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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Homo "Oh, Honey…": Anderson Cooper Gives Us Our Homo Moment

Posted by Nicholas Scholl on Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:39 AM

Of course we're all shaking our heads about Prop 8, but gays, rejoice! Yesterday Anderson Cooper appeared via live feed on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. After riffing on the importance of dancing in the election, the "Ellen factor," and fun with split screen, Coop breaks from his television character and fags out for a second on the Real Housewives of Atlanta—especially NeNe. With two magic words, Anderson Cooper outs himself. The good stuff starts at 3:00.

Did you know you can create a link that skips directly to a certain time on YouTube videos? Check it out.

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Oh, honey, close your small tag. Slog is tiny!

Posted by Darcy on November 5, 2008 at 9:56 AM

Er, or... he expertly strokes the most consumerist slice of his fan base, handy for his next salary negotiation with the network, depending.

Posted by tomasyalba on November 5, 2008 at 9:57 AM

I DIDN'T know that, thanks!
I did however know that every time one of you sloggers puts a little mini-text at the bottom of your posts you shrink the entire rest of the slog.

Posted by Fnarf on November 5, 2008 at 10:00 AM

@1 Agh, I know. The Slog servers are so overworked right now that I can't even make the change!

Posted by Nick on November 5, 2008 at 10:01 AM

We miss you, Nick

Posted by It's Mark Mitchell on November 5, 2008 at 10:15 AM

what #5 said!

Posted by KELLY O on November 5, 2008 at 10:18 AM

Damn, I thought you meant that, because of Proposition 8's loss, Anderson Cooper really "outed himself."

Posted by elswinger on November 5, 2008 at 10:49 AM

Re: the skipping to parts of a youtube clip...not all vids are like that. Just this one. And your link just goes to the main vid-it doesnt explain your strategy. Please explain.

Posted by huh what? on November 5, 2008 at 11:18 AM

@8:
The URL is modified with an anchor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e7wITsVNcg#t=3m00s

#t=, followed by the number of minutes and seconds to skip to.

Posted by Nick on November 5, 2008 at 11:28 AM

Did anyone else giggle a little bit to themselves when Ellen said, "Ah ... fun with boxes!" ... ? Sometimes I'm so juvenile I even surprise myself.

Posted by childish on November 5, 2008 at 12:17 PM

Even better: he clearly hasn't even watched the show, since her name is pronounced knee-knee. NeNe has such an intrinsic pull for us mos that he only needs to watch the opening credits to fall madly in love with her. NeNe 2012!!

Posted by SippinALatte on November 5, 2008 at 12:40 PM

The way he was pretending to look at Alice makes him Jan.

Posted by Malcolm In Sydney on November 5, 2008 at 2:27 PM

Looking back on this event I think he was planning to come out if Prop 8 didn't pass. It's too bad really :\

Posted by gaybot9000 on March 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM