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CNN was heavily criticized for giving Hillary Clinton a pass in their last televised debate by the network. Wolf Blitzer lobbed such softballs at the US Senator from New York that he was publicly praised by the campaign. Now it appears the network allowed a "Clinton plant" to ask not only a question on YouTube, but then gave him a microphone and allowed the military veteran prime airtime to push his agenda.

Hillary Clinton Plant: CNN Gives Clinton Co-Chair Keith Kerr Prime Airtime

Keith Kerr a retired Colonel., U.S. Army; retired Brigadier General, California National Reserve pushed forward his issue of allowing gay Americans to serve openly in the US Military. While that is certainly a fair issue and open for debate, once again CNN looks to be in the hip pocket of the Clinton campaign.


It would have slipped by except CNN commentator Bill Bennett actually let the cat out of the bag and told CNN host Anderson Cooper that the former soldier apparently works for Clinton in the post debate analysis. Cooper played dumb at the time, but it did not last long as moments after the debate a bit of investigation showed that he is indeed a member of Hillary Clinton's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Steering Committee.

According to Town Hall, he's also part of a film production crew trying overturn the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Cooper then tried to play the "oops" card. In the final seconds of the post-debate coverage, Anderson Cooper acknowledged that CNN messed this up and states that CNN did not know that Kerr has a position within the Clinton campaign and that had they known, they would have disclosed the association.


Will anyone ever believe CNN again when it comes to Clinton?