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OMFG. Faces are red at CNN today after the network played a rap song containing the word “nigga” during a human interest piece about an elderly black woman who still drives her car at the age of 103. The network returned minutes later to offer an apology. My guess is that the producer who selected Coolio’s Fantastic Voyage had only …

Tune into Anderson Cooper 360 at 10pm tonight as Jo-Vanni Roman, Dan Savage, and anti-“ex-gay” activist Wayne Besen rip into the NARTH/Family Research Council scandal enveloping Dr. George Rekers. Must see TV, y’all! UPDATE: Feh!

Queers United alerts us to a poll on CNN’s homepage asking readers whether they agreed with Obama’s hospital visitation order. This comes only ten days after CNN hosted notoriously insane “ex-gay therapist” Richard Cohen, who told viewers that gays could be “fixed”, something for which the network later offered a halfhearted apology. At least the vast majority of those responding …

President Obama’s hospital visitation rights order late yesterday was heavily covered by the networks. Last night Anderson Cooper hosted Janice Langbern, whose story about being blocked from seeing her partner in a Miami hospital made national news. Obama called Langbern yesterday shortly before his order became public and apologized for the manner is which she and her late partner had …

Today CNN’s Kyra Phillips offered an apology for featuring “ex-gay” whacko Richard Cohen on a segment about repealing a California law requiring the state to search for a “cure” for homosexuality, saying that Cohen wasn’t the “appropriate choice.” Phillips also complained about hate mail she received after the segment aired. After Elton’s Michael Jenson: Interestingly, at one point Phillips says …

GLAAD has issued a call to action over yesterday’s CNN segment asking “Does homosexuality need a cure” which featured the famously insane “ex-gay therapist” Richard Cohen. We have spoken extensively to key producers and publicity representatives at the network this afternoon and they indicate that they understand the seriousness of our complaints. They are scheduling a meeting with GLAAD and …

“It’s 2010 and CNN expects me to seriously sit here and expect that this issue is really still up for debate? It certainly is in some quarters, but those are quarters that at this point respectable journalists should stay out of. I guess this means we can look forward to other CNN segments including ‘The Holocaust — did it really …

Masked in a story about the move to delete an archaic California law requiring the state to seek a cure for homosexuality, CNN unbelievably handed the issue off to the wildly insane “ex-gay therapist” Richard Cohen, who infamously recommends beating your gay away with a tennis racket and a pillow. In 2002 Cohen was ejected from the American Counseling Association, …

Aging is tough on everybody, but particularly for senior LGBT people, who face unique financial and social challenges. Via CNN: According to the report, Improving the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Older Adults, issues that disproportionately affect LGBT older adults include stigma, isolation and unequal treatment. Together, they translate into their being poorer and sicker and having fewer …

(Via – Towleroad)

If you have access to a television, CNN and other networks are broadcasting the DADT hearings. You can also watch the proceedings live on the Senate site. Follow along on Twitter at the hashtag #DADT.

SiriusXM host Michelangelo Signorile appeared on CNN this weekend to talk about DADT and President Obama’s recent recommitment to its overturn. Charles “the president loves terrorists more than gays” Moran of the Log Cabin Republicans appears as well.

Anderson Cooper was on the scene as fighting broke out among looters at a Port Au Prince store. After a young boy was struck on the head, Cooper pulled him out of the crowd.

Pop star Wyclef Jean explains an easy way to send aid to Haiti via your cell phone. Text the word “YELE” to 501501 to send $5. You can also contribute to the American Red Cross relief efforts here.

Following her live New Year’s Eve F-bomb, a CNN “insider” says they will not be inviting Kathy Griffin back, according to gossip columnist Rob Shuter. “She was a total embarrassment to the network that calls themselves ‘The Most Trusted Name in News.’ Even Anderson (Cooper, her co-host) thinks it’s time to say goodbye to Kathy,” a CNN insider tells me. …

To promote last night’s New Year’s Eve show on CNN with Anderson Cooper, Kathy Griffin made the rounds of talk shows, where she reported that a stipulation in this year’s contract required her to return her paycheck if she swore on the air, as she did last year. You be the judge of what was said at 0:57.

Just-resigned CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, who endeared himself to the right-wing with his regular rants against the brown hordes pouring across our southern border, says he’s had a change of heart and now supports amnesty for undocumented residents. Resentment has been burbling across the wingnut blogosphere ever since Dobbs told Spanish-language network Telemundo late last month that he wants a …

Well, you knew he wasn’t quitting CNN for no damn reason. Less than two weeks after announcing his departure from the cable network—and following a series of interviews in which Dobbs encouraged speculation about his political plans—the anchorman known to fans as “Mr. Independent” finally made his presidential ambitions explicit on former Sen. Fred Thompson’s radio show Monday. Asked if …