Anderson Cooper Suddenly Concerned About Discourse in America

Chris Field | July 22, 2010 4:32 PM

CNN's Anderson Cooper got on his high horse to complain about the nastiness of discourse in America -- due largely to cable news -- and the "smearing" of Shirley Sherrod.

Yes, this is the same Anderson Cooper who so cleverly said of the Tea Partiers last summer, "It's hard to talk when you're teabagging." It was one of the earliest of the popularized slams against the Tea Parties.