -- for a couple of reasons. "The New York Times," for example, noted that he is now the most visible gay journalist on American television. And there's also a sense that it's a sign post. It's a sense that, you know, we're advancing in our acceptance of homosexuality and gay people in public life.
What was interesting to me was to see the tension for Anderson Cooper between wanting to do it feel right personally and also doing something to serve a larger cause.
The “news” business is apparently devoted to serve a “larger cause” than mere information-peddling. It’s there to advance society toward a gay Nirvana.
KURTZ: Which sets up my question for Mike Signorile, which is you say that the vast majority of TV, media, and Hollywood personalities are still closeted. Why do they stay in?
MICHELANGELO SIGNORILE, HUFFINGTON POST: Well, you know, for years they've been told by the powers that be in Hollywood, in the media, in politics, as well, that it's going to harm your career. It's going to hurt you. It's going to be something terrible for much of your working life.
And I think that's changed. Certainly, we've seen with many of the actors who have come out, performers, Ellen DeGeneres, and other. And I think we really sort of moved quickly on so many issues regarding gay life that suddenly a lot of these people started looking at it and saying, wow, not only would it be okay but, in fact, it's an embarrassment now to be in the closet.
And I think that's one reason why Anderson and others -- I wrote a piece on "Huffington Post" about how the new trend is, doing it low key because I think there's an embarrassment to having been in the closet. And they just want to kind of slip out.
Kurtz probably thinks of himself as the “balance” on this panel when he projected some skepticism that the public needs to know people’s private sexual habits, or that the “closet” is pathetic and embarrassing, as the guests suggested. He then turned to Gail Shister, a longtime media reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer who now works at the TV Newser blog:
KURTZ: Gail Shister, Anderson Cooper said before he changed his mind, that he felt that s private life was no one's business. Was he right?
GAIL SHISTER: I think at a certain period of time, that was true. But I think that to answer your previous question about why so many gay people are in the closet and it's embarrassing, is because they're on the wrong side of history.
I think that the trend is absolutely changing. We're in the midst of a cultural sea change in terms of same-sex marriage, don't ask-don't tell. It's only a matter of time before it's legalized al over the country. They just don't want to be seen as completely out of touch with the mainstream.
It’s easy for the gay Left to define both “history” and the “mainstream” when one side of the debate is censored. It’s easy to look inevitable and victorious when you try to blindfold the viewers to any opposition.
KURTZ: And, Gail Shister, what made me sometimes uncomfortable because Anderson has a segment on his show called "Keeping Them Honest," and he's devoted time to bullying of gays. And, you know, I always felt like he was leaving out a pertinent fact. Maybe that was unfair of me, but it did seem like it would be nice if he could acknowledge it which he has now done.
SHISTER: I think that was part of the pressure on him is that I think arguably he more than any journalist in the United States over the past year has dedicated more coverage. And it's been almost a crusade against bullying of gay youth. And I -- he reached a critical mass where there were just no more excuses for him.
And there's another point, too, here, Howard, I'd like to bring up which is -- there's -- quickly, there's a paradox. On the one hand he comes out big deal. On the other hand, look how many headlines it generated all over the country. So there is a disconnect there.
KURTZ: Yes. I think he's basically gotten positive press.
Again, it’s easy for Cooper to get “positive press” when you bow to demands that Cooper’s critics are “haters” who don’t deserve two seconds of air time.
Here’s the view that wasn’t allowed on CNN: When CNN conducts “almost a crusade” on gays and bullying, does it really matter whether Cooper is in or out of the closet? If CNN anchor Don Lemon is any sort of precursor to Cooper, we might expect Cooper to become even more of a crusader now that his sexuality is a public matter. Is that what CNN is now, the Crusade News Network?
You can understand why CNN doesn’t want to put that debate on CNN.
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Anderson Cooper...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 11:22pm.
