March 21, 2009
Rachel Maddow had a curious “audio glitch” the other day when she was talking with a military officer, who was in the process of admitting he was gay. The sound “mysteriously” cut off when he talked about how Don’t ask Don’t tell violates the Honor Code because they are basically lying about not being gay. I wrote a post about this yesterday as I was listening to it live.
So tonight she had him on again. She was unable to explain the technical difficulties – which were anything but.
Lt Dan Choi is an Infantry Platoon Leader with the New York National Guard and also a founding member of the Knights Out: a group of gay West Point grads, who are fighting against Don’t ask, don’t tell policy.
12, 500 soldiers have been kicked out in the 15 year. Why? Just because they are gay?
65,000 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender soldiers are presently serving in the military and every one of them has to hide who they are while they risk their lives for their straight soldiers. Why not put the gay men together with the women and cut down on rapes?
This is the insanity. If they kick Lt Choi out – they will lose a West Point Grad, an Iraq combat veteran and a soldier fluent in Arabic. They would lose a soldier like this – he said he loved being in Iraq – just because of his sexuality? Can’t we use every soldier? Especially Lt Choi, who can speak the language? Imagine the surprise of the Iraqis when an American Soldier with an Asian face starts speaking Arabic.
3-19 Conspiracy at the Rachel Maddow show involving Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
3-21 Lt Dan Choi: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has got to go
5-6 Lt Dan Choi kicked out of Guard b/c he’s gay
5-7 Rachel Maddow: Lt Dan Choi re: his dismissal from the Army
