"CNN Duped by Clinton Plant" - That was what the headlines were reading heading into Thursday morning following the first ever CNN/YouTube Republican Debate, which at times resembled World War III.  There were probably no real winners though experts tended to agree that Mike Huckabee performed well.  Depending on who you asked, John McCain and Ron Paul also scored points.  And for the most part, the two front runners, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, came off rather weak, as did Fred Thompson for that matter. The real winner then - Hillary Clinton.

At 1/3 odds of becoming the next US President, news began surfacing late Wednesday night that Mrs. Clinton may have planted a retired gay Colonel in the audience to ask a question concerning gays in the military. 

It turns out that Keith Kerr, retired Colonel., U.S. Army; retired Brigadier General, California National Reserve, who submitted a YouTube question about gays in the military, is actually a member of Hillary Clinton's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Steering Committee. He's also part of a film production crew trying overturn the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

Anderson Cooper acknowledges that CNN messed this up and states that CNN did not know that Kerr has a position within the Clinton campaign and that had they known, they would have disclosed the association.

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Filed Under: 2008 US Presidential Betting Odds

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Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher

Originally published November 29, 2007 12:26 am EST