Reporting from a war zone, Anderson Cooper sasses Twitter critics

It was only yesterday that CNN's Anderson Cooper was reflexively ducking rocket bombs on camera ("That was a rather large explosion," he said dryly afterward), but the intrepid anchor-correspondent somehow found the time to fire back at Twitter critics who questioned his reporting Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Some of the sassiest retorts below:

Here's how he replied to Twitter user @retireleo, who identifies himself as a "retired police officer and retired USMC sergeant major."

And to @tammyrenasmith:

And @Rabbi_Sykes:

He also called out @Pamela_Weiss -- who doubted Cooper's fairness -- with a retort about her tweeting history. One Tumblr image summarizes the exchange:

Just for fun, here's what Cooper looks like in the middle of a war: