Post by Logan on Jun 18, 2016 19:11:35 GMT -6
Fighting words fly between CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Florida AG Pam Bondi
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi has spent the past two days defending herself and criticizing CNN host Anderson Cooper after he scrutinized her over her record on LGBT rights in a live national interview Tuesday.
Availing herself of favorable conservative media, Bondi called in to a New York talk radio show Wednesday morning that was hosted by a self-proclaimed “long-time friend” and also appeared on Thursday’s edition of Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” morning show to lambast Cooper for how he handled the interview.
Cooper had countered back on Wednesday night — after Bondi’s radio appearance — saying she is “either mistaken or she’s not telling the truth” about the pretenses of her now-viral interview with him Tuesday afternoon.
In that original interview, Cooper grilled Bondi about the ‘sick irony’ of her vocally supporting the LGBT community after the Orlando shooting massacre, when she had for years fought efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Florida and even signed off on court briefs that said gay people would do “harm” to the state.
Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article84145402.html
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi has spent the past two days defending herself and criticizing CNN host Anderson Cooper after he scrutinized her over her record on LGBT rights in a live national interview Tuesday.
Availing herself of favorable conservative media, Bondi called in to a New York talk radio show Wednesday morning that was hosted by a self-proclaimed “long-time friend” and also appeared on Thursday’s edition of Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” morning show to lambast Cooper for how he handled the interview.
Cooper had countered back on Wednesday night — after Bondi’s radio appearance — saying she is “either mistaken or she’s not telling the truth” about the pretenses of her now-viral interview with him Tuesday afternoon.
In that original interview, Cooper grilled Bondi about the ‘sick irony’ of her vocally supporting the LGBT community after the Orlando shooting massacre, when she had for years fought efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Florida and even signed off on court briefs that said gay people would do “harm” to the state.
Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article84145402.html