Take a close look at this first clip. It's 17 seconds long and just about the only thing Anderson Cooper said on Wednesday's AC360.

No great surprise that most of tonight's AC360 was dedicated to dissecting the President's SOTU speech. What was surprising to me was there were no new reports about Haiti. Wolf and Campbell hijacked the program and it was not the AC360 I had hoped for.
There was only one time when the program turned to AC. He and Dr. Gupta were asked what they took away from the address. Here's their response.

Because I had a feeling Wednesday's AC360 would be heavy on politics and Haiti light I saved an earlier conversation Anderson and Sanjay's had with Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room for my post tonight. Wolf asks the men what has changed since they've been in Haiti and what is the most important change that needs to begin.

There was a full house in CNN's NYC studio this evening. Campbell Brown and Wolf kept the conversation moving while Gloria Borger, Candy Crowley, David Gergen were the supposed politically neutral component in the discussion. Roland Martin, Paul Begala and James Carville represented the Democrats and for the conservatives we had Erick Erickson (managing editor RedState.com), Alex Castellanos,and Mary Matalin. The Independents were represented by John Avlon (The Daily Beast).

John King was at the magic wall catching us up on instantaneous responses to the SOTU.

Soledad O'Brien gave us the polling percentages.

And Jessica Yellin was with the focus group.
Except for Mary Matalin, her husband James Carville and Paul Begala I was bored to tears with the discussion. Too many people and too little Anderson to hold my attention.

I'm sure most of you saw the Google Alerts today about Mr. Cooper buying a property in NYC. This has been in the rumor mill for quite a while now, but today's news articles made it sound definite. I don't doubt that he bought it but I won't be convinced that he's making it into a home for himself until I see him carrying boxes in the door. For now color me a skeptic.

Another 360 special this weekend. AC tweeted on Wednesday night that this will be new material, not repeated segments. Here's his tweets from today, thanks to Wonz.

That's it for my regular blogging week. The ATA team will be monitoring CNN throughout the coming days and posting AC's live spots until he heads home. Have a great weekend everyone.~Phebe
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