...takes it in the pooper? What a surprise? What earth shakers will they break next? Water is wet? Al Sharpytongue is a race baiting, huckster? Jabba the Hut was based on Michael Moore?
Mainstream media*
Submitted by cajun2 on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 11:39pm.
Yep, mainstream, according to the media
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/2012-new-york-city-gay-pride-parade-...
Why didn't it take in ancient Greece?
Submitted by Slyrr on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 11:40pm.
So - you libs - you think going gay is 'the wave of the future', right? So tell us then - why didn't it take in ancient Greece, or in any other society that tried it?
Here is the 'logic' of your statements: You say going gay is 'the right side of history'. You say that going gay is 'the wave of the future'. By that, you mean that going gay is a forward-thinking, enlightened way of living. You think that once people go gay, it will be accepted. Once it is accepted, more and more people will be 'comfortable' going gay. And you think after that, more and more people will go gay. And eventually it will be a gay society.
By that line of thinking, once 'going gay' became a fad in ancient Greece, THEY were 'forward thinking' and engaging in 'the wave of the future'. By your thinking, Greece should have been the 'center' of a tidal wave of gayness that would have spread all over the globe, with every other country following Greece's 'forward thinking' example.
So - what happened? (Joker quote) Did... their b@))$ drop off or something? If it was so 'forward thinking' and if everyone who beheld the wonder and glory of going gay would be so overwhelmed with joy at Greece's example, why didn't every person on the face of the Earth bow down and follow their example to join 'the wave of the future'?
Look - CNN, NBC, and all the rest of you - here's the truth. It's a fad. A sociological fad that pops up every thousand years or so. It's like history's version of the Pet Rock or the Hula Hoop. Ignoramuses across the ages think they're 'discovering' it over and over again, and are enraptured by it for a brief period of time. Then the inevitable happens, people grow up, get over it, and look back on it while wagging their heads and muttering 'What the BLEEP were we thinking?' And they will again.
Don't mistake me - there will always be 'forward thinking' liberals (i.e., die-hards) who will never give up their pet rocks and their hula hoops. You'll keep standing on street corners, trying to get everyone else to join you in thinking it's 'cool' again.
Good luck with that.
Slyrr, if you'd posted that on Disqus,
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 1:12am.
I could have just hit the "Like" button. Here I have to ^^Like^^. Nicely done.
Hey UpNorth - my company was
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 1:30am.
Hey UpNorth - my company was called 'Nicely-Done' before it was called 'Nicely-Built'..............and I did that before the idiotic flip-flopper John F**king Kerry changed HIS mind!!!
now that's the right side of
Submitted by TruthMonger on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 12:31pm.
now that's the right side of history
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
If homosexuality was really mainstream...
Submitted by Stan T on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 1:25am.
What these people don't understand, if the mainstream all went gay, no children would be born, and the human race would die out. So are we to believe that eventually gays will rule the world, and they'll just keep us around as breeders to supply them with new recruits?
The gay community keeps saying the want equal rights...but they dont want equal rights, they want special rights. Already they have the same right as the rest of us...any gay man has the same right as any man to marry any woman of his choice, and any gay woman has the same right as any woman to marry the man of her choice. Now, marriage is a religious instituition, so you marry, you have to follow that religion's doctrines, but gays wanting to marrry is a violation of that religion's doctrines...but still they cried they werent equal...so the government gave them what they wanted, the same right as straight people...it's called "civil union" and is a government institution instead of the relgious institution....and it's EXACTLY the same thing...but they dont want exactly the same thing, they want to force the religion to change thier beliefs and doctrines just for them...
And where does it stop? by the same argument Harry should get to marry his cow, or Mary should get to marry her burro. And Paul should be allowed to marry June, Mildred, and Lois. Don't they have the same right to marry the object of their attraction? How is it any different?
Stan T ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 2:01am.
Good post.
Your middle paragraph was exceptionally well stated.
MD
exceptionally well-stated, but
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 3:59am.
eminently inaccurate. At least to the extent it suggests civil unions are universally recognized in this country. They are not legal in many states.
