Tweet Share Ashley Spurgeon is a lifelong TV fan â nay, expert â and with her recurring television and pop-culture column And Another Thing, she ll tell you what to watch, what to skip, and what s worth thinking more about. Iâve been doing a lot of reading on the Capitol coup attempt, wherein a few thousand white supremacists â some with apparent dreams of murder, others acting out their perpetual juvenile resentment fantasies â acted on the orders of President Donald Trump to try and prevent the United States Congress from certifying Joe Bidenâs election. Perhaps you were unfortunate enough to witness this event live, on television. If you watched CNN, you might have heard a sickened and distraught Anderson Cooper complain that these people were, after the insurrection wrapped up, headed back to lower-middle-class destinations like Olive Garden and Holiday Inn. Called out on his reflexively elitist assertion that his (mine, our) Fellow American Whites who would dare besmirch Our Sacred Traditions belong to a tackier sub-strata than Cooper or people who watch CNN, the Vanderbilt descendent (annual salary, $12 million) backtracked and claimed, âI was dissing criminality.â