Controversy erupted last night after Republican presidential candidates participating in the CNN/YouTube debate received a question from an undisclosed gay activist and supporter of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.  

Retired Brig. Gen. Keith H. Kerr told candidates he was an “openly gay man,” member of the “California National Reserve”, and asked “why you think that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians?”

He did not mention that he is a member of the LGBT Americans For Hillary Steering Committee and a co-chair on Hillary Clinton’s National Military Veterans group.

Kerr was in the audience and host Anderson Cooper even asked him if he was satisfied with the answers. All of the candidates support the “don’t ask-don’t tell” policy and Kerr said he was not happy with their responses.

Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett learned of Kerr’s involvement with the Clinton campaign approximately 30 minutes after the debate, while serving on a CNN panel. He received emails from friends who made the connection.

Cooper, the debate and panel moderator, quickly responded, saying that had CNN known Kerr was involved with the Clinton campaign, they would have disclosed the information or not used the question at all.

But there’s more. According to Col. Bill Campenni (USAF, ret), one of President Bush’s squadron mates in the Texas Air National Guard, there is no such thing as the California National Reserve of which Kerr claimed to be a former member.

Campenni told HUMAN EVENTS that Kerr is not even a retired Army General.

“He retired as a California Army National Guard colonel,” said Campenni. “It is common at Guard retirement ceremonies to give an honorary promotion to colonels to the STATE rank of Brigadier General…[but] it has no meaning other than a fancy certificate for the wall and use of the title at local Guard functions.” 

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Retired Brig. Gen. Keth Kerr who was featured as a "spontaneous" questioner on CNN’s YouTube Republican Debate on Wednesday night is actually an operative in the Hillary Clinton campaign. On June 27, 2007, the Hillary for President organization announced the formation of "LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Americans for Hillary" and listed the admittedly gay Gen. Kerr as a member of its Steering Committee.  That fact was not mentioned by Kerr, CNN, or the program’s host Anderson Cooper.

In his recorded YouTube message, Kerr challenged the GOP presidential contenders on the issue of the military’s "don’t ask/don’t tell" policy that has been in effect for nearly 15 years. He was also invited by CNN to attend the debate in person and was given several minutes of national television time to challenge the candidates’ defense of current policy. His “comments” turned out to be more like a filibuster but moderator Cooper did not interrupt.

Apparently, CNN’s bias toward the Clintons runs so deep that it will resort to some cheap, dirty tricks to try to derail the Republican campaign. Given the network’s history of consistent liberal bias, it is difficult to believe that the Kerr incident was a naïve mistake. It is more likely that it was another attempt to sandbag the Republicans – hopefully embarrassing them on the sensitive issue of gays in the military. It didn’t work. The general stated: “For 42 years, I wore the army uniform on active duty, in the Reserve, and also for the state of California. I revealed I was a gay man after I retired. Today, ‘don’t ask/don’t tell’ is destructive to our military policy.”

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Complete Bullshit!

They had weeks to research this - and they claim they didn’t know. I’m hearing that CNN even flew him in for the debate - and he was the only one allowed a follow up question!

Prior to this info coming out - all you had to do was go to Google, type in his name and Hillary’s website come up - hit Ctrl F and type in "Kerr" and their he is - so simple the Clinton News Network couldn’t figure it out!

By the way - why does Hillary have a Lesbian - Gay - Bi-Sexual - Transgendered Steering Committee? What direction does Hillary want the country steered toward?

Previous CNN debate and the planted questions

Planting questions at your own events is one thing.  But planting questions at the other party’s debate (albeit one hosted by a horticulturally friendly network), now that’s the mark of true mastery.

Retired Brigadier General Keith Kerr, who asked a YouTube question about gays in the military and was invited to sit in the audience and (out of step with the rest of the night’s format) pose a lengthy follow-up, is a member of the Clinton campaign’s LGBT steering committee.

Update:  Moderator Anderson Cooper swiftly acknolwedged the plant’s Clinton connection, but says the network was unaware until now.

More at Hot Air, including video of Kerr’s YouTube question and his on-site follow-up.

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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. Here’s that video.

UPDATE: Uh Oh! Looks like there are more plants. John Edwards and Barack Obama supporters plus a union activist.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign team are furious that an unsubstantiated rumour of a lesbian affair with her exotic aide de camp Huma Abedin, which has been doing the rounds of ‘underground’ blogs and websites in recent weeks, appears to have gone mainstream after reports in foreign papers addressed the subject of dirty tricks on the US presidential campaign trail.

The problem started with a report in the London Times on Thursday. ‘Hillary Clinton has been accused of having an affair with Huma Abedin,’ read the caption under a photograph of the two trouser-suited women (above left) striding across the tarmac to catch a plane. The next day, the Russian newspaper Pravda wrote a similar round-up which concluded: "Hillary and her aide, Huma Abedin, do live together at home and on the road, but the only way to nail Clinton would be to catch them together in a lesbian action."

The rumour of a lesbian love affair appears to have been been started in August 2007 by the New York freesheet, the Village Voice. Although neither the Times nor Pravda made any attempt to claim the story was true, some Americans have taken the reports in two of the world’s most famous newspapers to heart. Not least Hillary’s own team. "This does not even qualify as tabloid trash… it’s ridiculous and reckless," a Clinton aide said at the weekend.

