CNN Reporter Does Her Best To Cover for Kevin Jennings

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CNN Reporter Does Her Best To Cover for Kevin Jennings

So, what we've got here is a panicky Yellin citing the claims of Nixon Peabody, Jennings' law firm at the time of the disclosure 20 years ago. That doesn't explain why Jennings repeatedly in multiple books and talks described "Brewster," the student in question, as a high school sophomore, and stated that for the next couple of years whenever he ran into the student on campus, he had a smile on his face. In fact, Jennings doesn't even include that as a defense in his statement that were he to confront a similar situation today, he would manage it differently. And no, it doesn't "vindicate" him.

So, nice try, mendoucheous twatwaffles.

UPDATE: Nice Deb has all the dope on this dope.

UPDATE x2: Dr. Throckmorton addresses the issue on his blog.

UPDATE x3: Jay at STACLU has more to say on this matter.

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pesto
October 2nd, 2009 - 07:20

Queering Elementary Education-nuff said.

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Nice Deb
October 2nd, 2009 - 08:18

Yeah, what does mendoucheous twatwaffles have to say about “fistgate”?

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Enoch_Root
October 2nd, 2009 - 10:27

Wow – she failed to mention whether the peeps who provided awards to this fellow are supporters or critics of the administration.

I wonder why that might be.

And isn’t context becoming more and more about excusing behavior?

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happyfeet
October 2nd, 2009 - 17:44

I don’t have any problem with the Brewster dealio. I said why already like several times so I don’t want to get all repeaty.

The whole get Kevin thing feels very Focus on the Family. I hate Focus on the Family. They’re very stunted people is my feeling.

Tax cheat Timmy is way more worser than Kevin I think. I just think this is exactly the kind of person our little president man was bound to put in a job. It’s an elections have consequences thing.

This just has a feel of picking off the weakest of the dirty socialist herd. But not to any real affect that I can see.

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happyfeet
October 2nd, 2009 - 17:51

I mean effect. With an e.

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Dan Collins
October 2nd, 2009 - 18:04

MY point, hf, is more about the mendoucheous twatwafflery of CNN, in this case. There is such a thing as the truth, there is such a thing as vetting, and there’s such a thing as well as informing the public about just what sorts of people you think are appropriate for these jobs.

Also, “Queer Theory” is a pathetic academic ghetto that shouldn’t be taken seriously by anybody.

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happyfeet
October 2nd, 2009 - 19:59

Ok. CNN is CNN.

But the guy is just a dirty socialist piece of shit what happens to be gay and tried to help some low self-esteem slutty gay kid and really I don’t think he’s any better or worse than any of those fucks in little president man’s dirty socialist America-hating administration. It’s creepy Focus on the Family oogedy boogedy witch hunting I think.

It’s good to remember I think that at the end of the day, Fox News is just a retarded cable news station programmed for people what aren’t any more discerning than the CNN viewers. And they’re just contriving shit cause this guy is a convenient target. And Nice Deb seems like something of a very mean small-minded puritanical bitch I think. For sure at least she sure thinks her audience is comprised of same.

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happyfeet
October 2nd, 2009 - 20:08

If you must know I made a promise to myself that next time people got a little judgey for no good reason I would say something cause of recently I didn’t and psycho made me feel very ashamed of myself.

Here. You’d probably feel ashamed too if you had been there and hadn’t said nuffin. I think I started off on the right track… here … but I should have spoken up. It was peer pressure, Dan.

Well not this time, no sir. Stand up and be counted I will.

As far as I know, Mr. psycho hasn’t been heard from since. That makes me even more upset about the whole thing. It just keeps bugging at me.

And that is the story of my defense of the dirty socialist Kevster.

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happyfeet
October 2nd, 2009 - 20:39

oops. I shouldn’t have gone off on Miss Nice without showing my work.

1. It was a bus station. You should get your facts straight before you slag people you don’t know I think.

2. The Kevster nowhere endorses NAMBLA. Sweet Jesus. Do you really think in your daft hateful little head that if he were a pedophile or a pedophile supporter he’d be anywhere near the White House or have anywhere near the cv he has? Of course not. Hello? Is this possible in your world cause this shit gets taken care of in mine. This person isn’t just gay he’s like professionally gay.

3. A “history of demeaning and ridiculing Christians” … for real? You might be overlooking the fact that lots of Christians have a history of being pretty effing obnoxious, and the Kevster’s speech is as free as yours… I really don’t at all doubt that you have quite the history of demeaning and ridiculing going on yourself.

