Posted on 11/29/2007 8:35:54 AM PST by HoosierGirl25
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
And of course CNN had absolutely no idea, none at all.
If you believe that I have some great land and bridges for sale, cheap...
Apparently, neither the Guard or the Reserve wanted this pantywaist!
"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."
Campenni said the rank of general is not federally recognized and the title can not be used or the rank worn outside the state. "
Did anyone answer his question?
Freepers.
Be sure to send emails to all your friends to alert them to the latest Hillary/CNN scandal.
I just copied Michelle Malkins latest posting to an email and sent it to 75 of my friends.
Please use the emails to get this news spread far and wide.
Kind of looks like it. He should be referring to himself as Colonel. That was his rank at retirement from the Army Reserves.
At least with Colonel Sanders, he used his “rank” to sell chicken. This guy’s using his “rank” to sell BS.
He needs to be investigated. There are a great many red flags in his past, as outlined on another thread.
broaden your message...here’s a compilation of various DNC plant issues...
Hillary Questioner Claims: ‘I wasn’t the only one at the event who was a plant’...
Clinton’s Planted Student Says She “wasn’t the only one at the event who was a plant.”
Posted by drpix
On 11/13/2007 6:20:28 AM PST · 3 replies
drudgereport.com ^ | 11/1307 | Drudge
Clinton’s planted student speaks out, says she just wants honesty - Tue Nov 13 2007 08:17:37 ET The college student who says she was told what question to ask at one of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign events—and whose story in her campus newspaper has now made its way around the world—said Monday that “voters have a right to know what happened, adding that she “wasn’t the only one at the event who was a plant.” In an exclusive taped interview with CNN, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, a sophomore at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, said that giving anyone specific questions to ask..
**CNN’s six “undecided voters” were all Democratic operatives**
Posted by Syncro
On 11/18/2007 10:42:09 AM PST · 50 replies
Directorblue ^ | November 17, 2007 | Doug Ross
Saturday, November 17, 2007 CNN’s six “undecided voters” were all Democratic operatives UPDATES BELOW - CNN hits bottom and digs: All six debate questioners appear to be Democratic Party operatives. So much for “ordinary people, undecided voters”. To paraphrase Junior Soprano, CNN is so far up the DNC’s hind end, Howard Dean can taste hair gel. In a nutshell, CNN’s six “undecided voters” were: A Democratic Party bigwigAn antiwar activistA Union officialAn Islamic leaderA Harry Reid stafferA radical Chicano separatist Wow. This looks “rather” like a scandal. Hot Air: ...You’d think the network’s audience might want to know who...
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CNN Stocked Audience and Controlled Thursday’s Debate Questions
Posted by FocusNexus
On 11/17/2007 10:38:16 AM PST · 23 replies
Newsbusters ^ | Nov. 17, 2007 | By Noel Sheppard
There’s a great deal of controversy brewing concerning implications that CNN not only stocked the audience at Thursday’s Democrat Presidential debate, but also controlled the questions attendees asked. So much for Wolf Blitzer not caving into pressure from the Clinton campaign. One of the most delicious incidents from the debate was reported Friday by Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic magazine blog (emphasis added (h/t Allah at Hot Air):
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NY1 Anchor Quits After Calling a Show on the Station Under a False Name (Clinton Operative)
Posted by LdSentinal
On 11/18/2007 4:51:53 PM PST · 18 replies
New York Times ^ | 11/18/07 | MANNY FERNANDEZ
Gary Anthony Ramsay, a longtime reporter and a weekend anchor for NY1 News, left the station this week, days after calling in to one of the channel’s live shows under a false name and commenting on a news story, a lapse in judgment that Mr. Ramsay described as “a flash moment of frustration.” On Nov. 9, Mr. Ramsay phoned “The Call,” an evening call-in show, and identified himself as Dalton, from the Upper East Side. The topic was Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York police commissioner facing a 16-count federal indictment, and the indictment’s effect on the presidential campaign...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927651/posts
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Hillary: Planting for me, but not for thee
By Soren Dayton Posted in 2008 | Hillary Clinton — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
To quote a somewhat heterodox Republican, “The beat goes on.” That is, plant-gate marches on. The Nation, that bastion of right-wing journalism is working on more examples of planted questions.
