Anderson Cooper Comes Out

  • #41
Has Anderson Cooper's "gay" status been the hold over him that the CIA had , to inspire his skills as a propagandist?

from 2006:
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Not only is CNN “journalist” Anderson Cooper the great-great grandson of robber baron Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt and the son of trust fund baby and designer jean hucksteress Gloria Vanderbilt, he is also a CIA operative, according to Radar Online.

“Following his sophomore and junior years at Yale—a well-known recruiting ground for the CIA—Cooper spent his summers interning at the agency’s monolithic headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in a program for students interested in intelligence work. His involvement with the agency ended there, and he chose not to pursue a job with the agency after graduation, according to a CNN spokeswoman, who confirmed details of Cooper’s CIA involvement to Radar.”

Or did he? As revealed during the Church Committee investigation in 1975, the CIA had a long-standing relationship with the corporate media, dubbed “Operation Mockingbird” by Deborah Davis, former Village Voice writer and author of Katherine The Great (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991). In her book, Davis quotes Philip Graham, the late editor Washington Post, as saying: “You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month.” Of course, Cooper, a bona fide Ritchie Rich, doesn’t need a couple hundred dollars a month, but may be doing the CIA’s work for other reasons, or he may be “owned” by the spook agency, as Frank Wisner and Allen Dulles owned “respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles, plus stringers,” according to a CIA source cited by Davis (see Alex Constantine, Tales from the Crypt: The Depraved Spies and Moguls of the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird). ........

Personally, I have come to the conclusion that the media is not only influenced by the CIA… the media is the CIA. Many Americans think of their supposedly free press as a watchdog on government, mainly because the press itself shamelessly promotes that myth. One of the first tenets for the control of a population is to control all sources of information the population receives and mostly because of the pervasive CIA and Operation Mockingbird, the mainstream American Press is a controlled multi-national corporate/government megaphone. They are up to their eyeballs in dirty deeds and there will never be an end to the corruption that prevails unless the CIA is abolished. Otherwise, the CIA will just keep on using their tricks of propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, drug trafficking, sexual intrigue, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage, false stories about opponents in the local media, infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, demolition and evacuation procedures, death squads, and politically motivated assassinations.
 
  • #42
I'm still trying to figure out why we all (me, included) are shocked or surprised by this. (Not so much that he's gay, but that it matters). I mean, do we go around asking about the sexual preferences (or favorite positions, whatever), or heterosexuals?

I guess the whole mystique of it all (why we wonder about these things) fascinates me. :)

CNN's numbers are way down.
 
  • #43
I love, love, and love Anderson Cooper. I always have.

IHe rocks my world. He is such a wonderful writer, broadcaster and
all around person.

Cheers to Anderson for being who is he is-- a great person.

He did not have to announce anything to anyone. I wonder who made the push?

It's a sad day when we have to tell the world about our private lives. For reasons of his own, AC always kept this part of his
life private.


xoxo
Goz
 
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Bah, I'm gonna be staying in Hells Kitchen just about a block from this spot next week, too bad it sounds like it won't be open by then. :rolleyes:
 
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First of all... I think it's funny that AC has been considered a "Powerful Gay Man" for YEARS.

http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-...mith-and-anderson-cooper-are-powerful-gay-men

Why did Anderson come out?
I believe he did it to help teens like those he has covered on his show.

I do what I can to help our homeless youth.
Here, many are disowned and kicked to the street when they come out of the closet.

It isn't uncommon for me to have at least a funeral every month. The suicide rate here is astronomical.

I talked to a young man last Memorial Day weekend... he was kicked out and disowned around Easter.
I tried to focus him on his hopes and dreams... and what he wanted to do with his life.
He wanted to be in media. However, he was suicidal and saw no light at the end of the tunnel.

He challenged me to name an openly gay TV personality who hadn't lost their career after coming out.
He wasn't interested in the "obviously gay but haven't announced it yet" guys.
I could only think of female ones. Then about a month later Anderson came out of the closet.

I saw this young man again this Memorial Day weekend. I admit, I was surprised to see him alive.

He looked great, looked much happier and I asked him why the change?

He said that he had seen Anderson's announcement and decided that he was going to follow his dream.
He has been working, saving money to go to college. He starts this fall.

I'm sure there are more people who have also been affected by Anderson's coming out.
He saved this young man's life... no doubt in my mind. I am sure there are others as well. :seeya:
 
  • #48
I agree with Jacie it is sad you have to anounce that you are gay. Straight people do not have to anounce this.. I have family and friends that are gay and am glad that they are finaly begining to have the same rights as the rest of us.

Really? Then why do we have an entire publishing industry devoted to articles and (especially) photographs of celebrities with their oppose-sex lovers and spouses?

Trust me, heterosexuals do plenty of "announcing".

Cooper's point, however, was that my not announcing, news outlets were reporting that he was concealing his orientation as if something were wrong with being gay. He issued the announcement not to let people know he is gay, but to let everyone know he doesn't deny it. There's a difference.
 
