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Hillary Camp Accused of Cruelly Putting a Gay in a Room Full of Republicans


If you watched last night’s Republican CNN/YouTube debate, you were probably struck by the awkwardness of the exchange between retired Brigadier General Keith Kerr, who is gay, and the candidates. Kerr’s YouTube submission asked about why gays can’t openly serve in the military, and after a few answers (including one where Mitt Romney assholicly contradicted his previous statements once again), debate moderator Anderson Cooper brought Kerr out from the audience to see whether he felt satisfied. He didn’t (though seeing Romney get booed and look so uncomfortable must have made him a little happy), and combined with audience boos and applause, the whole thing made for some strange political theater. Almost instantaneously, a whole slew of blogs researched Kerr and discovered that he is on the gay-rights steering committee of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Many accused Clinton of inserting a plant into the audience (a common charge these days), which the Clinton camp denies. But it seems to be the viral story of the morning, which has got to make Rudy and Mitt feel better, as their early-debate bickering has been universally panned in the papers. Click above to watch the awkwardness unfold, and be sure to pay close attention to the untold disaster of last night’s broadcast: the size of Anderson Cooper’s collar.


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Hillary Camp Accused of Cruelly Putting a Gay in a Room Full of Republicans