Hey! Anderson Cooper did a GREAT job! Yes??

[grasswire]

I haven't seen any threads praising Anderson Cooper for the first well-managed debate.

Don't you think he did a great job? He didn't ask four minute questions. He didn't have an attitude. He elicited information and didn't impose his own agenda on the candidates. He wasn't full of himself.

I really think he deserves some praise from those of us who spanked Judy Woodruff for her dismal attempt.

Here's the link to the feedback form:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?5

[kentuck]

1. He did better than Judy...

IMO

[realFedUp]

3. Yes,...maybe coz he didn't answer his own questions....

He was still an overactive host but didn't go to
the Judy levels of pandering.

[mandyky]

4. My sentiments exactly

I wrote Miss Judy a critical email for her performance. Anderson did a good job.

[grasswire]

6. So did you ...

...take a moment and write a note?

Gotta let the networks know when they do something right.

[mandyky]

12. I don't write unless

they really piss me off. LOL I maybe should send Anderson a nice note, huh?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Oh, you mean.....

Judy "Whoredruff"!

:puke:

[robsul82]

5. He did wonderfully...

...I already sent positive feedback. Anderson for permanent moderator!

Later.

RJS

[Cocoa]

7. yes, but he dropped the ball with the Hillary Clinton question

that's a whore talking point, totally violating his own "keep it real" directive.

Kudos to Kerry for blowing it off with style.

[knowledgeispower]

9. I don't know, I thought it was a good question

Not one that I wanted to hear, but certainly something that could be legitimately asked of these candidates. I would have said something like "well its a lot easier for people to like you when you don't have to say or do anything that might upset some of them."

[knowledgeispower]

8. Yes he did

I was impressed with him. He was funny and relaxed...really ingested a warm atmosphere into the debate I thought.

And as a metrosexual, let me just say that he is a damn good looking man. It was getting annoying though to hear the girls I was watching the debate with crooning over him.

[grasswire]

10. well....

....his mother is Gloria Vanderbilt. So I guess style is something his family studies.

[grasswire]

13. not just a pretty face, either...

...it looks from his bio as if he has earned his way and has some real chops.

Since joining CNN, Cooper has anchored major breaking news stories, including the network's overnight coverage of the war in Iraq, as news of the military conflict was unfolding live during the day in Baghdad. Cooper also anchored much of CNN's live coverage of the D.C.-area sniper story and the coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia explosion.


Because of Cooper's background as a war correspondent for Channel One News, he was sent to Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to report on the U.S. military conflict and to Qatar where he reported on the testing of CENTCOM's new mobile headquarters.


Most recently, as a weekday anchor, Cooper was the only Western journalist to interview Liberian president Moses Blah on the day he took office.

Before joining CNN, Cooper was an ABC News correspondent and host of the network's reality program, The Mole. Cooper anchored ABC's live, interactive, overnight news and interview program, World News Now as well as providing reports for World News Tonight, 20/20 and 20/20 Downtown. Previously, he was a New York-based correspondent for ABC News, reporting primarily for World News Saturday/Sunday.


Cooper joined ABC from Channel One News, where he served as a reporter and producer. During that time, he was a chief international correspondent, reporting and producing stories from Bosnia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa and Vietnam. He also reported national stories that were broadcast over the Channel One News school television network and seen in more than 12,000 classrooms nationwide.


Cooper has won several awards for his work, including an Emmy Award for his contribution to ABC's coverage of Princess Diana's funeral; a Silver Plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival for his report from Sarajevo on the Bosnian civil war; a Bronze Telly for his coverage of famine in Somalia; a Bronze Award from the National Educational Film and Video Festival for a report on political Islam; and a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Journalism for his 20/20 Downtown report on gay high school athlete Corey Johnson.


Cooper graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a bachelor of arts degree in political science. He also studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi. Cooper is based in New York City.

[realFedUp]

14. Interesting

A New York City kinda boy.

[Marlie]

11. I always liked Anderson

Especially when I found out he was Gloria Vanderbuilt's son and
lost his brother to suicide. He talked about it recently and he's
had a hard time with it. Imagine what Gloria felt like when she
witnessed her son jump out the window of a high rise building right
in front of her - God, that's something I couldn't deal with.

Anyway, already sent my email. He did do a great job.

[MuseRider]

15. Already sent

Does anyone know where he stands politically? One of my comments was that he was perhaps the only moderator who was not contentious and did not use their own agenda to frame the debate. Just wondering.