But Hillary’s dishonesty and artifice is only one part of the story. There’s also hypocrisy. You see, just last month, she attacked someone at a town hall for asking a question that she alleged was planted. Don’t believe me? Watch:
Read on for NBC’s take on this.
NBC described it as, “Clinton gets snippy with Iowan over Iran”:
Clinton accused the man of being a plant who had been sent to ask the question, to which he took exception, saying the question was a result of his own research.
“I apologize,” Clinton said, explaining that she had been asked the very same question in three other places.
So it is ok for her to plant questions, but not her opponents?
Imagine what she would do if she were actually ... President.
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/soren_dayton/2007/nov/15/hillary_planting_for_me_but_not_for_thee
“Diamond v. Pearl” Student Blasts CNN-(CNN screened and gave out questions at the debate)
Atlantic ^ | 11-16-07 | Atlantic
Posted on 11/16/2007 1:15:17 PM PST by tcrlaf
Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred “diamonds or pearls” at last night’s debate wrote on her MySpace page this morning that CNN forced her to ask the frilly question instead of a pre-approved query about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
“Every single question asked during the debate by the audience had to be approved by CNN,” Luisa writes. “I was asked to submit questions including “lighthearted/fun” questions.
I submitted more than five questions on issues important to me. I did a policy memo on Yucca Mountain a year ago and was the finalist for the Truman Scholarship. For sure, I thought I would get to ask the Yucca question that was APPROVED by CNN days in advance.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926876/posts
“Diamond v. Pearl” Student Blasts CNN (Updated With CNN Response)FAKE QUESTIONS AGAIN!!!
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Posted by Red Badger
On 11/16/2007 3:48:47 PM PST · 52 replies
marcambinder.theatlantic.com ^ | 11/16/2007 | Staff
Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred “diamonds or pearls” at last night’s debate wrote on her MySpace page this morning that CNN forced her to ask the frilly question instead of a pre-approved query about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. “Every single question asked during the debate by the audience had to be approved by CNN,” Luisa writes. “I was asked to submit questions including “lighthearted/fun” questions. I submitted more than five questions on issues important to me. I did a policy memo on Yucca Mountain a year ago and was the finalist...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926951/posts
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Friday, November 16, 2007 CNN Planted Questions For The Democrats? By Rob on November 16, 2007 at 03:52 pm 20 Comments Looks that way.
According to the MySpace page of the girl (one Maria Luisa) who asked Hillary the “diamonds or pearls” question, every question at the debate last night was staged.
Which is pretty pathetic. CNN should be ashamed of itself for perpetrating such a fraud on its viewers.
Also, though, I wonder if CNN extended this same courtesy to Republicans. For instance, CNN broadcast a debate in New Hampshire back in June where the Republican candidates took questions from the audience. Were those questions planted?
I wouldn’t be happy about it if they were, but I’m willing to be they weren’t. Which would be pretty telling, if true.
Her name is NOT Maria Luisa. That must be the name on her myspace page. According to the transcripts of CNN’s debates, her name is Maria Parra-Sandoval (which you can hear her say, anyway) and...she worked for Harry Reid.
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/15/se.02.html
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Journal/Assembly/Final/AJ036.pdf
http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/files/2005_CLA_Yearbook.pdf (page 23 has her picture, here)
Interestingly enough, Kalid Kahn, the man who asked the racial profiling question is the president of the Islamic Council of Nevada. Big dude. If you websearch, you can find possible connections to him and Harry Reid, as it appears Harry Reid visited the mosque.
http://www.lvmasjid.com/links/financial_needs.asp
Upon further search, and a link from someone on Ann Coulter’s forum, we will see that Maria Parra-Sandoval was an illegal alien, who came from Mexico as a child, but has since got her paperwork together.
However, it is no coincidence that that girl HAPPENED to be there, and HAPPENED to be picked to ask and HAPPENED to be called upon, yet HAPPENED to have worked for Harry Reid. If you websearch, you will find her name associated with him all over the internet.
Jeannie Jackson is a professional moonbat. There are too many links to put up, but we are currently searching about her possible connections to city council in a town just outside of Santa Ana, Ca. I will post that link if I find something that connects her.
