<p>For those wondering why Anderson Cooper was chosen to moderate last night&#8217;s debate instead of CNN&rsquo;s top Washington correspondent Jake Tapper, we have an answer: Cooper was once a member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). ;</p>
<p>Cooper told <em>Huffington Post</em> that the main purpose of last night&#8217;s debate was &ldquo;to really get a sense of who these people are&hellip;I think that&rsquo;s what people walk away with the next day or that night, thinking, &lsquo;Oh, now I get who Martin O&rsquo;Malley is,&rsquo; or &lsquo;I get what Clinton&rsquo;s position is on X, Y, or Z.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
<p>This may be true for the other four candidates, but the world is very well-acquainted with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. ;</p>
<p>CGI&rsquo;s website lists Cooper as a &ldquo;notable past member.&rdquo; As a member of the media, however, he was not required to pay the whopping $20,000 annual membership fee. ;According to the <em>Weekly Standard</em>, the following high-profile journalists were also members of the Clinton Global Initiative: Matt Lauer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour, Greta Van Susteren, Tom Brokaw, and others. ;</p>
<p>When questioned about his involvement with the Clinton Global Initiative, Cooper told Jake Tapper that the <em>Standard&rsquo;s</em> reporting was &ldquo;total bunk.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;In 2007 I was asked to moderate a panel discussion at Clinton Global Initiative. Honestly, I can&rsquo;t even remember what the panel was,&rdquo; said Cooper. &ldquo;There were no Clintons on the panel. I think it was on, like, international development aid or, honestly, I have no memory of what it was.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>According to the CGI website: as an &ldquo;initiative&rdquo; of the Clinton Foundation, CGI &ldquo;convenes global leaders to create and implement innovative solutions to the world&rsquo;s most pressing challenges.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Just like the members of a jury, moderators for presidential debates are supposed to be impartial. This was not so for last ;night&#8217;s debate. Not only was Anderson Cooper a former member of the Clinton Global Initiative, but his involvement with the organization put money into the vast Clinton coinpurse &#8211; a sum that is now being used to ;fund a presidential campaign. ;</p>