WH Complains About CBS News Blog That Outs Potential Justice Nominee

by Colby Hall | 9:29 am, April 16th, 2010

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Yesterday, the CBS News website published a column that asserted that Solicitor General Elena Kagan – a leading candidate for the Supreme Court – is in fact gay. In the piece, former Bush administration aide Ben Domenech said that Kagan could potentially be the “first openly gay justice”; pleasing Obama’s base. Howard Kurtz reports that an unidentified administration official “said Kagan is not a lesbian,” and reports that Anita Dunn blasted CBS News for “posting lies.”

Kurtz reports:

CBS initially refused to pull the posting, prompting Anita Dunn, a former White House communications director who is working with the administration on the high court vacancy, to say: “The fact that they’ve chosen to become enablers of people posting lies on their site tells us where the journalistic standards of CBS are in 2010.” She said the network was giving a platform to a blogger “with a history of plagiarism” who was “applying old stereotypes to single women with successful careers.”

The network deleted the posting Thursday night after Domenech said he was merely repeating a rumor. The flare-up underscores how quickly the battle over a Supreme Court nominee — or even a potential nominee — can turn searingly personal. Most major news organizations have policies against “outing” gays or reporting on the sex lives of public officials unless they are related to their public duties.

CBS News editor-in-chief Dan Farber eventually took the post down, and later apologized to Kagan, claiming that the column was based on innuendo and speculation, and adding “just got through our filters.”

Later in the piece Kurtz quotes The Atlantic‘s Marc Ambinder who wrote of “a baffling whisper campaign” about Kagan “among both gay rights activists and social conservatives.” It appears that the politics of selecting a Supreme Court justice has crossed over to sexual identity politics as well.

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MarkStr82Hell

WOW, I had to do a double take. Does that not look like Bob Costas in drag!
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

Kagan should be happy. If Dan Rather were still at CBS, the story would have been accompanied by copies of the letter by which Kagan had outed herself to her parents as a teenager. Of course, the letter would have been fake and would actually have been typed a few hours hours before on the word processor of some known enemy of Kagan’s who had been proven to have falsely defamed her on on two prior occasions, but Rather would have gotten on national television and claimed that they came from an “unimpeachable” source anyway. I would if liberals would have been angry this time?
Bias-Media

This is too funny…when I first read about this story, I thought to myself…there can only be 2 potential outcomes; either CBS will stand by their story (however accurate or inaccurate it may be) because they’ve done their proper vetting as part of their alleged journalistic integrity, or CBS will tuck their tail in and say “I’m sorry Mr. President”…even though they’ve done their proper vetting as part of their alleged journalistic integrity.

I predicted the latter…and I was right…

ps..@MarkStr82Hell…yeah; now that you mention it, she does look a lot like Costas. That’s funny!
pyrope

Oh boy, just what we need, another freaking dyke.
http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Cagney/1644064484 James Cagney

She looks like Dick Morris doesn’t she?? Very butch looking, large and in charge.
Everyone knows she is a lab lapping liberal ! What is the big deal Obama?
So the Obama regime criticizes CBS? Isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black.
It’s like a communist calling the marxist a left wing extremist.

So the regime thinks that it is just awful to be a homosexual !!!
I though the Regime Loved All and there is no room for intolerance.
I thought the socialist regime was going to be transparent open honest etc.

Obama can’t handle the truth, he has to lie and deceit people to put his leftist agenda through

The regime shows it’s true colors again.