Anwyay, I’m sick. I can’t beleive this is true. Do the research yourself, and you’ll see. Simply amazing.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2006/apr/02/566679250.html
I appologize for not including this link. This is the last one about Maria being an illegal alien
I have done HOURS of research this afternoon. I’m sick at the connection. I’m sick because I haven’t got the resources to nail it in the nead. (I did however, email Matt Drudge and others).
Is there no end to what they’ll do? I mean, we can’t even get real people to ask real questions? These people were fake.
I’m currently researching, but apparently some of the names were changed from the transcripts, because in interviews, they’re different. Kalid Khan is seen in websearches as having the first name Mohammed. Chris Jackson is really Chris Gallagher. Maria Luisa is Maria Parra-Sandoval. This is sick. Why would they change the names?
I’m currently researching an other one, who appears to have political connections, too. I won’t mention it here, as I don’t know that for sure yet, I’m just 50/50 on that, but if I get more sure, I’ll be sure to post the link.
I will not let this go, I watched that debate, and I feel lied to and deceived.
Let me appologize for dominating this board- it isn’t what I intended to do. However, just when I think I’m going to take a break, more things keep tripping me up and I find out even more.
Why does everyone keep referring to her as Maria Luisa? Why because that’s her MIDDLE NAME! Maria Luisa Parra-Sandoval. Wanna see her picture again?
http://www.nhli.org/2005LLLfellows.htm
And if it didn’t get any better, Harry Reid has a listing of his staff:
http://www.zimbio.com/Senator+Harry+Reid+of+Nevada/notes/1/Senator+Reid+s+Staff
(Please note that when searching the two of them, do not include her middle name as they don’t use it in their records)
More interestingly enough, here’s more info (with PICTURE) of her scholarship write up. Sounds like a nice girl, but still a PLANT!
http://foundation.unlv.edu/casestudies/scholarships.html
If that weren’t enough, there have been apparent connections to the “unknown” woman who asked about the supreme court justices (which Suzanne Malveaux stepped all over), and according to Dan Riehl’s site, she is linked to the democratic party in ...*drumroll* ARKANSAS...Look it up! (she is listed as her name unknown in the CNN transcripts)
Man this just keeps getting better. I don’t know how I’m going to be able to sleep.
As promised, here is the link. The connection has been made and once everyone cathches up to Maria Luisa Parra- Sandoval, the DNC and possibly CNN is toast.
The insinuation I made earlier regarding a possible plant that had to do with the democratic party in Arkansas is none other than the supreme court questioner, Lashannon Spencer. Big wheel in the democratic party in LITTLE ROCK.
The connection was first made by a person commenting in the section on Dan Riehl’s site, then Dan made it, then Hot air picked it up. what I’m giving you here are MORe PICTURES! (Isn’t the internet great?????)
If you can look at them side by side, it is ONE in the SAME lady! Jesus. Mary. Joseph.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927192/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926621/posts?page=40#40
Talk About Planted Questions!!
Update: How fitting. CNN pulls out someone not to simply ask a question about Iran, but with absolute moral authority given her son’s service. And just as we learn that the IAEA has confirmed Iran’s having installed 3,000 centrifuges. CNN works to undermine our ability to respond just as it may become critical. Great, just great! Thanks, CNN.
CNN rolled out a Catherine Jackson to ask a question about Iran given that her son served three tours in Iraq.
Now when have I heard that before? How about in May. Thank you Harry Reid.
“My son was in Iraq three times,” said Catherine Jackson of Las Vegas. “I thank God he’s home now. Enough is enough. We need to bring our troops home.” Reid spokesman Jon Summers said Move America Forward was mischaracterizing Reid’s position. “It’s their right to make their feelings known, but most Nevadans agree with Senator Reid that it’s time to change course in Iraq,” he said.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/11/talk-about-plan.html
CNN Pre-Plann(T)ed & Censored Every Question & Questioner at Dem Debate(?)!
