0 of yourself it is not the same thing as having your siblings talk about an issue. why don t you talk for a moment about being gay and working in worked in politics, maybe not wanting the exposure in your professional life about your personal life. oh, absolutely. no, absolutely. did you grapple with this earlier in your career? yes and no. i worked for a republican senator 20 years ago and was basically in the closet. absolutely it s a concern. you know, especially back then i think when you re really worried about losing your job based on your sexual orientation. mary cheney has been open lly g for at least 13 years or so. she was the gay liaison for coors 20 years ago or something. having said that, mary and her wife heather decided to write on facebook about their concerns about liz, the sister. the family made it public. what i think is look, i think this isn t just gossip. i think gay marriage is certainly the issue of the year in the gay community. i think it s also
0 with gay marriage? not gay marriage but being gay. i had a brush with being gay? i actually am gay. proudly gay. you were a foreign policy spoke for mitt romney. you decided to leave. there was pressure from the right. and the left. the liberal left. someone who lived through that do you think the media personalize these things? first of all, it is a bad question to compare what his is going through with what i am going through. this is a media show. the media overly focus on republicans. they do not want republicans to be anything but in a box. that is what is unfair. they do not do the same thing for democrats. if they would, if they would across the board hold democrats to the same standard as republicans, i would not have a problem. the problem is, when you put it on the front page of new york times congressman weiner. when you training naked pictures of yourself it is not the same as having your sibling talk about an issue. john, talk about being gay an
0 . mitch mcconnell accused reid of going nuclear. millions of americans are hurting because of a law washington democrats forced upon them and what do they do about it? they cook up some fake fight over judges. mcconnell mocked reid with another obama care reference. he may have just as well have said if you like the rules of the senate, you can keep them. later a top democrat fired back. mitch mcconnell says we tried to change the subject? i beg to differ. he doesn t want to address the filibusters, he doesn t want to address the rules changes. so three quarters of his speech is dedicated to obama care. we are not changing the subject today. he is. in the white house briefing room, president obama expressed support. today s pattern of obstruction isn t normal. it s not what our founders envisioned. a deliberate and determined effort to obstruct everything no matter what the matter just to the senate has changed. the senate has changed. look what s happened. this comes
was that a mistake by cnn? was the abc story itself a late hit, repeating charges that marianne gingrich first made long ago? we ll ask the correspondent, abc s brian ross. fox s juan williams draws flack at another debate for challenging the candidates with a series of race-related incidents including this one with gingrich. can t you see that this is viewed at a minimum as insulting to all americans, but particularly to black americans? was he acting as a journalist, or an advocate? plus, the new york times ombudsman hit by a media firestorm after asking whether his paper should be a vigilante for truth? we ll ask art brisbane why his column touched a nerve. i m hourt kurtz, and this is reliable sources. this is cnn, breaking news. we ll get to the campaign shortly, but the breaking news this hour, joe paterno is dead at 85. the former penn state football coach who has been much in the news lately had been hospitalized for lung cancer. the word came this mor
it happens. it happens. but he is running for president and that could be a problem. i spent the whole show with a blank look on my face. i can t say anything. that s the minute, the minute that happened, nothing but empathy. there s no way i think he s done because of that. i think he looked human. i know it s embarrassing for him. but he s owned up to it right away. he did indeed. we ll tell you the his point of view and nevertheless, here, ladies and gentlemen, are the 52 worst seconds of rick perry s life. and tii will tell you, it s three agencies of government that are going to be gone. commerce, education and what s the third one there, let s see? > commerce, education and the e.p.a. e.p.a. there you go. seriously? is e.p.a. the one you were talking about? no, sir. no, sir. we were talking about the agencies of government, e.p.a. needs to be rebuilt. there s no doubt about that. you can t name the third one? the third agency of government i