Last night Anderson Cooper interviewed juror B37 of the George Zimmerman trial. Think Progress has highlighted several points from the interview. A few really stick out at me. 2. Juror felt just as sorry for Zimmerman. COOPER: Do you feel sorry for Trayvon Martin? JUROR: I feel sorry for both of them. I feel sorry […]
Hard to believe summer is winding down and we haven’t had a major hurricane make landfall in the U.S. yet. That could all be changing now with Irene: Irene, the ninth named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, was expected to pass over Puerto Rico overnight and could strengthen into a hurricane as it […]
This is a very interesting find from the Presidential Oil Spill Commission’s final report: “Local resentment became a media theme and then a self-fulfilling prophesy. Even those who privately thought the federal government was doing the best it could under the circumstances could not say so publicly. Coast Guard responders watched Governor Jindal — and […]
Image via Wikipedia Anderson Cooper is seeing his ratings plummet: The respected CNN anchor has seen his numbers slip significantly through the past year. His 10 p.m. show, “Anderson Cooper 360,” has declined 62% in total viewers and 70% in adults 25-54 from November 2008, according to Nielsen figures. Last month, in Cooper’s time slot, […]
That’s what this has come down to. The House Republicans want to hold America hostage so that they can save their party – the exact same party that has caused this problem: “At the end of the day, there’s a lot of people thinking about how to rebuild this party,” said GOP strategist Ed Rollins […]
The big F.U. that corporate media execs gave to the American people and, more importantly, U.S. soldiers. Jessica Yellin told Anderson Cooper last night the following: Yellin: I think the press corps dropped the ball in the beginning when the lead up to war began, uh the press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate […]
So it has started. Anderson Cooper starts off by announcing they have 2,000 more questions than the Democratic debate, and the crowd goes wild. Gee it only took 4 months extra for them to put out 2,000 extra videos. UPDATE 8:15 FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Rudy and Mitt going at each other about immigration. This is […]
Via Atrios: For much of the past week, CNN and its White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux have offered a steady stream of inaccurate and incomplete coverage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) trip to the Middle East and her April 3 meeting with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. Please join Media Matters for America in demanding […]
It is time to look at the Catholic League’s president, Bill Donahue. On Friday night, Donahue was on Anderson Cooper arguing why the chocolate Jesus should not be allowed. Here is his exchange with the artist who created the tasty tribute, Cosimo Cavallaro. Donahue was in great form. He was handing out threats to Cavallaro, […]
There is a big discussion going on here in Ohio right now. At the center of the discussion is pending legislation called Kristin’s Law. This new law will require sexual predators to have green license plates on their vehicles. Last night Anderson Cooper had Kevin Coulghlin, the state senator who wrote this legislation, to discuss […]