Posted by coffee260
On 11/17/2007 8:30:47 AM PST · 16 replies
Compilation of Sources ^ | 11/17/2007 | Coffee260
CNN Pre-Plann(T)ed & Censored Every Question & Questioner at Dem Debate(?)! [NOTE: I’ve tried to compile what I think is the most informative postings on this.] CNN’s Las Vegas Post Debate Analysis— A Clinton Reunion It’s hard to have a bad debate performance when: ** The audience is planted in your favor** The questions are planted in your favor** The questioners are your supporters** The after debate spin room includes 2 former and 1 current staff members The post debate was as Clinton-friendly as the actual debate.The CNN debate may have been pre-planned and censored every step of the way, but...
A Clinton Friend’s Role Sets Off Intense Criticism of CNN and a Re-examination
Posted by Sub-Driver
On 11/17/2007 8:14:49 AM PST · 24 replies
New York Times ^
November 17, 2007 A Clinton Friend’s Role Sets Off Intense Criticism of CNN and a Re-examination By JULIE BOSMAN Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton prepared for a battle with her Democratic rivals at the CNN-sponsored debate on Thursday night. She did not have much to fear from the postdebate round table. Among the experts trotted out by CNN to comment was James Carville, a Democratic strategist and CNN commentator who is also a close friend of Mrs. Clinton and a contributor to her campaign. Mr. Carville’s presence aroused the fury of rivals and bloggers. They called it a conflict of interest...
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CNN’s debate rigging might be worse than originally thought
—Purple Avenger
OK, we all know by now that CNN rigged the democrat debate, but what is the real extent of the rigging. The claims being made by this blogger, if true, are pretty damning. I counted at least 4 planted shills they claim to have run down and documented.
Its clear that CNN and the democrats have some explaining to do.
[UPDATE]
Doug Ross ups the democrat operative shill count to 6!
Posted by Purple Avenger at 12:25 AM | Post Only | New Comments Thingy
WOLF WARNED: NO GANGING UP ON HILLARY IN VEGAS!
November 13, 2007
Clinton Staff Warns Blitzer: “Do not pull a ‘Russert.’”
From Drudge via NRO:
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer has been warned not to focus Thursday’s Dem debate on Hillary. ‘This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy,’ top Clinton insider explains. ‘Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack and pull ‘a Russert.’’
Jim Geraghty writes:
I can’t understand why any “top Clinton adviser” would be heard pre-emptively whining and issuing “warnings” to Wolf Blitzer. This all but guarantees that Blitzer has to hurl a bunch of hardballs Thursday night.
If Blitzer doesn’t, he’ll face the charges that he knuckled under worse than GQ in the face of Clintonite pressure. And those complaints won’t just come from the right — they’ll come from John Edwards, probably Barack Obama, and some corners of the MSM.
As the man says, “Developing...” and as that other man (?) parodied: “Leave Hillary Alone!!”
posted by Gabriel Malor at 04:33 PM
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/246443.php
Blitzer says he is not being pressured by any campaign: ‘No one has pressured me. No one has threatened me. No one is trying to intimidate me’... Developing...
Wolf Blitzer Sneakily Screened Student Questions for Hillary in 2000
By Tim Graham
Created 2007-11-15 09:02
As the Democrats prepare for their latest CNN debate tonight, Wolf Blitzer has denied the Drudge Report’s bulletin that he was pressured by the Clinton campaign to avoid orchestrating a Hillary Clinton beat-down. But with all the controversy this week over the Clinton campaign planting college-age questioners in its events, our new book Whitewash [1] explains that in a 2000 CNN town meeting, Blitzer and CNN carefully screened questions for Hillary – and there were no scandal questions uttered – but Blitzer never told the audience:
On April 24, CNN held a town meeting for Hillary in prime time, at 10 p.m. Eastern at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Wolf Blitzer claimed, “The format is open-ended.” But it was not. Buffalo News Washington bureau chief Douglas Turner reported that university officials submitted to CNN all the names of students attending, and that “questions from university students have been screened by CNN staff members.” University administrators gave CNN students’ phone numbers.
Turner called CNN’s behavior “slippery,” especially CNN’s calls for student questions on Tuesday afternoon for a Wednesday night broadcast. Although no one found evidence that Hillary received questions in advance, Turner suggested, “That’s an embarrassingly long period of time for mischief to occur.” Even if, CNN claimed, Mrs. Clinton had no control over the questions asked or which students were admitted into the audience, it seems odd that there were zero questions from students about any Clinton scandal. No student at the State University of New York at Buffalo was at all interested in scandals, so many of them so salacious, swirling around the Clintons?
