Let's make a list ~ Anderson's Cooper's mother is....

[goclark]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Cooper

I think this is important for the public to know. Not because he slants the news in favor of the rich, I'm not saying that, just saying that I find it interesting to know ...

Who is Mica's Dad?


James Carville is married to a Republican talking head.
I wonder how many secrets they keep on a professional level?

Who else can you think of?

[EFerrari]

1. There are web sites where you can plug in a name

and it gives you a network but I can never remember what the site names are. :(

[timtom]

48. Perhaps this is one of them:

http://www.nndb.com/

[Catshrink]

2. Andrea Mitchel = Mrs. Greenspan

[devilgrrl]

3. Campbell Brown - wife of Cheney toadie Dan Senor

:puke:

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Leave Anderson's mom alone!

She makes great jeans. :)

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. Well, Chris Wallace of FAUX Noise is the son of Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes

Unfortuantely, this is one case where the apple DID fall far from the tree. :evilfrown:

[DuckyCase]

7. From what I've read, they barely know each other.

[goclark]

26. The poster below said "they barely knew each other."

Father? Son? :shrug:

[kskiska]

37. Mike Wallace and Chris' mother divorced when he was 1

and Chris was raised by his stepfather, Bill Leonard (eventually CBS News President), not having a relationship with Mike until he was 14. His stepfather had a greater impact on his life and career than his father.

[goclark]

38. Thanks for the information nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. Leslie "Wolf" Blitzer has an interesting resume

Including Pat Robertson's CBN News, the Jerusalem Post (Likud propaganda rag) and actually AIPAC itself.

[goclark]

41. I did not know that about him, very interesting nt

[timtom]

49. I just googled "Leslie Blitzer"

I'm not certain that the information you provided is accurate. Could you provide a link?

[tsuki]

8. William Kristol, mediocre son of Irving Kristol.

[goclark]

23. What did his father do ?

I agree William is mediocre.

[bridgit]

39. "godfather" of neoconservatism

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/18/irving-kristol-dead-at-89_n_291766.html

[tsuki]

42. wikipedia

Irving Kristol (January 22, 1920 – September 18, 2009) was an American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism".<1> As the founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the last half-century;<2> after his death he was described by The Daily Telegraph as being "perhaps the most consequential public intellectual of the latter half of the 20th century".<3>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol

[Don Caballero]

9. How is any of this relevant?

Why go after people on our side like Cooper and Carville? Just because someone is related to someone you don't like does not take away their credibility.

[defendandprotect]

11. Certainly the viciousness of Mary "Goebbels" Matalin is of concern . . .

especially since James Carville has been a shaper of Democratic campaigns!!

[devilgrrl]

12. Yeah! Leave that Trust-fund kid Anderson Cooper alone! He worked hard to get to where he is!

He got his hair wet during Katrina - he's a total trail blazer!



Then there's the softball interview with Jeff "Jim Guckert" Gannon. Hard-hitting journalism!

[Don Caballero]

14. Like it or not Anderson is on our side

Just because he grew up rich does not diminish the good that he is doing.

[devilgrrl]

15. I have seen no evidence suggesting that. He's there to make sure everything stays the same...

especially people of his wealth. :popcorn:

BTW, James Carville is nothing to write home to mom about either. His wife? When has she ever been right about anything?

[goclark]

17. I agree with you, Anderson , IMO, does not

try to be a big shot or brag about his family's money.

That's not my point at all -- it's just nice to know how so many people just happened to get great jobs in the M$M/politics.

I have nothing against Anderson but wish his Mom could give me some of those $$$$'s.

:bounce:

[Generator]

32. Now, now, he got his start on the MOLE

Let's not tell lies! And I kinda like him. Of course I see the tie in-news-reality tv just different hands of the same arm. And much of time let me tell you I prefer the wholly manufactured reality compared to the other.

