CNN is a laughingstock for many reasons. Low ratings, hack-partistian reporters, meltdowns, roid ragers (see Fredo Chris Cuomo), featuring the dumbest man on TV (Don Le-Mon) and other reasons. Recently, they decided to feature none other than tantrum throwing teenager Greta Thunberg during one of their coronavirus town hall propaganda events. That drew widespread mocking on social media, so Anderson Cooper decided to through a temper tantrum. I’m sure all 12 of CNN’s viewers were impressed with Cooper’s tantrum.
| Anderson Cooper throws temper tantrum after network mocked for featuring Greta Thunberg on coronavirus townhall |
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Cooper started the screed live after the taped interview with Thunberg, which was fairly benign as it focused on her efforts with UNICEF to raise money and raise awareness for childhood starvation amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
“So, we taped that interview earlier today as I mentioned and I just wanted to take a moment to point out a kind of surreal, absurd drama that played out over the last 24 hours online and amazingly in some reputable news sources,” Cooper began.
He then put on-screen still shot promos for the town hall, both of which included Thunberg.
This led him to complain that “[a]pparently, someone with a blue check on Twitter” (presumably Hotline’s Josh Kraushaar) “saw the initial ad and was outraged and claimed that we had booked Greta Thunberg to be an expert on a coronavirus panel with other health experts.”
Yes, numerous outlets worded her impending appearance as a panelist even though Thunberg could safely be pegged as a solo hit like Alicia Keys and Spike Lee were on past townhalls. But that would have required watching past town halls (like the MRC’s News Analysis Division has), so that’s an inside-baseball point and thus petty for Cooper to harp on it when her very presence was the issue.
Next, Cooper’s snark went up to 12 and facial expressions that betrayed the notion of a serious newsman when he gripped that “Then, of course, Donny Trump Jr. jumped into this, which is weird because I thought he was allegedly running whatever remains of the Trump Organization. I mean, shouldn’t that, like, a really busy job since it’s, you know, allegedly such a great big company.”
While decrying online criticism as the work of trolls, Cooper became an actual troll with slights against Trump. He also played the child card on criticism of Thunberg and inadvertently delivered a beatdown to CNN’s current existence (click “expand”):