CNN Edits "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Segment from Debate Rebroadcasts

There has been quite a conservative backlash against CNN—nicknamed the "Clinton News Network" by right-wing apparatchiks such as Townhall's Amanda Carpenter—for the inclusion of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" YouTube question submitted by Gen. Keith Kerr, the retired general who is a member of the LGBT steering committee for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and co-chairman of her Veterans and Military Retirees Committee. The Clinton campaign denies "planting" the YouTube question.

CNN senior vice president David Bohrman, the executive producer of the debate, apologizes to Republican candidates for including the question: "We regret this, and apologize to the Republican candidates. We never would have used the General's question had we known that he was connected to any presidential candidate."

More damaging, at least from our perspective, is this report by Media Matters which found CNN edited the entire "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" segment from rebroadcasts of the debate without any disclosure. Instead of the question starting an intelligent discussion on "DADT" and the gays in the military, Republicans have managed to re-frame the discussion as a dirty trick and CNN played right into their hands, deleting the questions and answers as if never happened.