Video: Bill Maher outs Ken Mehlman on CNN

Posted by Lindsay Beyerstein at 1:50 PM on November 9, 2006.

CNN edits out claim that RNC chair is gay.

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Last night at nine o'clock Bill Maher outed RNC chair Ken Mehlman on Larry King Live. Maher told King that Mehlman's is one of many powerful Republican insiders who are widely known to be gay. The Huffington Post reports that CNN censored Maher's revelation when the show was rebroadcast later that night.

I bet CNN cut out that footage to protect Larry King, not Ken Mehlman. During the interview Larry King told an obvious lie: When Maher said that everyone in Washington had known about Mehlman's sexuality for years, King claimed that he'd never heard that rumor. There's no way Larry King hasn't heard those rumors.

The outing of Mehlman, after all these years, is proof of the institutional implosion of the Republican Party. Nobody wants to cover for a closeted gaybasher, and Mehlman is no longer powerful enough to command complicity.

[Huffington Post, Crooks and Liars]

Tagged as: gay, larry king, ken mehlman, bill maher

Lindsay Beyerstein a New York writer blogging at Majikthise.

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Eh, I read about this a while ago... [Report this comment] Posted by: medstudgeek on Nov 10, 2006 5:06 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I always did think it was funny that the party of anti-gay Christians was being run by a gay Jew. Probably he was really good at fundraising, etc. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Outing the RNC [Report this comment] Posted by: Violetflame11 on Nov 10, 2006 3:10 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] If Larry didn't want to hear about it, why did he ask Maher? It's like asking the Devil to talk about sin. Good for Bill. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Ignorant Larry? [Report this comment] Posted by: PandaBear on Nov 10, 2006 6:52 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I'm a bit surprised at Larry's line of questioning. He's interviewed thousands of interesting people over the years, and he is unaware of the notion of the self-loathing that can occur in the closet? Makes me wonder if either he's being willfully deceptive here, or if I'm just overly familiar with these realities. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Ignorant Larry? Posted by: Ian MacLeod DDDDDDDDDDD [Report this comment] Posted by: RANDKILLER on Nov 14, 2006 12:40 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] THIS IS ALL FAKE MSM CRAP----THEY ARE TRYING TO GET RID OF THE CONSTITUTION YET THEY AIR THIS IDIOCY THE 911TRUTH MOVEMENT DESTROYS BILL MAHER BUILDING 7 PROVES 911WAS AN INSIDE JOB RISE ABOVE [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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