Hillary Plants Question at GOP Debate
It turns out that Keith Kerr, retired Colonel., U.S. Army; retired Brigadier General, California National Reserve, who submitted a YouTube question about gays in the military, is actually a member of Hillary Clinton’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Steering Committee. He’s also part of a film production crew trying overturn the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
UPDATE: In the final seconds of the post-debate coverage, Anderson Cooper acknowledges that CNN messed this up and states that CNN did not know that Kerr has a position within the Clinton campaign and that had they known, they would have disclosed the association.
Open thread.
Did you watch the debate?
Who do you think won?
Who do you like or dislike?
November 29th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Steering Committee?
Wow. Did you pull that name out of your butt? Do you even realize that no one has called transgender people “transexual” since about the mid-80’s? That it’s considered about as offensive as “homosexual?” I’m just going to hazard a guess that a steering committee from Hillary based on LGBT issues probably wouldn’t use an offensive name for the committee.
And if you check out the news today, you’ll see that you’re repeating a rumor planted by notoriously mostly-wrong Townhall.com.
http://pageoneq.com/news/2007/Clinton_campaign_We_didnt_plant_gay__1129.html
November 29th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Bil,
I’m glad you came back to our site! I’m sorry if we offended you.
As for your link however, these two, one from the non-partisan politico.com and one from politicsiowa.com seem to contradict what Brigadier General Kerr stated to CNN.
From Politico.com
And this was found on the Campaigns and Elections page of politicsiowa.com
Which included this:
So the question becomes, not was he a Clinton plant, but why was he lying to CNN about not being a part of the Clinton Campaign?
November 29th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Didn’t watch the debate. But I have popcorn ready for Josh putting the b***hslap to Bil!
When I saw it was a Commie News Network Republican debate I figure something was phishy about the whole thing. Amazed more if not all of the questions weren’t planted by the DailyK00ks or Hillary. Then again, if it weren’t for the Hollywood writers being on strike I’d say the Democrat debates were scripted.
November 29th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Bil, if you’re offended, I suggest that you take it up with Jonathan Garthwaite, the quoted author.
Anyhow, General Kerr wasn’t the only questioner in the CNN debate with ties to various Democratic campaigns or supportive organizations.
November 29th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I watched a bunch of it off of YouTube. It was awful. The questions were bad. The moderator was horrible. It was probably as bad as any debate for distributing time across the different candidates. Of course, I also think there were too many candidates. Ron Paul is just a bit of entertainment; Hunter and Toncredo should not be asked.
Fred was said to want a round table discussion format with no moderator with no more than 4 candidates at a time. Great idea, if someone can make it happen.
November 29th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
By the way. The bigger issue that I had with General Kerr was not his ties to the Clinton administration, but rather that he was allowed to talk for 30 seconds to a minute simply editorializing.
November 29th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
I noticed that he did have a long time to make his viewpoint known.
December 1st, 2007 at 11:36 am
FYI: Not all gay people are for Hillary Clinton. Stop stereotyping whole groups of people. It shows your ignorance. Secondly, even if what you say is true which i doubt, SO WHAT. Republicans are finally admitting they only field questions and answer those they approve of beforehand. Thats not the democracy i want to live in and i suggest you reevaluate your own misguide dogma.
December 1st, 2007 at 11:40 am
Republicrats and Democans have very little diversity. VOTE THIRD PARTY. THERE IS STILL TIME.
December 1st, 2007 at 12:16 pm
No, Anderson Cooper backtracked because him and his army of media agents do not want the mainstream hatemongers such as Fox News Channel to drag him out of the closet for being gay. Remember when they bascically threatened just that a while back by calling him “the paris hilton of journalism” Just another reason why it is so important for Anderson Cooper to admit he is gay and move on from there free from further blackmail and harassment. Free from ignorant bloggers with their own narrow minded discriminatory agendas as well.
Grip reality Rupugnants.
December 1st, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Ewe,
While I appreciate your getting involved with the conversation, your comment goes against our very first rule when posting here which is “There will be no profanity, no personal attacks, harassment or demonization of a particular individual.”
Please follow the rules or don’t participate here at all. Since you did break the first rule, I’m deleting your comment regarding Brian. That comment was hateful and unwarrented since Brian was only making an observation.
You may still participate, I just ask that abide by our rules of posting.
December 1st, 2007 at 12:50 pm
I am not interested in your blog any further then. My comment to Brian was appropriate and i could care less about your definition of morality through expressive language. You censor posts. Don’t dress it up and don’t you dare blame me. You are a disgrace to everything you think you stand up for and speak on behalf of. And more importantly you are a danger which i will not support. Good riddance to you Josh Gillespie.
December 1st, 2007 at 12:56 pm
So long ewe!