Why Would Anyone Watch Anderson Cooper?

As even liberals like Taylor Marsh are acknowledging CNN's ratings collapse, a timely question, perhaps. I fully admit to not knowing squat about Anderson Cooper, never having watched him. However, I do recall a large media blitz pushed by CNN when he got the job. They made him sound like the next best thing since sliced bread.

So, why would anyone watch Anderson Cooper?

Every PR image I've seen of the guy, keeping in mind that's all I know of him, he always has this far off look in his eye that says, Hey, I'm the newest Marlboro man who just happened into this downtown gay bar. Anyone looking to take someone needy home tonight?

To me, anyway, the guy has always looked more needy than he does strong, as you might expect with a news anchor. Is this what passes for NYC chic these days?

Geesh! No wonder why bikers always score. If this is their competition, at least they could offer a gal a little fun, as opposed to allegedly deep thoughts with a sprout salad and a tart mustard dressing on the side, not that there's anything wrong with mustard, really.

The guy has always looked anemic to me, if he looks anything. And as to why men might watch him, I have even less of a clue. He looks more lost then he does found, at least in his puff PR shots they continue to use to build him up as an authority of some kind. On what, I've never managed to figure out. Maybe the PR has simply been too much fluff and no gravitas? 

Comments

[seekeronos]

I figure him to be a bottom... in the ratings. But, supposedly, he's very well liked in the gay community.

[Margi]

This: "No wonder why bikers always score. If this is their competition, at least they could offer a gal a little fun, as opposed to allegedly deep thoughts with a sprout salad and a tart mustard dressing on the side, not that there's anything wrong with mustard, really."

Coffee. Nasal. Enema. You owe me a keyboard, bucko.

[Dan Riehl]

lol Great to see ya, Margi, my dear!

[cindi]

it's what happens when your mother is Gloria Vanderbilt

[mark l.]

i've caught a couple of 360 episodes.

it's like news for third graders.

[mark l.]

is this pic some kinda code?

ac hovering over a "man hole"?

[Robohobo]

Jeez, can you tone down your man-crush a bit?

[fb274]

Ah, he's cute.............like the south end of a duck waddling north.

[democratsarefascists]

Metrosexuality.
Effeminate Democrat men watch him for the gay thing.
The squint makes him look submissive.

Other Democrats, such as city-dwelling elitist women, watch him because they don't know any better and because they can't stand the existence of anyone who doesn't parrot their own diseased ramblings. Which he does.

[mojo]

Robo-Shep SMASH!

[John]

The lack of anything resembling intelligent national discussion and the faux news caused me to turn 360 off a while ago. Every once in a while I check in on the assumtion that eventully the editors must realize that this is really crappy news, but they don't. I return to Fox and find out what is really happening in the world.

[templar knight]

Maybe I'm imaging this, but wasn't AC one of those top guys(no pun intended) who showed their ass(again, no pun intended) covering the now "famous" non-evacuation of the welfare moochers following Hurrican Katrina. Oh, I remember it just like it was yesterday, "Somebody better do something for our sorry asses before we act even sorrier." Yeah, wasn't AC one of the ones who was so upset and went all emo while on the air? He's a loser.

[Stinky]

While reading this, I almost peed myself and I did snort tea up my nose.

[joyMc]

Anderson is highly professional,well groomed, GQ as all hell and a thorough going ass. If that was the one TV on in prison I would opt for solitary.