CNN Fails to mention retired gay general's endorsement of Hillary

NewsBusters by Matthew Balan | Nov. 29, 2007 (News Report)

CNN, as part of its Republican debate with YouTube, failed to mention that retired general Keith Kerr, who announced he was gay after his retirement from the Army, is a member of Hillary Clinton's "LGBT Americans For Hillary Steering Committee." Not only did General Kerr ask the question via a YouTube video, but he was also present in the audience, and got to ask the candidates for a "straight answer" (pardon the pun).

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by Linda Maloney - Oct. 1, 2008

CNN fell all over itself apologizing to the Republicans for allowing a 43-year veteran who happens to support a Democratic candidate to ask them a question. Shocking! The reporter somehow fails to mention that CNN allowed at least one clearly Republican-biased question on the Democratic debate ("If you are elected, will my taxes go up, the way they always do when Democrats get in?"), or -- much more important -- that one of the questioners on the Democratic debate, a CNN anchor soon to have her own show, is married to a senior Republican advisor, Dan Senor. Media Matters tells all.