‘That makes no sense’: Anderson Cooper stunned by Las Vegas mayor during wild CNN interview – By Jake Lahut (Business Insider) / April 23 2020
- Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman pushed Anderson Cooper to the edge of sanity during a meandering and confusing interview on CNN on Wednesday afternoon.
- Goodman, an independent, has called for casinos along the Vegas strip to reopen, with only the ones seeing the most infections being forced to close down instead of all of them.
- The more Cooper tried to press Goodman for facts and evidence, the more the interview unraveled.
- “You’re talking about the disease — I’m talking about life and living,” Goodman told Cooper.
- “OK, that makes no sense,” Cooper replied.
What was ostensibly an interview checking in on the mayor of a major American city dealing with the coronavirus went off the rails on CNN on Wednesday afternoon.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman tested CNN host Anderson Cooper’s patience after offering a series of befuddling counterfactuals to his questions.
At one point Cooper removed his glasses, rubbed his eyes, and took a breath before continuing.
Dear Las @Vegas. It would appear that your @mayoroflasvegas Carolyn Goodman is dangerously misguided. I am not easily shocked anymore, but the interview she is doing with @andersoncooper @cnn right now is bonkers.
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) April 22, 2020
Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman, who has been openly advocating for Vegas casinos and hotels to completely open up, literally tells Anderson Cooper she has no responsibility to figure out how to do it safely.
"It is up to them!" pic.twitter.com/d9LDRZX9Sl
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) April 22, 2020
Goodman’s profile has risen amid the coronavirus because of her calls for what’s been described as a “Hunger Games” or survival-of-the-fittest approach to reopening the strip.
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