We’ve long chronicled the television career of Anderson Cooper–since his early hosting days of The Mole, in fact!–and our adoration of the Silver Fox has grown through his subtle guilty pleasure admissions. By now everyone knows he’s kind of maybe-obsessed with NeNe from The Real Housewives of Atlanta, but last night, after President Obama’s first State of the Union Address, CNN contributor Roland Martin and Cooper used the 50 Cent/Kanye beef to illustrate the political process:
Martin began by comparing Kanye West to Barack Obama: “Look, what he’s doing, he’s laying down: Here are the markers in terms of my presidency…I guess, if I had to use an example, sort of when like Kanye West had his new album, and he said, I want to make it as bad as Stevie Wonder’s…He said, if it doesn’t get to that, it’s still a great album.” Cooper picks the analogy right up, and decides to go ahead and lump Curtis James Jackson III in with the entire GOP:
COOPER: In your Kanye West analogy, I guess the Republicans, then, are 50 Cent?
MARTIN: Yes, because…
COOPER: Because they lost…
And we wonder why anyone bothers to watch Keith Olbermann! Has someone sent a flagged Blackberry email to our President about Martin and Coop’s conversation yet? Because we’d simply love to hear what he thinks about this. And so would Gemma Hayes.
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