[defendandprotect]

10. C-span actually started quite an extensive discussion of this a few years back . . .

Andrea Mitchell, for one -- and Alan Greenspan

don't know if they were married at the time or just co-habitating --

but a bunch in DC are married - or Congressional member's wife is working with

a lobbying group -- Harkin?

Very prominent among Repugs -- Gramm . . . others --

But it was quite an extensive look into all of these interconnections ---

[goclark]

20. Thanks for the information ~ what @"Meet the Press"

Tim Russet ( sp.)?

I've been seeing his young son on TV, seems like a nice young man.

I was not a big fan of his father's but if I had the connections I sure would use them to get a classy job.

[defendandprotect]

24. Same with Scalia and moving his sons around in prominent law firms, etal . ..

and elsewhere -- don't remember all the details --

think he has nine kids!

[goclark]

25. Bet he put them in just the right places to arrange

Rethugs agendas.

Didn't know that one.

[defendandprotect]

28. Yep . . . my memory isn't fresh on this, but had something to do

with one of them being in a law firm that participated in the Bush lawsuit

vs Gore?

My computer right now is barring me from searches -- otherwise I'd go look for you.

But, there were quite some stories on at least two sons back then.



PS: But in line with the OP, there are many other connections . . . like haven't heard

recently, but supposedly both Feinstein's husband and Pelosi's husband have both been

heavily invested in war!

??? Haven't heard anything on that in years, tho --

[goclark]

33. I had heard that about Feinstein ~ not Pelosi

but for sure Feinstein's mate.

[Sebastian Doyle]

30. Speaking of MTP

Wasn't Douche Gregory's wife in the Chimpministration somehow?

[mdmc]

13. I read Gloria Vanderbilt's book recently..

[goclark]

21. How was the book? I love to read about famous people

Well ~ not GW! : )

[whistler162]

16. Welcome to 3 or 4 years ago!

[TZ]

18. OMG, my aunt is a lobbyist

Clearly you can not trust anything I say because I happen to be related by marriage to a lobbyist (deomocratic)!!
This is stupid. People are NOT their parents or relatives.
Also, does this mean I only think about what lobbyists like? Christ on a crutch. Read about some of the places AC has been. He's certainly NOT a spoiled rich kid.

[goclark]

22. Never said anything about trust at all

Never said he was spoiled.

I however am a spoiled kid and proud of it. :bounce:

[Bitwit1234]

19. That's old news.

[goclark]

27. What may be old news to some of us is not old to others

We at DU make a point in knowing lots of things that the general public doesn't know.

[Don Caballero]

29. One more... Peter Orszag engaged to ABC news financial reporter

OMB Director Peter Orszag and ABC News financial reporter Bianna Golodryga are engaged!

The couple, who began dating after the White House Correspondent's Association Diner in May and whose relationship went public earlier this month, were engaged Monday afternoon at lunch at New York's Sarabeth's restaurant, the New York Times reports.

"She's a Russian Jew who gets up earlier than I do," Orszag said of his new fiancee.

The 41-year-old OMB director — who's a HuffPost community favorite and who has two children from a previous marriage — and the 31-year-old ABC News reporter plan an October wedding.

[goclark]

35. OMB as in Budget?

Is marrying the Financial Reporter ~ sweet. :sarcasm:

Can these people wear tags when they are "reporting" the "balanced and fair" news?

[WinterParkDonkey]

31. Anderson Cooper's Mother is....

Gloria Vanderbilt. His father was Wyatt Cooper the industrialist.

[goclark]

40. correct nt

[SidDithers]

34. Actor Paul Giamatti is the son...

of former baseball comissioner Bart Giamatti.

I found that interesting to know.

Sid

[goclark]

36. Thanks ~ I didn't know that either nt

[PurityOfEssence]

43. Katrina vanden Heuvel's grandfather was an evil right-wing showbiz gangster of the first order...

Yep, it's true: Dr. Jules Stein, founder of the truly dark and nasty MCA, and the term "gangster" wasn't metaphorical, either.