Furthermore, the contention such unions, where permitted, are equal in every respect to marriage is debatable as well.
Regarding the slippery slope cow and burro examples, the simple answer is that animals are incapable of granting the requisite consent. A state's legitimate interest in prohibiting polygamy has been well-established and deemed rational and justifiable on several grounds.
Jer
At one time women were deemed
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 5:10am.
At one time women were deemed property and in fasct still are in some parts of the world. Property just as the burro is property. Now the idea of marriage never asked about consent when property was concerned. But the we have been traveling down the slope for a long while and the next stop is more depravity ... perhaps pedophilia.
Can i marry my sister?
Submitted by misterbee241 on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 12:14pm.
Shes of the age of consent and in her right mind too. Is it my right to marry the one I love or not? If not why not?
Can she cook?
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 11:46pm.
Jer
if we legalize civil unions
Submitted by TruthMonger on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 12:37pm.
if we legalize civil unions for all then it is exactly equal to marriage. furthermore two straight friends and many others could also enter into civil unions to receive the same bennies as married people such as shared health care
and what is this state's problem with polygamy u r talking about...?
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
It all boils down, Jer, to the lead sentence of ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 8:31pm.
the paragraph I referred to:
"The gay community keeps saying they want equal rights...but they don't want equal rights, they want special rights"
That is precisely what the LGBT & Q dipshits are pressing for - special rights.
The Proposition 8 fiasco in California proves that to be so - they think they are above acceding to the majority vote if they disagree with it.
To state with such certitude that "A state's legitimate interest in prohibiting polygamy has been well-established and deemed rational and justifiable on several grounds.", because the "law" has so decreed, seems to be out of whack - as the same jurisprudential action in support of a certified, legal, majority vote, on two separate ballots, has not only gone missing, but said "law" has actually ruled against the majority.
The only reason the equity factor is "debatable" at this point is because the militant homosexuals won't be happy until the "law" mandates that they have the "right" to be married in religious surroundings with ecumenical trappings.
No matter that doing so would trample on the long held beliefs of others; the homosexuals demand their special 'rights'.
MD
A stated goal of communism..
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 8:32am.
...is the destruction of the family and replacement with the state.
Seems to be working ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 11:39am.
... quite nicely for the socialist/commie/Nazi liberals in the USSA, Cowboy!
I'm betting that the RBFSOB "comes out" before the 'lection hoping to get some cheap votes out of it.
Yes, if every person on the
Submitted by txl312 on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 10:59am.
Yes, if every person on the planet went gay no children would be born, and also if everyone worked as a dentist we would have sparkling teeth until we starve to death and our infrastructure crumbles. What exactly is your point if 2-3% of the population marries someone of the same sex? At 7 billion and counting the human population of this planet is not exactly in peril.
Fruit salad
Submitted by misterbee241 on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 12:10pm.
You're mixing apples and oranges.
Being a pervert is now "mainstream"? I think it all started...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 3:31am.
to become mainstream when they began using the word "gay" instead of the words "queer" or "pervert" to describe homosexuals. I guess it proves words do mean things after all. When they come up with a warm and fuzzy word for pedophile, our society will have finally reached bottom. I don't want to be there when that happens.
better to be
Submitted by g55rumpy on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 4:09am.
on the right side of God, than history
Amen...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 8:33am.
..Grump.
Here is some news for the
Submitted by John21 on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 7:52am.
Here is some news for the moron at CNN.
I don't give a damn what Mr. Cooper sleeps with man, woman, duck or cow.
He is still a far left liberal Kool-aid drinking Obamabot with no credibility or integrety. I know that neither of those last words have any real meaning in the propaganda industry that they work for but they do to me. It would also be nice to see some honesty in a news broadcast but I know that is wishing for too much.
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"But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing" Thomas Paine
Anderson
Submitted by Jersey Girl on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 9:13am.
