In the last half-hour of the show, a listener question elicited somewhat of an odd response from Cooper:
REHM: [Reading listener message] And finally, I hope you’ll shed light on the enigmatic title of the book. I’m perplexed. Was this an internal struggle? Well, we’ve already said that the quote comes from Wordsworth, but what does the title mean to you? COOPER: Well, to me there’s a slight note of resignation to it. My mom, she believes the rainbow comes and goes. Meaning, there may be sadness and tragedy, but the rainbow’s gonna come back. And there’s good times just around the corner. And my mom is ready to embrace that rainbow with open arms. I hear it a slightly different way, which is what I love about the title, which is the Rainbow Comes and Goes… I’m not so sure it’s gonna come back. Knowing nature, it always come back… But I don’t know it’s going to come back where I’m at. Maybe I’ll be in a different place and I won’t be able to see the rainbow, so I actually I want to prepare for those days when the rainbow is not around. I wanna, like, stock up on food. I wanna have, you know, supplies, medical supplies ready. I wanna have money in the bank. My mom believes good times, you know, good things are just ahead and sort of embraces that. REHM: She is the optimist. COOPER: Yes, I am the catastrophist. I expect catastrophe to occur.
What’s odd about Cooper’s revelation is, well, his job. CNN has a tape they’ve prepared to air for the end of the world. Should the end come, perhaps we’ll see that.
But if it’s in the intermediate future, one would believe Anderson Cooper would be live on location, with Wolf Blitzer in the Situation Room, and John King on that goofy telestrator television, documenting the wrath of judgement day on a red and blue map.
Perhaps with a token Trump surrogate there to insist that Trump had long predicted this in a book.
Listen to the clip below:
