Anderson Cooper Pummeled in Egypt: Brave or Wimpy?

I love Anderson.

i know i wouldnt want to be in his shoes and i appreciate him for going there

Any one who can take a ass whopping is brave to me. I am shocked that a guy his age has never been in a fight? Maybe he is the type to have always avoided them, so that is kind of wimpy, because he may be the type that goes along just to get along and never speak up for himself, or anyone else so he will not get into a fight, but this experience may have toughened him up.

however, even if that was iron mike tyson over there he would be seen running too...

...and not too bad to look at either.

So he is claiming he was pummeled, yet there wasn't a mark on him unlike Greg Palkot and his photagrpher who still had marks and broken bones a week later.

That went away as soon as the camera did.

Only because "Stupid" wasn't a choice.

I Remember During The Haiti Ordeal. There were some older guys beating on a ten year old kid. they were all huddled around him just stomping his ass into the ground. anderson shoved them off the kid picked him off the ground & hi tailed it out of there. i thought damn i've never seen a journalist do that before. so i'd say he's got some guts. most people would've been worrying whether or not their cameraman was getting the shot.

They should have sent Alice Cooper..

I've played pickup basketball games at church that were much rougher than this. Cooper is a wuss. Reminds me of John Kerry. People who are really brave don't need to make mountains out of molehills. And that crowd looked quite tame. I've seen anti-furr protests that were orders of magnitude more violent. Cooper needs to grow a pair.

Actually dumb, just like every other reporter who was walking down the streets there. They way they were being attacked isn't worth losing my life over "getting they scoop" on the other networks. They should have used a "news pool", IMHO.

How about mercenary, rather than brave or wimpy, there are conditions when you take the big bucks and the trials that go with it. Suck it up Andy !

For those of you who said you would have fought back, you're lying. When you have an entire crowd of people fighting you, you know it's a battle you're not going to win.

HE is not brave at all. Lets put it this way ,I would not want him in my fox hole, not to mention he might try to get fresh

When I was in the Ghetto in Brazil a guy jumped my friend. I came up behind him, tackled him, pulled him off my friend and got my friend out of there. Thats brave. Cooper quote "slapped back, then realized that would only make it worse" I would have gone down kicking and screaming. For me it would have been like, yeah, youll take me down. But im taking as many of you F****rs down with me as i can.

thats fine if you would have done that, but im sure you wouldnt have gotten out of there alive

He didn't know what he was getting into.

stirring the pot should have been another choice

I'd love to be his PSD. No, this isn't a camera. Yes, it will kill you.

No "other" choice, but he's too cocky and bold to be a wimp, so brave was my choice. He's really looking for that big story isn't he? But that's what journalists do - risk their lives to give us their views.

Go to a war zone and tell us how much YOU like getting beat up.

Ive been there. I would have fought back. Hes a p*ssy. I mean no one even had a gun. there was nothing to fear. Getting beat up, thats not that bad. Getting shot, thats bad.

He would have been arrested if he had fought back. You also have to remember that..

And smart. Sometimes you need to fight back. Sometimes that will only make things worse.

Mommy, those Jihadist are picking on me! I hope they don't find out I'm gay and cut of my head!

lol

Best post!!

He went into the middle of a revolution and was going to report it. He only left when they said they would decapitate him if he stayed. There is no need for him to be there at this point. They have news casters in Egypt. It would be asinine if he stayed.

They werent going to decapitate him. He was in virtually no danger. The media just spin it that way.

Every news station has said this.

He was brave and stupid to go over there in the first place...but I wish he wouldn't have said he was slapping back b/c that sounds wimpy lol.

Cooper is pretty brave to go and report from a foreign country, ready to explode, you have to have balls to do that. It's easy for those in the safe compounds of their homes back here in the states to call some one whimpy.

I used to live in the statistically most dangerous neighborhood in Brazil, which itself is a very dangerous country. I was mugged there and I had to rescue friends from fights. Ive had knives and guns pulled on me, ive had my life threatened by people who have already killed others. Cooper is what we would call in Brazil a baitola, or a mulherzinho. Hes a massive pansy as evidenced by the fact that he is gay and the fact that he "slapped them back". Ive never met a tough gay dude, and ive met lots of gays (i lived in san francisco too) He could have easily dispersed that crowd if he would have laid one of them flat. Break their F***ing nose or their arm, see how eager they are to mess with you then. I cant believe he didnt have a gun with him. They should have sent Bas Rutten from HDNet out to Egypt. He wouldnt be a wimp for sure.

Lmao...wow, that's funny. But I do respect your opinion.

why is anything he said considered wimpy? he was attacked by a mob. what would you expect? have you ever been attacked by a mob? didn't think so.

Anytime you are in a Middle East country with the possibility of some nut walking up with a bomb strapped to their body, I think your and either brave or stupid. Since this was his job and he had to be there, I'll give him the brave tag!

By definition I view his being in Egypt or any other "hot spot" as brave. I am not certain I could or would do such given the opportunity.

you should have clicked the option "Hes braver than me because I have no balls."