A Lesson For Being So Bitchy

Anderson Cooper Shames Lowly Daily Caller Writer With Comedic Lesson In Sarcasm

by Mark Joyella | 9:00 am, June 24th, 2011

CNN’s Anderson Cooper gave a comedic lecture on the topic of sarcasm and satire on AC360 Thursday night, prompted by a post on The Daily Caller that accused Cooper of saying it was not a “big deal” for a 16-year-old girl to marry a 51-year-old actor, which was the subject of Cooper’s “RidicuList” segment on Tuesday night (and which we posted here on Wednesday). In that segment, Cooper clearly mocked the marriage, calling critics of the age difference “romance haters.” Turns out Laura Donovan, who writes for The Daily Caller, missed the joke.

Donovan’s story begins: “Unlike much of the population, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper isn’t repulsed by the Las Vegas nuptials of 16-year-old singer Courtney Alexis Strodden and 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison,” which, as Cooper pointed out Thursday, contains a key typo and misses the point entirely. “By the way her name is Stodden, not Strodden, but why quibble about facts, Daily Caller?”

“I bet at the Daily Caller, if someone tells a knock knock joke, everyone runs to the door to see who comes in,” said Cooper as his tore the Daily Caller story apart–and noted that it has now been edited to make clear Cooper was, you know, kidding.

Watch it here, from CNN: