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UPDATE III - CNN Admits That Keith Kerr is an Activist Member of Clinton for President LGBT Steering Committee - Another cheap Clinton trick? CNN uses member of “LGBT Americans for Hillary” to pose question to Republicans in debate.

UPDATE II- Verified, Brigadier General Keith Kerr is a member of Hillary Clinton’s LGBT Americans For Hillary Steering Committee. So the non-partisan idiots at CNN allowed a Clinton plant to not only present a question to the Republicans but actually allowed him to debate the candidates.

UPDATE: Bill Bennet on CNN says that the openly gay Brigadier General Keith Kerr was on Hillary Clinton’s gay steering committee. Anderson Cooper admits that the General is an activist.

What bullshit, not because of the question or the topic. The crappy part of the CNN Republican You Tube Debate is that neither CNN nor any other MSM outlet would let an audience member debate or rebut Democrat candidates from the audience. In case you missed it CNN rolled out an openly gay retired Army Brigadier General who served for 43 years. “I want to know why you think that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians?” Anderson Cooper handed the question back to the you tube presenter after the candidates answered his question (the person just happened to be in the audience). “Did they answer the question sufficiently for you?” Cooper asked. Of course he answered no and proceeded to put on an act. Knowing that he works for Hillary Clinton puts some more perspective on the ruse. It appears that he may have been a plant. It’s pretty clear that he somehow magically made his way to the front line at CNN. Of course CNN will play stupid (which of course is closer to the truth than they will admit).

First of all it’s a leading question. This isn’t a question of being “professional” enough, it’s a question of conduct, morale and management. The military is hard enough to manage and you don’t need to add an openly gay policy to make it that much harder. A majority of the personnel in the military as well as American society are non-gay. Sorry. It’s not prejudicial, this is just a fact. What are we asking here? What does openly gay mean? Does it mean sex in the barracks, should we have a gay barracks, do we allow holding hands in formation or just flirting with another soldier in boot camp? None of that behavior would be acceptable for heterosexual people and it isn’t acceptable for gays in the military, bottom line. It’s a two way street of course. The military is a place to serve and protect. Forcing the liberal concept of sexual discrimination down the throats of people who are more concerned with staying alive than the political machinations of Democrats and the media who want to use it as a wedge issue should simply be brushed aside.

As far as the gay general goes I note that he managed to have a very long and lucrative career despite “don’t ask don’t tell” as well as policies that came before that. Thumbs down to Romney for avoiding the question on his flip flop, thumbs up to Huckabee and Hunter for trying to answer the loaded question. Unfortunately thumbs down to the answers themselves which were too weak. Why can’t Duncan Hunter say gay? Homo-sex-u-al just sounds stupid in this context. Try it. Gay. And what’s up with the stock cohesion answer? Say it like it is. It’s not a matter of discrimination or cohesion. It’s a matter of managing the troops in the way the military sees fit in a way that minimizes distraction. Pretty simple.

The other aspect of just how crappy CNN is as a media outlet can be seen in the choice of questions. Not that they are different than any other media outlet, but have you noticed that victims presented to Democrats in these debates are uniquely in the position to be helped by Democrats (at least in the imagination of weak minded liberals) and victims presented to Republicans in these debates are uniquely self identified as victims of Republican policies? Just for once I’d like to have a candidate say “eat me”. That would get my vote. Stand up to these idiots. Don’t be afraid of them.

Thumbs way up to Republicans for walking into unfriendly waters while Democrats cower from Fox News and its conservative audience.

See also Michelle Malkin, The Moderate Voice, Hot Air

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