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'''Anderson Hays Cooper''' was born on June 3, 1967, and is a [[homosexual]] an American television personality. He is the main anchor of [[CNN]]'s liberal news show ''Anderson Cooper 360°'', and hosted the first two seasons of the ABC reality game show ''The Mole''. The program is based out of New York City. Cooper is the son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and the designer and heiress [[Gloria Vanderbilt]]. He graduated from Yale in 1989 in Political Science and International Relations.
Though Cooper is popular among liberals, he is no stranger to controversy and accusations of [[media bias]].
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20972&keywords=anderson+cooper|title= Presidential Debate Topic: Bill Clinton's Influence? |last=Oddis|first=Michelle|date=06/04/2007 |language=English|accessdate=2008-12-31}}</ref> For example, during the time of [[Hurricane Katrina]], he consistently played-up the government's poor response, even appearing on ''[[Oprah Winfrey|The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' to accuse the government of negligence while at the same time, giving [[John Edwards]] what one media watchdog group called the "silk glove treatment".