Howard Stern: Just Do It Already
Earlier this week radio talk show host Howard Stern reacted on May 12 to White House National Security Adviser Jim Jones, who said the Obama Administration is proceeding with "caution" on repealing DADT:
"Caution? Just do it already. So if a guy's gay, he can serve his country. Who cares? There's nothing to ‘seek out.' Obama believes that gay men can serve in the military, and that should be that. Please. ... I'm all for it [repeal].
"Why? Why? Why can't people serve? If anyone's brave enough to go over there, fight...fight anywhere, or serve his country, thank them for their service and don't ask them who they're having sex with. Who cares?"
05-15-09 By Paul DeMiglio, Senior Communications Manager |
2 Comments
Comments for this entry are closed.Beatriz Rodriguez on May 26, 2009 at 12.31 pm
Don’t ask, don’t tell is wrong. It teaches that to lie is okey.
Leland Frances on May 16, 2009 at 06.41 pm
Dear Fierce Advocate,
That growing roar you hear is the growing chorus of people of all kinds calling you out on your mystifying about face on DADT. From slimy opportunists like Stern who have become millionaires in part by ridiculing gays to more and more respected, straight, mainstream reporters who typically are indifferent to gay rights, you keep sending out your troops to make excuses for you, and they keep getting shot down.
The only thing to conclude is that, despite the fact that every other scenario is entirely different from 1993, from the overwhelming support of voters for gay integration of the military to a weaker-every-day Antigay Industry to the example after example after example of how the linguistic skills of multiple gays discharged were and are even more “mission critical,” even more important to our national security than soldiers carrying the M4 or M16, is that you have made the same mistake Clinton basically did.
Despite your promises to the contrary, on this issue, you have let the military tail wag the White House Dog. And we don’t mean Bo.
Is it a trade-off for silencing their opposition to your elimination of beloved weapons systems and programs? To reducing opposition to troop draw downs in Iraq?
Or is it that you discovered you just can’t resist a man in uniform? If Clinton was our first “Black President,” are you our first “gay” one?