The Log Cabin Republicans posted screen grabs of tweets this weekend originally posted by CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins. The tweets, which appeared in 2011, contain a stark anti-gay prejudice. Collins describes feeling uncomfortable around gay women, and uses the term “fag.”
Collins issued an apology within an hour of the Log Cabin Republicans posting the tweets. “When I was in college,” she wrote, “I used ignorant language in a few tweets to my friends. It was immature but it doesn’t represent the way I feel at all. I regret it and apologize.”
When I was in college, I used ignorant language in a few tweets to my friends. It was immature but it doesn’t represent the way I feel at all. I regret it and apologize.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 7, 2018
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Matt Dornic, CNN’s out-gay Vice President of Communications and Digital Partnerships, also issued a response. “I’m a proud gay man,” Dornic wrote. “And I am a proud friend of @kaitlancollins. Tho I’m disappointed that she ever used the word (even as an immature college kid), I can say with certainty it doesn’t reflect her feelings toward the LGBTQ community. She’s apologized and I accept that.”
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I’m a proud gay man. And I am a proud friend of @kaitlancollins. Tho I’m disappointed that she ever used the word (even as an immature college kid), I can say with certainty it doesn’t reflect her feelings toward the LGBTQ community. She’s apologized and I accept that.
— Matt Dornic (@mdornic) October 7, 2018
Dornic’s tweet seems to indicate that CNN has forgiven Collins for her college indiscretion, a common occurrence this weekend in the wake of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court despite credible allegations that he sexually assaulted several women in high school and college. Collins, despite her offensive language in her youth, appears to have evolved. The Trump administration banned her from press events earlier this year after she asked a Trump a question about his former lawyer Michael Cohen, and Cohen’s role in alleged collusion with Russia to manipulate the outcome of the 2016 election.
Rock-N-RollHS
Who cares. And so what. No one is perfect. But it this sh*t keeps up, no one will be safe from partisan pricks who seek to find every maggot under each rock. Not to mention a total distraction from the socio-economic and environmental issues that really matter.
Mozo83
Who cares? People who want actual and hate homophobia.
armandov
But in her case and Kavvy’s case, it has some significance. In her case, as a supposedly objective reporter, you have to wonder if she would have a bias in reporting LGBT issues and for Kavvy, past behavior may affect how he rules on issues int the future.
Plus, as a supposedly intelligent college student who is being called the rising star of CNN , she should have known better
Mozo83
Pathetic CNN is hiring from winger nut sites, but even more pathetic is this “reporter” thinking calling people “fag’ in 2011 was acceptable.
2011. Pretty sure they mentioned homophobia = bad in college, asshole.
Fire her, CNN.
Kieran
The dopey leftists better hope that Justice Kavanaugh is the not the type of guy who holds a grudge.
Mozo83
What’s he going to do, gang-rape us?
Kangol
He lied repeatedly under oath, so anything does from now on is tainted. Grudge-holder or not.
QueerTruth
Dopey leftists… LMAO. That’s so telling.
Luckily, leftists know better than that and apparently, so do the envious conservatives, which is why conservatives are still crying and pouting. I suggest that you research this yourself. Leftists, as you so 1950’s put it, are statistically better educated, healthier, are better able to handle stress, and are more successful financially.
What do the conservatives have? FEAR.
So you enjoy your fear and ignorance. The leftists know better and will continue to look upon the conservatives with side eyes and sympathy. Probably the same way early humans looked upon the lesser Neanderthals before they died out.
Gigi Gee
Can the LCR now call out all of the anti-gay republicans and conservatives?
Kieran
CNN’s reporter is trying to get out of her homophobic and racist tweets by saying she was just in college.
Just after CNN spent weeks blasting Justice Kavanaugh for beer jokes in his high school yearbook
Kangol
Rape and misogyny jokes. But if you think being abusive to and devaluing women is called “beer,” that’s on you.
Aires the Ram
Bingo!
Aires the Ram
@Kieran: You’re right. Just think if some reporter on FoxNews was found to have said ‘fag’ back in 1982, or 2011, whichever. These hypocrites saying “oh just never mind”, would be screaming from the rooftops. I’m sick & tired (overall) of the leftist dredging through long-ago history of what someone “said” decades ago. We’ve all said all kinds of things back through the years, that in this current environment of the leftists claiming the accused is automatically guilty, until they prove themselves innocent, would render ALL of us unable to serve in any kind of public office. The pot need not call the kettle black. Consider yourself; if these leftists dug back in your H.S. yearbook, your letters, your detractors, your emails, your posts, would you make it to public office? If you say “yes”, you’re a liar.
armandov
I can see why this could be problematic. In Collin’s case she is supposed to be an objective reporter. This may taint her objectivity in reporting on LGBT-related issues. For Kavanaugh, People wanted to know his past to see if it would taint his future rulings from the bench.
I could care less about celebrities past toxic tweets or tweets from my neighbors etc b/c they don’t do the same type of work that judges or news reporters do.