This reader, of course, is right, but I’m judging Cooper on a relative scale:

After watching the video of Anderson Cooper interviewing Ahmadinejad, I wasn’t so impressed. Cooper was smiling and half chuckling when he dished out his big response to Ahmadinejad. It was far too tepid for me. After all, we’re talking about genocide here, with a smarmy punk who’s training terrorists to kill Americans. If I’d been in Cooper’s chair, I’d had been looking angry, and ready to punch the jerk. Let me know if somebody like that starts doing televised interviews. I might make time to watch that sort of thing.