In comments before, during, and after the event, Blitzer never explained that the questions and questioners were screened in advance. CNN’s Frank Buckley ended a story the morning after the town hall meeting with a very vague reference that Giuliani’s campaign, “in a statement issued earlier, described Mrs. Clinton’s event as carefully scripted, totally contrived, and utterly fake.” Surely it was that, but since Blitzer hadn’t mentioned the screening, CNN viewers didn’t have the information to fairly judge Giuliani’s contention.
CNN did more stage management still, excluding all reporters, with the exception of an Associated Press reporter and photographer, from the auditorium. Even the SUNY-Buffalo student newspaper was barred. In all of the overnight dispatches filed, the AP reporter, Marc Humbert, never mentioned the screened questions or the exclusion of his colleagues.
Humbert did find space for a man who disliked Clinton to praise Hillary: “She’s hot.” Here’s what Blitzer told CNN viewers before the debate:
The format is open ended. I’ll start off with a few questions of my own, some hopefully news-worthy kinds of questions, then we’re opening it up. There will be about 300, almost 400 people here and they’ll ask whatever is on their mind, whether it’s issues involving New York state, national issues, or international issues. Remember, a Senator from New York — every Senator deals with all these kinds of issues, and so I’m sure there will be a wide range of questions, and if necessary I will follow up and make sure that the necessary follow up is there as well.
But no troublesome scandal questions ever surfaced. Our original report from that time is here [2].
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‘Campaign Operatives Are People Too’: CNN’s Cooper On Debate Questions
By Ken Shepherd | November 27, 2007 - 13:02 ET
Mary Katharine Ham briefly chatted with CNN’s Anderson Cooper and David Bohrman about tomorrow’s CNN/YouTube debate and concerns about the agenda of questions that will be picked. For the whole thing, go here, but I just had to share this priceless gem (my emphasis in bold). First Ham’s question, then Cooper’s answer:
Q: There’s been a bit of scandal about the screening that CNN did on its “undecided voters” for the last Democratic debate. The diamonds-and-pearls question was attacked by the questioner herself. There were some allegations that several of the voters were in fact liberal activists on quite a few issues (and one Democratic Party operative). What’s the process for checking these YouTube questioners and their affiliations?
AC: “Well, campaign operatives are people, too. We don’t investigate the background of people asking questions…that’s not our job...
How Can CNN Reasonably Deny Anderson Cooper Knew Kerr Is A Gay Crusader ?!?
Posted by MindBender26
On 11/28/2007 8:52:15 PM PST · 18 replies
Out magazine via NYDN ^ | MB26
How Can CNN Reasonably Deny Anderson Cooper Knew Kerr Is A Gay Crusader 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. And Anderson Cooper is listed by “Out” Magazine as the second most powerful homosexual in the US, secondly only to David Geffen. http://nymag.com Of course, Hillary was not listed.
CNN Cooper: ‘I had not heard that he’s actually working for a campaign. If so, that would certainly be an issue that should be addressed immediately’...
VIDEO: Anderson Cooper’s Mea Culpa...
MSNBC HOST: ‘Total crap to suggest that nobody in CNN knew’...
REPORT: CNN Republican questioners were DECLARED Edwards and Obama voters...
GENERAL KEITH KERR A HILLARY PLANT -—> APPEARED ON CNN DEC 11, 2003
BOOB TUBE: CNN ‘DUPED’ BY HILLARY PLANT AT REPUBLICAN DEBATE
Digging out more CNN/YouTube plants: Abortion questioner is declared Edwards supporter (and a slobbering Anderson Cooper fan); Log Cabin Republican questioner is declared Obama supporter; lead toy questioner is a prominent union activist for the Edwards-endorsing United Steelworkers
By Michelle Malkin • November 29, 2007 12:47 AM
CNN AMBUSH DEBATE. CNN PLANTS LIBERAL AMBUSH-BAIT QUESTIONS.