  • #49
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2009/11/did-anderson-cooper-find-new-pole-to.html

Hang on to your britches children because the gay gossip mills are beginning to gush and grind about increasingly muscular CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper and his muscle Mary man-friend Antoine "Ben" Maisani snatching up a very butch firehouse on West Third Street in New York City's Greenwich Village.

bbm
 
  • #50
First of all... I think it's funny that AC has been considered a "Powerful Gay Man" for YEARS.

http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-...mith-and-anderson-cooper-are-powerful-gay-men

Why did Anderson come out?
I believe he did it to help teens like those he has covered on his show.

I do what I can to help our homeless youth.
Here, many are disowned and kicked to the street when they come out of the closet.

It isn't uncommon for me to have at least a funeral every month. The suicide rate here is astronomical.

I talked to a young man last Memorial Day weekend... he was kicked out and disowned around Easter.
I tried to focus him on his hopes and dreams... and what he wanted to do with his life.
He wanted to be in media. However, he was suicidal and saw no light at the end of the tunnel.

He challenged me to name an openly gay TV personality who hadn't lost their career after coming out.
He wasn't interested in the "obviously gay but haven't announced it yet" guys.
I could only think of female ones. Then about a month later Anderson came out of the closet.

I saw this young man again this Memorial Day weekend. I admit, I was surprised to see him alive.

He looked great, looked much happier and I asked him why the change?

He said that he had seen Anderson's announcement and decided that he was going to follow his dream.
He has been working, saving money to go to college. He starts this fall.

I'm sure there are more people who have also been affected by Anderson's coming out.
He saved this young man's life... no doubt in my mind. I am sure there are others as well. :seeya:

Wow, Ms. Facetious! Powerful post. Really powerful.

Let me add that another reason to come out is when someone know someone who is gay, it's harder to be prejudiced.

Right now in California, 58 % of people support gay marriage (despite prop 8). Many of those are Catholics and older people who now know someone who is gay. That changed their mind.

Let me also add that gay or straight, I have a little crush on Anderson Cooper! He reporting is super compassionate and brave. He stays on horrible, tough stories long after the world gives up, like Haiti after the earthquake, Syria, etc. He also clearly cares about the people he features. I will never forget him choking up talking about the little kids killed at Sandy Hook.

But even though he is committed and serious, he is also one of the funniest guys around. Love the Ridiculist. And I love his silly giggle!
 
  • #51
I love, love, and love Anderson Cooper. I always have.

IHe rocks my world. He is such a wonderful writer, broadcaster and
all around person.

Cheers to Anderson for being who is he is-- a great person.

He did not have to announce anything to anyone. I wonder who made the push?

It's a sad day when we have to tell the world about our private lives. For reasons of his own, AC always kept this part of his
life private.

xoxo
Goz

Every time a couple holds hands in public, every time they give their mate a peck, every time they publish an engagement announcement or have a wedding, every time a person puts pictures of their husband or wife on their office desk or walls, or refers to their mate as their spouse or girlfriend or boyfriend, every time a person's grave is marked with "husband" or "wife", they are announcing their "private lives." They are announcing their sexuality.

There is nothing sad about doing that.

Straight people do this every single day, day in day out and no one laments how tragic it is that they have to "come out" or wonders why they couldn't keep their private lives private. That's the difference. Oh and the fact that sometimes you can get beaten half to death or even killed for holding hands in public when you're gay.

The attitude that being gay is a private secret that should probably remain private contributes to the dangerous prejudice against gay people, IMO.
 
  • #52
Ellen Degeneres coming out is what turned my daughter around re her hardcore anti-gay beliefs. she LOVED Ellen's comedy and always said what a neat person she must be in real life. I was bracing for a bad reaction when the news came and was pleasantly surprised. she still likes Ellen, says she has "known" about AC forever and admires him "anyway" ... so, progress. (now if her DH would just mellow out ... and stop w/ the homophobic putdowns in front of their kids)
 
  • #53
And his announcement changes what exactly?

Well, for one thing, these kinds of announcements by celebrities often change the minds of young, gay teens who have no hope, see no future and want to die. They see that a successful, well known and well respected t.v. persona is gay, just like them. That can bring a sad and lonely kid back from the brink of suicide. I think that's kind of a pretty big change. Don't you?
 
  • #54
I do not post very often, but you Swap Mam are so spot on! I am laughing on the outside.
 
  • #55
I loveeeee me some Anderson Cooper!


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  • #56
Maybe he was just tired of women hitting on him!!

I agree that no person should have to announce their sexual preferences. Heck, no one should need to know unless you are lovers. However, as gitana pointed out there are still a lot of people with ridiculous prejudices out there. Some of the clubs here still have an off duty police officer on the payroll b.c of bashing.

Prejudices of any sort will never end, unfortunately. The more mainstream and common a concept is is thought to reduce prejudices, but really, it does not.

I wish Mr. Cooper the best.

Don't give up hope. Look how far the gay rights movement has come in 40 years!

And all because people (occasionally famous, but mostly ordinary) stood up and said, "Yep, I'm gay."
 
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I believe the "outing" (which I hate that phrase) started when Rob Marciano made a homophobic remark about Anderson some time back. He overthought his "value" by not wanting to do a remote segment with that "***". Marciano left CNN SHORTLY thereafter. Don't know if the two were connected, but I thought a coincidence. JMO's
 

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