Anderson Cooper drops the B.S. bomb on Blagojevich
an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich evoked Nelson Mandela and said he had been a “political prisoner” and unfairly targeted.
Cooper allowed Blagojevich to make his point before calling “bullshit.”
In a fiery rebuke, the CNN host rejected Blagojevich’s claim that so-called “corrupt prosecutors” were responsible for his conviction on 18 felony corruption charges for campaign finance violations and bribery.
“You do have an obligation to at least admit what you did wrong, and you refuse to do that,” Cooper told the former governor, who was granted clemency by President Donald Trump this week.
“And you’re creating a whole new alternate universe of facts, and that may be big in politics today, but it’s still frankly just bullshit.”
My respect meter for Cooper just went up 10 points - I always saw him as a milk-toast type of interviewer, but the interview (which I saw) was brutal and Cooper didn't let Blagojevich dance himself out of responsibility for his actions.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anderson-cooper-bs-rod-blagojevich_n_5e508ffec5b6a4525dbb60a5
Video of interview at:
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/02/anderson-cooper-calls-bullshit
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