CNN anchor Anderson Cooper kept himself honest on Monday night, confessing that he had been duped the fake news site Clickhole last month.
“I didn’t know what ClickHole was,” Cooper said. “I mean how am I supposed to keep up with what the kids are doing?”
The moment came in the middle of a segment in which Cooper mocked ex-FIFA vice president Jack Warner for confusing an article from The Onion for an actual news report.
It didn’t take long for the CNN anchor to admit he was the pot calling the kettle black.
On May 18, Cooper spied a fake quote attributed to him in a Clickhole article, in which he advised recent graduates that obtaining a degree is “bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing.” He took action.
Ummm… @Clickhole, do u make this stuff up? I never said this quote and never spoke to the NYU class of 2015. https://t.co/oRSDgpQXxx
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) May 18, 2015
“I tweeted, ‘do you make this stuff up?’” he said. “Which of course, as it turns out, yeah, they do. Because that’s their job, since they are a parody site owned by The Onion.”
“So, maybe I shouldn’t throw stones at the FIFA guy,” Anderson concluded.