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happyfeet
October 2nd, 2009 - 21:05

Hello? I’m trying to start shit here. Where is everybody?

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happyfeet
October 2nd, 2009 - 21:11

while we wait you want you can help me decide what to think about alphabeat. Here too. I think I’ll give them the weekend to grow on me just cause I like their attitude a lot.

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happyfeet
October 2nd, 2009 - 21:13

here they clean up really nice, especially the blond girl one

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Bob Reed
October 2nd, 2009 - 21:43

happy,
I’m not going to get all judgy about Jenning’s lifestyle choice; it’s not my cup of tea, but it’s a free country. What’s disturbing are some of the more radical activities and episodes he’s been involved in over the years; besides the bad advice to the youth Brewster, there’s the workshop with tween youths, and affiliation with Billy Ayers types as well. As I said, I won’t be judgy about gay folks lifestyle choices, but they should not encourage the adoption of their lifestyle choices on young folks that may be confused about their own sexual leanings. But that’s just me…

Like Dan said, the issue really is the vetting of Jennings; much like with many other appointees in the administration.

And as far as the “judgy” PW thread, if you look at my response you’ll see we were on the same page…

http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=15272#comment-778665

I’ll check out your videos later when I have time to listen; I’ve gotta rack in right now…

Be Cool!

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happyfeet
October 2nd, 2009 - 22:25

Here is what Miss Nice’s link says:

Three homosexual activists employed by the Massachusetts Departments of Health and Education led a youth workshop titled “What They Didn’t Tell You about Queer Sex & Sexuality in Health Class” ï¿½ part of the annual Boston-GLSEN “Teach Out” conference held at Tufts University. The “Queer Sex” session, advertised to “youth only ages 14 to 21,” was attended by Massachusetts family advocate Scott Whitemen, who taped it while standing in the back of the room.

In the workshop, instructor Michael Gaucher, prompted by a teen’s question, verbally guided the students on the mechanics of “fisting” ï¿½ a homosexual slang term for a sadistic sex act in which a man inserts his hand and arm into another person’s anal cavity. Another instructor, Margot Abels5, said fisting “often gets a really bad rap,” and described it innocuously as “an experience of letting somebody into your body that you want to be that close and intimate with.” Abels and Gaucher also guided the students on techniques of oral sodomy and lesbian sex.6

Emphasis mine… Kev had absolutely no responsibility for that. None. It was a call made by the training people… to an audience at a college where kids went because they all on their own wanted to hear about gay sex of an afternoon. I suspect many of them were gay, or had tendencies.

But there’s really really not a justification to lay that on Kev and call him a pervert like Miss Nice does.

The affiliation with William Ayers… all dirty socialists affiliate with Ayers types. It’s a 1 degree of William Ayers world that everyone in our new dirty socialist administration lives in. If dickwad can be president and he was pinky friends with Ayers, it seems really sort of silly to say Kev blurbing Ayers’ book is beyond the pale.

Again – as far as I can tell those kids were where they wanted to be… also there’s a whole factory of different kinds of equally stupid and offensive education theories churned out in every university in our little country. Queerness feminist diversity peace environmental – thousands of dipshit paradigms of how best to brainwash your kids are floating around.

It’s really really rare that they’re read by anyone outside those circles, much less implemented. It’s not Kev’s fault we have a sick and depraved dirty socialist academic culture, but if he wants to make a living in that world he has to play the game. We all do the same thing, more or less.

But for reals, point to me where Kev has done anything perverted. It’s not there. No one has any proof.

Brewster. As far as I can tell, Kev established a rapport with a troubled kid. That’s a Win. It’s not an easy trick. For wingnuts to say the poor kid should have been shunted into some dirty socialist child welfare program et cetera – or have had this reported to his parents – I bet they would have felt really silly when the kid turned up the next week in a pool of his own blood after slitting his little gay wrists. Kev made a judgment call. The kid grew up. He seems fine by all accounts.

Please let’s have less dirty socialist public school intervention in our kids’ lives I think. You open that door and it doesn’t go where you think and next thing you know you’re being reported for failing to properly recycle. Keep an eye on your kid. Don’t lay the responsibility off on the Kev’s of the world. I don’t mean Bob you I just mean you you.

The Kevster should get a thank you for handling a really difficult and kind of icky situation I think. But think how you’d feel if Miss Nice were screeching pervert at your kid on evidence as thin as this. You’d kick her bitch ass.

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happyfeet
October 2nd, 2009 - 22:26

you did great with Adam. Better than me.

