Culture

Anderson Cooper vs a homophobe’s bad tie and pocket square

By Raziel Reid • April 12, 2014 5:15 pm EDT

Damian Goddard, former Canadian sportscaster turned National Organization for Marriage (NOM) spokesman, decided to tweet Anderson Cooper his bigotry after Cooper tweeted his support of out NCAA basketball player Derrick Gordon.

Cooper took one look at Goddard’s Twitter profile pic (above) and gave this retort:

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