NEW YORK, Oct. 18, 2007
Oops! U.S. Military Recruits Gays
The Skinny: Army, Navy, Air Force Ads That Ran On Gay Networking Web Site Are Pulled
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Military recruiters unwittingly advertised on a gay networking site. (CBS/AP)
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The military was just looking for a few good men.
Until USA Today pointed it out yesterday, the Army, Navy and Air Force were unwittingly advertising for recruits on a Web site for gays, those same gays who are barred from military service if they are open about their sexual orientation.
The minute the paper informed them that they were advertising on GLEE.com, a networking site for gay professionals, recuiters - no doubt turning several shades of mortified purple - yanked the ads.
"We didn't knowingly advertise on that particular Web site," said Maj. Michael Baptista, advertising branch chief for the Army National Guard. He said the site does not "meet the moral standards" of the military.
Most of the military jobs posted were for hard-to-fill position requiring advanced training, such as thousands of Navy openings for doctors, dentists, intelligence analysts and Arabic translators.
The ads were placed through GLEE.com's parent company, New York-based Community Connect, as part of an alliance with Monster.com. Betty Huang of Community Connect says the military services, through private ad agencies, bought Monster's "diversity and inclusion" package. It includes posts on her company's niche websites for minorities and gays.
Oops!
Steve Ralls of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a gay advocacy group, could not supress a snicker. He noted that gays "have been drummed out of the Armed Forces simply for using sites like GLEE."
FCC Chief Proposes Giving Deregulation Another Shot
You can bet Rupert Murdoch's coffee tasted extra-delicious this morning.
The New York Times leads with news that that the Federal Communications Commission's chairman has circulated an "ambitious plan to relax the decades-old media ownership rules, including repealing a rule that forbids a company to own both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city." (Like, say, running the New York Post and a local Fox TV outlet in New York, a longtime dream of Murdoch's).
This would be a major deregulatory move. The last time the FCC tried something similar, under former chief Michael Powell three years ago, it was hit with a tsunami of hate mail from groups on both sides of the political aisle. An appeals court overturned the rule change.
But media times have changed since then. The Internet has been slowly but surely sucking the life out of newspapers, and in so doing turning the companies that own them upside down. This wave of upheaval and consolidation, according to the Times, "has put new pressure on regulators to loosen ownership rules."
It's still up in the air whether Kevin Martin, the F.C.C. chairman, would really dare to push through such a thing with only the narrow majority among commissioners that currently support the plan. But one thing is clear: if he does, there will be a showdown.
"If the chairman intends to do something before the end of the year," said Senator Byron Dorgan, a Democrat from North Dakota, "then there will be a firestorm of protest and I'm going to be carrying the wood."
And how about some newspaper for kindling while your at it, senator? No one seems to be using them for much else these days. Maybe they can help save us from media consolidation after all.
Most Fake Bombs Missed By TSA's Screeners
USA Today provides something to ponder next time you're waiting in that snaking airport security line.
In more than 60 percent of tests last year, security screeners at two of the nation's busiest airports failed to find bombs carried by undercover agents posing as passengers, according to a classified report obtained by the paper.
Screeners at Los Angeles International Airport missed about 75 percent of simulated explosives and bomb parts that Transportation Security Administration testers hid under their clothes or in carry-on bags at checkpoints, a TSA report shows. At Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, screeners missed about 60 percent of hidden bomb materials that were packed in everyday carry-ons.
The failure rates "stunned" experts, the paper reports. Homeland Security Department's former inspector general, Clark Kent Erwin, called it a "huge cause for concern."
Nobody bothered to interview flyers, who might have offered responses ranging from "@#$%" to "@#$%^&*!%#@!."
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See all 60 CommentsI''m all for giving this a try.lol
As if thats"s not bad enough, here"s the picture that accompanied the ad:
http://www.freedomisnotfree.com/images/6June.jpg
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No, they are just Republicans. Republicans who think it is fine and dandy to torture people, who attack a 12 year old, to justify their blocking health care for children, who think it is okay to lie and cheat to get us into war, who think it is okay to run up the national debt to the point that our children and children''s children can''t pay it off. Republicans are immoral haters who pretend to have values, just like the KKK pretended to be a Christian organization.
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If the military discriminates against young gay men and women that want to honorably server their country, then the military has no moral standards.
Too high? No, I mean the gay site.
Abu Ghraib *cough cough*
Take a deep breath and consider the roots of raw your hatred. Social, religious, or both?
I''d hate to be gay if only for the fact that people would hate and reject me for existing.
I''m leaving the posting so rabid replies will not be read by me.
Fgts go elsewhere if you are looking for work. We don''''t want your queerisms in our foxholes.
I''''m sure there is some fgt queer porn show you can audition for in San Fransisco where bull queers are lining up to spread their AIDS and whatever other thousand diseases they are walking around with.
Posted by tankersmash
You sure are an angry soul aren''t you. Just can''t make a point other than to toss out childish insults. I bet your husband signs up; for another tour just to steer clear of you.
I don''t believe queers should be in the armed forces. So why the name calling and irrational posting? Oh, I forgot, you bleed for a few days a month. Wow, what a woman.
AT THE ''FRONT LINE'' FIRST THING!
AND UNARMED!
Here''s a creative way to use f@gots in the army: Strap f@gots on bombs to guide them.
The f@gots will be heroes because
BETTER DEAD THAN G.AY!
Posted by drivelphobe
And if I did not make it clear enough in the last post (and I did try to type slowly for you) I...am...a...female. A non-man. I do not have a p@nis. I am able to give birth. I bleed for a few days every month (ask your mom about that one)
ie: Woman.
Any of this getting through? Or did you injure yourself on the last message?
Posted by drivelphobe
Well...considering I am married to a vet of the first Gulf war, and have 2 children, one who is in the service (she is stationed in Washington) while you sit a home as a proud member of the 101st fighting keyboardist, allowing others to die for you while you risk capal tunnel daily, I''ll just assume you were caught in a fishing net when youwere young.
Do you often have problems telling male and females apart? Or is this done on purpose.
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