As Twitchy reported earlier, CNN released a statement Wednesday explaining that geolocation tools confirmed a tweet from @AndersonCooper calling President Trump a “tool” and a “pathetic loser” wasn’t sent from Anderson Cooper’s phone.
No, you see, Cooper’s assistant — the only other person with access to his Twitter account — inadvertently left his phone unlocked and unattended at the gym, and someone took his phone and sent the tweet.
Yeah, right.
People weren’t believing it then, and the more they think about it, the less sense it makes.
So Anderson Cooper's assistant suffered the following calamity: Someone at the gym broke into his/her locker; figured out his/her password; logged into Cooper's Twitter; Tweeted a single Tweet from Cooper's account; then replaced the phone in the locker and closed it back up.
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) December 13, 2017
Does Cooper buy that story? Or is that the cover agreed upon so he doesn't have to fire his assistant?
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) December 13, 2017
Well … they did say the phone was unlocked and unattended. It must just have been lying there on a bench on a towel with the access code already punched in and Twitter open and logged in.
Seems legit.
— Matthew DesOrmeaux ⚜ (@authoridad) December 13, 2017
There was a second tweetman.
— Antonio Martinez (@djtechchicago) December 13, 2017
Or….his assistant opened Twitter at the gym, saw Trump’s tweet, and replied to it not realizing he/she was logged into Cooper’s account rather than the assistant’s own (probably pseudonymous) account.
— Judge Elihu Smails (@JudgeElihu) December 13, 2017
Yeah probably forgot to switch accounts. That definitely sounds more plausible.
— Stephanie Thomas (@VSourceMedia) December 14, 2017
That sounds very plausible. But that’s not CNN’s story — they say someone took the phone while the assistant had left it unlocked and unattended. Are we dealing with an apple or a banana here?
i'm obsessed with this anderson cooper thing. we're supposed to believe someone at gym knew this person was cooper's assistant — who for some weird reason unlocked his phone.
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) December 13, 2017
Not to sound like Alex Jones, but why would someone temporarily steal a phone owned by Anderson Cooper’s assistant, who was in a gym in a different city than Anderson Cooper? And how would that person know it was logged in to that Twitter account?
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) December 13, 2017
CNN's tortured conspiracy theory to explain an employee's obvious screw-up is so much funnier and more incriminating than the actual screw-up.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 13, 2017
That said, I cannot wait to watch the hour-long CNN special investigation to track down the Real Tweeter. It's a stone cold whodunit.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 13, 2017
Given how CNN treated a tweet screw-up from a Ted Cruz staffer and how it tracked down a rando GIF maker, I'm sure they'll get right on this case. https://t.co/ClYoxOWdNe
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 13, 2017
Are you saying it wasn't really Professor Plum in the locker room with the iPhone???
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) December 13, 2017
I like how the phone was unlocked but it took a hacker to post the tweet.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 14, 2017
Anderson Cooper's assistant is well known in media circles, yet no one in media is mentioning his name or asking him about this mysterious gym hacker. Isn't that weird? Quite the mystery. https://t.co/nGftzE7jqF
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 14, 2017
Being a social media manager, I am finding this story hysterical.
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— Vince ? (@Vinman_Inc) December 14, 2017
Who among us hasn't opened an unlocked gym locker, found an unlocked smart phone among its contents, used it to log into the owner's twitter account, and upon seeing it was Anderson Cooper's, sent a tweet at the President and then put the phone back exactly where it was? https://t.co/J9IS2QSOmX
— James Hasson (@JamesHasson20) December 13, 2017
All of my tweets that fall flat are the fault of a group of men who set up cameras in my assistant’s home to study his habits. Then after a series of elaborate misdirections they stole his phone, tweeted from my account, then drove away from Vegas.
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) December 13, 2017
Anthony Weiner just emailed me to say that @AndersonCooper's assistant left HIS phone unattended too!!!!
— TheOne&OnlyExpert (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2017
Nobody believes this Anderson Cooper/CNN "my assistant left my phone unlocked" story, right? We all understand this is ass-covering, right?
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) December 13, 2017
This is a test, CNN. If you're gonna lie about something as dumb as an errant tweet from Anderson Cooper's assistant, why the fuck wouldn't you lie about more significant things?
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 13, 2017
We’ll be sure to check Brian Stelter’s next email blast for the results of the follow-up investigation.
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Hey, why isn’t CNN asking THESE questions about @AndersonCooper’s anti-Trump tweet?
So who’s buying CNN’s explanation for the anti-Trump tweet from @AndersonCooper
