Anderson Cooper Mocks World Net Daily Birther Plane: ‘A High-Flying Effort In Futility’
by Frances Martel | 1:35 pm, December 17th, 2011
Anderson Cooper dedicated his “Ridiculist” segment last night to a phenomenon that, sadly, apparently still exists: President Obama’s birther brigade, centered at right-wing blog World Net Daily. World Net Daily, Cooper narrates, has taken to flying planes around areas with high concentrations of people– high concentrations of people under roofs, where they cannot see the planes.
“The banner to nowhere,” Cooper calls his “Ridiculist” segment tonight, noting the amount of money and effort that went into World Net Daily‘s “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” plane that was summarily flown over a football stadium… with an intact retractable roof. “It’s a bird, it’s a plane! My bad,” Cooper joked, “it’s just a roof.”
He went on to note that WND was calling the campaign something of a success, and joking that it “has more spin than a club DJ reading Spin magazine while sitting on a washing machine.” Not only that, but they have gone out of their way to note that the plane (and the helicopter they fly beside it to take pictures “cost thousands of dollars,” funding by items such as $7 “Where’s the birth certificate?” yard signs.
The segment via CNN below:
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