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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.
Anderson Cooper
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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16. Don't mess with my favorite gay Vanderbilt.....

Posted at 8:03PM on Jan 30th 2007 by FlandersQ

17. While I love TMZ for all celebrity gossip and generally feel that the reporting and coverage of events are fair, I am constantly amazed at Republicans either being referred to with adjectives first such as Neo Con right wing wacko etc. Referring to FOX News as the conservative news network. Here's my question why is it that Democrats aren't prefeced with terms or adjectives on the other side of aisle. I think when refering to Nancy Pelosi, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn Tim Robbins Katie Couric and the vast majority of celebrities regardless of genre ought to be called Left leaning wacko's Socialists Neo Lib's etc. Your political bias and blinders are more than obvious.

Posted at 6:57PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Dan

18. Anderson Cooper tries to get to the truth.
He made them look bad.
Hence the smear campaign, by Fox who
aligns themselves politically with?...
Nothing new here.

Posted at 5:38PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Regardless

19. Anderson Cooper is the man. Greta Van Susteren looks like she's had so much plastic surgery her face doesn't move anymore. Only idiots watch the Fox Noise Channel.

Posted at 6:00PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Rachel

20. Van Sustern is so far to the right she can only talk out the right side of her mouth.
Watch her and you will see what I mean.

Posted at 6:32PM on Jan 30th 2007 by BFD

21. this is great....you sheep like to get your news only from people who "look good".
it does not seem to matter if it is correct or not, just who is on the screen. and the big joke is that you people can actually vote.

Posted at 6:29PM on Jan 30th 2007 by jm1656

22. I love the ad! It is true!
Love Fox News!
I have always thought Anderson was the most over exposed journalist out there.

Posted at 6:47PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Wed1984

23. Anderson is such a homo and little sissy to boot. Greta is much better.

Posted at 7:29PM on Jan 30th 2007 by sthoover

24. I think Anderson Cooper is great at reporting the facts and his AC360 show is very well balanced...I have seen Greata's show and I just didn't like it...Anderson can be anything you want to call him but his show is still better than Greta's!!!! I think calling him Paris Hilton is sad specially coming from FAKE NEWS, I mean FOX NEWS!

Posted at 7:35PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Ernesto

25. According to CNN, "Before Anderson Cooper took over the 10pm time slot Fox News had a 174% lead in the demo (Aug. 05). Now it is a mere 21% in Jan. 07." Faux News sounds once again like the schoolyard bully feigning bravado when in fact they are scared sh*tless and wetting themselves.

Anderson Cooper -- A Peabody, a DuPont and three Emmys for 360 in 2006. Greta Van Susteren? Zero. None at all, ever. So who’s the empty suit?

Nuff said.

Posted at 7:51PM on Jan 30th 2007 by LThompson

26. Fox is the tool of conservatives and the religious right.

I'm on the fox news diet - watching it at night usually makes me barf up my dinner.

Posted at 8:06PM on Jan 30th 2007 by MD

27. What's going on with Fox News? Bill O'Reilly has been bashing MSNBC and all other NBC networks. He said they used to be conservative but now they're leaning to the left to get bigger ratings. I happen to watch CNN, FOX, and MSNBC because I like different opinions. The only difference with MSNBC is that now they're are offering the left and right point of views. Whereas FOX will is conservative and republican all the time. I don't see how that's balanced news, but I will still continue to watch all three networks.

Posted at 8:34PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Satan

28. #12 Jeanie, you nailed it. The funny thing about liberals is that 99% of all the news is left-wing, don't Fox even think of reporting something alittle different. By the way Shona, all news rooms are haters if they don't go along with the left-leaning CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC and the New York Time. And don't forget Liberalism is a Mental Disorder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 9:55PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Lenn K

29. FOX NEWS is a piece of garbage... Anderson Cooper brought in millions of viewers who previously were not watching the news on a daily basis. Why doesn't he receive the laud for educating Americans? He's classy and stylish... a fresh voice to the news. It has nothing to do with people being liberal! It has to do with wanting the news fed to us honestly---not Fox News telling us whatever they want us to hear.

Posted at 8:02AM on Jan 31st 2007 by Leslie

30. Personally, I have had it with Fox news altogether. I have watched it for MANY years, but they seem to be doing nothing but bashing and becoming a Hollywood Tabloid show. (TMZ-don't take offence) I am so disgusted with all the Anna Nicloe Smith, Donald Trump/Rosie/Barbara crap that they now show, that I go on line to get news. I wrote Grets once, asking her to ditch the Hollywood crap and she wrote back saying, "I'll talk to my producers'. Apparently the producers at FOX think we all want to hear the dirt on all the Hollywood freaks. Let that to the professionals like TMZ! It has truely become 'The Fox NOISE Channel'. Since when did Anna Nicole become news anyway?

Posted at 11:04PM on Jan 30th 2007 by Elizabeth

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