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Cooper Lashes Out At Fox News Over Obama: ‘They Didn’t Check The Facts — We Did’

By Dylan on January 23, 2007 4:14 PM

cooperbot.jpgFresh off his signing his multi-million, multi-year contract with CNN, Anderson Cooper took a thinly-veiled shot at Fox News over their reporting of the Barack Obama-madrassa Insight magazine story:

Other news organizations ran with “Insight”‘s story. They didn’t check the facts. We did.

We sent CNN’s John Vause all the way to Indonesia to the school for a reality check.

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COOPER: Well, that’s the difference between talking about news and reporting it. You send a reporter, checks the facts and you decide at home.

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