Tag Archives: CNN

CNN’s Don Lemon surprised everyone when he came out last night as a victim of a pedophile. Lemon later tweeted: “Thank you all for your kind words. I had no idea I’d say that on national tv. It just came out. Sadly, it’s the truth for so many young men.”

Openly gay Pastor Troy Sanders responds to Haggard: “It didn’t take a scandal for me to come out and walk in truth!”

Seriously, CNN? Again? Today’s poll is near the bottom of CNN.com. Tweet your disgust to CNN’s “bad for society” Anderson Cooper. UPDATE: The poll has been removed at GLAAD’s insistence. Thanks to all JMGians for sending out your complaints, it looks like about 1400 of you hit the complaint links in the last couple of hours.

After a month of rumors, CNN confirmed today that America’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan will be taking over for Larry King in January. Mr. Morgan, the British-born journalist and talent show judge, will host an interview show weekdays at 9 p.m., the network said. A name for the show was not announced. It is an extraordinary coup for Mr. …

Last night Michelangelo Signorile and Log Cabin Republicans’ R. Clarke Cooper appeared on CNN to discuss the Mehlman story.

Whoever the hell THAT is. Oh, well. I’ll post the clip when it appears. UPDATE: The New York Daily News botched my name too. But, oh look. They also have an Asshat/Not Asshat poll about Ken Mehlman.

CNN immediately edited this exchange for the west coast broadcast, removing all mention of Mehlman’s gayness. Mehlman resigned the next day, but planted stories that the move had been planned for a long time.

The Orlando Sentinel reports today that a hair dye company has offered CNN host Anderson Cooper one million dollars if he’ll use their product to do away with his famous silver hair for five years. The offer comes from Rise-N-Shine, the makers of Go Away Gray. “We feel like Anderson Cooper is a really visible and well-respected figure and thought …

Last night on CNN newly out radio host Stephanie Miller took on conservative asshat Dennis Prager and Maryland carpetbagger Harry Jackson over marriage equality. San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, who we haven’t seen much of so far, also weighs in. In the second clip Jackson bizarrely warns that same-sex marriage will lead to legalized prostitution. Stephanie Miller: “Every little …

American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer went on CNN yesterday to battle Dr. Sanjay Gupta over Fischer’s call for a ban on all new mosques in the United States. Fischer has also previously called for banning all Muslims from joining the military. (Via – Pam’s House Blend)

“He knows Fox’s talking points and little else.”

CNN’s Rick Sanchez gets all up in Tony Perkins’ grill. Not a fan of Sanchez usually, but this is good.

The two discuss Choi’s recent official discharge, DADT-related activism, and where the movement is headed.

Last night CNN host Larry King announced via Twitter that he will be ending his nightly CNN show this fall after 25 years. King, 76, said that despite falling ratings, he was not pressured into this move. He also said that he plans to continue at CNN with occasional specials.

“CNN gave homosexual activists the gift of a free hour-long infomercial last night–in the form of a primetime special about homosexual parents called Gary and Tony Have a Baby. Actually, it should have been called Gary and Tony Buy a Baby. As viewers learned, the two homosexual men first purchase human eggs from an egg donor; use the sperm of …

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who in 2008 dragged his scowling wife before the cameras to resign in a prostitution scandal, has been hired to host a new primetime show on CNN. CNN announced Wednesday that it had hired former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and conservative columnist Kathleen Parker to helm a new point-counterpoint show in the key …

Last week Father Tony and I attended a preview screening of CNN’s gay parenting documentary Gary & Tony Have A Baby, which follows New Yorkers Gary Spino and Tony Brown from finding an egg donor, to hiring a surrogate mother, to the eventual birth of their son. The couple’s journey is expensive and trying, but ultimately quite sweet, even if …