CNN’s Cooper Lashes Out: Clinton Connection to me Is ‘Total Bunk’

[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday was forced to respond to an accusation that he is too close to the Clintons. As first noted on the Weekly Standard (and highlighted on the Drudge Report), the anchor was listed as a “notable past member” for a 2007 conference he moderated at the Clinton Global Initiative.  Talking to Jake Tapper, Cooper assailed, “With all due respect to the Weekly Standard, this is total bunk.” He complained, “ There was a story in the Weekly Standard that I guess Drudge picked up on...  which said that I'm basically in the tank for Hillary Clinton.”