The weirdest thing is that Anderson Cooper himself introduced the topic in a discussion with Dan Savage and Andrew Sullivan:
“My mom once wrote a romance memoir about men she had dated — and I use that term loosely — and she described one guy she was currently dating — my mom was 85 at the time — as the Nijinsky of cunnilingus. And she made me proofread the book.”
Much laughter ensued, and never mind the lifelong tragedy of Anderson Cooper’s mother, 89-year-old heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, who was the object of a notorious custody battle in the 1930s, who was married four times, and whose son Carter Cooper — Anderson’s older brother — committed suicide at age 23 in 1988.
We can only imagine what an old-fashioned Freudian analyst might say about Cooper, Savage and Sullivan sitting around laughing on national TV at Cooper mother’s sex life. However, I’m reminded of an observation Barbara Dafoe Whitehead made in The Divorce Culture: The emotional climate in certain types of families is hot or cold, but never appropriately and comfortably warm.
Anderson Cooper’s CNN show is third in cable news ratings, with 528,000 viewers, compared to 699,000 for Chris Hayes on MSNBC and more than 3 million for Bill O’Reilly on Fox News. Maybe people don’t want to watch gay men talk about old women’s sex lives.
UPDATE: Curious as to who the other guests were on that Anderson Cooper segment, I checked the transcript:
Joining me now is Dan Savage, author of “American Savage,” Andrew Sullivan from andrewsullivan.com, a CNN panelist and founding editor also of “The Dish,” also CNN commentator, Michaela Angela Davis and senior legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin . . .
OK, so three gay men, a former fashion editor at Essence magazine, and a Harvard lawyer who was on “Journolist” — with such a “balanced” panel as this, is it any wonder that Anderson Cooper reaches only 12 percent of the cable-news audience? Of course, I understand that when you’re producing a New York-based show the day after Christmas, it might be difficult to find, say, a Presbyterian heterosexual guest, but is CNN even trying?
Three men who know something about fellatio, sitting around discussing something with which they have little — if any — experience. It pretty much demonstrates how much knowledge they think they have to have of a subject to discuss health care or foreign policy.
“…to those who are defiled and unbelieving NOTHING [and NO ONE] is pure; in fact, both their minds and consciences are defiled.”
Titus 1:15
Remember when TV shows used to do Christmas specials? I remember seeking David Bowie sing Little Drummer Boy with Bing Crosby. No discussions of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars (or sexual descriptions).
Yet Mark Steyn gets chastised by a NR editor for repeating a rather mild Rat Pack joke…
I’m just glad I didn’t eat breakfast yet.
Could I write a “romance memoir”? Perhaps. Would I insist that one of my children proofread it? You gotta be freaking nuts!
Exactly. In this case, “like mother, like son,” in more ways than one.
Want to shuck some oysters?
And yet…
You can’t see it, but I’m glaring at you.
Mommie, what is cunninligus ?
I just felt a chill. My bad.
Any surprise he is off women?
Exactly.
Imagine being trapped in an airport waiting room — where the TVs always seem to be tuned to CNN — with your kids when that segment aired.
Hey! I got an idea. Let’s pander to the lowest common denominator. That’ll sell in Peoria.
It definitely provides a clue.
with such a “balanced” panel as this, is it any wonder that Anderson Cooper reaches only 12 percent of the cable-news audience?
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I’m sure that will surely change now. All the liberals pouncing on Phil Robertson alleging he was crude and hillbilly have found their new sophisticated and elevated show;
Some of us have lived that.
To quote a wise bunny: “Whatta bunch of Maroons!” …
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I’m waiting for Charlie Sheen to join them and then criticize Phil Robertson for being crude
Does anyone know any Homosexuals who don’t invariably talk about sex or sexual innuendo at the most inappropriate times and places? It seems to be a common trait.
The only way it could be more disgusting is if kathy griffin were involved. wait, that will come new years eve.
Why do liberals think that being too psychologically deformed to establish a healthy relationship with the opposite sex and refusing to deal with their mountain of mental problems makes these people capable of having good opinions about sexuality?
daleyrocks
Was his mother talking about Nijinsky the horse or Nijinsky the dancer?
Mommie, what is irrumation?
I really don’t want to hear anyone talk about the sex lives of their mothers or fathers-straight or gay.
Yes.
Personally, I can’t figure out why anyone would or should know the details of their parents’ sex lives.
And here we have the perfect example of the difference between could and should.
And, of course, even if the esteemed Mr Cooper’s mother did write a “romance memoir,” and ask her son to proofread it, he should have had the grace and good sense to decline.
My mother made me proofread a book about her receiving cunnilingus, yada yada yada, I turned full-blown gay. Next on CNN…
aw geez, thanks for a word that I did not know, nor wanted to know
I worked with several in college and a few in workplaces since. The only word I can use politely to describe their manner of speech is juvenile. And that’s putting it mildly.
He was a famous dancer and choreographer, sweetheart… Oh look, I think that was Justin Bieber who just walked through the lobby!
OHHHHHH !!!!!
So that’s what it’s called.
I would not discuss my mother’s sex life with anyone. I’d clock anyone who tried. On national TV? That is a whole new level of sick.
One more indication that I’m not gay, if there was any doubt.
Y’know, a lot of folks are surprised at many of the practices to which the homosexuals are necessarily reduced to “get off”…
While it can be argued that homosexuals are not doing anything that “heterosexuals” (may) do, it must always be remembered that homosexuals cannot actually engage in sexual intercourse with each other as only a man and woman together may know it, so what have they then but things like this!
? Go ask your father dear.
Getting chastised by an NR editor is a badge of honor. Sooner or later, Rich Lowry will find some excuse to dump Steyn, and NR’s move to the dark side will be complete.
It’s been awhile since we said Rich Lowry is a coward. He’s probably a closeted libtard as well.
You’d have to be crazy as well. But, that question has already been answered. It just that you aren’t “that” crazy.
But, but, she MADE him do it.
The book was written by his mother.
The sheer insanity of his being asked to proofread the document – to say nothing of actually discussing said memoir – defeats any possible snark. Or, if I am honest, comment. I am, bluntly, aghast.
Both are on Gloria Van Der Bilt. The weird confusion of AC is, painfully, public.
Yeah, that’s creepy enough. But going on national TV with your butthole buddies and chortling about what a lark it was, is beyond creepy.
Mommie issues? Really? I thought that was a long since discredited “reason” for homosexuality. You suggest that there’s a bad parental relationship and you’re immediately branded as a homophobe and cast into the outer darkness, yet Cooper thinks nothing of yucking it up about proofreading Mommy’s sex memoir. Even worse, Sullivan and Savage nearly snort Orange Crush through their noses, because it’s such a hoot.
Nope, nothing wrong with these guys. Well balanced. Perfectly normal.
Was that teeth in or teeth out Mommy?
“Dad! You got an unpublished Hunter Thompson manuscript?! This is awesome!”
“I’ll take ‘Things I Really Didn’t Need To Know’ for $2000, Alex.”
But knowing it anyway, let us spare a thought for Gloria’s paramour. He’s a braver man than I.
National Lampoon once did a hilarious piece on, “Your parents having sex.”
An excerpt, found here: