Anderson Cooper's Interview With Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman Was Insane
By Kyle Koster
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman joined CNN's Anderson Cooper for an interview this afternoon and it careened down avenues few would have imagined. The long and short of it is this: Goodman really wants to get business popping again and didn't have much time for entertaining Cooper's very reasonable concerns that stacking people ass to elbow in casinos during a dangerous global pandemic is the best idea in the world.
As we await the full nearly 30-minute video, which will surely be archived with great interest by future scholars, a few particularly arresting portions:
Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman, who has been openly advocating for Vegas casinos and hotels to completely open up, literally tells Anderson Cooper she has no responsibility to figure out how to do it safely.
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) April 22, 2020
"It is up to them!" pic.twitter.com/d9LDRZX9Sl
Las Vegas Mayor says time to reopen the city, let private businesses compete for which business can drive the least viral spread. pic.twitter.com/E00wH6Yv74
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 22, 2020
Wow. This fell of the rails fast. I won’t be shocked if the Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman puts out a statement later saying she was misunderstood pic.twitter.com/QcYiujOnMF
— Swalloween (@swalloween) April 22, 2020
—@andersoncooper is all of us listening to the Las Vegas mayor pic.twitter.com/cUCbVjsbZF
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 22, 2020
“We’ve had viruses for years” — Las Vegas mayor Goodman is completely oblivious to the reality that coronavirus is mainly a public health crisis & not just a business problem. It’s amazing people like this get elected to positions of great responsibility. pic.twitter.com/KdA0s21Bey
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 22, 2020
Holy hell, #LasVegas. How in the hell did you manage to elect a complete and total MORON as your mayor? Are you not completely embarrassed by #CarolynGoodman?
— The Resistance (@UniteAndResist) April 22, 2020
This is just a small snippet of a very bizarre interview on @AC360.#coronavirus #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/Sn9Ei3Czms
The mayor of Las Vegas is straight-up insane. pic.twitter.com/6OvgcXJaMV
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) April 22, 2020
Anderson Cooper to Mayor: "Okay, that makes no sense." pic.twitter.com/8DUpfvaGVJ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 22, 2020
Las Vegas Mayor offers city as "control group", "we offer to be a control group" to see how many people die without social distancing. pic.twitter.com/NESE2hActE
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 22, 2020
Did this long segment have a net-positive on the public? Are we better informed? Tough to say. But it sure was entertaining and illuminating the various paths a person can take to one day have life-and-death decisions in their hands.
We're doing just great and there's no reason to think things are going to get worse before they get better. Right?