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Anderson Cooper Slams “Nonsense” Charges Made Against Him In Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Report

by Mark Joyella | 3:21 pm, January 14th, 2011

CNN’s Anderson Cooper spoke out on charges–made in a voluminous report on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and repeated in the New York Post’s PAGE SIX–that he “pushed too hard for his side of the story” when covering the spill, calling the claims “untrue, wrong, false.”

In the report by The Presidential Oil Spill Commission, Cooper’s accused of asking “a parish president to bring an angry, unemployed offshore oil worker on his show.” When that worker couldn’t “promise to be angry,” the report says the parish president and the worker were “disinvited.”

Putting the oil spill report on AC 360’s RidicuList Thursday night, Cooper said he doesn’t book guests, and has no idea where the story came from, saying “it just never happened, I never did that.” Cooper further says nobody on the 360 staff attempted to manufacture anger in any guests, adding there was no shortage of anger in the Gulf at the time.

A CNN spokesperson added:

This unattributed statement is completely false. Anderson Cooper never asked any parish president to bring an “angry” oil worker, and never cancelled on one because he couldn’t find anybody. Also, for this government report to claim that it was journalists who were encouraging residents and state and local leaders to “display their anger at the federal response” is offensive.

Watch Cooper’s comments here, from CNN”