GOP congresswoman blames Joe Biden for Anderson Cooper drinking on TV on New Year’s Eve

Many rightwingers were outraged that CNN showed two men kissing during their coverage of the celebration in Times Square, accusing the channel of “grooming” unsuspecting children who stayed up late that night and saw two dudes smooch.

And now one Republican congresswoman is outraged that out CNN host Anderson Cooper drank alcohol on live TV, and she knows exactly who’s to blame: President Joe Biden.

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Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) appeared on Fox Business to complain generally about “Joe Biden’s America,” where she blamed everything currently happening in the country on Biden. She even said that millennials can’t buy houses because of inflation under Biden, even though this was a problem years before Biden took office, millennials entered the job market during the Great Recession of 2008, and housing costs are high because of a number of factors, including low inventory and interest rates.

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Then she got to the gays, bringing up Cooper, who took shots of tequila during CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live with gay television personality Andy Cohen.

“Nothing is better under Joe Biden’s America,” Cammack complained. “Heck, even Anderson Cooper is doing shots on live television. And I think that speaks to both CNN’s ratings as well as what’s going on in America today.”

Cooper and Cohen have been drinking during their New Year’s Eve coverage for seven years, which means they started well before Biden became president.

CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage led to a lot of outrage, much of it over the same-sex kiss. Various X users called the televised moment “sick,” “sickening,” “sick and disgusting,” and “Weimar Republic activities.”

“Every child across America watched two gay men kiss as the ball dropped to bring in 2024,” another conservative user on X wrote. “Every channel broadcasting the ball drop simultaneously broadcasted a scene most children have not yet been exposed to: Fox News, CNN, CBS: groomers.”

In a multi-post rant, another user accused CNN of “a psychological operation which was designed to intrude on Middle America.”

“An interracial gay couple is not representative of Times Square, New York City, the Stare [sic] of New York or the United States,” the same user wrote. “If the networks were going to go with the interracial gay kiss, those networks should’ve made the kiss less graphic because, honestly, it was gross.”