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My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of Americas great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts. Hes covered the military coup and eventual unseating of the democratically elected (albeit bat-shit crazy) Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Hes covered the small wars in Africa that use children as slave soldiers. He knows more about the women of The Real Housewives than perhaps even I do. Hes covered the seemingly endless large wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And by covered, I mean hes really gone and covered themwith a security detail and without; embedded with troops and unilaterallynot from the relative safety of the Green Zone in Baghdad or the international zone in Kabul. Hes sat down with despots in countries like Somalia, covered the atrocities in the Balkans and Burma. And he also happens to be gay.
Funny thing, that.....
Kicking around for as many years as I have, Ive done countless interviews pushing Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, stand-up comedy specials, live comedy dates, the Kathy show, and everything in between. Ive talked to everyone from a local gay blogger to Time magazine. Im not really sure at what point it changed, but the pressor at least the press who covered my little carnivalbecame fixated on Andersons orientation. And for years, I talked around it.
Believe it or not, I dont out people. It is neither my business nor my desire. Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist. These werent questions where I could make a joke about Ryan Seacrest getting a mani/pedi. This isnt a joke I make about whether Oprah and Gayle are gay lovers. I have no idea if Oprah and Gayle are gay lovers. I doubt they are, but as a comedian, I find some comedy in picturing those two girls running the world as a power couple. Anderson is someone who has led a very specific kind of professional life, who never talked and simultaneously exhibited social contradictions. And quite frankly, he never gave me permission to speak about something that represented the one part of his life he was not comfortable having confirmed in the media. But in my dealings with a certain sector of the press, that simply was never good enough.
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more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/02/kathy-griffin-i-would-never-have-dreamed-of-outing-anderson-cooper0.html
Love KG!
And Anderson!
dembotoz
(16,864 posts)still do
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)you made Clay Aiken's life a living hell, Outing him before he could tell his family v(note, his brother was serving in Iraq), you even "outed" Clay Aiken's son who is still a toddler. Not to mention the many others you have attacked mercilessly.
Never will like KG - she was the same person that she was portrayed on Seinfeld, use anyone to get what you want. She just got more out of Anderson by not outing him.
With all the children, she has told jokes about, as if they should have adult senses of humor, she can't take a joke when it is on her - see Leno.
TBF
(32,114 posts)I'm sure this had more to do with his position of "scion" of the Vanderbilt family ... she wouldn't dare out him because that wealth matters to her. I do give him a lot of credit for the life he's led despite his inheritance, but I'm really not all that impressed with KG.