[Hannah Bell]

44. tim geithner's dad = obama's mom's boss at the ford foundation.

[Hannah Bell]

45. glenn close's dad = personal physician to dictator joseph mobutu

of the Congo/zaire, & brooke shields' cousin.

& both related to lots of rich & titled people.

"Close was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the daughter of Bettine (née Moore) and William Taliaferro Close,<1> a doctor who operated a clinic in the Belgian Congo and served as a personal physician to President Mobutu Sese Seko.<2>

Her parents came from prominent families; her paternal grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker and director of the American Hospital Association,<3> was first married to Post Cereals' heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, making Glenn Close a relative of screenwriter/director Preston Sturges and actress Dina Merrill.

Close is also a second-cousin once-removed of Brooke Shields. Shields's great-grandmother Mary Elsie Moore (wife of Don Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince di Civitella-Cesi) was Close's great-aunt, a sister of Close's maternal grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manning,_Maxwell_and_Moore

Mary Elsie Moore was born October 22, 1889 in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest child of Charles Arthur Moore a shipping broker and hardware manufacturer from Connecticut, who went on to become the president of Manning, Maxwell and Moore, a large industrial concern.

Her mother was Mary L. Campbell. Her siblings were Charles Arthur Moore Jr. (actress Glenn Close's maternal grandfather), Eugene Maxwell Moore (who married Titanic survivor Margaret Graham) and Jessie Moore, who married Colby Mitchell Chester. Mary Elsie was educated at Miss Dow's school in Briarcliff Manor, New York.

Moore married then-Duke of Poli and Guadagnolo Don Marino Torlonia, 4th prince of Civitella-Cesi on August 15, 1907 at Old Orchard, her parents' estate in Belle Haven, Greenwich, Connecticut.<1>

The Duke and Duchess of Torlonia had four children:

Princess Donna Olimpia Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi
Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi, who married Infanta Beatriz of Spain
Princess Donna Cristina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi
Princess Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, who married two Americans: Francis Xavier Shields (by whom she became a grandmother of the actress Brooke Shields) and Edward Slater

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Elsie_Moore

Don Marino Torlonia... was an Italian nobleman.

Torlonia's paternal grandmother was Princess Donna Anna Sforza-Cesarini, a descendant of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan and patron of Leonardo da Vinci.

Torlonia's maternal grandmother was Princess Donna Leopoldina Doria-Pamphilli-Landi, the granddaughter of Leopoldina of Savoy, a princess of the royal family of Piedmont and Sardinia, which later became the Royal Family of Italy.

The descendant of many popes, Torlonia inherited the administration of the Banca Torlonia, which worked the finances of the Vatican and several other investments.

He was one of the richest noblemen in Italy around the beginning of the twentieth century, and introduced the first motor car in Rome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marino_Torlonia,_4th_prince_of_Civitella-Cesi


Close's husband:

David E. (Evans) Shaw is an American managing partner of Black Point Group,<1> a private investment partnership with a concentration in health care and technology. Among the firm's investments are Ikaria Holdings Inc,<2> a pharmaceutical company, where he serves as executive chair, and FetchDog.com, a catalog and website for dog owners. He is also a partner at Venrock Associates,<3> a venture capital partnership. From 2004 to 2007 he served as a senior adviser to New Mountain Capital, a private equity firm. His career has also included public service (State of Maine Executive Department 1972-1976), management consulting and teaching.

He is the founder and retired CEO of IDEXX Laboratories Inc,<4> a 5000+ person publicly held life science company, and has been actively involved as a director or investor in numerous technology companies.

[Graybeard]

46. Molly Ivins dad was a Texas oil company exec.

She grew up in the same wealthy neighborhood in Houston as George W. Her father was a yacht club racist according to the new biography, "A Rebel Life".

[Hannah Bell]

47. Alison Janney of the West wing = 4th cousin of george bush

& george stephanopolus & descendant of johns hopkins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Janney