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FOX to Cooper: "You're Paris Hilton!"

In the world of conservative news nerds, calling someone "Paris Hilton" is an insult. That "slur" has now been hurled by FOX News at grey-haired golden boy Anderson Cooper.
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In the latest issue of Television Week, the right-leaning cable net ran a two-page ad with the screaming headline: "MEET THE PARIS HILTON OF TELEVISION NEWS." Anderson isn't pictured or named, but there's a photo, taken from behind, of a slim, grey-haired man in a suit.

The ad also says that "Anderson" is "style over substance" and a "media darling." But here's the kicker: "He still gets beat EVERY NIGHT BY ... Greta Van Susteren." Ouch.

The spat erupted last week when Cooper took a shot at FOX News for hyping Insight magazine's incorrect story that Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama had attended a radical Islamic school as a child in Indonesia. "Others are reporting the heat. We are sticking to the facts," Cooper said at the time.

You call FOX inaccurate, they call you Paris Hilton. So there!

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1. Fox and Fox talent are all a bunch of Nazi's. With zero style. Van Sustern had to go under the knife to even be presentable for air.

Posted at 3:23PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Joannie

2. II think most of the public has no confidence in the news because of blatantly stupid incidents such as the comments Fox News has made. CNN isn't any better in that they actually responded to this nonsense. Maybe if the news media circus actually focused on real news, the public might get information that is actually useful and relevant. Fox is no more fair and balanced than CNN is trusted.

Posted at 3:18PM on Jan 30th 2007 by david schafer

3. I LOVE ANDERSON COOPER HE IS A GREAT AND UNDERSTANDING PERSON. HE REPORTS THE NEWS ACCURATELY. HE IS ALWAYS TRYING TO HELP OTHERS. YOU GUYS NEED TO LEAVE HIM BE. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK ANDERSON

Posted at 3:43PM on Jan 30th 2007 by SMILEY

4. TO NO. 3 I REALLY AGREE WITH YOU. SHE IS TERRIBLE LOOKING SHE LOOKS MORE LIKE A MAN THAN WOMAN. GET SOME STYLE VAN SUSTERN

Posted at 3:52PM on Jan 30th 2007 by SMILEY

5. I know I would be insulted if someone referred to me as being a Paris.....

Although, would they be calling me a....

Drunk driver? Herpes victim? Whore? Coke head? That comment can be taken SOOOOOOOO MANY DIFFERENT NEGATIVE WAYS......

Posted at 3:36PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Great Dane

6. Interesting how you call Fox News the "right leaning" cable net. Why don't you call CNN what it is... the LEFT-LEANING news net?!!! Look who's biased after all!!! Fox is fair and balanced and that's why it is blowing all the other news channels out of the water in ratings. OPEN YOUR EYES, stupid Liberals!!!

Posted at 5:07PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Jeanie

7.
I don't know of any media/press that is not slanted either too far to the left or right. As far as Greta having to go "under the knife to be presentable for air"
if you are going to play fair; I can't think of too many television or film people who haven't gone under the knife.

ALSO, I HEAR THAT HILLARY CLINTON IS WAITING TO HIT BARACK OBAMA WHERE IT HURTS WHEN SHE DISCLOSES HIM AS A MUSLIM (IS HE A RADICAL MUSLIM OR NOT?)

Posted at 4:35PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Kristen

8. Fox is a bunch of haters.

Who wants to see wrinkly old Greta when you can gaze at Anderson with his steely baby blues and smoking grey gun metal mane?

Posted at 6:20PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Shona

9. Most of the comparison comes from the fact his grandparents were the Vanderbilts and the Whitneys, two of the Richest families in New York and the United States at the time.

So hes a rich kid that likes to wear Gucci, Ralph Lauren. So what. Hes a very sharp looking dude.

Posted at 4:36PM on Jan 30th 2007 by richard

10. I don't dislike VanSusteran, but she doesn't have the class and credibilty of Anderson Cooper. She goes for the jugular in search of a story. Sort of like TMZ.

Posted at 4:15PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Bettyboop

11. at least anderson didn't get a well-publicized "eye job." gotta geta greta!

Posted at 7:15PM on Jan 30th 2007 by gabriel

12. Thanks Smiley. I do have to say that airbrushed photo they use of her isn't half bad.

Posted at 4:07PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Joannie

13. I completely agree with the first poster. These news outlets need to stick to reporting the news and quit bashing each other.

But, I do have to say that comparing Anderson Cooper to Paris Hilton was going a bit too far. Anderson is an award-winning journalist, who graduated from Yale. Paris, on the other hand, is a useless druggie tramp.

Posted at 4:18PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Luna

14. AC is Gay, why wont he come out? Aint that news and the kind liberal Jane Fonda Peace Queers want to hear on CNN? Disagree with a liberal and find out what they're really made of when the peace and lovey dovey love everyone else who is different crap is even questioned. They're going to take the country to being so PC we will all be under Islam. And Islam aint too hip to the free thinking gay loving kind of beliefs last time I checked.

Any AC watchers ever served our Country? Not too many, they love to march and hold hands and cry for freedoms for more fornication but will rarely lift a finger to preserve that right.

AC sucks and is worse than a Paris Hilton could ever be. If it wasnt for his famous Mommy he wouldnt be in the Media.

Aint too many non liberals on this site so I dont expect any support, most of you are probably still unpacking from your DC spit on Soldiers Weekend tour.

As someone on here says often: Dickheads

Posted at 7:40PM on Jan 30th 2007 by AC DC

15. Anderson wasn't the only anchor reporting the actual facts on Barack Obama's schooling. So was MSNBC and pretty much all the other networks after they all got wind of the fact that Fox was misrepresenting the truth (as usual) and telling outright lies. They were all, including Anderson, just trying to get the true facts out there. It's too bad Fox presents itself as a news station when they make up as much stuff as the taboids. But when your owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns all the major tabloid magazines around the world, it's really not surprising.

Posted at 7:14PM on Jan 30th 2007 by susan

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