Didja stay up last night to binge on EVEN MORE Anderson Cooper, featured guest on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart? No? Didja TiVo it at least? No? Hey, you better get right real quick, or the Jon Klein Sensitive Hipness Patrol will be at your door demanding you shed a tear onto your skinny Gucci tie to prove your hip-yet-sensitive CNN viewer bona fides.
But anyway, the interview was the "So tell us about your new book...so you really wrote 'Dispatches from the Edge' yourself, huh?...So, the Angelina Jolie interview..she's like the Bono of hotness, right?" softball that you would expect...but there were a couple of stand-out quotes. Like this one:
COOPER: "CNN is a nice place to work...there's a real sense of people being interested in the news."
Dude! NO WAY! People who work at CNN are INTERESTED IN THE NEWS?!!? Man, those are some above and beyond go-getters at that news organization, no doubt! It's hard to believe CNN's only in second place in the cable news ratings with that kind of fire burning in its collective belly!
This is what's known as "damning with faint praise." Cooper's not dumb. I'll say it again: it continues to look to me like Cooper's working on an exit strategy from CNN.
And this:
STEWART: MSNBC is the "let's copy Fox...when you're a parody, you go where the money is" channel....
Stewart has it mostly right, and he should get credit for that. MSNBC is a parody, but not of Fox News. Yes, in MSNBC's own wildly inept way, they attempt to copy the wildly successful Fox News. But mostly MSNBC just parodies being a real news organization. MSNBC's more like a donkey in the Kentucky Derby: not fooling anybody.
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