The msm obsession with what people do with their private parts is creepy.
Wasn't that long ago the prime member of the gay CNN cabal was expressing sorrow for Sandusky.
. . . as long as he has the consent of the duck or cow
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 12:24pm.
Legal age and consent are the key.
This is a competition
Submitted by c5then on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 7:59am.
Apparently CNN has decided that there is no way that it can compete with FNC in terms of actual news or ratings. So, they have apparently decided that they will compete with MSNBC on who can have the most on air social deviants. It's a race to see who can have the most bizzare conglomeration of social misfits and fringe characters. I think that MSNBC is still in the lead, but CNN is coming on strong.
Waiting for either network to have it's first transgender news reader, or maybe an "out of the closet" pedophile.
Come on MSNBC, I know you can do it. They are probably already established, all you have to do is get them to "come out" on air.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Sorry, God.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 8:36am.
CNN says you're wrong.
Bwaaa-hahahahahahahahaha!
So Anderson Cooper is officially part of the 2.8%
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 10:41am.
Big whoop.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Dat would be da 2.8% "mainstream," Dave.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 11:44am.
I'm beginning to feel soooooooo left out.
As Alan said on Two and a Half Men, when everyone thought that he was gay and hugged him for coming out, and then he found out he really wasn't; "I feel like I'm letting down so many people."
I think I'll become a lesbian so I can feel more accepted.
Nb,
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 9:34pm.
LOL - Back in the day, I had a card in my wallet that identified me as a certified male lesbian. :-D
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Dave
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 9:40pm.
Don't lose that card, in the near future it will entitle you to use women's locker rooms.
http://www.wnd.com/2010/03/126662/
Newsbuster comments
Submitted by Fredy on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 12:11pm.
The people running newsbusters need to read all the comments on this thread to see exactly what changing the comment system does.
Notice the tone of the pro-gay discus comments and the not so pro gay comments in the non-discus section.
This is EXACTLY the path that pushing a 'politically correct' system of comments will lead Newsbusters down.
I use disqus
Submitted by misterbee241 on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 12:27pm.
And I'm not gay.
I'm not gay, either, MB , ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 3:27pm.
... (although I'm beginning to feel in the minority of the mainstream, apparently), and I also have used Disqus Suqus on occasion.
I have been bounced off Newsbusters ONE time in my whole rotten comment-infested life, and still not sure what got me that honor.
I have posted using Disqus Suqus a couple of dozen times, and have "been reviewed" more than once already.
I feel like the Obama Reelection Committee is reviewing the comments over on that side.
Also had to put up with some not-so-smare-assed liberals, which is fine because I take great pleasure in bitch slapping them.
Is Butch Napolitano out there listening to Disqus Suqus?!?
Bubba & mb
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 3:52pm.
The Disqus reviews are done if a comment gets flagged more than 3x. The moderation and review is done in-house (i.e. by NB, not Disqus).
We know that Obeyme's goons are watching all conservative blog sites, so don't get your feelings hurt if your comments infuriate them so much that they flag you into moderation. Comments are being reviewed, not by them, but by NB. It will work out just fine in the end.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Thanks, B.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 4:56pm.
I was under the misconception that Butch Napolitano had her hooks into Disqus. Glad to know all it takes is a trio of liberals flagging me to get reviewed.
Now, at least, I know when I'm over the target. Nothing I like better than pizzing off a flight of three liberals.
Keep me straight, babe.
We have decided
Submitted by misterbee241 on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 12:26pm.
Not to just embrace perversion but to celebrate it too.
Cooper is on the right side of history. Paul said (and I know this will get Jer's shorts in a bunch) 2000 years ago that men and women would leave the natural use of each other and turn to unnatural and indecent acts, and will receive into themselves their due penalty. And that is what is happening. Deny it at your peril. The homosexuals and their enablers are shaking their fists in the face of God. Cooper is fulfilling prophecy and doesn't even know it.