Fox spokesman on Anderson Cooper: “The Paris Hilton of television news”posted at 3:33 pm on January 24, 2007 by Allahpundit
Send to a Friend | printer-friendly It is, at long last, officially on. Nice catch by Noel Sheppard, although I’m not sure I grasp the analogy. Paris = Anderson because they’re both good-looking scions of famous families who owe their careers to their pedigrees? Or Paris = Anderson because they’re both ill informed and look uncomfortable in front of the camera?
Cooper’s okay, actually. He did a decent job with Ahmadinejad and Hezbollah this summer.
As Noel notes, that crack came in the context of the ever stupider controversy over Insight magazine’s story about Obama’s supposed Wahhabist education. “Au contraire,” Insight would say. “Our story wasn’t about that at all. It was about Hillary’s researchers alleging that.” Here’s their latest statement on the subject: