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CNN's Begala: 'At Least 10 Percent of Us Are Gay Or Lesbian'
NewsBusters ^ | 16 Jul 2011 | Mike Bates

Posted on 07/16/2011 6:05:08 PM PDT by mandaladon

Friday night on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees, the lead story was on a counseling clinic owned by presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and her husband. Cooper spoke of "allegations that the clinic engages in so-called reparative therapy," described by Cooper as "based on the theory that gay people can be turned into heterosexuals through a combination of prayer and willpower." The host's use of "so-called" set the stage for CNN political analyst Paul Begala to fulminate.

Using the word "crackpot" to characterize reparative therapy no fewer than nine times, Begala insisted Mrs. Bachmann should be interrogated:

BEGALA: She should be asked about this theory. She's a candidate for president. One out of 10 Americans is gay. She should be asked if she wants to lead a country where at least 10 percent of us are gay or lesbian, does she believe in this crackpot, bigoted theory that somehow there's something to be repaired in our brothers and sisters and sons and daughters who happen to be born gay?

Are "at least 10 percent" of Americans homosexual, to use a word that's not politically correct this season? In a word: no.

That figure, long used by activists, has been debunked repeatedly over the years. Obviously, no one can say with certainty what the actual numbers are, but one analysis that gathered data from four recent national and two state-level population-based surveys concluded that about 1.7 percent of the population are lesbian or gay. Another 1.8 percent of the population identify as bisexual.

The research came last April from the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, which defines itself as "a leading think tank dedicated to the field of sexual orientation and gender identity-related law and public policy."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: begala; gays; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; theforehead; usmeansthemedia
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So Begala appears quite far afield, as is so often the case. A Democratic consultant, he probably thinks it smart to make every special-interest group to which his party caters appear as large as possible. Still, he should be able to exercise at least a modicum of self-control occasionally..............That's expecting too much from a crackpot like Begala!!!
1 posted on 07/16/2011 6:05:11 PM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

Is Begala a lesbian?


2 posted on 07/16/2011 6:07:48 PM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: mandaladon

And the other 80% of us are what? Bisexual?/s

STUFF IT BEGALA.


3 posted on 07/16/2011 6:08:18 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: mandaladon

I was thinking 2-3%. But when did the Dems EVER tell the truth?


4 posted on 07/16/2011 6:08:45 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: mandaladon
at least 10 percent of us are gay or lesbian

Not even close. But at least 50% of those in that CNN studio (Cooper and Begala) are.

5 posted on 07/16/2011 6:09:42 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Rudder
Is Begala a lesbian?

LOL, more likely, a pervert.

6 posted on 07/16/2011 6:09:46 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
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To: mandaladon

And 50% of us are taxpayers . . . so where’s your support for us?


7 posted on 07/16/2011 6:10:07 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (EX Congressman Anthony Weiner: "Celebrate 'Perversity'")
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To: mandaladon

Feces from the forehead.


8 posted on 07/16/2011 6:10:22 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy (The United States Marine Corps, your greatest friend or your worst enemy. YOU choose.)
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To: mandaladon

He would know


9 posted on 07/16/2011 6:11:22 PM PDT by montag813 (SECURE THE BORDER! http://www.StandwithArizona.com)
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To: mandaladon

He meant 10% of liberals.


10 posted on 07/16/2011 6:11:49 PM PDT by REDWOOD99 ("Earth first! We can log the other planets later")
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To: mandaladon

In the Democrat Party, I’m guessing that 50% are!! They re all Deviants.


11 posted on 07/16/2011 6:12:00 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Candor7

“STUFF IT BEGALA”

unfortunately, I think he’d like that!


12 posted on 07/16/2011 6:13:27 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: mandaladon

So it’s never a choice, huh, Begala?

Explain then these divorced fathers in their 50s and older . . .


13 posted on 07/16/2011 6:13:42 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (EX Congressman Anthony Weiner: "Celebrate 'Perversity'")
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To: bigbob

Well, just as in Chaucer’s Canterbury tales in the section on the Miller’s wife’s tale, I have a red hot poker for him. After all Begala seems to have a need to sizzle.


14 posted on 07/16/2011 6:17:22 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Rudder

No he is a barney.


15 posted on 07/16/2011 6:18:42 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: mandaladon
So, the odds of you being gay are equal to those of being left-handed.

Good to know.

16 posted on 07/16/2011 6:19:33 PM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: mandaladon

People like Michelle Bachmann and her husband are the only ones who love homosexuals enough to try to cure them of a destructive and unhealthy addiction. The Left wants them confined to that addiction, just as it wants blacks left in poverty and dependence.


17 posted on 07/16/2011 6:21:05 PM PDT by hellbender
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'At Least 10 Percent of Us Are Gay Or Lesbian'

Some of us are 0%. I don't know about the rest of you.

18 posted on 07/16/2011 6:21:24 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Glenn
So, the odds of you being gay are equal to those of being left-handed.

I'm ambidextrous. Don't tell my wife.

19 posted on 07/16/2011 6:22:53 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Mr. Mojo

Begala Gay Too?
Why doesn’t CNN call itself the GayNews Channel (GNC?)


20 posted on 07/16/2011 6:33:56 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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