Oops! U.S. Military Recruits Gays

The Skinny: Army, Navy, Air Force Ads That Ran On Gay Networking Web Site Are Pulled

(CBS)  The Skinny is Keach Hagey's take on the top news of the day and the best of the Internet.

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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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[ninerman168]

That would be funny allowing open *** into the Military,then the shrill little liberals would have to support them.Let them have there own unit.They could probe prisoners for info.Nobody could call it torture because it would mean that gay *** is torture and then the acl-useless would have there panties in a wad.
I''m all for giving this a try.lol

[Joe posey]

i keep thinking i remember someone named eve, that was created for adam! my bad! it was evan!

[iceman_1960]

"Army, Navy, Air Force Ads That Ran On Gay Networking Web Site Are Pulled"

As if thats"s not bad enough, here"s the picture that accompanied the ad:

http://www.freedomisnotfree.com/images/6June.jpg

[Krazcarl]

These blogs are bizar at times. I''m anti gay but not hateful taking care of myself is a full time job. The irony is I support *** in military or let''s say I''m not against I think the young men and women know how to take care of themselves most folks at one time or another had a homosexual overture and said no I added a few words but got my point across. To me it''s a non issue I agree with Clinton don''t ask don''t tell.

[grazinggoat]

Make sure they got their AIDS. A powerful weapon of mASS destruction! to torture the ennemy. LOL!

[kansas1946]

This is truly a impressive grouping of hate mongers. You people seem to hate for hate sake. Posted by modemmack

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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.

[kansas1946]

"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."
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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.

[michellem99-2009]

Yer remember yer had to reguah at some place then a boy tornt 18. Well Murry did so, And he saw a guy in a dress and he was shocked and told us so. I ricken the drag queen thot he could get out of it. CRZMEAT YER SAID IT. We were raised properly..Man and woman.

[zootallures2]

- "the moral standards" of the military. -

Too high? No, I mean the gay site.
Abu Ghraib *cough cough*

[Krazcarl]

Naw if Queers want to enlist why not who cares there be enough rednecks to keep them careful they allays have anyway and always will so the point is mute. During the draft if you were gay they would send you home so when a guy said he was gay he went to a room then when the next guy said he was gay they''d send him in and tell them to go at it most got back in line true story.

[Krazcarl]

SIGHNOFF4...Good one that will get ya a 10 lol

[ivandrago]

This is truly a impressive grouping of hate mongers. You people seem to hate for hate sake. How do gay people in anyway effect your lives? Is anybody actively trying to recruit any of you join the gay team. Homosexuality has been shown to occur within nature in many higher life forms species. How can something that occurs in nature be against nature? I guess religion puts human beings above nature and immune to it complexities and variations.

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.

[scarletphd]

ATTENTION: Proof that maggots fu(k apes and procreate below:


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

[michellem99-2009]

i meant send then...Fort Lewis is in WA..Thank you Vets.

[michellem99-2009]

If they want to fight over there sent them

[drivelphobe]

wfbdem...

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.

[agnim]

SEND ALL F@GOTS TO IRAQ,

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!

[wfbdem]

wfbdem.. (white ******* boy democrat) You only wish you were in the service. Name calling is the first line of defense for queers. Your colors are fully displayed. Everyone is laughing at you now.


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?

[wfbdem]

wfbdem.. (white ******* boy democrat) You only wish you were in the service. Name calling is the first line of defense for queers. Your colors are fully displayed. Everyone is laughing at you now.


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.

[maedean]

They should have the right to die just like straight people. That will be less of them we have to look at in public.