On Tuesday, CNN's Anderson Cooper continued the MSM narrative that Christian conservatives bear the blame for the Islamic terror attack on an Orlando gay club over the weekend by grilling Florida AG Pam Bondi for her social conservative stance on gay marriage.
Throughout the five-minute interview, Cooper would not relent on attacking Pam Bondi, continually trying to paint her out some kind of monster for holding a Christian worldview regarding LGBT issues, which never entailed people getting massacred at the hands of an Islamic terrorist.
When Bondi stated than anyone who attacks the LGBT community will be brought under the "full extent of the law," Cooper desperately tried to paint her as a hypocrite, even going as far to criticize her for not tweeting about Gay pride month.
Essentially, Cooper's entire interview with Bondi can be summed as an angry, vengeful tirade against a Christian who doesn't share his worldview, even going as far to say she somehow bears responsibility for the terrorist attack.
Note to Anderson: it is possible to have differing views about how people carry out certain sexual lifestyles without ever once believing that such people should be shot to death at a dance club.
Interview transcript below:
COOPER: I talked to a lot of gay and lesbian people here yesterday who are not fans of yours and who said that they thought you were being a hypocrite, that you for years have fought -- you basically gone after gay people, said that in court that gay people simply by fighting for marriage equality for trying to do harm to the people of Florida. To induce public harm, I believe was the term you used in court. Do you really think you're a champion of the gay community?
BONDI: Let me tell you. When I was sworn in as attorney general, I put my hand on the Bible and was sworn to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida. That's not a law. That was voted into our state constitution by the voters of Florida. That's what I was defending. It had nothing to do -- I've never said I don't like gay people. That’s ridiculous.
COOPER: But you-- do you worry about using language accusing gay people of trying to do harm to the people of Florida when doesn't that send a message to some people who might have bad ideas in mind?
BONDI: Anderson, I don't believe gay people could do harm to the state of Florida
COOPER: But you argued that in court.
BONDI: My lawyer argued a case defending what the supreme court allowed the voters to put in our state constitution.
COOPER: Right. But you were arguing that gay marriage, if there was gay marriage, same-sex marriage, that would do harm to the people of Florida. Florida signed it.
BONDI: That it was constitutional to put it in the constitution.
COOPER: Are you saying you did not believe it would do harm to Florida?
BONDI: Of course not, of course not. Gay --No, I never said that. Those words have never come out of my mouth.
COOPER: But that is specifically what you were arguing in court.
BONDI: No. No. [exasperated sigh] No. What we argued was it was in the constitution of the state of Florida. Let me give you an example. Medical marijuana. A 12-year-old could get it if it passed. We took that to the supreme court because of that language, hold on. Because of that language. But if that passed, I would defend that, as well, because it's my job to defend what's in the constitution of the state of Florida. That's what it was about.
COOPER: The hotline that you've been talking about on television which allows family members and spouses of the dead to get information, which is incredibly important, and appreciate you talking about on the air, had there been no gay marriage, no same-sex marriage, you do realize that spouses, there would be no spouses, that boyfriends and girlfriends of the dead would not be able to get information and would not be able to visit in the hospital here. Isn't there a sick irony in that?
BONDI: Let me take it a step further. People aren't right now who are partners and aren't married officially aren't able to get information so we're trying to assist them in getting information. Because early on --
COOPER: Isn't there a sick irony you for years were fighting that very idea?
BONDI: I was defending the constitution of what over 69% of the voters put in the constitution.
COOPER: Right, but the courts, the federal courts said that's not the constitution and you continued to fight it.
BONDI: No. That's why we rushed to get it to the U.S. Supreme court because we needed --
COOPER: Well but before the Supreme Court, there was a federal judge and you continued to fight it after the federal judge ruled and you in fact spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money fighting it.
BONDI: Anderson, we rushed to get it to the supreme court. You know what today is about? Human beings. Today's about victims.
COOPER: It is about gay and lesbian victims.
BONDI: It sure is. Lgbt victims.
COOPER: I’m just wondering though, is it hypocritical to portray yourself as a champion of the gay community when -- I'm just reflecting what gay people told me they don't see you as this.
BONDI: Anderson, I’m not portraying myself as anything other than trying to help human beings, who have lost their lives, who are right behind us now in hospital beds, who have family members who aren't getting the services they need. This morning, you know what I've been doing? Trying to fight with a funeral home for overcharging family members.
COOPER: That’s sickening.
BONDI: To bury their loved ones. I'm not championing anything other than Floridians. That’s what this is about. We are about human beings.
COOPER: Right.
BONDI: This is about victims who need help. This is about family members who need services. That’s what this is about.
COOPER: It's just that -- I will say I have never really seen you talk about gays and lesbians and transgender people in a positive way until now. I read your Twitter history for the last year and I saw you tweeting about, you know, national dog month and national shelter dog appreciation day or adopt a shelter dog month. It is gay pride month. You never even tweeted about gay pride month.
BONDI: Well if you look at my website now, we have hands clasped together all different color rainbow, people.
COOPER: So you just put that up now.
BONDI: Yeah I did, after this horrible tragedy.
COOPER: Right.
BONDI: Absolutely.
COOPER: Right.
BONDI: The only thing I’m championing are human beings whose lives were lost.
COOPER: So that’s your message to gay and lesbian people here. Because, again, I'm just telling you what people have been telling me to ask you, moving forward, do you see yourself as being a vocal champion for gay and lesbian citizens in the state?
BONDI: They are citizens just like anyone else. Of course. My goodness, Anderson, we have had 49 people murdered. Simply because they were in a bar at the wrong time.
COOPER: Right.
BONDI:That’s horrible. I'm a career prosecutor. Those family members are devastated. These surviving victims are devastated. That's what this is about.
COOPER: I know a lot of gay and lesbian people in the state want to feel that the people that represent them, represent everybody in the state.
BONDI: We're human beings and that's what this is about.
COOPER: Well I appreciate you talking to us.
BONDI: Thank you.
COOPER: Thank you so much. Thanks for all you're doing on behalf of the victims.



