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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:04 PM
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I'd like to congratulate Anderson Cooper's mom, Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper
She raised one hell of a son!

Anderson devoted his entire show tonight to the "heroes" on the ground there in NO. No politicians, he said -- helicopter pilots, policemen, doctors.

And you know what, Gloria? That boy is still growing, right before our eyes. His compassion, his outrage, his admiration for those risking their lives to help (as he is himself, come to think of it) are written all over his face. I don't think you grow up that way if you don't learn something about it at home. Anderson is one fine man.
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:05 PM
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1. speaking of moms.....any words for Barbush?


I LOVE her!
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:06 PM
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2. Her boys are a good example of those who learn...
something quite different at home.
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:10 PM
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7. ICK!!! That scared the shit out of me!!
Warn someone next time :rofl:
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:24 PM
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15. There is not enough lipstick in the whole world. n/t
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:07 PM
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3. He has been great. I hate to think what he has witnessed
What he has gone through is nearly as bad as what the victims have experienced.

there are many thousands of people who are going to be deeply emotionally scarred from this hurricane and the disaster that followed.
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rndmprsn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:07 PM
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4. i agree...tonights show was right on.
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cally Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:08 PM
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5. I agree...he's also rescuing folks
Too many journalists forget they are human first, journalists second. I've seen Anderson pull several folks onto his boat. He's great.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:10 PM
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6. Yup. The wealthy are like you and me. Some are great eggs - some
are assholes.
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:15 PM
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9. Exactly -- some of the wealthy are taught at their dinner tables...
that responsibilities to others come with privilege. Others -- ahem -- are taught that they are entitled to anything they want because of who they are, and can use it to enrich themselves, and their peers, even further.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:16 PM
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10. Some are taught that just because they are privileged, that doesn't
mean they are better than anyone else.
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Auntie Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:19 PM
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12. Sounds like what Diana was trying to teach Willliam and Harry.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:22 PM
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13. No - D was trying to teach them the common touch. Some families
with privilege are liberal and decent and still connected to their greater communities because to live any other way would be wrong. And to teach your children to live wrongfull lives is bad.

No everyone who has wealth defines themselves that way. Families are families. They have values or they do not.
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 10:11 PM
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I agree, Auntie Bush
I was a big fan of the Princess. She was trying to teach her sons to care about others, to empathize, and to share. She took them to homeless shelters. I hope that they retain what she was trying to instill in them.
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brettdale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:12 PM
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8. Well Done Anderson Cooper!
He has been one of the reporters who have covered the Hurricane and its aftermath with pure Honesty.
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:18 PM
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11. I don't watch Cooper
but I recall the time he was on one of the celebrity Jeopardy episodes, and despite his alignment, he appeared to be a remarkably astute man. Glad he has finally stopped drinking the Koolaid.
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:22 PM
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14. To be honest - I think Anderson has raised himself and
frankly, he has done a good job.
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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 09:52 PM
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16. Some of us do raise ourselves!
Insightful statement of your!
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 10:07 PM
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17. She did have Anderson in the church Christmas pageant...
along with his brother (who, afflicted by chronic depression, took his own life as a young man). My kids, though younger, were in the same pageants. I think she and Anderson are close. She would not have been the most traditional of mothers, but it could be, given her childhood, that she determined to "be there" for her own children.
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Proud2BAmurkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 10:11 PM
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18. Saw him tell Nancy Grace he didn't want to leave NOLA
she said when are you going back home and he said to tell u the truth I don't really want to leave here at all
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