MEDIA LOSER: Carolyn Goodman After Welker's buzz died down, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman became the talk of the internet Wednesday afternoon, after she appeared on CNN for an interview with Anderson Cooper on the issue of reopening the gambling mecca for business.
It was an absolute trainwreck of an interview that actually resulted in Cooper saying to Goodman's out loud and on air “that’s really ignorant.” The interview began with a series of back-and-forth replies as Cooper pressed the mayor on whether she was specifically calling for all business, including casinos, to be reopened, and the mayor replied with generalized answers about people needing to work and the city's reputation for hospitality.
Cooper noted that Goodman is “talking about encouraging hundreds of thousands of people to come to Las Vegas,” adding, “I get the financial losses people are suffering, which is awful, but you’re encouraging, I mean, hundreds of thousands of people coming there....and then returning home to states around America and countries around the world.” “Doesn’t that sound like a virus petri dish?” he asked. “No, it sounds like you’re being an alarmist,” Goodman snapped back, echoing the "liberate" protesters who have come out in some cities and states to oppose lockdowns.
And that barely scratches the surface of this circus of an interview.
It was so much, in fact, that Cooper and colleague Brianna Keilar were still flabbergasted in a later segment. 6.5.0 |