“Someone hacked my Twitter” is right up there with “the dog ate my homework” and “the check is in the mail” on the list of classic (but implausible) excuses (which is not to say that dogs never eat homework or Twitter never gets hacked, just that the excuse is convenient and overused). The poll wasn’t asking if you thought Anderson Cooper sent the tweet, it was asking if you believed the whole story. Personally, I’d guess that either Anderson Cooper or his longtime assistant are lying and that one of the two of them sent the tweet.
I see your concern.
Honestly, I’d go a step further: it looks like something The Twittler would have posted had he hacked Cooper’s account.
I don’t. Either Anderson sent it or he didn’t.
I don’t think Cooper sent the tweet, which is a shame since (1) it was accurate, and (2) it was no worse than most of Trump’s tweets about CNN and its employees. Whether the assistant sent it or the phone was “hacked” I neither know nor care. Anderson Cooper’s assistant isn’t a public figure.
NM…might be considered improper for the forum.
The fact that the President of the United States endorsed a kiddie-diddler isn’t important. The true outrage should be reserved for some TV talking head who might have been mean to Donny Ten Diapers.
Given that he has no history of similar behavior, and that he generally seems to be reasonable and self-possessed, I believe him.
That does seem to sum it up.
Yeah, that does not sound like his verbiage to me, at all. So, yeah, I believe him.
But the “whole story” was that Cooper said he didn’t send it and they’re looking into how it happened.
Oh wait, you’re referring to the line “A statement released by CNN later said the tweet came from Cooper’s assistant’s phone, which was commandeered by a hacker at the gym.”
I don’t have a link to that part of the story to know exactly what they said. I’m not sure why it matters though, since it’s pretty obvious that Cooper didn’t send it himself.