Discussion: Anderson Cooper Admits He Was Duped By Clickhole (VIDEO)

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I have fallen for similar stuff. I really like Anderson. At least he has the good sense to come back and tell about it. Kind of ironic that it followed him chuckling over the other guy falling for annOnion article, though.

Aaaah, the Interconnectedness of All Things…

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“I didn’t know what ClickHole was,” Cooper said. “I mean how am I supposed to keep up with what the kids are doing?”

Well, you can start by checking your sources. From what I understand that’s something journalists used to do.

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The difference being that Cooper read an unbelievable Clickhole article and complained it was false, but the FIFA guy read an unbelievable Onion article and believed it to be true.

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In his defense, the real news these days is often indistinguishable from parody. I mean, have you listened to what the G.O.P. Presidential hopefuls have been saying lately?

This presents a real challenge for publications like The Onion. How do you parody something that’s already absurd?

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I fell for a fake news story that quoted Mitt Romney as saying he was too important to go to Vietnam. I was outraged for about 5 minutes and it finally dawned on me when I couldn’t find the quote on any reputable news site.

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Except the FIFA guy was using a fake satirical piece he would (or fucking should know) was not true as defense against charges he is an incompetent crook. Did Anderson think that the fake piece on him was true and didn’t even know it and used it to defend himself against corruption charges?

Talk about missing the point.

Way to shoot your own mental acuity creds even further Anderson.

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Isn’t Free Beacon a fake news site?

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To be fair, Cooper didn’t report on the fake tweet, he replied to it. And he owned up to the brainfart.

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Vietnam - back when Romney’s inner monologue still worked. Kinda.

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'How am I supposed to keep up with what the kids are doing?" It’s called research and it’s what reporters are supposed to do. Oh, wait, you’re not a reporter, you’re a pretty, privileged child of the 1% who reads stuff handed to him. Never mind.

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BTW, out of idle curiosity… ‘Anderson Cooper Admits He Was Duped By Clickhole (VIDEO)’

Where’s… you know… the VIDEO?

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You do realize he was mocking himself, right? That that statement was a subtle play on his statement moments earlier about ‘who doesn’t know what the Onion is?’ We’re not talking about Hannity here. Cooper generally does try to make an attempt to investigate the topics in his reporting. His personal tweets, however, aren’t journalism. They’re tweets.

Unless, of course, we should be holding all communications to those standards, in which case, did you do the proper research on Cooper’s research habits?