Posted by Porterville
On 11/28/2007 6:41:45 PM PST · 77 replies
CNN CRAP NEWS NETWORK | 11/28/2007 | Me
Anybody watching the liberal bait questions set up to make conservatives look bad? Let me summarize: 1. Are you a Gun Nut? 2. Are you a Bible Nut? 3. Are you an Abortionist Nut? 4. Do you hate Islam? 5. Will you agree that Bush makes America horrible? 6. We lost Iraq, didn’t we? 7. Ron Paul, let us put people in the audience for you... okay? 8. How long have you hated blacks? 9. Why do you suck? 10. Why are you so white and male?
A Member of Hillary Clinton’s Gay Steering Committee?
—DrewM.
Tonight’s CNN debate had a ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ question from a retired general. Apparently the general, Keith Kerr, is a member of the LGBT Americans For Hillary Steering Committee.
Kerr was in the audience and after Romney, Hunter and Huckabee answered his question, Kerr was asked if he received an answer to his question. Kerr took that opportunity to make a two or three minute speech in favor of gays serving openly in the military and taking the Republicans to task for not supporting that.
You have to hand it to them...the Hillary people are really good at planting questions. At least CNN didn’t identify him as an undecided voter.
H/t The Corner
UPDATE:
Commenter TheEJS points out that Kerr was part of Veterans for Kerry as well.
Posted by DrewM. at 11:25 PM | Post Only | New Comments Thingy
Abortionist Girl in Blue a Edwards Supporter. Gun Control dude a professional Act... Others?
Posted by Porterville
On 11/28/2007 8:12:19 PM PST · 11 replies
Internet Youtube... etc | November 28, 2007 | Me
1. Blue Dress Girl- Here Web Address: http://likespring.livejournal.com Clearly States she supports John Edwards and Keith Oberman Her Profile on youtube: http://youtube.com 2. Gun Guy on Youtube Profile...
"General Kerr" is a type of Black Hole.
This is the actual title of an article in Classical and Quantum Gravity: General Kerr–NUT–AdS metrics in all dimensions.
Notice, how appropriate the word "NUT" is even capitalized.
AND there is more:
From his bio, at the SDLN (the organization that is suing the gov to allow openly homosexuals to serve in the military):
http://www.sldn.org/templates/about/record.html?section=81&record=1151
“Brigadier General Keith H. Kerr entered the U. S. Army as a Private at Fort Ord, California, on 21 September 1953. After completing basic and advanced training, he served with the 513th Military Intelligence Group in Germany during the Cold War. Upon release from active duty, he continued to serve in the U. S. Army Reserve and was commissioned a First Lieutenant in June 1960. “
IOW — he left active duty as a 2nd Lt and was only promoted to 1st Lt, AFTER he retired from active duty. He got all his promotions, up to Col, while serving in the US Army Reserve.
Then AFTER he retired from there as a Col, THEN he joined the California State Military Reserve (California National Guard, where he was promoted to General — but as the posted article says, that rank can only be used in CA.
Campenni said the rank of general is not federally recognized and the title can not be used or the rank worn outside the state.
BUSTED!!!!!
Anyone have a pic of him in uniform? I’d be FASCINATED to check-out the decorations he’s wearing.
“What the heck is the “Californian National Reserve”?”
It’s affiliated with the Californian Natural Guard.
I know, sounds phony. But there is an organization by the same name. It's membership is limited to about 100. Hardly a functional military unit.
Maybe it's a gay unit? Like the Amazons.
A phony general?
That’s great.
“Campenni told HUMAN EVENTS that Kerr is not even a retired Army General. “He retired as a California Army National Guard colonel,”
BTTT!!!
Yes, it was answered. All the idiotic questions were answered.
I would have answered the gays in the military question with a statement about open homosexuality being a distraction to the job at hand, and leave it at that. No further explanation is needed.
Recall that “General” Louis Onorato Giuffrida, Ronald Reagan’s first director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency attained the rank of colonel in 1968 but was eventually promoted to the rank of general in the California National Guard.
Be careful of these California Generals - they are like Kentucky Colonels.
... Kerr is not even a retired Army General.
... “He retired as a California Army National Guard colonel”
In other words, he is a fraud.
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