Last night Anderson Cooper put Nir Rosen on his show to discuss Rosen's Twiter messages applauding the attack on CBS reporter Lara Logan since she is, according to Logan, a war monger. For those of you who do not know, Rosen is a journalist of sorts and he was dumped from a position at NYU for his actions. Rosen claimed that he did not know what had happened to Logan when he sent the tweet, a claim that Cooper called unbelievable since Rosen linked to the two paragraph CBS statement that described exactly what had happened in the attack on Logan. Rosen claimed he did not read the CBS statement before linking to it and sending it out on Twitter.
There is no question that Rosen is slime and should be shunned. The truth, however, is that Rosen did not say anything about Logan worse than people of his ilk said about George W Bush for years during his presidency. It is nice to see, however, that even someone like anderson Cooper now recognizes that Rosen went way over the line with his comments.
My question, however, is this: if Cooper recognized that Rosen is scum, why put him on the show and give him a chance to try to wiggle out of what he said? The man applauded the sexual assault on an American woman reporter by a mob in Egypt. There is no way to explain that away. rosen and his garbage does not deserve an airing on American TV.
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