CNN - Anderson Cooper coming up next: Silvia Browne

Time is now 10:20 pm eastern and Anderson Cooper said that Sylvia Browne fans were not going to be happy.
Coming up....

Please recap for poor cable-less me? :)

she said that one of the kids kidnapped in Missouri (?) was dead, yet he was found alive. He showed a clip of one of her appearances on Oprah, I believe, where she told a woman her granddaughter was alive, but she was, in fact, dead.

AC decided to look further into Sylvia Brown's record.

it's about 3/4 the way down the page ...

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/30/acd.01.html


“But first, the story of Shawn Hornbeck's homecoming captured the attention of the country. Several days after Shawn was found alive, we reported that while he was missing, his parents had turned to self- proclaimed psychic, Sylvia Browne, for help.

Browne told Shawn's parents he was dead and even told them where they could found his body. She was wrong, of course. After our report, we spoke to Sylvia Browne's business manager and the psychic herself, who insisted that Browne has helped thousands of people.

We asked for some proof, and they sent it to us. Tonight here's what we found when we checked out their claims for ourselves.

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ROBERT LANCASTER, FOUNDER, STOPSYLVIABROWNE.COM: People come to her with their problems. They're desperate, and she preys on that. She takes advantage of that. She takes their money. She makes believe that she's psychic, and that's reprehensible. It's evil, is what it is.

COOPER: Browne responded to critics on her web site saying, quote, "Those who choose to believe in our philosophy will continue to do so because of their own convictions. Those who negate if after one human error never truly embraced our philosophy anyway, and that's OK."

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COOPER: Well, Sylvia Browne's business manager is standing by live, along with one of Browne's biggest critics, psychic debunker James Randi. I'll talk to both of them next.”

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L9hki5Nlyo&NR
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts_To4zmEdE&NR

Randi looked like an asshole as per usual and $ylvia's manager looked no better. Anderson was awesome and pulled no punches.