CNN Again

I just found out from a couple of reliable sources, that my blog was mentioned during the “Inside the Blogs” segment of CNN’s Inside Politics. No transcript yet, but I’m told that they led the segment with one my posts about Arthur Finkelstein—the republican operative who’s worked for the likes of Don Nickles and Jesse Helms, and who recently married his male partner in Massachussets.

I’ll post the relevant excerpts from the transcript when it’s available.

Update: The transcript is up. Here’s the relevant excerpt.

JACKI SCHECHNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Judy. Yeah, President Bill Clinton’s comments regarding GOP operative Arthur Finkelstein getting some attention on the blogs today. Clinton found out that Finkelstein was the strategist behind the “Stop Hillary Now” campaign, and he wasn’t happy. And because Finkelstein is gay and a Republican, Clinton wondering out loud if Finkelstein wasn’t going through some self-loathing.

We start at the Republic of T — that it “T”, not tea. That other one will take you to a beverage site, as we’ve learned. He says over there — his name is Terrence, and he’s actually a gay father in D.C. He says he’s not a huge fan of Hillary’s “shuffle to the right routine of late” but thinks her husband has a point. Down at the bottom of the post, it says, “Doesn’t working for or supporting a party run by people who despise you and for candidates who don’t think you deserve equal citizenship automatically entail a certain degree of self-loathing?”

Well, it looks like someone at CNN is paying attention. They not only got the name of the blog right, (let’s hope the lawyers for that other site don’t come a’knockin’), but then mentioned my name and a few other details.

So, there it is. If I find a clip online somewhere, I’ll post a link.

Update: I found a clip. It’s over at The Political Teen, the blog of an apparently right-leaning teenager.