CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was taken to task by fellow liberals on Thursday after offering a widely criticized “straw-man argument” about the far-left network’s decision to air a town hall with former President Trump.
The polarizing town hall Wednesday has angered liberals ranging from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to rank-and-file employees and prominent media members, who had their knives out for Cooper. Cooper castigated Trump as a liar and called his words disturbing, but also scolded viewers not to retreat to their information silos and pretend the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination didn’t exist.
Former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann blasted Cooper’s comments as “pathetic” before taking a personal shot at the CNN anchor…