Abedin, who is the daughter of Indian and Pakistani parents and comes from Kalamazoo Michigan, has been an aide to Clinton for some years. The photograph in the Times was taken in 2000. She was recently photographed (above right) in Vogue’s ‘Age’ issue, as an example of a glamorous woman in her 30s with good looks, insider influence and a fabulous address book. She chose two red dresses - by Vera Wang and Oscar de la Renta - for her Vogue photoshoot.

Although the Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch, appears to have caused her some heartache, Hillary Clinton was diplomatic when asked an awkward question in Iowa at the weekend about Murdoch’s growing influence in America. The arch-conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch, who already owns Fox News, the New York Post (and its gossip section Page Six, which notoriously went after Clinton’s husband Bill during his presidency) and will soon own the Wall Street Journal.

Did Clinton think, the questioner wanted to know, Americans would "lose out democracy" if one person controlled their media? Clinton answered: "There have been a lot of media consolidations in the last several years, and it is quite troubling. It’s bad for consumers because you limit choice, it¹s bad for citizens because it limits the diversity we have." But she also made it clear that she wasn’t singling out "any company in particular" for condemnation. "I just want to see more competition, especially in the same markets."

What she didn’t tell the questioner was that, the Times article notwithstanding, she and Murdoch have developed a close if curious relationship since she became junior senator for New York in 2001. Murdoch even held a fundraiser last year for Clinton’s senate campaign and recently bankrolled former nemesis Bill Clinton’s global warming initiative.

Source: The First Post

At Drudge:

The TIMES of London starts ‘The Ugliest Month’ with a full page photo takeout on Hillary Clinton and her beautiful personal assistant.

"Hillary Clinton has been accused of having an affair with Huma Abedin," reads the caption.

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The splash stunned British readers and angered campaign insiders.

"This does not even qualify as tabloid trash… it’s ridiculous and reckless," a Hillary confidante explained over the weekend.

This next bit from a reader. I believe him, though this is third hand so I can vouch for the original source or the intermediary.

Oh, and BTW, another good friend from California [with political and legal connections] told me in 1999 that Hillary used to have women sent to her hotel when she visited SoCal.

As you can imagine, it was a very small and loyal circle that reportedly knew about it. My friend was "in the know" but never liked Hillary and was ambivalent about Bill after the impeachment.

Hmmm… had women sent to her hotel room? I don’t know; that seems pretty dangerous. Do women bother doing that? I never thought of women as having much use for paid escorts. Maybe he just meant she had lady "friends" quietly slipped in, but it sounds from his description like call girls. There’s no way that could have avoided becoming public, right?

Nip/Tuck, a show I have never watched and will never watch, helps prepare us for President Hillary and her First Ladyfriend with a lesbian affair between characters played by Joely Richardson, whoever that is, and Portia de Rossi. Eh. I like this quote by Rossi:

"I think men respond to the sexiness of two women being together."

Really? Is that your theory, Braniac?

More: A Times of London columnist mentions the possibility that it was the "Hillary confidante" quoted as calling this story reckless who actually tipped it to Drudge, perhaps to insulate the Hilldebeast against further charges, and perhaps to make her seem like a victim as her supporters tag Barack Obama as a Muslim Manchurian Candidate.

Source: Ace of Spades

The LA Times has been sitting on this story for a long time - now they get scooped by the Times of London - will they now play along with the Clinton denials - or will they step up and run with their story?

The TIMES of London starts ‘The Ugliest Month’ with a full page photo takeout on Hillary Clinton and her beautiful personal assistant.

"Hillary Clinton has been accused of having an affair with Huma Abedin," reads the caption.

MORE

The splash stunned British readers and angered campaign insiders.

"This does not even qualify as tabloid trash… it’s ridiculous and reckless," a Hillary confidante explained over the weekend.

Taking the whisper from the underground to the overground, the paper made no claims to knowing any truth of the relationship between Hillary and Huma, in its story headlined: "Snarls, smears and innuendo as attack dogs get ready for the fray."

The current campaign promises to become one of the dirtiest in modern history.

Developing…

Source: Drudge Report

From those deathless followers of Stalin at The Nation:

Barney Frank: Clinton “Best Equipped” to Advance Gay Rights

Wed Nov 14

The Nation — Both openly-gay members of Congress have now endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The New York senator secured the support of Tammy Baldwin, the Wisconsin congresswoman who is the only out lesbian in the House, months ago. And this week Clinton gained the enthusiastic endorsement of House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, the only out gay man currently serving in the chamber.

Frank specifically hailed Clinton’s support for gay and lesbian rights in announcing his decision to back the woman who current leads in national polling on the Democratic race and who is the front-runner in most early caucus and primary states.

The Massachusetts Democrat said that he is “convinced that Hillary Clinton is the candidate best equipped to pass laws that will treat all Americans with dignity, fairness and equality no matter who they are or who they love.”

That comment came as part of a particularly warm embrace of Clinton by Frank, who has traditionally been one of the party’s most determined and effective campaigners among liberals in Massachusetts and other states.

“I have from the beginning of this campaign believed that Hillary Clinton was the candidate best qualified to serve as president,” the congressman explained. “I am convinced that once elected, the qualities she will bring to the job — commitment, intellect and political skills — will make her an extremely effective leader in our effort to reverse the badly flawed course on which George Bush and past Republican Congresses have set this country.”

Frank’s sister, veteran Democratic party leader Ann Lewis, is a senior adviser to the Clinton campaign. He has been a longtime friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton…

Well, we can’t say we haven’t been warned.

Source: Sweetness and Light - check this website daily!