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Bob Reed
October 2nd, 2009 - 22:48

happy,
I agree with you about not wanting the public school system to be intervening in our kids lives. I think they impose way too much on the natural authority of parents, and often teach them values and ideals that are diametrically opposed to those of the family. So we’re on the same page here…

It’s a fine line especially when lifestyles and sexual orientations are taught in school. I personally think that the school nurse, or perhaps a trained counselor, is the one who should field these kind of questions. School should be restricted to actual learning, and less indoctrination and intervention in kids lives…

We’re really on the same page here, I think, but I can also tell that you’re very passionate about this situation.

And, if it makes you feel any better, I don’t think you’re to blame for psycho not commenting as much since that thread. You know psycho, he seems to come and go, and I think more often than not he’s lurking more than he’s commenting; it probably has something to do with him hearing so much that he can’t stand no more, and then putting his two bits in. It’s not your fault, he probably just wishes like us all that Jeff were posting more.

Take it easy!

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happyfeet
October 2nd, 2009 - 22:56

you too – psycho is really a gift think and the Internet suffers when he’s gone.

Yes. Passionate. This is as clear a situation of not wanting to become like them as we’ve seen yet I think, and it’s soooo stupid.

I will speak to you of the stupid.

The little president man is already in trouble and piling up criticism for how he’s done really a whole lot of nothing for his gay hopey pals. They’re starting to see him as the shallow little nothingburger he is.

ohnoes. Can’t have that. Quick! To the wingnutmobile! Wingnuts Assemble! Let’s give the little president man’s gay hopey pals a something to rally round!

I just don’t get the strategery.

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- Pablo
  October 3rd, 2009 - 19:50
  
  I don’t see anyone trying to die on the Kevin hill, ‘feets.
  
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Bob Reed
October 2nd, 2009 - 23:35

I understand happy,
Just like religious persons, like myself, don’t want other beliefs and practices forced on them, so too do people who choose other, or no, faith traditions want their freedoms too…

And while I draw the line at forcing the church to condone marriage, for instance, I can freely see where citizen should reasonable expect the state to provde a mechanism for a domestic partnership arrangement…

It’s a question of Freedom, of the fundamental right to private property as described in the Constitution; in that sense private property meant your ideals, religious beliefs, family traditions, and other life choices as well as material property. Those are actual rights and not euphamisms for social entitlements, and need to be respected.

Talk to you later

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Bob Reed
October 2nd, 2009 - 23:36

“…condone marriage…” should be “…condone gay marriage…”

Sometimes I can’t type worth a damn!

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happyfeet
October 2nd, 2009 - 23:47

That’s well put… gay marriage is stupid and definitely shouldn’t be forced on churches I think.

…and I don’t care if people go after Kev… it’s just they should do it on facts not innuendo. And also maybe reaching back 20 years for not a whole lot of substantive wrongdoing looks kind of desperate. At least in this case.

This feels pogromy. I’ve seen the same post more or less at all the blogs I go to. The threads are never very long, I think cause when people want to start chewing on this subject they quickly find out there’s not a lot there to chew on.

But whoever is trying to put the lynching of the Kevster on the front burner is having remarkable success with people I usually think of as not that easily pressed into such service.

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Dan Collins
October 3rd, 2009 - 05:22

Yeah, I understand that, hf, but the issue is one of accountability. SOMEBODY ought to be held accountable for the proliferation of czars, but in the absence of any formal mechanism of redress, an ad hoc mechanism is going to have to suffice, in which the czarlings themselves are held accountable for their past statements full of idiocy. I feel that there’s a certain ideological affinity among many of these highly placed, highly compensated ninnies, and I am, frankly, insulted at the enormous lack of candor.

The Kevster has admitted that he screwed the pooch, in a very limited way, and good for him. Then CNN has to perform this act of vile mendouchity. Well, screw them.

It’s the lies and the contempt they show what I hates.

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Dan Collins
October 3rd, 2009 - 05:29

Also, I wouldn’t mind if you gave me a guest post about this, hf.

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happyfeet
October 3rd, 2009 - 14:04

thank you, Dan. I can’t today but if this flares up I think it would be nice to say my piece here instead or running around to different comment threads. It gets very repetitious.

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serr8d
October 3rd, 2009 - 16:26

I’m not sure what to think of Kevin Jennings personally (but neither does he of me, except I’m sure he’d label me a ‘wingnut’ at best) but the best way I’ve seen the question framed is here.

To which the answer is, I think a properly respectable President would say “no”.

Can we haz one next time plz?

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happyfeet
October 3rd, 2009 - 18:05

I’m more on Eric’s page over there at CV.

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