A reader asks:

If CNN or Google paid to fly Hillary’s consultant out to ask a question and (essentially) lobby against Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell, I wonder if this isn’t an in-kind campaign contribution to Hillary’s campaign. Will they report it? Will Hillary’s campaign have to reimburse CNN/Google?

A couple of points – the retired brigadier general was on the steering committee, which at first glance looks like a hundred or so accomplished gays and lesbians who endorsed Hillary. I have no problem calling him a Clintonite, but ”consultant” might be a bit of a stretch. Second, her campaign says they had no idea he submitted a video. (Of course, they also initially claimed, with great indignation, that Norman Hsu was the victim of racial profiling.)

By the way — if “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” so infuriates this man, one can’t help but wonder why he endorsed the spouse of the man who enacted it.