Oh-so-suave CNN anchor Anderson Cooper granted an I-laugh-at-danger interview to Outside magazine (their new cover story), and while there was no Mary Landrieu-battering liberal bias, Cooper did amuse by fussing at Depeche Mode as a bunch of cowardly wimps:

OUTSIDE: Do Americans have an exaggerated sense of danger about the Third World? COOPER: Oh, yeah. But Americans have an exaggerated sense of danger about New York City. I’m also not a good person to ask, because my sense of what’s dangerous is completely warped. People have stopped asking me for advice, because I encourage people to go anywhere. It really pissed me off, two summers ago, during the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, when Depeche Mode canceled their concert in Tel Aviv. For security reasons!

At the time, the newspaper Haaretz suggested the roadies were to blame. Cooper did not wonder why these synth-poppers didn’t soldier on and take their own Personal Jesus.

(Transcript from Soup Cans)