What would you lick to be near Anderson Cooper?

Let's talk more about the firing of Anderson Cooper 360 intern. When it comes to the truth a tight group of our commenters claims Executive Privilege. They are going out of their way to defend little angels, the former AC360 intern Rachel and AC360 Review mod Eliza. They insist that we need to take HuffPo's posts as a gospel. Let's all say 'amen' every time HuffPo trashes Anderson Cooper. Anons direct us to Rachel Sklar's post in HuffPo to learn the truth.
First, words of the intern herself that you will not see in that HuffPo post:


"I stare at that man in person from all angles for at least a few hours a week."
"And let's be honest . . . I'd clean toilets with my tongue all semester if I could be near Anderson while I did it :-p"

Our commenter said about Sklar: "I'd like to think the famous professional writer/reporter is much more reliable than random jealous wankers",
That's right, Ms. Sklar is famous. And this is what she's famous for. As an editor of a media and gossip blog FishbowlNY, Gawkers rival, she leaked CNN inside information. Her source, CNN employee she was friends with got in though security to roam around CNN, he also gave Fishblow access to a closed company meeting.

Rachel Sklar was so happy to get insider's info that she leaked the details of that meeting in her post. That got her source fired from CNN. Nice job, Rachel! She defended herself: "...I did not consider the information to be proprietary or confidential information or anything relating to trade secrets". "I was never contacted regarding any of my coverage and Thomsen never received any sort of warning regarding the Fishbowl coverage", "there was no malice intended toward CNN, just the desire to report on an influential newsgathering organization"

Sounds familiar? Another Rachel leaks inside information and the source gets fired. But this Rachel, the intern, is the one who is the source for her friends in the closed community. Her friend Eliza leaks other inside information. She spills all about the rise and fall of the intern to the "regular folk" not reliable enough to belong to their community. Eliza defended her source:

"The thing about this entire situation that upsets Rachel and the community the most is that there was no warning.""She would never want to hurt anyone who works at the show (and frankly, neither do I)". "if CNN has an official policy on staff blogging, it was never mentioned (you guys really need to get one of those). To be fair, there was a “disclosure of confidential information” policy, but it contained no definition of what was confidential."

Deja Vu. Can it surprise anybody that Rachel Sklar felt sympathetic for the plight of the poor intern and Eliza's public outrage? Eliza knows that the best defense is offense: “However, as televisions across the country flipped off 360 in anger, Rachel reiterated to us over and over again that this was not 360’s fault and that we should not be mad at them.”

She and her Anderloads friends have an influence in the whole USA! No wonder Eliza feels powerful enough to give out recommendations and threats to CNN.

“What doesn’t make any sense is that firing Rachel with no warning was an extremely stupid and risky thing for CNN to do. They can’t fire her twice. She could have us spread the contents of her posts all over the Internet (not that anything in those posts would be anything but positive PR for CNN). Hell, she could have us forward them to Fox News. But Rachel is a person of integrity and would never allow us to do that.” In other words, otherwise we would. Fox News is perfect for anderfans who say the truth is with them, so you should trust them instead of seeing it yourself.

I forgot to mention that Ms. Sklar is quite a fangirl herself. Anderson gets her very excited: “No way - so Anderson WAS there!!!” “I'm not even talking about Anderson here, people, it's bigger than that” “I felt my heart leap. "Did Anderson see? Did he like it? Did he ask about me?" I asked breathlessly, hope welling in my chest. (He said he thought Anderson was out of town. I'd totally settle for Rob Marciano)”.
What a choice of a blogger to send the intern's diary to! Who can better understand the temptation and agony of informing the public of CNN's internal matters then Rachel Sklar!

Many would like to think the contributing editor always checks her information. A journalist wrote on Romenesko: "At least Rachel Sklar admits that she didn't even read Michiko Kakutani's review of the new Harry Potter book before taking to the HuffPost to declare it an offense against the readers -- an admission that probably tells us all we need to know about Sklar's breathless and misguided essay".

We must always trust Ms. Sklar to be well-informed and unbiased. She is the ultimate source of Truth, together with our anon commenters who think they own it.