Anderson Cooper: Badass

Because he laughs in the face of explosions.

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Buzzfeed's got it right: 25 Ways Anderson Cooper Kicked Ass This Year

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Because badasses don't have time to do laundry: Anderson reveals he rarely washes his jeans.

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I think there are many different paths you can take to becoming a journalist. I had no formal training. I made a fake press pass and borrowed a camera and started going to war zones when I left college. I spent three years in various conflict areas and then got hired as a correspondent for ABC News. I don’t recommend that path because it is very easy to get killed, and I know people who died doing exactly what I did. At the same time, I don’t think a journalism degree is a requirement for reporting. I think you just have to be a hard worker, willing to make a lot of sacrifices to travel and tell stories, and to have a strong code of ethics that you work by.

Q: You studied political science at Yale and received your journalism training in the newsroom. Do you think journalism degrees have a role, or should aspiring journalists just get out there and do it?

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A badass doesn't wait for things to come to them - they seek it out using any means necessary.

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OK, guys. Norman Reedus is instagramming pics of Anderson Cooper in Daryl Dixon’s getup. - I think we can call it a day?

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Love this picture

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HOLY F'IN SH!T

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Badassery - the capability of being a badass.

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A.K.A. a trait Anderson Cooper ABSOLUTELY has

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Second rule of being a badass, a badass does not try to be a badass or look tough. A badass simply is a badass.

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WHOA. He almost gave a fuck. 

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“I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It’s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds” —@AndersonCooper on Instagram

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Badass, because do you have a gas mask just in case in your office?

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6/100 photos of Anderson Cooper

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Oh ya know, just chillin' on a volcano, covered in mud. #badass

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Cooper continues to travel to conflict zones despite the risks, despite the very real deaths he has witnessed. ‘I’ve learned just how quick and easy it is to get killed. Literally, the blink of an eye. You see it in movies and you think, Oh, the world stops spinning and there are these long death scenes. It’s not like that. You crumple to the ground and you’re dead.’

Men’s Health - A Travelers Tales (2008)

Anderson Cooper’s desire to see the world has got him shot at and thrown into foreign jails, made him an international icon, and nearly cost him his humanity. The CNN anchor explains what he has learned from snipers, starvation, genocide, Katrina, and the moment he went, ever so briefly, over the edge.

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Straight up badass Anderson.

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1/100 photos of Anderson Cooper

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This is how a badass, and utterly committed, journalist looks.

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This is a metaphor... in which Kathy Griffin = tumblr.

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He makes that vest look good.

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Who is Anderson Cooper?

Who is Anderson Cooper, you ask?

Only the most badass

hardcore

dashing CNN reporter.

He has a talk show

and has written a book or something.

He frequently dgaf

and is a sassy beast on twitter

and is a badass in all areas of his life.

This tumblr is an appreciation of him and said badassery.

Here he is with a sloth.

Enjoy.

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Anderson Cooper carries bloodied boy after Haitian earthquake.

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Oh ya know, just saving children on the job.