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By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in 2008 | planted questions | The Republican YouTube Debate — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

The retired general who asked about gays and lesbians serving in the military at the CNN/YouTube Republican debate on Wednesday is a co-chairman of Hillary Rodham Clinton's National Military Veterans group.
Retired Brig. Gen. Keith H. Kerr was named a co-chairman of the group this month, according to a campaign press release.
He was also active in John F. Kerry's 2004 campaign for president.
Kerr asked candidates "why you think that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians."
After the debate, former Education Secretary Bill Bennett said on a CNN panel that he was being told Kerr was involved with the Democratic presidential campaign of Clinton, a New York senator.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who moderated the debate and the panel, said that if that was the case, CNN should have identified Kerr as such.
David Bohrman, a CNN senior vice president and executive producer of the debate, later said: "We regret this and apologize to the Republican candidates. We never would have used the general's question had we known that he was connected to any presidential candidate."

I am on record as supporting the ability of gays and lesbians to serve in the military, so I am fully on board with Kerr's policy position regarding the issue. But of course, that's not the issue here. Rather, transparency--or the lack thereof at CNN--is the issue.

This is the second time in the past few weeks that CNN has had itself a debate scandal--the most recent scandal being CNN's failure to disclose that James Carville, who was invited to comment on the last Democratic Presidential debate, is an adviser to Hillary Clinton. Either the organization has to clean up its act or it has to stand convicted of rampant dishonesty in its presentation of news and views. And unless heads roll, the latter option becomes the most likely one for CNN.

Meanwhile, are the Democratic debates so boring that Hillary Clinton believes she needs to insert plants in Republican ones? Just wondering.

They'll opt for standing convicted by johnt

because they see nothing wrong with their act. Planting may not occur again but when it comes to corrupting the news, their reason for existence, they are both ambitious and ingenious.
News is not the first priority of the news industry, social change is. These poor fools regard themselves as agents of change with government as the mechanism.

"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville

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I think we all agree to the comment you make, just by Jaded

"as supporting the ability of gays and lesbians to serve in the military" don't ask and don't tell period. It is immaterial what you choose to do sexually whether it is in the military or in private life.....I don't care and I don't want to hear about it.

In a grown up world your sexual desires are meant for you and your partner not the national news and or a Presidential campaign.

Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion

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Gay is as gay does. by BERT CONVY

The problem with gay people is they whine all the friggn' time. Personally, I could care less if they want to join-up and fight, if in fact they will, but GAD who wants to hear their constant complaining?

Romney had it exactly right, this is a decision best made by the military. The fact that having a guy next to you sissy-whining all the time just might, now I'm no expert in gay mood-swings, but, it just might be distracting.

Bert Convy; Protector of White House Furniture.

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I'm not sure they can roll enough heads by The Gadfly

to make a difference.

I remember when I use to watch CNN because it actually WAS the fair and balanced channel. Lou Dobbs along with the rest of them, showing the tape and reading the factual teleprompter. And then, the first Iraq war came and something happened. Bernie was good reporting live from Iraq during the initial assault. But as things wore on, CNN became important, and got money, and hired that lefty nutcake who thought it was Vietnam all over again and he could get another Pulitzer even if his sources weren't reliable.

I stopped watching CNN a couple years back. The rot goes all the way through the organization. After reading posts yesterday and some of the news today... Well, let's just say that given the preponderance of problems, it can't be blamed on incompetence; but the alternative is so bad the guilty parties are pleading it anyway.

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